effecting

The word “effecting” has 3 syllables: ef-fect-ing

It's pronounced as /ɪˈfɛktɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for effecting?

In the thesaurus, “effecting” has 140 synonyms and 59 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for effecting

  • ability
  • accomplishing
  • achievement
  • achieving
  • act
  • acting
  • adequate
  • advancing
  • arete
  • art
  • attainment
  • begetting
  • beginning
  • binding
  • breeding
  • bringing
  • bringing about
  • bringing forth
  • bringing on
  • building
  • capability
  • capable
  • carrying through
  • carrying-out
  • catalyzing
  • causing
  • completion
  • composing
  • conclusion
  • conclusive
  • constructing
  • consummation
  • contentedness
  • contentment
  • coup
  • creating
  • crowning
  • culmination
  • cultivating
  • deciding
  • decisive
  • deed
  • determinative
  • determining
  • developing
  • discharge
  • discharging
  • doing
  • drawing on
  • effective
  • effectuating
  • efficacious
  • efficient
  • effort
  • enacting
  • encouraging
  • end
  • engendering
  • establishing
  • executing
  • execution
  • exploit
  • fabricating
  • fashioning
  • fathering
  • feat
  • finish
  • forcible
  • forging
  • forming
  • forwarding
  • fostering
  • founding
  • fruition
  • fulfilling
  • fulfillment
  • furthering
  • generating
  • giving rise to
  • gratification
  • implementation
  • in force
  • inaugurating
  • inducing
  • initiating
  • innovating
  • instituting
  • introducing
  • invoking
  • just the ticket
  • kick
  • kicks observance
  • launching
  • lawful
  • legal
  • licit
  • making
  • manufacturing
  • nourishing
  • nurturing
  • occasioning
  • operating
  • originating
  • perfection
  • performance
  • pioneering
  • potent
  • powerful
  • practicable
  • producing
  • production
  • productive
  • proficiency
  • promoting
  • prompting
  • qualified
  • realization
  • rendering
  • serviceable
  • setting
  • setting up
  • shaping
  • skill
  • sound
  • spawning
  • starting
  • stroke
  • strong
  • successful
  • talent
  • telling
  • triumph
  • turning out
  • useful
  • valid
  • virtuous
  • workable
  • working
  • yielding
  • you got it

Antonyms for effecting

  • abolishing
  • arresting
  • beginning
  • canning
  • checking
  • commencement
  • controlling
  • crushing
  • curbing
  • dampening
  • defeat
  • demolishing
  • destroying
  • disappointment
  • dissatisfaction
  • extinguishing
  • failure
  • forfeit
  • frustration
  • idleness
  • ignorance
  • impeding
  • impotence
  • impotent
  • inability
  • incapable
  • incapacity
  • incompetence
  • ineffectual
  • inhibiting
  • introduction
  • killing
  • limiting
  • liquidating
  • loss
  • nullification
  • opening
  • putting down
  • quashing
  • quelling
  • quenching
  • repressing
  • restraining
  • restricting
  • retarding
  • smothering
  • squashing
  • squelching
  • start
  • stifling
  • stilling
  • subduing
  • suppressing
  • unfulfillment
  • unproductive
  • unsuccessful
  • useless
  • weak
  • weakness

Meanings of effecting

  • verb
    1. To make or bring about; to implement.
  • adjective
    1. Causative, effective.

Example Sentences

  • Effecting change requires dedication and perseverance.
  • The new policies are effecting a positive shift in company culture.
  • Climate change is effecting dramatic alterations in ecosystems worldwide.
  • The medication is effecting noticeable improvements in patient health.
  • His leadership style is effecting greater collaboration among team members.

On this page you'll find 199 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to effecting, such as: ability, abolishing, accomplishing, achievement, achieving, act, acting.

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Related Words

accomplishment

  • ability
  • achievement
  • acquirement
  • act
  • actuality
  • actualization
  • administration
  • application
  • arrival
  • art
  • attainment
  • baby
  • blockbuster
  • breeding
  • bringing about
  • capability
  • carrying-out
  • civility
  • civilization
  • class
  • commission
  • completion
  • conclusion
  • conquest
  • consummation
  • cosmopolitanism
  • coup
  • courteousness
  • courtesy
  • couth
  • culmination
  • cultivation
  • culture
  • deed
  • direction
  • discharge
  • dispatch
  • education
  • effecting
  • effort
  • elegance
  • enactment
  • erudition
  • execution
  • expedition
  • exploit
  • feat
  • finish
  • fruition
  • fulfillment
  • fulfilment
  • gain
  • genteelness
  • gentility
  • grace
  • handling
  • hit
  • implementation
  • intellectualism
  • intellectuality
  • jackpot
  • knowledge
  • learning
  • literacy
  • management
  • manners
  • megahit
  • miracle
  • operation
  • pass
  • performance
  • perpetration
  • polish
  • politeness
  • practice
  • practise
  • production
  • proficiency
  • prosecution
  • pursuance
  • realization
  • refinement
  • scholarship
  • skill
  • smash
  • sophistication
  • stroke
  • success
  • talent
  • taste
  • triumph
  • urbanity
  • victory
  • win
  • winner

