abiding

The word “abiding” has 3 syllables: a-bid-ing

It's pronounced as /əˈbaɪdɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for abiding?

In the thesaurus, “abiding” has 98 synonyms and 92 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for abiding along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for abiding

  • absorbing
  • accepting
  • acquiescing
  • ageless
  • allowing
  • awaiting
  • bearing
  • biding
  • brooking
  • capitulating
  • carrying through
  • ceaseless
  • changeless
  • cohabiting
  • constant
  • continuing
  • countenancing
  • dallying
  • dateless
  • dawdling
  • dwelling
  • endless
  • enduring
  • eternal
  • everlasting
  • fast
  • frequenting
  • going
  • hacking
  • handling
  • hanging around
  • hanging on
  • haunting
  • holding on
  • holding up
  • immortal
  • imperishable
  • indissoluble
  • inhabiting
  • keeping up
  • lasting
  • leasing
  • lingering
  • living
  • living with
  • lodging
  • loitering
  • meeting
  • occupying
  • ongoing
  • outstaying
  • overstaying
  • peopling
  • perduring
  • perennial
  • permanent
  • permitting
  • perpetual
  • persistent
  • persisting
  • pocketing
  • populating
  • prevailing
  • remaining
  • renting
  • residing
  • respecting
  • running on
  • settling
  • stable
  • standing
  • standing for
  • stationary
  • staying
  • steadfast
  • steady
  • sticking around
  • sticking out
  • stomaching
  • subletting
  • suffering
  • supporting
  • surviving
  • sustaining
  • swallowing
  • sweating out
  • taking
  • tarrying
  • tenanting
  • timeless
  • tolerating
  • toughing it out
  • unchanging
  • undying
  • unvarying
  • visiting
  • waiting
  • wearing

Antonyms for abiding

  • abandoning
  • abating
  • absconding
  • antiquated
  • archaic
  • avoiding
  • bailing
  • bailing out
  • booking
  • bugging out
  • bypassing
  • ceasing
  • circumventing
  • clearing off
  • clearing out
  • closing
  • combating
  • combatting
  • concluding
  • contesting
  • cutting out
  • dated
  • decamping
  • declining
  • departing
  • deserting
  • desisting
  • discontinuing
  • dismissing
  • dodging
  • dying
  • ebbing
  • eluding
  • ending
  • ephemeral
  • escaping
  • evacuating
  • evading
  • exiting
  • expiring
  • fighting
  • finishing
  • fleeing
  • fleeting
  • flying
  • forbearing
  • forsaking
  • getting off
  • getting out
  • going
  • going off
  • lapsing
  • leaving
  • leaving off
  • letting up
  • missing
  • moderating
  • moving
  • obsolete
  • opposing
  • out-of-date
  • outdated
  • outmoded
  • outworn
  • passing
  • peeling off
  • pulling out
  • pushing off
  • pushing on
  • quitting
  • refusing
  • rejecting
  • repudiating
  • resisting
  • running away
  • scatting
  • scramming
  • skipping
  • spurning
  • stopping
  • subsiding
  • taking off
  • temporary
  • terminating
  • transient
  • turning down
  • unfixed
  • vacating
  • vamoosing
  • walking out
  • waning
  • winding up

Meanings of abiding

  • verb
    1. To endure without yielding; to withstand; await defiantly; to encounter; to persevere.
    2. To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with; stand.
    3. To pay for; to stand the consequences of; to answer for; to suffer for; to atone for.
    4. To wait in expectation.
    5. To pause; to delay.
    6. To stay; to continue in a place; to remain stable or fixed in some state or condition; to be left.
    7. To have one's abode; to dwell; to reside; to sojourn.
    8. To endure; to remain; to last.
    9. To stand ready for; to await for someone; watch for.
    10. To endure or undergo a hard trial or a task; to stand up under.
    11. To await submissively; accept without question; submit to.
  • adjective
    1. Continuing or persisting in the same state: lasting, enduring; steadfast.
  • noun
    1. The action of one who abides; the state of an abider.
    2. An abode.

