canceling

The word “canceling” has 3 syllables: can-cel-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈkæn.səlɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for canceling?

In the thesaurus, “canceling” has 174 synonyms and 77 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for canceling

  • abandoning
  • abandonment
  • abating
  • abbreviating
  • abolishing
  • abolition
  • aborting
  • abrogating
  • abrogation
  • annihilating
  • annulling
  • annulment
  • atomizing
  • avoiding
  • banning
  • blacking out
  • blasting
  • bleeping
  • blipping
  • blotting out
  • blowing up
  • blue-penciling
  • bowdlerizing
  • breaking down
  • breaking off
  • calling
  • calling off
  • cancellation
  • censoring
  • clipping
  • consuming
  • countermanding
  • cropping
  • crossing out
  • crying off
  • cutting
  • dashing
  • decimating
  • deleing
  • deleting
  • deletion
  • demolishing
  • destroying
  • devastating
  • devouring
  • disallowing
  • disannulling
  • discarding
  • discontinuing
  • dismantling
  • dismissing
  • disregarding
  • dissolution
  • dissolving
  • ditching
  • doing away with
  • dooming
  • dropping
  • dynamiting
  • effacing
  • ejecting
  • eliding
  • eliminating
  • elimination
  • ending
  • enjoining
  • eradicating
  • eradication
  • erasing
  • excepting
  • excising
  • excluding
  • expelling
  • expunction
  • expunging
  • expurgating
  • exterminating
  • extirpating
  • finishing
  • flattening
  • forbidding
  • fragmenting
  • giving up
  • halting
  • holding back
  • ignoring
  • interrupting
  • invalidating
  • invalidation
  • jettisoning
  • killing
  • killing off
  • laundering
  • liquidating
  • missing
  • negating
  • neglecting
  • not including
  • not naming
  • nullification
  • nullifying
  • nulling
  • obliterating
  • obliteration
  • ousting
  • outlawing
  • overlooking
  • overriding
  • overruling
  • overturning
  • passing over
  • powdering
  • precluding
  • prohibiting
  • pulverizing
  • quashing
  • ravaging
  • razing
  • recall
  • recalling
  • recanting
  • red-penciling
  • redacting
  • rejecting
  • relinquishing
  • removing
  • repeal
  • repealing
  • repressing
  • repudiating
  • repudiation
  • rescinding
  • retirement
  • retracting
  • retraction
  • reversal
  • reversing
  • revocation
  • revoking
  • rolling back
  • rubbing out
  • ruining
  • scrapping
  • scratching out
  • scrubbing
  • setting aside
  • shattering
  • shortening
  • silencing
  • slighting
  • smashing
  • splintering
  • stopping
  • striking down
  • suppressing
  • surrendering
  • suspending
  • taking back
  • tearing down
  • terminating
  • throwing out
  • totaling
  • totalling
  • undoing
  • vacating
  • vetoing
  • voiding
  • wasting
  • wiping out
  • withdrawing
  • withholding
  • wrecking
  • writing off
  • zapping

Antonyms for canceling

  • allowance
  • allowing
  • approval
  • approving
  • arrangement
  • authorizing
  • beginning
  • building
  • clearing
  • commanding
  • commencing
  • confirmation
  • conserving
  • constructing
  • continuing
  • creating
  • decreeing
  • enacting
  • enactment
  • endorsing
  • engaging
  • establishing
  • establishment
  • fabricating
  • fashioning
  • fixing
  • forging
  • formalizing
  • forming
  • founding
  • framing
  • including
  • indorsing
  • initiating
  • inserting
  • instituting
  • keeping
  • laying down
  • legalizing
  • legislating
  • legitimating
  • legitimizing
  • making
  • mandating
  • manufacturing
  • mending
  • mentioning
  • ordering
  • passing
  • patching
  • permission
  • permitting
  • pledging
  • prescribing
  • preserving
  • promising
  • protecting
  • ratifying
  • rebuilding
  • reconditioning
  • reconstructing
  • renewing
  • renovating
  • repairing
  • restoring
  • revamping
  • sanctioning
  • saving
  • shaping
  • starting
  • stetting
  • taking on
  • taking up
  • undertaking
  • validating
  • validation
  • warranting

Meanings of canceling

  • verb
    1. To cross out something with lines etc.
    2. To invalidate or annul something.
    3. To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it can't be reused.
    4. To offset or equalize something.
    5. To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation.
    6. To stop production of a programme.
    7. To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.
    8. To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.
    9. To kill.
    10. To cease to provide financial or moral support to (someone deemed unacceptable). Compare cancel culture.

