accelerating

The word “accelerating” has 5 syllables: ac-cel-er-at-ing

It's pronounced as /əkˈsɛləˌreɪtɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for accelerating?

In the thesaurus, “accelerating” has 114 synonyms and 47 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for accelerating

  • accentuating
  • accumulating
  • advanced
  • advancing
  • aggrandizing
  • aiding
  • amassing
  • amplifying
  • appreciating
  • augmenting
  • ballooning
  • blowing up
  • booming
  • boosting
  • bourgeoning
  • building
  • building up
  • bulking
  • bundling
  • burgeoning
  • climbing
  • collecting
  • complementing
  • compounding
  • continuing
  • continuous
  • crescendoing
  • cresting
  • deepening
  • developing
  • dilating
  • dispatching
  • distending
  • dominant
  • drawing out
  • driving
  • dynamic
  • easing
  • elongating
  • emphasizing
  • encouraging
  • enhancing
  • enlarging
  • enterprising
  • escalating
  • evolving
  • expanding
  • expediting
  • extending
  • facilitating
  • fast-tracking
  • following up
  • gaining
  • go ahead
  • goading
  • graduated
  • growing
  • hastening
  • heightening
  • hurrying
  • hyping
  • improving
  • increasing
  • inflating
  • intensifying
  • jumping
  • lengthening
  • magnifying
  • maximizing
  • mounting
  • moving forward
  • multiplying
  • mushrooming
  • ongoing
  • parlaying
  • peaking
  • prodding
  • progressing
  • proliferating
  • prolonging
  • propelling
  • protracting
  • pumping up
  • pushing
  • quickening
  • racing
  • raising
  • redoubling
  • reenforcing
  • reinforcing
  • rising
  • rocketing
  • rolling up
  • rushing
  • sharpening
  • skyrocketing
  • snowballing
  • spiking
  • spreading
  • spurring
  • stirring
  • stoking
  • strengthening
  • stretching
  • supersizing
  • supplementing
  • surging
  • swelling
  • up-and-coming
  • up-to-date
  • upping
  • urging
  • waxing
  • whisking

Antonyms for accelerating

  • abating
  • abbreviating
  • abridging
  • arresting
  • braking
  • checking
  • compressing
  • condensing
  • constricting
  • contracting
  • curtailing
  • cutting back
  • de-escalating
  • decelerating
  • decreasing
  • delaying
  • diminishing
  • downsizing
  • dwindling
  • encumbering
  • fettering
  • hampering
  • hindering
  • hobbling
  • holding back
  • holding up
  • impeding
  • lessening
  • lowering
  • manacling
  • minifying
  • receding
  • reducing
  • restraining
  • retarding
  • retrenching
  • shackling
  • shortening
  • stalling
  • staying
  • stilling
  • stopping
  • tieing up
  • trammeling
  • trammelling
  • tying up
  • waning

Meanings of accelerating

  • verb
    1. To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.
    2. To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of.
    3. To cause a change of velocity.
    4. To hasten, as the occurrence of an event.
    5. To enable a student to finish a course of study in less than normal time.
    6. To become faster; to begin to move more quickly.
    7. Grow; increase.
  • noun
    1. An act of acceleration.

Example Sentences

  • The car is accelerating quickly on the highway.
  • The company is accelerating its efforts to innovate new products.
  • The team is accelerating the project timeline to meet the deadline.
  • She is accelerating her training to prepare for the upcoming marathon.
  • The changes in policy are accelerating the transition to renewable energy.

On this page you'll find 161 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to accelerating, such as: abating, abbreviating, abridging, accentuating, accumulating, advanced, advancing.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