Example Sentences

  • Abiding by his promise, he remained loyal to his friend through thick and thin.
  • The residents demonstrated their commitment to the community by abiding by the neighborhood regulations.
  • Her faith was abiding, guiding her through life's trials and tribulations.
  • The company's success is attributed to its abiding dedication to customer satisfaction.
  • In their relationship, trust was the abiding foundation that held them together through the years.

On this page you'll find 190 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to abiding, such as: abandoning, abating, absconding, absorbing, accepting, acquiescing, ageless.

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Related Words

accepting

  • abiding
  • abject
  • absorbing
  • acceding
  • acceptance
  • acceptive
  • acclaiming
  • accord
  • accounting
  • accrediting
  • acknowledgment
  • acquiescence
  • acquiescing
  • acquiring
  • acquisition
  • admiring
  • admission
  • admitting
  • adopting
  • adoption
  • adoring
  • adulatory
  • advisory
  • advocating
  • affirmation
  • affirming
  • agreeing
  • agreement
  • allowing
  • altering
  • amenable
  • applauding
  • applying
  • appreciative
  • approbatory
  • appropriation
  • approval
  • approving
  • arrogation
  • artless
  • assent
  • assenting
  • assuming
  • assurance
  • attending
  • attentive
  • attestation
  • authenticating
  • authentication
  • authorization
  • authorizing
  • avowal
  • backing
  • bearing
  • becoming
  • belief
  • believing
  • biding
  • bleak
  • blue
  • born yesterday
  • bringing in
  • brokenhearted
  • brooking
  • buying
  • capitulating
  • certain
  • certainty
  • championing
  • cheerless
  • childlike
  • collecting
  • comfortless
  • commendatory
  • commending
  • compliance
  • complimentary
  • concentrating
  • concluding
  • confidence
  • confident
  • confiding
  • confirming
  • conjecture
  • consent
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  • convinced
  • cooperation
  • corroborating
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  • countenancing
  • credit
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  • credulous
  • crestfallen
  • cynical
  • dark
  • deducing
  • dejected
  • demonstration
  • dependence
  • dependent
  • depressed
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  • desolate
  • despairing
  • desperate
  • despondent
  • disappointed
  • disconsolate
  • discouraged
  • disheartened
  • dismal
  • dispirited
  • doleful
  • down
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  • downhearted
  • drawing
  • drear
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  • dupable
  • earning
  • easy mark
  • embracing
  • employing
  • encomiastic
  • endorsement
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  • enduring
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  • eulogistic
  • evidence
  • expectation
  • faith
  • falling for
  • fancy
  • favorable
  • favoring
  • flattering
  • forlorn
  • friendly
  • funereal
  • gaining
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  • getting
  • gloomy
  • glum
  • go ahead
  • going
  • going for
  • good
  • grab
  • green
  • green light
  • grieving
  • growing
  • guess
  • guileless
  • gullable
  • gullible
  • hacking
  • hagiographic
  • hagiographical
  • handling
  • hangdog
  • having
  • having faith
  • hearkening
  • heartbroken
  • heartsick
  • heartsore
  • heeding
  • holding with
  • hopeful
  • hopeless
  • hunch
  • hypothesis
  • idolizing
  • inconsolable
  • indorsing
  • inference
  • inferring
  • inheriting
  • innocent
  • interested
  • joyless
  • kind
  • laudative
  • laudatory
  • lauding
  • lenient
  • liking
  • living with
  • low
  • low-spirited
  • magnanimous
  • making
  • meeting
  • melancholy
  • merciful
  • miserable
  • mournful
  • naive
  • nod
  • obtaining
  • okay
  • okaying
  • open
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  • overconfident
  • overtrusting
  • panegyrical
  • passage
  • passing
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  • permission
  • permitting
  • pessimistic
  • pocketing
  • posit
  • positive
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  • practicing
  • praiseful
  • praising
  • premise
  • presuming
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  • presupposition
  • proof
  • proving
  • ratifying
  • reaccepting
  • reassuming
  • receipt
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  • recognition
  • recommendatory
  • recommending
  • reliance
  • reliant
  • resigned
  • respectful
  • respecting
  • sad
  • saddened
  • saluting
  • sanction
  • sanctioning
  • secure
  • securing
  • seizure
  • setting store by
  • setting store on
  • shot
  • shot in the dark
  • shouldering
  • simple
  • sneaking suspicion
  • sorrowful
  • sorry
  • stab
  • stamp of approval
  • standing
  • standing by
  • standing for
  • sticking out
  • stock
  • stomaching
  • store
  • submitting to
  • substantiation
  • succumbing
  • suffering
  • support
  • supporting
  • supportive
  • supposal
  • supposing
  • supposition
  • sure
  • surmise
  • suspicion
  • sustaining
  • swallow whole
  • swallowing
  • sweating out
  • sympathetic
  • taken in
  • takeover
  • taking
  • taking kindly to
  • taking on
  • taking over
  • taking up
  • testament
  • testimonial
  • testimony
  • testing
  • theorization
  • theory
  • thesis
  • tolerating
  • toughing it out
  • trustful
  • trusting
  • uncritical
  • understanding
  • undertaking
  • undoubting
  • unhappy
  • unquestioning
  • unsophisticated
  • unsuspecting
  • unsuspicious
  • unwary
  • upholding
  • usurpation
  • validating
  • verification
  • verifying
  • visa
  • wailing
  • warm
  • warrant
  • warranting
  • wearing
  • weeping
  • welcoming
  • witness
  • woebegone
  • woeful
  • working
  • worshipful
  • worshiping
  • worshipping
  • wretched
  • yes

