cancelling

The word “cancelling” has 3 syllables: can-cel-ling

It's pronounced as /ˈkæn.səlɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for cancelling?

In the thesaurus, “cancelling” has 221 synonyms and 101 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for cancelling

  • X-out
  • abandoning
  • abating
  • abbreviating
  • abolish
  • abolishing
  • abort
  • aborting
  • abrogate
  • abrogating
  • annihilating
  • annul
  • annulling
  • atomizing
  • avoiding
  • ax
  • balance out
  • banning
  • black out
  • blacking out
  • blasting
  • bleeping
  • blipping
  • blot out
  • blotting out
  • blowing up
  • blue-penciling
  • bowdlerizing
  • break
  • break off
  • breaking down
  • breaking off
  • call off
  • calling
  • calling off
  • censoring
  • clipping
  • compensate for
  • consuming
  • counteract
  • counterbalance
  • countercheck
  • countermand
  • countermanding
  • counterpoise
  • cropping
  • cross out
  • crying off
  • cut
  • cutting
  • dashing
  • decimating
  • declare invalid
  • deface
  • deleing
  • delete
  • deleting
  • demolishing
  • destroy
  • destroying
  • devastating
  • devouring
  • disallowing
  • disannulling
  • discard
  • discarding
  • discharge
  • discontinuing
  • dismantling
  • dismissing
  • dissolving
  • ditching
  • do away with
  • do in
  • doing away with
  • dooming
  • dropping
  • dynamiting
  • efface
  • effacing
  • ejecting
  • eliding
  • eliminate
  • eliminating
  • ending
  • enjoining
  • eradicate
  • eradicating
  • erasing
  • excising
  • expelling
  • expunge
  • expunging
  • expurgating
  • exterminating
  • extirpating
  • finish off
  • finishing
  • flattening
  • forbidding
  • fragmenting
  • frustrate
  • giving up
  • halting
  • holding back
  • ignore
  • interrupting
  • invalidate
  • invalidating
  • jettisoning
  • kill
  • killing
  • killing off
  • laundering
  • liquidating
  • make up for
  • negate
  • negating
  • neutralize
  • nullify
  • nullifying
  • nulling
  • obliterate
  • obliterating
  • off
  • offset
  • omit
  • ousting
  • outlawing
  • overriding
  • overruling
  • overthrow
  • overturning
  • powdering
  • prohibiting
  • pulverizing
  • put an end to
  • quash
  • quashing
  • ravaging
  • razing
  • recall
  • recalling
  • recant
  • recanting
  • red-penciling
  • redacting
  • redeem
  • redress
  • refute
  • rejecting
  • relinquishing
  • remove
  • removing
  • render inert
  • render invalid
  • render null and void
  • repeal
  • repealing
  • repressing
  • repudiate
  • rescind
  • rescinding
  • retract
  • retracting
  • reversing
  • revoke
  • revoking
  • rolling back
  • rub out
  • rubbing out
  • ruining
  • rule out
  • scrapping
  • scratch out
  • scrub
  • scrubbing
  • set aside
  • setting aside
  • shattering
  • shortening
  • silencing
  • sink
  • smash
  • smashing
  • splintering
  • squash
  • stamp across
  • stopping
  • strike out
  • striking down
  • suppress
  • suppressing
  • surrendering
  • suspending
  • taking back
  • tearing down
  • terminating
  • throwing out
  • torpedo
  • total
  • totaling
  • totalling
  • trash
  • trim
  • undo
  • vacate
  • vacating
  • vetoing
  • void
  • voiding
  • wash out
  • wasting
  • wipe out
  • wipe slate clean
  • wiping out
  • withdrawing
  • wrecking
  • writing off
  • zap
  • zapping

Antonyms for cancelling

  • add
  • aid
  • allow
  • allowing
  • approve
  • approving
  • arrange
  • assist
  • authorizing
  • bear
  • begin
  • beginning
  • build
  • building
  • clearing
  • commanding
  • commencing
  • conserving
  • construct
  • constructing
  • continue
  • continuing
  • create
  • creating
  • decreeing
  • emphasize
  • enact
  • enacting
  • encourage
  • endorsing
  • engaging
  • establish
  • establishing
  • fabricating
  • fashioning
  • fasten
  • fix
  • fixing
  • forging
  • formalizing
  • forming
  • founding
  • framing
  • give birth
  • help
  • imbalance
  • indorsing
  • initiating
  • institute
  • instituting
  • keep
  • keeping
  • laying down
  • legalizing
  • legislating
  • legitimating
  • legitimizing
  • lose
  • making
  • mandating
  • manufacturing
  • mend
  • mending
  • ordering
  • passing
  • patching
  • permit
  • permitting
  • pledging
  • prescribing
  • preserving
  • promising
  • protecting
  • ratify
  • ratifying
  • rebuilding
  • reconditioning
  • reconstructing
  • renewing
  • renovating
  • repairing
  • restore
  • restoring
  • revamping
  • sanction
  • sanctioning
  • saving
  • shaping
  • start
  • starting
  • stetting
  • strengthen
  • support
  • taking on
  • taking up
  • tip
  • undertaking
  • uphold
  • validate
  • validating
  • warranting