easing

  • abatement
  • abating
  • abbreviating
  • abetting
  • abridging
  • acceding
  • accelerating
  • accommodation
  • adjustment
  • advancing
  • aiding
  • allaying
  • alleviating
  • alleviation
  • ameliorating
  • amending
  • amends
  • assisting
  • assuagement
  • assuaging
  • automated
  • automatic
  • bettering
  • blunting
  • calming
  • clipping
  • collapsing
  • compressing
  • compromise
  • computerized
  • concession
  • conciliation
  • condensing
  • consolatory
  • consoling
  • constricting
  • contracting
  • correcting
  • cropping
  • curing
  • curtailing
  • cutting
  • cutting back
  • cutting down
  • de-escalating
  • declining
  • decreasing
  • deflating
  • denting
  • depleting
  • detaching
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  • disentangling
  • docking
  • downscaling
  • downsizing
  • dropping
  • dwindling
  • ebbing
  • emending
  • enhancing
  • enriching
  • evaporating
  • expediting
  • facilitating
  • falling
  • falling away
  • fixing
  • flagging
  • forwarding
  • freeing
  • furthering
  • giving out
  • grant
  • greasing
  • hastening
  • healing
  • helping
  • hurrying
  • improving
  • knocking down
  • laborsaving
  • lessening
  • letting up
  • lightening
  • loosening
  • lowering
  • lulling
  • mechanical
  • meliorating
  • mending
  • minimizing
  • mitigating
  • mitigation
  • moderating
  • moderation
  • modifying
  • modulating
  • mollification
  • mollifying
  • motorized
  • nicking
  • nonmanual
  • pacifying
  • palliating
  • palliative
  • palling
  • paring
  • peace offering
  • perfecting
  • phasing down
  • placation
  • promoting
  • propitiation
  • pruning
  • qualifying
  • quelling
  • quenching
  • quickening
  • quieting
  • reassuring
  • receding
  • reconciliation
  • rectifying
  • reducing
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  • relaxing
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  • remedying
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  • repairing
  • reparation
  • restoration
  • retrenching
  • robotic
  • rushing
  • self-acting
  • self-operating
  • self-regulating
  • semiautomatic
  • settlement
  • shortening
  • shrinking
  • simplifying
  • sinking
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  • smoothing
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  • solace
  • soothing
  • speeding
  • streamlining
  • subsiding
  • tapering
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  • tempering
  • time-saving
  • tranquilization
  • tranquilizing
  • trimming
  • truncating
  • unbinding
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  • undoing
  • unfastening
  • untangling
  • untieing
  • untying
  • vanishing
  • waning
  • warming
  • weakening
  • whittling

facilitating

  • abetting
  • accelerating
  • advancing
  • aid
  • aiding
  • assisting
  • disentangling
  • ease
  • easing
  • encouraging
  • expedite
  • expediting
  • forward
  • forwarding
  • fostering
  • further
  • furthering
  • grease the wheels
  • greasing
  • hand-carry
  • hastening
  • help
  • helping
  • hurrying
  • improving
  • make easy
  • nurturing
  • open doors
  • promote
  • promoting
  • quickening
  • run interference for
  • rushing
  • simplify
  • simplifying
  • smooth
  • smoothing
  • speed
  • speed up
  • speeding
  • streamlining
  • unclogging
  • untangling
  • walk through