venerating

  • acquiescent
  • adherent
  • admiring
  • adoring
  • adulatory
  • affectionate
  • amenable
  • apotheosizing
  • appreciative
  • approving
  • ardent
  • attentive
  • biddable
  • canonizing
  • civil
  • complaisant
  • compliant
  • considerate
  • controllable
  • courtly
  • deep
  • deferential
  • deifying
  • delighting
  • devoted
  • dignifying
  • docile
  • docious
  • duteous
  • dutiful
  • earnest
  • exalting
  • extolling
  • faithful
  • fervent
  • fervid
  • fond
  • genuine
  • glorifying
  • godly
  • goody two-shoes
  • goody-goody
  • governable
  • gracious
  • gratifying
  • hagiographic
  • hagiographical
  • heartfelt
  • holy
  • honoring
  • humble
  • idolizing
  • intense
  • lauding
  • law-abiding
  • lionizing
  • loving
  • loyal
  • magnifying
  • obedient
  • obeisant
  • obliging
  • observant
  • on a string
  • orthodox
  • passionate
  • pietistic
  • pious
  • pleasing
  • pliant
  • polite
  • praising
  • prayerful
  • profound
  • recognizing
  • regardful
  • regarding
  • religious
  • resigned
  • respectful
  • respecting
  • reverencing
  • reverent
  • reverential
  • revering
  • satisfying
  • self-effacing
  • serious
  • sheeplike
  • sincere
  • solicitous
  • submissive
  • subservient
  • tame
  • tractable
  • under control
  • upholding
  • well-mannered
  • well-trained
  • willing
  • worshipful
  • worshiping
  • worshipping
  • wrapped around finger
  • yielding
  • zealous