keeping

  • abidance
  • abiding by
  • accession
  • accomplishing
  • achieving
  • acquiescence
  • adherence
  • administering
  • administrating
  • agreement
  • answering
  • arresting
  • attendance
  • attention
  • authority
  • averting
  • balance
  • battling
  • bearing
  • blessing
  • blocking
  • boasting
  • bridling
  • bringing about
  • bringing off
  • buffering
  • bulwarking
  • care
  • carrying on
  • carrying out
  • celebrating
  • cellaring
  • charge
  • checking
  • cherishing
  • claiming
  • co-directing
  • co-managing
  • codirecting
  • collaring
  • comanaging
  • command
  • commandeering
  • commanding
  • commemorating
  • committing
  • compassing
  • completing
  • compliance
  • concluding
  • condition
  • conducting
  • confiscation
  • conformance
  • conformity
  • consecrating
  • conserving
  • constraining
  • consummating
  • containing
  • contending
  • control
  • controlling
  • covering
  • curbing
  • custodianship
  • custody
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  • detaining
  • directing
  • discharging
  • dominion
  • effecting
  • enjoying
  • enjoyment
  • estate
  • executing
  • fencing
  • fending
  • feting
  • fettle
  • fighting
  • filing
  • filling
  • finalizing
  • financing
  • finishing
  • footing
  • forfending
  • form
  • fulfilling
  • funding
  • gagging
  • garaging
  • governing
  • governorship
  • guardianship
  • guarding
  • guiding
  • hampering
  • handcuffing
  • handling
  • hands
  • hangaring
  • hanging on to
  • harboring
  • harmony
  • having
  • health
  • heed
  • hindering
  • holding
  • holding back
  • holding on to
  • honor
  • honoring
  • housing
  • hugging
  • impeding
  • inhibiting
  • interrupting
  • kilter
  • lauding
  • leading
  • maintaining
  • making
  • making good
  • making good on
  • management
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  • mastery
  • measuring
  • meeting
  • memorializing
  • micromanaging
  • mincing
  • minding
  • muffling
  • muzzling
  • nick
  • notice
  • obedience
  • observance
  • observation
  • observing
  • obstructing
  • operating
  • opposing
  • order
  • overlooking
  • overseeing
  • ownership
  • owning
  • packing
  • palisading
  • pass
  • patronizing
  • perfecting
  • performing
  • phase
  • picketing
  • picture
  • piloting
  • pocketing
  • possessing
  • possession
  • posture
  • power
  • practice
  • practise
  • praising
  • preservation
  • preserving
  • preventing
  • procurement
  • proprietorship
  • protecting
  • protection
  • pulling in
  • putting up
  • rank
  • redeeming
  • regard
  • regulating
  • remembering
  • repair
  • repositing
  • repossession
  • repressing
  • reserving
  • resisting
  • respect
  • restraining
  • retaining
  • retention
  • ruling
  • running
  • safeguarding
  • safekeeping
  • sanctifying
  • satisfying
  • saving
  • scene
  • screening
  • securing
  • setting up
  • shape
  • shelving
  • shielding
  • silencing
  • sinking
  • situation
  • smothering
  • solemnizing
  • sponsoring
  • squelching
  • stage
  • stage-managing
  • staking
  • standing
  • standing up for
  • status
  • steering
  • stewarding
  • stifling
  • stopping
  • storing
  • stowing
  • strangling
  • submission
  • superintendence
  • superintending
  • supervising
  • supervision
  • supporting
  • suppressing
  • surrender
  • swallowing
  • taking care of
  • taming
  • tending
  • treasuring
  • trim
  • trust
  • underwriting
  • uniformity
  • upholding
  • walling
  • ward
  • warding
  • warehousing
  • warring
  • watching
  • watching over
  • withholding
  • withstanding