Meanings of cancelling

  • 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 is cancelling her appointment due to a sudden emergency.
  • The company is cancelling all events for the next two weeks.
  • After much deliberation, he decided to cancelling the order.
  • I am cancelling my subscription because I no longer need the service.
  • They are cancelling the meeting to reschedule it for next month.

On this page you'll find 322 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to cancelling, such as: X-out, abandoning, abating, abbreviating, abolish, abolishing, abort.

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Related Words

calling off

abating

  • abbreviating
  • abolishing
  • aborting
  • abridging
  • abrogating
  • allaying
  • alleviating
  • analeptic
  • annihilating
  • annulling
  • assuaging
  • avoiding
  • bankrupting
  • banning
  • bereaving
  • breaking down
  • calling
  • calling off
  • canceling
  • cancelling
  • ceasing
  • cheating
  • clipping
  • closing
  • collapsing
  • compressing
  • concluding
  • condensing
  • consolatory
  • consoling
  • constricting
  • contracting
  • countermanding
  • cropping
  • crumbling
  • curing
  • curtailing
  • cutting
  • cutting back
  • cutting down
  • de-escalating
  • declinatory
  • declining
  • decreasing
  • decrescent
  • deducting
  • deflating
  • defrauding
  • denting
  • denuding
  • depleting
  • depreciating
  • depriving
  • descending
  • desisting
  • diminishing
  • disallowing
  • disannulling
  • discontinuing
  • discounting
  • disfurnishing
  • dismissing
  • dissolving
  • divesting
  • docking
  • doing away with
  • downscaling
  • downsizing
  • dropping
  • dwindling
  • dying
  • dying down
  • easing
  • ebbing
  • eliminating
  • encouraging
  • ending
  • enjoining
  • eradicating
  • erasing
  • evaporating
  • expiring
  • fading away
  • falling
  • falling away
  • finishing
  • flagging
  • forbidding
  • freeing
  • giving out
  • health-giving
  • heart-warming
  • impoverishing
  • inspiriting
  • invalidating
  • invigorating
  • knocking down
  • knocking off
  • lapsing
  • leaving off
  • lessening
  • letting up
  • lightening
  • liquidating
  • losing momentum
  • lowering
  • minimizing
  • mitigating
  • moderating
  • modifying
  • modulating
  • narrowing
  • negating
  • nicking
  • nullifying
  • nulling
  • outlawing
  • overriding
  • overruling
  • overturning
  • palling
  • paring
  • passing
  • phasing down
  • plummeting
  • plunging
  • prohibiting
  • pruning
  • qualifying
  • quashing
  • quieting
  • quitting
  • reassuring
  • recalling
  • receding
  • reducing
  • refreshing
  • rejecting
  • relaxing
  • relenting
  • relieving
  • remedying
  • remitting
  • removing
  • repealing
  • rescinding
  • restoring
  • retracting
  • retrenching
  • reversing
  • revitalizing
  • revivifying
  • revoking
  • rolling back
  • sagging
  • setting aside
  • settling
  • shortchanging
  • shortening
  • shrinking
  • shriveling up
  • sinking
  • slackening
  • slashing
  • sliding
  • slipping
  • slowing
  • slumping
  • softening
  • solacing
  • soothing
  • stopping
  • striking down
  • stripping
  • subsiding
  • subtracting
  • succoring
  • suspending
  • sustaining
  • taking off
  • tapering
  • tapering off
  • terminating
  • throwing out
  • toppling
  • tottering
  • tranquilizing
  • trimming
  • truncating
  • tumbling
  • upholding
  • vacating
  • vanishing
  • vetoing
  • voiding
  • waning
  • warming
  • wasting
  • weakening
  • wearing down
  • wearing off
  • whittling
  • winding up
  • withdrawing
  • writing off

