choosing

The word “choosing” has 2 syllables: choos-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈtʃuː.zɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for choosing?

In the thesaurus, “choosing” has 82 synonyms and 29 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for choosing

  • accepting
  • adjudging
  • adjudicating
  • adopting
  • appointing
  • appointment
  • apt
  • arbitrating
  • assignment
  • cherry-picking
  • chewing over
  • choice
  • cogitating
  • concluding
  • considering
  • contemplating
  • coveting
  • craving
  • culling
  • debating
  • deciding
  • decision
  • decreeing
  • deliberating
  • designating
  • designation
  • desiring
  • determining
  • disposed
  • electing
  • election
  • embracing
  • entertaining
  • espousing
  • exercising judgment
  • fancying
  • figuring
  • finding
  • fixing
  • given
  • handpicking
  • inclined
  • judging
  • liable
  • likely
  • liking
  • making a choice
  • marking
  • meditating
  • minded
  • naming
  • nominating
  • nomination
  • opting
  • option
  • picking
  • pleasing
  • pondering
  • predisposed
  • preferring
  • preselecting
  • prone
  • questioning
  • refereeing
  • resolving
  • ruling
  • ruminating
  • selecting
  • selection
  • separating
  • setting
  • studying
  • tabbing
  • tagging
  • taking
  • tapping
  • tending
  • umpiring
  • wanting
  • weighing
  • willing
  • wishing

Antonyms for choosing

Meanings of choosing

  • verb
    1. To pick; to make the choice of; to select.
    2. To elect.
    3. To decide to act in a certain way.
    4. To wish; to desire; to prefer.
  • noun
    1. The act of making a choice.

Example Sentences

  • She had a hard time choosing the right dress for the party.
  • Choosing the right words is important in writing.
  • He spent hours choosing a gift for his friend.
  • They are choosing a new leader for the team.
  • Choosing healthy food can improve your well-being.

On this page you'll find 111 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to choosing, such as: abstaining, accepting, adjudging, adjudicating, adopting, appointing, appointment.

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

Related Words

naming

  • ID
  • accepting
  • acknowledgment
  • adjudging
  • adjudicating
  • adopting
  • advertising
  • allotment
  • allusion
  • announcing
  • anointing
  • apperception
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  • approval
  • arbitrating
  • arranging
  • assigning
  • assignment
  • assimilation
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  • authorization
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  • badge
  • baptising
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  • bracelet
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  • broaching
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  • calling
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  • cherry-picking
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  • choice
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  • christening
  • citation
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  • clarifying
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  • cogitating
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  • considering
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  • culling
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  • denominating
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  • description
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  • figuring
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  • handpicking
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  • implying
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  • installation
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  • introducing
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  • investing
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  • judging
  • labeling
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  • letter of introduction
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  • making
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  • marking
  • meditating
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  • misnaming
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  • papers
  • passport
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  • pondering
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  • questioning
  • quoting
  • rechristening
  • reciting
  • recognition
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  • recommendation
  • refereeing
  • reference
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  • remark
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  • resolving
  • ruling
  • ruminating
  • selecting
  • selection
  • setting
  • settling
  • showing
  • signaling
  • signalling
  • signifying
  • sounding
  • specifying
  • spelling out
  • stating
  • stigmatizing
  • studying
  • styling
  • suggesting
  • suggestion
  • surnaming
  • tabbing
  • tag
  • tagging
  • taking
  • taking note of
  • tapping
  • terming
  • testimony
  • throning
  • titling
  • tribute
  • umpiring
  • utterance
  • weighing
  • worming