nailed

  • abducted
  • abiding
  • absolute
  • adjusted
  • affirmed
  • airtight
  • anchored
  • apprehended
  • arrested
  • assured
  • at a standstill
  • at rest
  • attached
  • bagged
  • balanced
  • banged
  • bashed
  • batted
  • battered
  • bayed
  • beaned
  • beat
  • belted
  • biffed
  • blew the whistle on
  • blind
  • blocked
  • bludgeoned
  • bobbed
  • bolted
  • bonked
  • bopped
  • bound
  • boxed
  • braced
  • brained
  • brick-wall
  • buffeted
  • bumped
  • bunged
  • bunted
  • bust
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  • butted
  • buttoned-down
  • calm
  • caned
  • captured
  • categorical
  • caught
  • cemented
  • choking
  • chopped
  • cinched
  • clapped
  • clapt
  • clarified
  • clasped
  • clear
  • clear-cut
  • clinched
  • clipped
  • clobbered
  • clocked
  • closed
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  • clubbed
  • clumped
  • clutched
  • collared
  • committed
  • concluded
  • confined
  • conked
  • copped
  • cornered
  • corralled
  • cracked
  • cramping
  • creamed
  • crushing
  • cudgeled
  • cudgelled
  • cuffed
  • cutting
  • debunked
  • decided
  • decked
  • deep-rooted
  • defined
  • demolished
  • demonstrated
  • destined
  • detained
  • determined
  • disclosed
  • discredited
  • disproved
  • distinct
  • divulged
  • drubbed
  • dumped
  • durable
  • embedded
  • emphatic
  • enchained
  • ended
  • enduring
  • enmeshed
  • ensnared
  • ensured
  • entangled
  • entrapped
  • equable
  • established
  • even
  • explicit
  • exposed
  • express
  • fast
  • fastened
  • fated
  • felled
  • fettered
  • finished
  • firm
  • fisted
  • fixed
  • flailed
  • flicked
  • flogged
  • floored
  • for sure
  • fortified
  • frozen
  • glommed
  • gloved
  • got
  • grabbed
  • grappled
  • grasped
  • gripped
  • haltered
  • hammered
  • handcuffed
  • held
  • hermetic
  • hermetically sealed
  • hit
  • hitched
  • hooked
  • hung one on
  • illuminated
  • immeshed
  • immobile
  • immobilized
  • immotile
  • immovable
  • immured
  • immutable
  • impenetrable
  • impermeable
  • impervious
  • imprisoned
  • in the bag
  • incarcerated
  • indisputable
  • inert
  • insured
  • interned
  • invariable
  • iron
  • jabbed
  • jailed
  • jostled
  • jugged
  • kicked
  • kidnaped
  • kidnapped
  • kneed
  • knocked
  • knocked down
  • laced
  • lambasted
  • landed
  • lashed
  • lassoed
  • lasting
  • leveled
  • levelled
  • licked
  • located
  • locked
  • made fast
  • manacled
  • mangled
  • mauled
  • meshed
  • moored
  • motionless
  • mounted
  • nabbed
  • nailed down
  • netted
  • nicked
  • nobbled
  • obstructed
  • on ice
  • padlocked
  • parked
  • pasted
  • pat
  • pelted
  • peppered
  • perdurable
  • permanent
  • petrified
  • picked up
  • pinched
  • pinching
  • plugged
  • poised
  • poked
  • pommeled
  • pommelled
  • positive
  • pounded
  • prearranged
  • predetermined
  • prodded
  • pronounced
  • proof
  • proved
  • pulled in
  • pummeled
  • pummelled
  • punched
  • pushed
  • quiescent
  • quiet
  • rabbit-punched
  • ran in
  • rapped
  • rearrested
  • reliable
  • remanded
  • rended
  • rent
  • resolute
  • resolved
  • restrained
  • rigid
  • riveted
  • robust
  • rooted
  • roped
  • roughed
  • runaway
  • safe
  • safe and sound
  • sapped
  • screwed
  • scuffed
  • secure
  • secured
  • seized
  • set
  • set in stone
  • settled
  • shackled
  • short
  • shoved
  • showed
  • showed up
  • shrunken
  • shut
  • situated
  • skintight
  • skulled
  • slammed
  • slapped
  • slashed
  • sledged
  • sledgehammered
  • slogged
  • slugged
  • smacked
  • smote
  • smothering
  • snagged
  • snapped
  • snared
  • snatched
  • socked
  • soldered
  • solid
  • solid as a rock
  • sound
  • speared
  • specified
  • spiked
  • stabbed
  • stabile
  • stable
  • stagnant
  • stalwart
  • stamped
  • standing
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  • static
  • stationary
  • staunch
  • staying put
  • steadfast
  • steady
  • stiff
  • still
  • stipulated
  • stock-still
  • stolid
  • stopped up
  • stout
  • stroked
  • strong
  • struck
  • sturdy
  • substantial
  • sucker punched
  • sure
  • swatted
  • swiped
  • switched
  • tagged
  • tapped
  • taut
  • tenacious
  • thrashed
  • thumped
  • thwacked
  • tied
  • tied-up
  • tight
  • tightened
  • together
  • told
  • tough
  • trammeled
  • trammelled
  • trapped
  • unalterable
  • unambiguous
  • unchangeable
  • uncloaked
  • uncomfortable
  • uncovered
  • undeniable
  • undisputed
  • undressed
  • unequivocal
  • unfluctuating
  • uniform
  • unmasked
  • unmistakable
  • unmovable
  • unmoving
  • unquestionable
  • unshakable
  • unvarying
  • unveiled
  • unwavering
  • walloped
  • watertight
  • welded
  • well-built
  • well-founded
  • whacked
  • whaled
  • whipped
  • wrested
  • zapped