abolishing

  • abandoning
  • abandonment
  • abating
  • abolition
  • aborting
  • abrogating
  • abrogation
  • annihilating
  • annihilation
  • annulling
  • annulment
  • assassinating
  • atomizing
  • avoiding
  • bane
  • banning
  • blacking out
  • blasting
  • blotting out
  • blowing up
  • breaking down
  • calling
  • calling off
  • canceling
  • cancelling
  • carnage
  • consuming
  • countermanding
  • crashing
  • crushing
  • cutting
  • dashing
  • decimating
  • deletion
  • demolishing
  • destroying
  • devastating
  • devastation
  • devouring
  • disallowing
  • disannulling
  • discarding
  • disintegrating
  • dismantling
  • dismissing
  • disrupting
  • dissolution
  • dissolving
  • ditching
  • doing away with
  • dooming
  • downfall
  • dropping
  • dynamiting
  • effacing
  • ejecting
  • eliminating
  • elimination
  • end
  • enjoining
  • eradicating
  • eradication
  • erasing
  • excising
  • expelling
  • expunging
  • exterminating
  • extermination
  • extinction
  • extinguishing
  • extinguishment
  • extirpating
  • extirpation
  • finishing
  • flattening
  • forbidding
  • fragmenting
  • havoc
  • invalidating
  • invalidation
  • jettisoning
  • killing
  • killing off
  • liquidating
  • liquidation
  • loss
  • massacre
  • murder
  • negating
  • nullification
  • nullifying
  • nulling
  • obliterating
  • obliteration
  • ousting
  • outlawing
  • overriding
  • overruling
  • overthrow
  • overturning
  • powdering
  • prohibiting
  • pulverizing
  • quashing
  • ravaging
  • razing
  • recall
  • recalling
  • rejecting
  • removing
  • repeal
  • repealing
  • repudiation
  • rescinding
  • retirement
  • retracting
  • retraction
  • reversal
  • reversing
  • revocation
  • revoking
  • rolling back
  • rubbing out
  • ruin
  • ruination
  • ruining
  • sacking
  • setting aside
  • shattering
  • slaughter
  • slaying
  • smashing
  • splintering
  • striking down
  • subjugation
  • subversion
  • subverting
  • suspending
  • tearing down
  • terminating
  • throwing out
  • totaling
  • totalling
  • undoing
  • vacating
  • vetoing
  • voiding
  • wasting
  • wiping out
  • withdrawing
  • wrack
  • wreck
  • wreckage
  • wrecking
  • writing off
  • 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

negating

  • abating
  • abolishing
  • aborting
  • abrogating
  • adverse
  • against
  • agin
  • annihilating
  • annulling
  • anti
  • antipodal
  • antipodean
  • antithetic
  • antithetical
  • avoiding
  • baffling
  • balking
  • banning
  • blocking
  • breaking down
  • calling
  • calling off
  • canceling
  • cancelling
  • challenging
  • con
  • conflicting
  • confuting
  • contradicting
  • contrary
  • converse
  • counter
  • counteractive
  • countermanding
  • debunking
  • denying
  • deriding
  • deterrent
  • deterring
  • diametric
  • disaffirming
  • disallowing
  • disannulling
  • disavowing
  • disbelieving
  • disclaiming
  • disconfirming
  • discrediting
  • discrepant
  • dismissing
  • disowning
  • disproving
  • disputing
  • dissolving
  • distrusting
  • doing away with
  • doubting
  • dropping
  • eliminating
  • enjoining
  • eradicating
  • erasing
  • foiling
  • forbidding
  • frustrating
  • gainsaying
  • hampering
  • hindering
  • impeding
  • incompatible
  • incongruous
  • inconsistent
  • invalidating
  • irreconcilable
  • liquidating
  • mistrusting
  • negativing
  • neutralizing
  • nullifying
  • nulling
  • opposing
  • opposite
  • ornery
  • outlawing
  • overriding
  • overruling
  • overturning
  • paradoxical
  • polar
  • pooh-poohing
  • poohing
  • precautionary
  • preventative
  • preventive
  • prohibiting
  • prophylactic
  • quashing
  • rebutting
  • recalling
  • refuting
  • rejecting
  • removing
  • repealing
  • repudiating
  • repugnant
  • rescinding
  • retardant
  • retracting
  • reverse
  • reversing
  • revoking
  • rolling back
  • setting aside
  • stalling
  • striking down
  • suspecting
  • suspending
  • throwing out
  • thwarting
  • traversing
  • vacating
  • vetoing
  • voiding
  • withdrawing
  • writing off

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