balancing

The word “balancing” has 3 syllables: bal-anc-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈbælənsɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for balancing?

In the thesaurus, “balancing” has 194 synonyms and 19 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for balancing

  • acclimation
  • acclimatization
  • accommodating
  • adjusting
  • aid
  • allegory
  • alteration
  • amendment
  • amends
  • analogizing
  • analogy
  • analysis
  • analyzing
  • arrangement
  • assistance
  • association
  • atonement
  • atoning
  • backing down
  • balanced
  • bringing together
  • change
  • check
  • checking
  • clearing
  • collating
  • collation
  • comparability
  • compensating
  • compensatory
  • conciliation
  • conformance
  • connection
  • consideration
  • considering
  • contrast
  • controlling
  • correcting
  • correction
  • correlation
  • counterbalancing
  • cure
  • dallying
  • dawdling
  • debating
  • deciding
  • delaying
  • deliberating
  • deliberation
  • democratizing
  • determining
  • directing
  • directive
  • discharging
  • discrimination
  • distinguishing
  • dithering
  • dividing
  • ease
  • equalizing
  • equating
  • equilibrating
  • equipoising
  • equivocating
  • estimation
  • evaluating
  • evening
  • examination
  • example
  • exemplification
  • faltering
  • feats
  • fitting
  • fixing
  • footing
  • gymnastics
  • halting
  • hanging back
  • hawing
  • hedging
  • hemming
  • hesitating
  • homogenizing
  • identification
  • illustration
  • improvement
  • indemnity
  • investigation
  • judging
  • justice
  • juxtaposition
  • leveling
  • levelling
  • likeness
  • likening
  • lingering
  • liquidating
  • measuring
  • meeting
  • mending
  • metaphor
  • modification
  • normalizing
  • observation
  • offsetting
  • opposition
  • ordering
  • organization
  • organizing
  • orientation
  • oscillating
  • paralleling
  • pausing
  • paying
  • paying off
  • paying up
  • payment
  • pondering
  • ponying up
  • procrastinating
  • pussyfooting
  • quittance
  • quitting
  • ratio
  • readjustment
  • recompense
  • recompensing
  • rectification
  • redress
  • reestablishment
  • reflection
  • reformation
  • regularizing
  • regulating
  • regulation
  • regulative
  • rehabilitation
  • reimbursing
  • relating
  • relation
  • relief
  • remedy
  • remission
  • remodeling
  • renewal
  • repair
  • repairing
  • reparation
  • repaying
  • report
  • reprisal
  • requital
  • resemblance
  • restitution
  • retribution
  • return
  • review
  • revision
  • reward
  • reworking
  • satisfaction
  • scrupling
  • scrutiny
  • segregation
  • separation
  • setting
  • settling
  • shaping
  • shifting
  • shilly-shallying
  • similarity
  • somersaults
  • staggering
  • standardization
  • standardizing
  • standing
  • stunts
  • survey
  • swaying
  • teetering
  • testing
  • thinking over
  • tumbling
  • turning
  • vacillating
  • vengeance
  • verification
  • view
  • wabbling
  • waffling
  • waiting
  • wavering
  • weighing
  • wobbling

Antonyms for balancing

  • advancing
  • budging
  • continuing
  • damage
  • deciding
  • destruction
  • difference
  • disconnection
  • disequilibrating
  • dissimilarity
  • hindrance
  • hurt
  • injury
  • penalty
  • repudiating
  • stirring
  • sympathy
  • unlikeness
  • worsening

Meanings of balancing

  • verb
    1. To bring (items) to an equipoise, as the scales of a balance by adjusting the weights.
    2. To make (concepts) agree.
    3. To hold (an object or objects) precariously; to support on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling.
    4. To compare in relative force, importance, value, etc.; to estimate.
    5. (dancing) To move toward, and then back from, reciprocally.
    6. To contract, as a sail, into a narrower compass.
    7. To make the credits and debits of (an account) correspond.
    8. To be in equilibrium.
    9. To have matching credits and debits.
    10. To weigh in a balance.
    11. To hesitate or fluctuate.
  • noun
    1. An action wherein someone balances or something is balanced.