tagging

taking

  • Junoesque
  • abiding
  • absorbing
  • accepting
  • accommodating
  • accounting
  • accrediting
  • acquiescing
  • acquiring
  • acting
  • addressing
  • admitting
  • adopting
  • adorable
  • aesthetic
  • aesthetical
  • affecting
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  • appealing
  • appointing
  • arresting
  • asking
  • assassinating
  • assuming
  • attractive
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  • beauteous
  • beautiful
  • beckoning
  • begging
  • behaving
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  • besting
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  • bewitching
  • bidding
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  • blotting out
  • blowing away
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  • bombing
  • bonnie
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  • breaking
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  • bumping off
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  • butchering
  • buying
  • calling for
  • capitulating
  • capping
  • captivating
  • carrying
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  • catching
  • challenging
  • charming
  • cherry-picking
  • chocolate-box
  • choosing
  • claiming
  • clasping
  • clenching
  • clobbering
  • clutching
  • comely
  • coming to grips with
  • commanding
  • communicative
  • concluding
  • confirming
  • conquering
  • contagious
  • containing
  • contracting
  • controlling
  • copping
  • countenancing
  • creaming
  • crediting
  • croaking
  • crushing
  • culling
  • cunning
  • cute
  • cutting down
  • dainty
  • decimating
  • deducing
  • defeating
  • delicate
  • delightful
  • demanding
  • designating
  • desirable
  • destroying
  • directing
  • dishy
  • dispatching
  • doing away with
  • doing down
  • doing for
  • doing in
  • dollish
  • drop-dead
  • drubbing
  • eclipsing
  • electing
  • elegant
  • embracing
  • enchanting
  • enclosing
  • encompassing
  • enduring
  • enfolding
  • engaging
  • engineering
  • enjoining
  • entailing
  • entering
  • entertaining
  • enthralling
  • enticing
  • espousing
  • esthetic
  • esthetical
  • euthanatizing
  • euthanizing
  • exacting
  • exceeding
  • excelling
  • executing
  • expansive
  • exquisite
  • eye-catching
  • failing
  • fair
  • fascinating
  • felling
  • fellowshiping
  • fellowshipping
  • fetching
  • fielding
  • financing
  • finessing
  • finishing
  • fitting
  • fixing
  • flamboyant
  • flashy
  • flattening
  • flawless
  • flourishing
  • foxy
  • gaining
  • garnering
  • getting
  • getting around
  • getting off
  • getting the better of
  • glamorous
  • glamourous
  • glorious
  • glossy
  • going
  • good
  • good-looking
  • goodly
  • gorgeous
  • grasping
  • gripping
  • guiding
  • hacking
  • handling
  • handpicking
  • handsome
  • hanging on to
  • harboring
  • having
  • having a grip on
  • holding
  • hot
  • housing
  • hunky
  • icing
  • inclosing
  • infectious
  • inferring
  • influencing
  • insisting
  • interesting
  • inviting
  • involving
  • jockeying
  • killing
  • killing off
  • knocking for a loop
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  • knocking over
  • knockout
  • lacking
  • languishing
  • laying hold of
  • licking
  • likely
  • living with
  • looker
  • lovely
  • lovesome
  • luring
  • luscious
  • magnetic
  • magnificent
  • making away with
  • managing
  • maneuvering
  • manipulating
  • marking
  • martyring
  • massacring
  • mastering
  • meeting
  • mesmeric
  • micromanaging
  • mowing
  • murdering
  • nabbing
  • naming
  • necessitating
  • needing
  • negotiating
  • neutralizing
  • nominating
  • nosing out
  • nubile
  • obtaining
  • offering
  • offing
  • okaying
  • operating
  • outdistancing
  • outdoing
  • outfighting
  • outshining
  • outstripping
  • overbearing
  • overcoming
  • overmatching
  • overpowering
  • overthrowing
  • overtopping
  • overwhelming
  • pandemic
  • panning out
  • perfect
  • performing
  • permitting
  • personable
  • photogenic
  • picking
  • picking up
  • pipping
  • playing
  • pleasant
  • pleasing
  • pocketing
  • preferring
  • prepossessing
  • preselecting
  • presentable
  • pressing
  • presuming
  • pretty
  • prettyish
  • procuring
  • provocative
  • pulchritudinous
  • pulling
  • purchasing
  • putting away
  • putting down
  • questing
  • radiant
  • ratifying
  • ravishing
  • reacting
  • rebuying
  • receiving
  • redounding
  • regulating
  • repurchasing
  • requiring
  • respecting
  • resplendent
  • responding
  • resulting
  • routing
  • rubbing out
  • running
  • sanctioning
  • scoring
  • scragging
  • seating
  • securing
  • seductive
  • seemly
  • seizing
  • selecting
  • setting
  • setting store by
  • setting store on
  • sexy
  • shellacking
  • shouldering
  • showstopping
  • showy
  • sightly
  • sinking
  • skinning
  • skunking
  • slaughtering
  • slaying
  • slick
  • smiting
  • smoking
  • snatching
  • snazzy
  • snowing under
  • snuffing
  • splashy
  • splendid
  • standing
  • standing for
  • statuesque
  • steering
  • sticking out
  • stipulating
  • stomaching
  • stopping
  • striking
  • studly
  • stunning
  • subduing
  • subjugating
  • sublime
  • succeeding
  • suffering
  • suiciding
  • superb
  • supporting
  • supposing
  • surmounting
  • surpassing
  • sustaining
  • swallowing
  • swaying
  • sweating out
  • sweeping
  • sweet
  • swinging
  • tabbing
  • tagging
  • taking effect
  • taking hold
  • taking out
  • tantalizing
  • tapping
  • teasing
  • telegenic
  • tempting
  • terminating
  • thrashing
  • tolerating
  • toothsome
  • topping
  • toughing it out
  • transcending
  • transferable
  • transmittable
  • treating
  • trimming
  • trouncing
  • trusting
  • understanding
  • unseating
  • upending
  • upsetting
  • vanquishing
  • walloping
  • wanting
  • warranting
  • wasting
  • waxing
  • weakening
  • wearing
  • welcoming
  • well-favored
  • whacking
  • whipping
  • wilting
  • winning
  • winsome
  • withering
  • working
  • worsening
  • worsting
  • zingy