negotiating

  • accomplishing
  • achieving
  • acing
  • actualizing
  • addressing
  • agreeing
  • arguing
  • arranging
  • attaining
  • bargaining
  • bartering
  • bickering
  • brewing
  • bringing about
  • bringing off
  • buying
  • captaining
  • carrying off
  • carrying out
  • chaffering
  • clashing
  • coming to grips with
  • commanding
  • committing
  • comparison shopping
  • compassing
  • completing
  • concerting
  • concluding
  • concocting
  • conducting
  • conferring
  • conniving
  • contracting
  • contriving
  • controlling
  • covenanting
  • cutting a deal
  • dealing
  • debating
  • dickering
  • directing
  • discussing
  • doing
  • effecting
  • effectuating
  • ending
  • engineering
  • exchanging
  • executing
  • fielding
  • fighting
  • finagling
  • finessing
  • finishing
  • framing
  • fulfilling
  • gerrymandering
  • getting off
  • going through
  • guiding
  • hacking
  • haggling
  • hammering out
  • handling
  • hassling
  • hatching
  • having a grip on
  • hawking
  • horse-trading
  • implementing
  • intriguing
  • jockeying
  • machinating
  • making
  • managing
  • maneuvering
  • manipulating
  • masterminding
  • micromanaging
  • nailing
  • paltering
  • peddling
  • performing
  • perpetrating
  • playing
  • plotting
  • practicing
  • practising
  • prosecuting
  • pulling
  • pulling off
  • purchasing
  • putting through
  • quarreling
  • quarrelling
  • quarterbacking
  • quibbling
  • realizing
  • reasoning
  • reduplicating
  • reenacting
  • regulating
  • renegotiating
  • repeating
  • running
  • scheming
  • squabbling
  • steering
  • swinging
  • taking
  • talking
  • talking over
  • trading
  • treating
  • wangling
  • wheeling and dealing
  • winding up
  • working out
  • wrangling

yielding

  • abandoning
  • abidance
  • abnegating
  • acquiescence
  • acquiescent
  • acquiescing
  • advancing
  • affording
  • agreeability
  • agreeable
  • amenability
  • amenable
  • amiable
  • apathetic
  • basking
  • bearing
  • begetting
  • beginning
  • biddable
  • blinking
  • bowing
  • breaking
  • breaking down
  • breeding
  • bringing
  • bringing about
  • bringing forth
  • bringing in
  • bringing on
  • buckling
  • budging
  • bursting
  • capitulating
  • capitulation
  • catalyzing
  • causing
  • ceding
  • collapsing
  • committing
  • compliance
  • compliant
  • complying
  • conceding
  • conformable
  • conformist
  • conformity
  • consigning
  • control
  • coughing up
  • cracking
  • crashing
  • creating
  • crumbling
  • crumpling
  • cultivating
  • deciding
  • deference
  • deferring
  • deflating
  • delicate
  • delivering
  • deserting
  • determining
  • developing
  • discarding
  • discipline
  • disciplined
  • docile
  • docility
  • doing
  • drawing on
  • droopy
  • dutifulness
  • dying
  • easy
  • effecting
  • effectuating
  • elastic
  • enacting
  • encouraging
  • engendering
  • entrusting
  • establishing
  • failing
  • fathering
  • flabby
  • flaccid
  • flattening
  • flexible
  • flimsy
  • floppy
  • forbearing
  • forfeiting
  • forsaking
  • forwarding
  • fostering
  • foundering
  • founding
  • furnishing
  • furthering
  • generating
  • giving
  • giving in
  • giving out
  • giving rise to
  • giving up
  • giving way
  • going
  • going out
  • governable
  • gratifying
  • guidable
  • handing over
  • humble
  • humility
  • impassive
  • imploding
  • inaugurating
  • inducing
  • indulging
  • inhibition
  • initiating
  • innovating
  • instituting
  • insubstantial
  • introducing
  • intrusting
  • invoking
  • knuckling under
  • lank
  • launching
  • law-abiding
  • lax
  • laying down
  • limp
  • long-suffering
  • loose
  • luxuriating
  • making
  • malleable
  • manageable
  • meekness
  • melting
  • melting down
  • modesty
  • mushy
  • netting
  • nonresistant
  • nourishing
  • nurturing
  • obedience
  • obedient
  • obeisance
  • obeisant
  • obliging
  • obsequiousness
  • occasioning
  • order
  • overdoing
  • overindulging
  • pappy
  • passive
  • patient
  • paying
  • paying off
  • pioneering
  • plastic
  • pliable
  • pliant
  • popping
  • producing
  • promoting
  • prompting
  • providing
  • pulpy
  • quaggy
  • quitting
  • relaxed
  • releasing
  • relenting
  • relinquishing
  • rendering
  • renouncing
  • repression
  • resigned
  • resigning
  • resilient
  • restraint
  • returning
  • reveling
  • revelling
  • rolling
  • saying uncle
  • semisoft
  • servility
  • setting
  • setting up
  • shattering
  • shedding
  • slavish
  • slavishness
  • smashing
  • snapping
  • soft
  • spawning
  • splintering
  • splitting
  • spongy
  • springy
  • squashy
  • squishy
  • stalling
  • starting
  • stoic
  • stoical
  • stretchy
  • submission
  • submissive
  • submissiveness
  • submitting
  • subordinate
  • subordinateness
  • subordination
  • subservience
  • subserviency
  • subservient
  • succumbing
  • supple
  • supplying
  • suppression
  • surrender
  • surrendering
  • teachableness
  • throwing in the sponge
  • throwing in the towel
  • tolerant
  • tolerating
  • tractability
  • tractable
  • tractableness
  • tractile
  • trainability
  • transferring
  • tumbling
  • turning in
  • turning out
  • turning over
  • uncaring
  • uncomplaining
  • unresistant
  • unresisting
  • unresponsive
  • waiving
  • wallowing
  • willing
  • working