Example Sentences

  • She demonstrates exceptional skill in balancing multiple tasks simultaneously.
  • Balancing on one foot, the acrobat performed a series of impressive stunts on the tightrope.
  • The architect must consider many factors when balancing form and function in building design.
  • Effective time management is crucial for balancing work, study, and personal commitments.
  • The politician faces the challenge of balancing competing interests while crafting public policy.

On this page you'll find 213 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to balancing, such as: acclimation, acclimatization, accommodating, adjusting, advancing, aid, allegory.

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Related Words

accommodating

  • abetting
  • acclimating
  • acclimatizing
  • accommodative
  • accustoming
  • acquainting
  • adapting
  • adjusting
  • agreeable
  • aiding
  • aligning
  • alining
  • altering
  • amenable
  • appeasing
  • arranging
  • arraying
  • assisting
  • attending
  • attuning
  • balancing
  • barracking
  • bending
  • bestowing
  • billeting
  • bivouacking
  • blending
  • boarding
  • bunking
  • camping
  • carrying
  • chambering
  • coddling
  • combining
  • comforting
  • complaisant
  • conciliating
  • conditioning
  • conforming
  • connecting
  • considerate
  • containing
  • converting
  • cooperative
  • coordinating
  • correcting
  • correlating
  • customizing
  • delighting
  • doctoring
  • domiciling
  • dovetailing
  • editing
  • encamping
  • enclosing
  • encompassing
  • enfolding
  • ensconcing
  • equalizing
  • equipping
  • establishing
  • evening
  • familiarizing
  • fashioning
  • favoring
  • fine-tuning
  • fitting
  • friendly
  • fusing
  • gearing
  • generous
  • gladdening
  • gracious
  • gratifying
  • habilitating
  • habituating
  • handy
  • harboring
  • hardening
  • harmonizing
  • helpful
  • helping
  • holding
  • homing
  • hospitable
  • housing
  • humoring
  • inclosing
  • indulgent
  • indulging
  • integrating
  • inuring
  • joining
  • keying
  • kind
  • lenient
  • lodging
  • making over
  • matching
  • merging
  • modeling
  • modelling
  • modifying
  • mollifying
  • mollycoddling
  • naturalizing
  • neighborly
  • obliging
  • on deck
  • on tap
  • orchestrating
  • ordering
  • orientating
  • orienting
  • overindulgent
  • pacifying
  • pairing
  • pampering
  • patterning
  • permissive
  • phasing
  • placating
  • pleasing
  • polite
  • preparing
  • priming
  • proportioning
  • putting
  • putting up
  • quartering
  • readapting
  • readjusting
  • readying
  • recasting
  • reclaiming
  • reconciling
  • recycling
  • redesigning
  • redeveloping
  • redoing
  • reengineering
  • refashioning
  • refiguring
  • refitting
  • refocusing
  • registering
  • regularizing
  • regulating
  • rehearsing
  • reinventing
  • rejiggering
  • relieving
  • remaking
  • remodeling
  • revamping
  • revising
  • reworking
  • rigging
  • roofing
  • rooming
  • roosting
  • rooting
  • satisfying
  • seasoning
  • seating
  • securing
  • settling
  • shaping
  • shedding
  • sheltering
  • solicitous
  • squaring
  • stabling
  • standardizing
  • succoring
  • suiting
  • supporting
  • synchronizing
  • synthesizing
  • tailoring
  • taking
  • taking in
  • tenting
  • thoughtful
  • toughening
  • training
  • transforming
  • tuning
  • unifying
  • uniting
  • unselfish
  • user friendly