Example Sentences

  • She was forced to canceling her plans because of an unexpected emergency.
  • The airline is canceling flights due to the ongoing storm.
  • They are canceling the event after hearing about the weather forecast.
  • I will be canceling my appointment because of a schedule conflict.
  • The manager is canceling all meetings for the rest of the day.

On this page you'll find 251 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to canceling, such as: abandoning, abandonment, abating, abbreviating, abolishing, abolition, aborting.

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

Related Words

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  • abandoning
  • abandonment
  • abatement
  • abating
  • abolishing
  • abolishment
  • abolition
  • aborting
  • abortion
  • abrogating
  • abrogation
  • annihilating
  • annihilation
  • annulling
  • annulment
  • avoidance
  • avoiding
  • banning
  • breaking down
  • calling
  • calling off
  • cancelation
  • canceling
  • cancellation
  • cancelling
  • conquering
  • countermand
  • countermanding
  • crushing
  • decimating
  • defeasance
  • deletion
  • demolishing
  • desolating
  • destroying
  • destruction
  • devastating
  • disallowance
  • disallowing
  • disannulling
  • discontinuation
  • dismissal
  • dismissing
  • dissolution
  • dissolving
  • doing away with
  • dominating
  • dousing
  • dowsing
  • dropping
  • eliminating
  • elimination
  • end
  • ending
  • enjoining
  • eradicating
  • eradication
  • erasing
  • erasure
  • exterminating
  • extinguishing
  • extirpation
  • forbiddance
  • forbidding
  • invalidating
  • invalidation
  • liquidating
  • liquidation
  • negating
  • negation
  • nuking
  • nullification
  • nullifying
  • nulling
  • obliterating
  • obliteration
  • outlawing
  • overcoming
  • overpowering
  • override
  • overriding
  • overruling
  • overthrow
  • overturn
  • overturning
  • overwhelming
  • prohibiting
  • prohibition
  • putting down
  • putting out
  • quelling
  • quenching
  • recall
  • recalling
  • rejecting
  • rejection
  • removal
  • removing
  • repeal
  • repealing
  • repressing
  • repudiation
  • rescinding
  • rescindment
  • rescission
  • retirement
  • retracting
  • retraction
  • reversal
  • reversing
  • revocation
  • revoking
  • rolling back
  • rubbing out
  • ruining
  • setting aside
  • silencing
  • sitting on
  • slapping down
  • smashing
  • smothering
  • squashing
  • squelching
  • stifling
  • strangling
  • striking down
  • subduing
  • subjugating
  • subversion
  • suppressing
  • suppression
  • suspending
  • suspension
  • termination
  • throttling
  • throwing out
  • undoing
  • vacating
  • vanquishing
  • veto
  • vetoing
  • voidance
  • voiding
  • wasting
  • wiping out
  • withdrawal
  • withdrawing
  • wrecking
  • writing off

effacing

  • abolishing
  • annihilating
  • atomizing
  • blacking out
  • blasting
  • blotting out
  • blowing up
  • canceling
  • cancellation
  • cancelling
  • consuming
  • crossing out
  • cutting
  • dashing
  • decimating
  • deleting
  • deletion
  • demolishing
  • destroying
  • devastating
  • devouring
  • discarding
  • dismantling
  • dissolving
  • ditching
  • dooming
  • dynamiting
  • ejecting
  • eradicating
  • eradication
  • erasing
  • excising
  • expelling
  • expunction
  • expunging
  • exterminating
  • extirpating
  • finishing
  • flattening
  • fragmenting
  • jettisoning
  • killing
  • killing off
  • liquidating
  • obliterating
  • obliteration
  • ousting
  • powdering
  • pulverizing
  • ravaging
  • razing
  • rubbing out
  • ruining
  • scratching out
  • shattering
  • smashing
  • splintering
  • tearing down
  • terminating
  • throwing out
  • totaling
  • totalling
  • wasting
  • wiping out
  • wrecking
  • zapping