satisfying

  • abiding by
  • accomplishing
  • achieving
  • affable
  • affecting
  • agreeable
  • alleviating
  • alluring
  • amiable
  • amusing
  • animating
  • answering
  • appeasing
  • arguing
  • assuaging
  • attracting
  • attractive
  • authoritative
  • beguiling
  • blandishing
  • blarneying
  • blessed
  • blest
  • blissful
  • brainwashing
  • bringing
  • bringing about
  • bringing around
  • bringing off
  • cajoling
  • calming
  • captivating
  • carrying out
  • charming
  • cheerful
  • cheering
  • cheery
  • chewing over
  • cloying
  • coaxing
  • coddling
  • cogent
  • comfortable
  • comforting
  • committing
  • compassing
  • compelling
  • compensating
  • completing
  • concluding
  • conclusive
  • congenial
  • consummating
  • contenting
  • conversing
  • converting
  • convincing
  • darling
  • debating
  • decisive
  • definitive
  • delectable
  • delicious
  • delightful
  • delighting
  • delightsome
  • desirable
  • discharging
  • discussing
  • disputing
  • diverting
  • drawing
  • dreamy
  • dulcet
  • ecstatic
  • edifying
  • effecting
  • effective
  • elating
  • elevating
  • enchanting
  • encouraging
  • enjoyable
  • enlivening
  • entertaining
  • enticing
  • entreating
  • enviable
  • euphoric
  • exciting
  • executing
  • exhilarating
  • exhorting
  • fascinating
  • fast-talking
  • favorable
  • feasting
  • felicific
  • felicitous
  • filling
  • finalizing
  • finishing
  • forceful
  • fulfilling
  • gaining
  • galvanizing
  • gassing
  • genial
  • getting
  • glad
  • gladdening
  • gladding
  • good
  • good-natured
  • goodly
  • gracious
  • grateful
  • gratifying
  • happy
  • heartening
  • heartwarming
  • heavenly
  • hitting the spot
  • hospitable
  • humoring
  • important
  • inclining
  • indemnifying
  • inducing
  • indulging
  • influencing
  • inspiring
  • inspiriting
  • interesting
  • intoxicating
  • invigorating
  • inviting
  • jolly
  • joyous
  • keeping
  • kind
  • kindly
  • leading on
  • lightening
  • loving
  • luring
  • luscious
  • making
  • making good
  • making good on
  • material
  • meeting
  • mollifying
  • mollycoddling
  • mooting
  • moving
  • nice
  • nirvanic
  • overpersuading
  • pacifying
  • palatable
  • pampering
  • paying
  • perfecting
  • performing
  • personable
  • persuading
  • persuasive
  • pertinent
  • placating
  • pleasant
  • pleasing
  • pleasurable
  • pleasuring
  • poignant
  • pretty
  • prompting
  • quenching
  • quitting
  • rapturous
  • recompensing
  • recouping
  • recreative
  • redeeming
  • redressing
  • refreshing
  • refunding
  • reimbursing
  • rejoicing
  • relevant
  • relieving
  • relishable
  • remedying
  • remunerating
  • repairing
  • repaying
  • requiting
  • rewarding
  • rousing
  • satiating
  • sating
  • satisfactory
  • saturating
  • savory
  • savoury
  • seducing
  • selling
  • significant
  • slaking
  • snowing
  • soothing
  • sound
  • spoiling
  • stimulating
  • stirring
  • strong
  • suiting
  • surfeiting
  • swaying
  • sweet
  • sympathetic
  • tasty
  • telling
  • tempting
  • tender
  • thrilling
  • tickling
  • titillating
  • touching
  • treating
  • uplifting
  • urging
  • valid
  • warm
  • warming
  • weighty
  • welcome
  • welcoming
  • well-founded
  • wheedling

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