halting

obtaining

  • abduction
  • accepting
  • accomplishing
  • accumulating
  • achieving
  • acknowledgment
  • acquiescence
  • acquirement
  • acquiring
  • acquisition
  • admission
  • agglomeration
  • agreement
  • amassing
  • amassment
  • annexing
  • anthology
  • apprehension
  • appropriating
  • appropriation
  • approval
  • arete
  • arrest
  • arrival
  • ascendant
  • assemblage
  • assembling
  • assembly
  • assent
  • assertive
  • assigned to
  • assimilating
  • assortment
  • attaining
  • authoritative
  • bag
  • bagging
  • batch
  • bossy
  • bringing in
  • bringing together
  • bust
  • caboodle
  • capturing
  • carrying
  • catch
  • catching
  • chief
  • clearing
  • clump
  • cluster
  • clutching
  • collar
  • collation
  • combination
  • coming by
  • commandeering
  • commanding
  • company
  • compilation
  • completion
  • compliance
  • confiscating
  • confiscation
  • congeries
  • congregation
  • consent
  • controlling
  • convocation
  • cooperation
  • covering
  • crowd
  • cumulation
  • demonstrative
  • despotic
  • digest
  • domineering
  • drawing
  • drop
  • earning
  • effective
  • ensnaring
  • fall
  • feat
  • finish
  • first
  • foremost
  • fulfillment
  • gaining
  • garnering
  • gathering
  • getting
  • go ahead
  • governing
  • grab
  • grasping
  • green light
  • grossing
  • heap
  • hit the jackpot
  • hoard
  • holding
  • hook
  • imperative
  • imperious
  • imprisonment
  • inheriting
  • kit
  • knock off
  • knocking down
  • landing
  • laying hold of
  • leading
  • levy
  • living in
  • lot
  • main
  • maintaining
  • making
  • mass
  • mastering
  • medley
  • mess
  • miscellany
  • mobilization
  • muster
  • nab
  • nail
  • netting
  • nod
  • number
  • occupation
  • occupying
  • okay
  • omnibus
  • ordering
  • outweighing
  • overbalancing
  • overbearing
  • overweighing
  • owning
  • paramount
  • permeating
  • permission
  • pervading
  • pick up
  • picking up
  • pile
  • pinch
  • placed
  • possessing
  • possession
  • posted
  • powerful
  • predominant
  • predominate
  • preeminent
  • preponderant
  • presiding
  • prevailing
  • prevalent
  • principal
  • procurement
  • procuring
  • pull
  • pulling down
  • pursuing
  • quantity
  • racking up
  • reaching
  • reacquiring
  • realization
  • realizing
  • reaping
  • reattaining
  • recapturing
  • receipt
  • receiving
  • reception
  • recognition
  • regaining
  • regnant
  • reigning
  • remaining
  • remaking
  • residing
  • resting
  • ruling
  • run-in
  • scoring
  • securing
  • seizing
  • seizure
  • selection
  • set
  • settled on
  • shopping
  • sitting
  • situated
  • snatching
  • sovereign
  • stack
  • staying
  • stock
  • stockpile
  • store
  • succeeding
  • supreme
  • surpassing
  • sweep
  • taking
  • taking captive
  • taking in
  • taking into custody
  • taking on
  • taking over
  • taking up
  • tenanting
  • transaction
  • transcendent
  • trapping
  • trip
  • undertaking
  • winning
  • yes

vacillating

queueing

  • aligning
  • alining
  • alphabetizing
  • arranging
  • arraying
  • balancing
  • classifying
  • codifying
  • cueing
  • cuing
  • displaying
  • disposing
  • drawing up
  • emplacing
  • equalizing
  • evening
  • filing
  • grooming
  • hierarchizing
  • laying out
  • lining
  • lining up
  • making up
  • marshaling
  • marshalling
  • ordering
  • organizing
  • placing
  • prioritizing
  • proportioning
  • ranging
  • regularizing
  • sequencing
  • setting
  • setting out
  • standardizing
  • systematizing
  • unscrambling

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