calculating

The word “calculating” has 4 syllables: cal-cu-lat-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈkælkjəˌleɪtɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for calculating?

In the thesaurus, “calculating” has 196 synonyms and 55 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for calculating

  • Machiavellian
  • accomplishing
  • achieving
  • adding
  • adding up
  • advertent
  • aiming
  • alert
  • allowing
  • appraising
  • arranging
  • artful
  • aspiring
  • assessing
  • attempting
  • attentive
  • averaging
  • awake
  • banking on
  • blueprinting
  • budgeting
  • cagey
  • cagy
  • calibrating
  • calling
  • calling on
  • calling upon
  • canny
  • careful
  • cautious
  • charting
  • chary
  • choreographing
  • ciphering
  • circuitous
  • circular
  • circumlocutory
  • circumspect
  • committing
  • computing
  • concerting
  • concluding
  • confiding
  • conjecturing
  • conservative
  • considerate
  • considering
  • conspiring
  • contemplating
  • contriving
  • counting
  • crafty
  • crooked
  • cunning
  • curvy
  • debating
  • deceitful
  • deceptive
  • deducing
  • deducting
  • deliberate
  • depending
  • designing
  • devious
  • devising
  • discreet
  • dishonest
  • dividing
  • drafting
  • dreaming
  • duplicitous
  • effecting
  • endeavoring
  • entrusting
  • estimating
  • evaluating
  • executing
  • extrapolating
  • figuring
  • figuring in
  • figuring on
  • figuring out
  • foresighted
  • foresightful
  • forethoughtful
  • framing
  • gaging
  • gathering
  • gauging
  • getting up
  • gingerly
  • going
  • guarded
  • guessing
  • guileful
  • having on
  • heedful
  • hoping
  • hypercautious
  • indirect
  • inferring
  • insidious
  • intelligent
  • intending
  • intriguing
  • intrusting
  • itemizing
  • judging
  • laying out
  • leaning
  • long-winded
  • looking
  • looking to
  • machinating
  • making
  • manipulative
  • meandering
  • meaning
  • measuring
  • meditating
  • misleading
  • multiplying
  • numbering
  • observant
  • organizing
  • outlining
  • performing
  • placing
  • planning
  • plotting
  • politic
  • pondering
  • premeditating
  • preparing
  • projecting
  • prolix
  • proposing
  • provident
  • purporting
  • purposing
  • putting
  • putting up
  • rambling
  • rating
  • reasoning
  • recalculating
  • reckoning
  • recomputing
  • refiguring
  • regardful
  • relying
  • roundabout
  • safe
  • scaling
  • scheming
  • serpentine
  • shaping
  • sharp
  • shrewd
  • sinuous
  • sketching
  • slow
  • sly
  • sneaky
  • standing on
  • striving
  • struggling
  • subtle
  • subtracting
  • summing
  • supposing
  • tallying
  • thoughtful
  • tortuous
  • totaling
  • totalizing
  • totalling
  • tricky
  • trusting
  • trying
  • twisting
  • ultracareful
  • ultracautious
  • underhand
  • underhanded
  • understanding
  • valuing
  • verbose
  • vigilant
  • wandering
  • wary
  • watchful
  • wily
  • winding
  • wishing
  • working out

Antonyms for calculating

Meanings of calculating

  • verb
    1. To determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process.
    2. To determine values or solutions by a mathematical process; reckon.
    3. To plan; to expect; to think.
    4. To ascertain or predict by mathematical or astrological computations the time, circumstances, or other conditions of; to forecast or compute the character or consequences of.
    5. To adjust for purpose; to adapt by forethought or calculation; to fit or prepare by the adaptation of means to an end.
  • adjective
    1. Having the ability to calculate.
    2. (especially of a person) Serving one's own interests in an unemotional, analytical manner.

Example Sentences

  • She approached the negotiation table with a calculating gaze, ready to assess every angle before making her move.
  • His calculating demeanor hinted at a strategic mind, always planning several steps ahead in the game of politics.
  • The cat's eyes gleamed with a calculating intensity as it stalked its prey through the tall grass.
  • As a calculating investor, she meticulously analyzed market trends before making any investment decisions.
  • His calculating nature made it difficult for others to gauge his true intentions, leaving them wary of his every move.

On this page you'll find 251 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to calculating, such as: Machiavellian, absentminded, accomplishing, achieving, adding, adding up, advertent.

