facilitating

The word “facilitating” has 5 syllables: fa-cil-i-tat-ing

It's pronounced as /fəˈsɪl.ɪˌteɪtɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for facilitating?

In the thesaurus, “facilitating” has 44 synonyms and 33 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for facilitating

  • abetting
  • accelerating
  • advancing
  • aid
  • aiding
  • assisting
  • disentangling
  • ease
  • easing
  • encouraging
  • expedite
  • expediting
  • forward
  • forwarding
  • fostering
  • further
  • furthering
  • grease the wheels
  • greasing
  • hand-carry
  • hastening
  • help
  • helping
  • hurrying
  • improving
  • make easy
  • nurturing
  • open doors
  • promote
  • promoting
  • quickening
  • run interference for
  • rushing
  • simplify
  • simplifying
  • smooth
  • smoothing
  • speed
  • speed up
  • speeding
  • streamlining
  • unclogging
  • untangling
  • walk through

Antonyms for facilitating

  • aggravating
  • block
  • cease
  • check
  • complicating
  • delay
  • detain
  • deterrent
  • deterring
  • halt
  • hinder
  • hindering
  • hurt
  • impede
  • impeding
  • injure
  • make difficult
  • negating
  • neutralizing
  • nullifying
  • obstruct
  • perplexing
  • precautionary
  • preventative
  • preventive
  • prohibit
  • prophylactic
  • retarding
  • slow
  • sophisticating
  • stop
  • worsen
  • worsening

Meanings of facilitating

  • verb
    1. To make easy or easier.
    2. To help bring about.
    3. To preside over (a meeting, a seminar).

Example Sentences

  • The trainer is skilled at facilitating engaging and interactive workshops.
  • Facilitating open dialogue among team members promotes a healthy work environment.
  • The community center is dedicated to facilitating programs that empower local residents.
  • The manager plays a crucial role in facilitating effective communication within the department.
  • The teacher focuses on facilitating group discussions to encourage student participation.

On this page you'll find 77 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to facilitating, such as: abetting, accelerating, advancing, aggravating, aid, aiding, assisting.

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

Related Words

abetting

  • accessory
  • activating
  • adjuvant
  • advancing
  • advising
  • aiding
  • ancillary
  • appurtenant
  • assistant
  • assisting
  • attending
  • backing
  • backstopping
  • backup
  • bailing out
  • bearing a hand
  • benefiting
  • benefitting
  • bolstering
  • boosting
  • brewing
  • buttressing
  • championing
  • collateral
  • comforting
  • complementary
  • contributory
  • counseling
  • counselling
  • cultivating
  • delivering
  • detonating
  • easing
  • emboldening
  • encouraging
  • endorsing
  • energizing
  • enflaming
  • enlivening
  • exciting
  • extra
  • facilitating
  • favoring
  • fermenting
  • firing
  • fomenting
  • forwarding
  • fostering
  • furthering
  • galvanizing
  • guiding
  • heartening
  • helping
  • inciting
  • indorsing
  • inflaming
  • inspiring
  • instigating
  • invigorating
  • launching
  • mentoring
  • motivating
  • nourishing
  • nurturing
  • obliging
  • patronizing
  • picking
  • profiting
  • promoting
  • provoking
  • quickening
  • raising
  • reenforcing
  • reinforcing
  • rescuing
  • reserve
  • rousing
  • saving
  • secondary
  • serving
  • setting
  • setting in motion
  • setting off
  • smoothing
  • sowing
  • spare
  • sponsoring
  • standing one in good stead
  • stimulating
  • subordinate
  • subservient
  • subsidiary
  • succoring
  • supporting
  • sustaining
  • triggering
  • vitalizing

accelerating

  • accentuating
  • accumulating
  • advanced
  • advancing
  • aggrandizing
  • aiding
  • amassing
  • amplifying
  • appreciating
  • augmenting
  • ballooning
  • blowing up
  • booming
  • boosting
  • bourgeoning
  • building
  • building up
  • bulking
  • bundling
  • burgeoning
  • climbing
  • collecting
  • complementing
  • compounding
  • continuing
  • continuous
  • crescendoing
  • cresting
  • deepening
  • developing
  • dilating
  • dispatching
  • distending
  • dominant
  • drawing out
  • driving
  • dynamic
  • easing
  • elongating
  • emphasizing
  • encouraging
  • enhancing
  • enlarging
  • enterprising
  • escalating
  • evolving
  • expanding
  • expediting
  • extending
  • facilitating
  • fast-tracking
  • following up
  • gaining
  • go ahead
  • goading
  • graduated
  • growing
  • hastening
  • heightening
  • hurrying
  • hyping
  • improving
  • increasing
  • inflating
  • intensifying
  • jumping
  • lengthening
  • magnifying
  • maximizing
  • mounting
  • moving forward
  • multiplying
  • mushrooming
  • ongoing
  • parlaying
  • peaking
  • prodding
  • progressing
  • proliferating
  • prolonging
  • propelling
  • protracting
  • pumping up
  • pushing
  • quickening
  • racing
  • raising
  • redoubling
  • reenforcing
  • reinforcing
  • rising
  • rocketing
  • rolling up
  • rushing
  • sharpening
  • skyrocketing
  • snowballing
  • spiking
  • spreading
  • spurring
  • stirring
  • stoking
  • strengthening
  • stretching
  • supersizing
  • supplementing
  • surging
  • swelling
  • up-and-coming
  • up-to-date
  • upping
  • urging
  • waxing
  • whisking