abrogating

  • abating
  • abolishing
  • aborting
  • adverse
  • against
  • annihilating
  • annulling
  • antagonistic
  • anti
  • avoiding
  • balky
  • banning
  • breaking down
  • calling
  • calling off
  • canceling
  • cancelling
  • colorless
  • con
  • contrary
  • contravening
  • counteractive
  • countermanding
  • cynical
  • denying
  • detrimental
  • disallowing
  • disannulling
  • disavowing
  • dismissing
  • dissentient
  • dissenting
  • dissolving
  • doing away with
  • dropping
  • eliminating
  • enjoining
  • eradicating
  • erasing
  • forbidding
  • gainsaying
  • gloomy
  • impugning
  • invalidating
  • jaundiced
  • liquidating
  • naysaying
  • negating
  • neutralizing
  • nugatory
  • nullifying
  • nulling
  • opposing
  • outlawing
  • overriding
  • overruling
  • overturning
  • pessimistic
  • privative
  • prohibiting
  • quashing
  • recalling
  • recusant
  • refusing
  • rejecting
  • removed
  • removing
  • repealing
  • repugnant
  • rescinding
  • resisting
  • resistive
  • retracting
  • reversing
  • revoking
  • rolling back
  • setting aside
  • striking down
  • suspending
  • throwing out
  • unaffirmative
  • unenthusiastic
  • unfavorable
  • uninterested
  • unwilling
  • vacating
  • vetoing
  • voiding
  • weak
  • withdrawing
  • writing off