handling

  • abiding
  • absorbing
  • accepting
  • acquiescing
  • addressing
  • administering
  • administrating
  • administration
  • aegis
  • agency
  • allowing
  • approach
  • bearing
  • biding
  • bossing
  • bringing off
  • brooking
  • capitulating
  • captaining
  • care
  • carrying off
  • carrying on
  • carrying out
  • charge
  • co-directing
  • co-managing
  • coadministration
  • codirecting
  • codirection
  • comanagement
  • comanaging
  • coming to grips with
  • commanding
  • conduct
  • conducting
  • considering
  • control
  • controlling
  • countenancing
  • custody
  • directing
  • direction
  • doing by
  • driving
  • egis
  • enduring
  • engineering
  • esteeming
  • fielding
  • finessing
  • generalship
  • getting off
  • going
  • governance
  • governing
  • government
  • guardianship
  • guarding
  • guidance
  • guiding
  • hacking
  • having a grip on
  • heading
  • intendance
  • jockeying
  • keeping
  • lap
  • leadership
  • leading
  • living with
  • logistics
  • machination
  • management
  • managing
  • maneuvering
  • manipulating
  • manipulation
  • meeting
  • micromanaging
  • minding
  • monitoring
  • negotiating
  • operating
  • operation
  • ordering
  • overlooking
  • overseeing
  • oversight
  • permitting
  • piloting
  • playing
  • plying
  • pocketing
  • presidency
  • protecting
  • protection
  • pulling
  • quarterbacking
  • rating
  • reckoning
  • regarding
  • regulating
  • regulation
  • reigning
  • respecting
  • riding herd on
  • rulership
  • ruling
  • running
  • safeguarding
  • safekeeping
  • serving
  • shepherding
  • showing
  • stage-managing
  • standing
  • standing for
  • steering
  • stewarding
  • stewardship
  • sticking out
  • stomaching
  • styling
  • suffering
  • superintendence
  • superintendency
  • superintending
  • supervising
  • supervision
  • supporting
  • sustaining
  • swallowing
  • sweating out
  • swinging
  • taking
  • tending
  • tolerating
  • toughing it out
  • treating
  • treatment
  • trust
  • tutelage
  • using
  • viewing
  • ward
  • watching
  • watching over
  • wearing
  • wielding
  • working

unchangeableness

  • abidingness
  • adherence
  • allegiance
  • ardor
  • attachment
  • certainty
  • changelessness
  • colorlessness
  • consistency
  • constancy
  • continuance
  • continuity
  • decision
  • dependability
  • determination
  • devotedness
  • devotion
  • doggedness
  • dreariness
  • dryness
  • dullness
  • durability
  • eagerness
  • earnestness
  • endurance
  • enduringness
  • ennui
  • equability
  • evenness
  • faith
  • fealty
  • fidelity
  • firmness
  • fixedness
  • flatness
  • follow through
  • honesty
  • honor
  • humdrum
  • identicalness
  • immutability
  • immutableness
  • integrity
  • invariability
  • lastingness
  • levelness
  • likeness
  • love
  • loyalty
  • monotone
  • monotonousness
  • oneness
  • permanence
  • perseverance
  • principle
  • regularity
  • repetitiousness
  • repetitiveness
  • resolution
  • routine
  • same old thing
  • sameness
  • similarity
  • stability
  • staunchness
  • steadfastness
  • steadiness
  • surety
  • tediousness
  • tedium
  • tenacity
  • tiresomeness
  • trustiness
  • trustworthiness
  • truthfulness
  • unfailingness
  • uniformity
  • wearisomeness
  • zeal

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