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Related Words

unconscionable

  • a bit much
  • amoral
  • barbarous
  • baroque
  • boundless
  • calculating
  • cheapjack
  • conscienceless
  • corrupt
  • criminal
  • crooked
  • cutthroat
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  • deceitful
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  • devilish
  • dishonest
  • dissipated
  • dog-eat-dog
  • endless
  • excessive
  • exorbitant
  • extravagant
  • extreme
  • fancy
  • immeasurable
  • immoderate
  • immoral
  • improper
  • inappropriate
  • infinite
  • inordinate
  • insane
  • intolerable
  • jackleg
  • knavish
  • lavish
  • libertine
  • licentious
  • limitless
  • machiavellian
  • merciless
  • opportunistic
  • outrageous
  • over the top
  • overdue
  • overextravagant
  • overmuch
  • overweening
  • pitiless
  • plethoric
  • preposterous
  • profligate
  • remorseless
  • ruthless
  • scheming
  • sharp
  • sneaky
  • steep
  • stiff
  • thick
  • too much
  • towering
  • unbearable
  • uncivilized
  • undue
  • unethical
  • unfair
  • ungodly
  • unholy
  • unjust
  • unjustifiable
  • unmerciful
  • unprincipled
  • unreasonable
  • unrestrained
  • unscrupulous
  • unseemly
  • unwarranted
  • wanton
  • wicked

savvy

  • absorb
  • acquaintance
  • acumen
  • acute
  • agile
  • alert
  • appreciate
  • apprehend
  • apt
  • artful
  • assimilate
  • astute
  • awareness
  • background
  • behold
  • brainy
  • bright
  • brilliant
  • cagey
  • cagy
  • calculating
  • canny
  • catch
  • chops
  • clear-eyed
  • clear-sighted
  • clever
  • cognize
  • command
  • compass
  • comprehend
  • comprehension
  • conceive
  • conversance
  • crafty
  • cunning
  • decipher
  • decode
  • devious
  • dig
  • digest
  • discern
  • discerning
  • discernment
  • discriminating
  • discriminative
  • dodgy
  • experience
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  • expertise
  • familiarity
  • farsighted
  • fathom
  • foxy
  • get
  • grasp
  • grip
  • grok
  • guileful
  • hard-boiled
  • hardheaded
  • heady
  • in the know
  • ingenious
  • insight
  • insightful
  • intellect
  • intelligence
  • intelligent
  • intimacy
  • intuit
  • judgment
  • judicious
  • keen
  • know
  • know-how
  • knowing
  • knowledge
  • make
  • make out
  • mastery
  • moxie
  • nimble
  • on the ball
  • pawky
  • penetrate
  • perceive
  • perception
  • perceptive
  • perceptiveness
  • percipient
  • perspicacious
  • pick up on
  • pierce
  • proficiency
  • quick
  • quick-witted
  • realize
  • recognize
  • register
  • resourceful
  • sagacious
  • sage
  • sapient
  • scheming
  • see
  • seize
  • sense
  • sensible
  • sharp
  • sharp-eyed
  • sharp-sighted
  • sharp-witted
  • sharpness
  • shrewd
  • skills
  • slick
  • sly
  • smart
  • smarts
  • smooth
  • streetwise
  • subtle
  • take in
  • tricky
  • twig
  • understand
  • understanding
  • veteran
  • wily
  • wise

judging

  • accepting
  • adjudging
  • adjudicating
  • allowing
  • arbitrating
  • ascertaining
  • assuming
  • believing
  • calculating
  • calling
  • conceiving
  • concluding
  • conjecturing
  • considering
  • construing
  • contemplating
  • deciding
  • deducing
  • deeming
  • deliberating
  • depending
  • deriving
  • determining
  • drawing a conclusion
  • esteeming
  • estimating
  • extrapolating
  • feeling
  • figuring
  • finding out
  • gaging
  • gathering
  • gauging
  • guessing
  • hearing
  • holding
  • imagining
  • inferring
  • interpreting
  • judgment
  • making
  • making out
  • mediating
  • moderating
  • negotiating
  • perceiving
  • philosophizing
  • placing
  • pondering
  • presuming
  • presupposing
  • prosecuting
  • putting
  • rationalizing
  • reaching a decision
  • reading
  • reasoning
  • reckoning
  • redetermining
  • refereeing
  • regarding
  • rejudging
  • relying
  • resolving
  • settling
  • sizing up
  • speculating
  • supposing
  • surmising
  • thinking
  • trusting
  • trying
  • umpiring
  • understanding
  • viewing
  • weighing

immoral

hanging back


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