killing

  • abbreviating
  • alluring
  • amusing
  • annihilating
  • annihilation
  • antic
  • arduous
  • arresting
  • assassinating
  • assassination
  • beckoning
  • beguiling
  • bewitching
  • blackballing
  • blacking out
  • blacklisting
  • bleeping
  • blipping
  • blithesome
  • bloodbath
  • bloodletting
  • bloodshed
  • blotting out
  • blue-penciling
  • bottom line
  • bowdlerizing
  • braking
  • breaking
  • bump off
  • bumping off
  • burdensome
  • burning out
  • busting
  • butchering
  • butchery
  • campy
  • canceling
  • cancelling
  • capital punishment
  • captivating
  • carnage
  • carrying off
  • censoring
  • challenging
  • charming
  • chocking
  • chucklesome
  • claiming
  • cleanup
  • clipping
  • clownish
  • comedic
  • comic
  • comical
  • compensation
  • courting
  • croaking
  • cropping
  • cutting
  • cutting down
  • cutting off
  • deactivating
  • death
  • debilitating
  • decimating
  • decimation
  • declining
  • deleing
  • deleting
  • delighting
  • demanding
  • demolishing
  • destroying
  • destruction
  • devastation
  • difficult
  • disallowing
  • disapproving
  • disarming
  • dismantling
  • dismissing
  • dispatching
  • diverting
  • doing away with
  • doing for
  • doing in
  • doing up
  • downing
  • draining
  • drawing
  • drawing up
  • droll
  • earnings
  • effacing
  • eliding
  • emolument
  • enchanting
  • enervating
  • enfeebling
  • enrapturing
  • entertaining
  • enthralling
  • enticing
  • entrancing
  • eradicating
  • eradication
  • erasing
  • euthanatizing
  • euthanizing
  • exacting
  • excising
  • executing
  • execution
  • exhausting
  • expunging
  • expurgating
  • extermination
  • facetious
  • fagging
  • farcical
  • fascinating
  • fatiguing
  • felling
  • finishing
  • flip
  • flippant
  • formidable
  • foul play
  • frazzling
  • funny
  • gain
  • genocide
  • getting
  • gleeful
  • gratifying
  • gross
  • grueling
  • gruelling
  • halting
  • harassing
  • hard
  • herculean
  • hilarious
  • holocaust
  • homicide
  • humoristic
  • humorous
  • hysteric
  • hysterical
  • icing
  • income
  • interest
  • interesting
  • intriguing
  • inviting
  • jamming
  • jocose
  • jocular
  • jocund
  • jokey
  • joky
  • jolly
  • jovial
  • killing off
  • knockabout
  • knocking off
  • knocking out
  • laborious
  • laughable
  • laughing
  • laundering
  • lucre
  • ludicrous
  • luring
  • mad
  • magnetizing
  • making away with
  • manslaughter
  • martyring
  • massacre
  • massacring
  • merry
  • mirthful
  • mortality
  • mothballing
  • mowing
  • murder
  • murdering
  • negativing
  • net
  • neutralizing
  • nixing
  • obliterating
  • offing
  • onerous
  • oppressive
  • outwearing
  • pay
  • payment
  • payoff
  • persnickety
  • pert
  • phasing out
  • playful
  • pleasing
  • pogrom
  • priceless
  • proceeds
  • profit
  • pulling
  • putting away
  • putting down
  • red-penciling
  • redacting
  • refusing
  • remittal
  • removing
  • repressing
  • requital
  • revenue
  • rich
  • ridiculous
  • rigid
  • rigorous
  • riotous
  • risible
  • rough
  • rubbing out
  • rugged
  • salary
  • sales
  • sapping
  • scragging
  • screaming
  • seducing
  • severe
  • shooting down
  • shortening
  • shutting off
  • sidesplitting
  • silencing
  • slapstick
  • slapsticky
  • slaughter
  • slaughtering
  • slaying
  • smart
  • smart-aleck
  • smart-alecky
  • smiting
  • snickery
  • snuffing
  • soliciting
  • stalling
  • stern
  • sticking
  • stiff
  • strenuous
  • strict
  • stringent
  • suiciding
  • suppressing
  • taking
  • taking out
  • taxing
  • tempting
  • terminating
  • testing
  • tiring
  • toilsome
  • tough
  • trying
  • turning off
  • uproarious
  • vetoing
  • wages
  • waggish
  • washing out
  • wasting
  • weakening
  • wearing
  • wearing out
  • wearing to a frazzle
  • wearying
  • whacking
  • whimsical
  • wiling
  • windfall
  • wiping out
  • witching
  • witty
  • wooing
  • wry
  • yield
  • zany

ignoring

  • absolving
  • acquitting
  • blackballing
  • blank
  • breach
  • break
  • bypassing
  • canceling
  • cancellation
  • carelessness
  • chasm
  • clearing
  • cold shoulder
  • condoning
  • contravention
  • cutting out
  • default
  • delinquency
  • dereliction
  • discarding
  • discounting
  • disdaining
  • disregard
  • disregardance
  • disregarding
  • elimination
  • elision
  • encroachment
  • excepting
  • excluding
  • exclusion
  • exculpating
  • excusing
  • exonerating
  • explaining
  • failing
  • failure
  • forgetfulness
  • forgetting
  • forgiving
  • forgiving and forgetting
  • gap
  • hiatus
  • ignore someone
  • inadvertence
  • inadvertency
  • infraction
  • infringement
  • intrusion
  • invasion
  • justifying
  • lack
  • lacuna
  • lapse
  • leaving out
  • misconduct
  • misdemeanor
  • misfeasance
  • misprision
  • missing
  • neglect
  • neglecting
  • noninclusion
  • nonobservance
  • not including
  • not naming
  • offence
  • offense
  • omission
  • omitting
  • ostracism
  • ostracization
  • overlook
  • overlooking
  • overpassing
  • oversight
  • papering over
  • pardoning
  • passing over
  • pooh-poohing
  • poohing
  • precluding
  • preclusion
  • preterition
  • pretermission
  • prohibition
  • rationalizing
  • rejecting
  • remitting
  • repudiating
  • repudiation
  • scanting
  • scorning
  • sending to Coventry
  • shrugging off
  • sin
  • skimping
  • skip
  • slighting
  • slip
  • transgression
  • trespass
  • vindicating
  • violation
  • waiving
  • whitewashing
  • withholding
  • wrong

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