backing

  • abetment
  • abetting
  • accompaniment
  • adherence
  • adopting
  • advancement
  • advancing
  • advice
  • advising
  • advocacy
  • advocating
  • aegis
  • affirming
  • aid
  • aiding
  • assist
  • assistance
  • assisting
  • assuagement
  • attendance
  • attending
  • attention
  • auspice
  • auspices
  • avouching
  • backstopping
  • bailing out
  • bankrolling
  • bearing a hand
  • benefaction
  • beneficence
  • benefiting
  • benefitting
  • bolstering
  • boost
  • boosting
  • buttressing
  • care
  • championing
  • championship
  • charity
  • comforting
  • confirming
  • corroborating
  • counsel
  • counseling
  • counselling
  • delivering
  • easing
  • egis
  • emboldening
  • embracing
  • encouragement
  • encouraging
  • endorsement
  • endorsing
  • endowment
  • espousing
  • establishing
  • facilitating
  • facilitation
  • favor
  • favoring
  • financing
  • forwarding
  • fosterage
  • fostering
  • funding
  • funds
  • furtherance
  • furthering
  • going in for
  • going to bat for
  • grant
  • guidance
  • guiding
  • hand
  • hand-holding
  • heartening
  • help
  • helping
  • helping hand
  • holding a brief for
  • indorsing
  • kindness
  • launching
  • leg up
  • lift
  • mentoring
  • nurturance
  • nurturing
  • obliging
  • palliation
  • patronage
  • patronizing
  • philanthropy
  • plugging
  • preaching
  • profiting
  • promoting
  • promotion
  • proving
  • reenforcing
  • reinforcement
  • reinforcing
  • relief
  • rescuing
  • sanction
  • saving
  • seconding
  • secondment
  • service
  • serving
  • sponsoring
  • sponsorship
  • standing one in good stead
  • standing up for
  • sticking up for
  • subsidy
  • substantiating
  • succor
  • succoring
  • support
  • supporting
  • sustaining
  • talking up
  • validating
  • verifying

backstopping

  • abetting
  • advancing
  • advising
  • aiding
  • assisting
  • attending
  • backing
  • bailing out
  • bearing a hand
  • benefiting
  • benefitting
  • bolstering
  • boosting
  • buttressing
  • championing
  • comforting
  • counseling
  • counselling
  • delivering
  • easing
  • emboldening
  • encouraging
  • endorsing
  • facilitating
  • favoring
  • forwarding
  • fostering
  • furthering
  • guiding
  • heartening
  • helping
  • indorsing
  • launching
  • mentoring
  • nurturing
  • obliging
  • patronizing
  • profiting
  • promoting
  • reenforcing
  • reinforcing
  • rescuing
  • saving
  • serving
  • sponsoring
  • standing one in good stead
  • succoring
  • supporting
  • sustaining

easing

  • abatement
  • abating
  • abbreviating
  • abetting
  • abridging
  • acceding
  • accelerating
  • accommodation
  • adjustment
  • advancing
  • aiding
  • allaying
  • alleviating
  • alleviation
  • ameliorating
  • amending
  • amends
  • assisting
  • assuagement
  • assuaging
  • automated
  • automatic
  • bettering
  • blunting
  • calming
  • clipping
  • collapsing
  • compressing
  • compromise
  • computerized
  • concession
  • conciliation
  • condensing
  • consolatory
  • consoling
  • constricting
  • contracting
  • correcting
  • cropping
  • curing
  • curtailing
  • cutting
  • cutting back
  • cutting down
  • de-escalating
  • declining
  • decreasing
  • deflating
  • denting
  • depleting
  • detaching
  • diminishing
  • disentangling
  • docking
  • downscaling
  • downsizing
  • dropping
  • dwindling
  • ebbing
  • emending
  • enhancing
  • enriching
  • evaporating
  • expediting
  • facilitating
  • falling
  • falling away
  • fixing
  • flagging
  • forwarding
  • freeing
  • furthering
  • giving out
  • grant
  • greasing
  • hastening
  • healing
  • helping
  • hurrying
  • improving
  • knocking down
  • laborsaving
  • lessening
  • letting up
  • lightening
  • loosening
  • lowering
  • lulling
  • mechanical
  • meliorating
  • mending
  • minimizing
  • mitigating
  • mitigation
  • moderating
  • moderation
  • modifying
  • modulating
  • mollification
  • mollifying
  • motorized
  • nicking
  • nonmanual
  • pacifying
  • palliating
  • palliative
  • palling
  • paring
  • peace offering
  • perfecting
  • phasing down
  • placation
  • promoting
  • propitiation
  • pruning
  • qualifying
  • quelling
  • quenching
  • quickening
  • quieting
  • reassuring
  • receding
  • reconciliation
  • rectifying
  • reducing
  • refining
  • reforming
  • relaxing
  • relenting
  • relieving
  • remedying
  • remitting
  • repairing
  • reparation
  • restoration
  • retrenching
  • robotic
  • rushing
  • self-acting
  • self-operating
  • self-regulating
  • semiautomatic
  • settlement
  • shortening
  • shrinking
  • simplifying
  • sinking
  • slackening
  • slacking
  • slashing
  • smoothing
  • softening
  • solace
  • soothing
  • speeding
  • streamlining
  • subsiding
  • tapering
  • tapering off
  • tempering
  • time-saving
  • tranquilization
  • tranquilizing
  • trimming
  • truncating
  • unbinding
  • unclogging
  • undoing
  • unfastening
  • untangling
  • untieing
  • untying
  • vanishing
  • waning
  • warming
  • weakening
  • whittling

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