wanting

  • abominable
  • absent
  • abysmal
  • admiring
  • adoring
  • appreciating
  • asking
  • atrocious
  • away
  • awful
  • bad
  • bankrupt
  • bare
  • bastard
  • bearing
  • begging
  • below par
  • bereft
  • brutal
  • bum
  • burned out
  • bush
  • bush-league
  • calling for
  • challenging
  • cheesy
  • cherishing
  • choosing
  • claiming
  • coarse
  • commanding
  • common
  • cooked
  • counterfeit
  • coveting
  • crappy
  • craving
  • crumby
  • crummy
  • cut off
  • cut-rate
  • damnable
  • dead
  • deciding
  • defective
  • deficient
  • defunct
  • demanding
  • departed
  • deplorable
  • deprived
  • desiderating
  • desiring
  • destitute
  • determining
  • detestable
  • devoid
  • digging
  • disappointing
  • disastrous
  • dissatisfactory
  • done
  • dreadful
  • egregious
  • empty
  • enjoining
  • enjoying
  • entailing
  • exacting
  • execrable
  • expired
  • extinct
  • failing
  • fake
  • fancying
  • faulty
  • favoring
  • feeling like
  • finished
  • flagrant
  • flawed
  • from hunger
  • gnarly
  • gone
  • gross
  • half-baked
  • hand-to-mouth
  • horrendous
  • horrible
  • ill
  • imperfect
  • in default
  • inadequate
  • incomplete
  • inferior
  • insisting
  • insufficient
  • involving
  • junky
  • lacking
  • lame
  • lapsed
  • lean
  • less
  • lesser
  • light
  • liking
  • lost
  • lousy
  • loving
  • low
  • low-grade
  • low-rent
  • meager
  • meagre
  • mean
  • mediocre
  • mere
  • minimum
  • minus
  • miscreant
  • miserable
  • miserly
  • missing
  • necessitating
  • needed
  • needing
  • niggardly
  • nonexistent
  • not good enough
  • not up to par
  • obsolete
  • odious
  • off
  • omitted
  • out of gas
  • over
  • paltry
  • patchy
  • pathetic
  • perished
  • phoney
  • phony
  • pleasing
  • poor
  • preferring
  • pressing
  • prizing
  • punk
  • questing
  • rare
  • relishing
  • reprehensible
  • requiring
  • resolving
  • rotten
  • rubbishy
  • sans
  • scant
  • scanty
  • scarce
  • scurrilous
  • second-rate
  • shabby
  • sham
  • shoddy
  • short
  • shy
  • sketchy
  • skimp
  • skimpy
  • sleazy
  • slender
  • slight
  • slim
  • small
  • sour
  • spare
  • sparse
  • stingy
  • stinky
  • stipulating
  • suboptimal
  • subpar
  • substandard
  • sucky
  • taking
  • terrible
  • too little too late
  • trashy
  • treasuring
  • unacceptable
  • uncommon
  • under par
  • unfulfilled
  • unsatisfactory
  • unsound
  • unspeakable
  • useless
  • valueless
  • valuing
  • vanished
  • vile
  • villainous
  • wack
  • warranting
  • welcoming
  • willing
  • wishing
  • without
  • worthless
  • wretched
  • wrong

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