gaining

  • abduction
  • accelerating
  • accepting
  • accomplishing
  • accretion
  • accruing
  • accumulating
  • achievement
  • achieving
  • acknowledgment
  • acquiescence
  • acquirement
  • acquiring
  • acquisition
  • addition
  • admission
  • advancing
  • advantageous
  • affluent
  • afloat
  • afoot
  • agreement
  • alive
  • alluring
  • amassing
  • annexing
  • appreciating
  • apprehension
  • approaching
  • appropriating
  • appropriation
  • approval
  • arete
  • arguing
  • arrest
  • arrival
  • assent
  • assimilating
  • attaining
  • attainment
  • attracting
  • auspicious
  • bag
  • bagging
  • ballooning
  • beating
  • beguiling
  • blandishing
  • blarneying
  • blessed
  • blowing up
  • booming
  • boosting
  • born with a silver spoon
  • bourgeoning
  • brainwashing
  • bright
  • bringing
  • bringing around
  • bringing in
  • building up
  • bulking
  • burgeoning
  • bust
  • buy
  • cajoling
  • capturing
  • carrying
  • catch
  • catching
  • chalking up
  • charmed
  • chewing over
  • clearing
  • climbing
  • clutching
  • coaxing
  • collar
  • coming around
  • coming back
  • coming by
  • coming round
  • coming to
  • commandeering
  • completion
  • compliance
  • confiscating
  • confiscation
  • consent
  • continuing
  • convalescing
  • convenient
  • conversing
  • converting
  • convincing
  • cooperation
  • crescendoing
  • cresting
  • debating
  • discussing
  • disputing
  • distending
  • drawing
  • drop
  • earning
  • elevating
  • encouraging
  • enhancing
  • enlarging
  • enriching
  • ensnaring
  • enticing
  • entreating
  • equaling
  • equalling
  • escalating
  • excelling
  • exciting
  • exhorting
  • expanding
  • extending
  • fall
  • fast-talking
  • favorable
  • favored
  • feat
  • felicitous
  • finish
  • flourishing
  • fortuitous
  • fulfillment
  • functioning
  • gain
  • garnering
  • gathering
  • get a break
  • getting
  • go ahead
  • going
  • golden
  • grab
  • grasping
  • green light
  • grossing
  • happening
  • happy
  • healing
  • healthy
  • heightening
  • helpful
  • hit the jackpot
  • hitting
  • hook
  • hopeful
  • imprisonment
  • improving
  • in luck
  • in the gravy
  • inclining
  • increasing
  • inducing
  • inflating
  • influencing
  • inheriting
  • intensifying
  • interesting
  • jumping
  • knock off
  • knocking down
  • landing
  • laying hold of
  • leading on
  • learning
  • logging
  • lucky
  • luring
  • making
  • mastering
  • matching
  • maximizing
  • meeting
  • mending
  • mooting
  • mounting
  • moving
  • multiplying
  • mushrooming
  • nab
  • nail
  • netting
  • nod
  • obtaining
  • obtainment
  • occupation
  • occupying
  • okay
  • on a roll
  • ongoing
  • operating
  • opportune
  • outdoing
  • overcoming
  • overpersuading
  • peaking
  • permission
  • persuading
  • pick up
  • picking up
  • pinch
  • possession
  • prize
  • proceeding
  • procuration
  • procurement
  • procuring
  • profitable
  • proliferating
  • promising
  • prompting
  • property
  • propitious
  • prosperous
  • providential
  • pull
  • pulling down
  • pulling round
  • pulling through
  • purchase
  • pursuing
  • pursuit
  • racking up
  • rallying
  • reaching
  • reacquiring
  • realization
  • realizing
  • reaping
  • reattaining
  • recapturing
  • receipt
  • receiving
  • reception
  • recognition
  • recouping
  • recovering
  • recovery
  • recruiting
  • recuperating
  • redoubling
  • regaining
  • remaking
  • retrieval
  • reviving
  • ringing up
  • rising
  • rivaling
  • rivalling
  • rocketing
  • rolling up
  • rosy
  • run-in
  • salvage
  • satisfying
  • scoring
  • securing
  • seducing
  • seizing
  • seizure
  • selling
  • sitting pretty
  • skyrocketing
  • snapping back
  • snatching
  • snowballing
  • snowing
  • spreading
  • stepping up
  • stimulating
  • succeeding
  • successful
  • sunny side
  • surging
  • surpassing
  • surviving
  • swaying
  • sweep
  • swelling
  • taking
  • taking captive
  • taking in
  • taking into custody
  • taking on
  • taking over
  • tempting
  • thriving
  • tieing
  • timely
  • topping
  • touching
  • trapping
  • trip
  • triumphant
  • tying
  • undertaking
  • urging
  • victorious
  • waxing
  • wealthy
  • well-off
  • well-to-do
  • wheedling
  • winning
  • working
  • yes

racing

zipping

  • accelerated
  • accelerating
  • arrowing
  • barreling
  • barrelling
  • beating it
  • beelining
  • beetling
  • belting
  • blasting
  • blazing
  • blowing
  • bolting
  • bombing
  • bowling
  • breakneck
  • breathless
  • breezing
  • brisk
  • bumbling
  • bundling
  • burring
  • bustling
  • buzzing
  • cannonballing
  • careening
  • careering
  • catching up
  • chasing
  • chirring
  • churring
  • cooing
  • coursing
  • curring
  • dancing
  • darting
  • dashing
  • dizzy
  • driving
  • droning
  • expeditious
  • fast
  • fast-forwarding
  • fizzing
  • fleet
  • flickering
  • flicking
  • flirting
  • flittering
  • flitting
  • fluttering
  • flying
  • galloping
  • getting a move on
  • haring
  • hastened
  • hastening
  • hasty
  • hieing
  • highballing
  • hissing
  • humming
  • humping
  • hurling
  • hurried
  • hurrying
  • hurtling
  • hustling
  • hying
  • jetting
  • jogging
  • jumping
  • lightning
  • making tracks
  • meandering
  • meteoric
  • motoring
  • murmuring
  • nipping
  • outpacing
  • outrunning
  • outstripping
  • overtaking
  • pelting
  • prompt
  • purring
  • quick
  • quickened
  • quickening
  • racing
  • rambling
  • ramming
  • rapid
  • ready
  • ripping
  • roaming
  • rocketing
  • running
  • rushed
  • rushing
  • rustling
  • sailing
  • scampering
  • scooting
  • scudding
  • scuffling
  • scurrying
  • scuttling
  • shaking a leg
  • shooting
  • sighing
  • sizzling
  • skipping
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  • snappy
  • speeding
  • speedy
  • sprinting
  • stampeding
  • stepping
  • stepping on it
  • stepping out
  • streaking
  • swift
  • swishing
  • tearing
  • thrumming
  • traveling
  • travelling
  • trotting
  • wandering
  • warp-speed
  • wheezing
  • whirling
  • whirlwind
  • whirring
  • whishing
  • whisking
  • whispering
  • whistling
  • whizzing
  • whooshing
  • zinging
  • zooming

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