farming

The word “farming” has 2 syllables: farm-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈfɑːmɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for farming?

In the thesaurus, “farming” has 66 synonyms and 7 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for farming

  • agrarian
  • agribusiness
  • agricultural
  • agriculture
  • agroecology
  • agroforestry
  • agronomic
  • agronomics
  • agronomy
  • animal husbandry
  • aquacultural
  • aquaculture
  • aquiculture
  • arable
  • arboricultural
  • arboriculture
  • breeding
  • bucolic
  • country
  • crop-raising
  • cropping
  • cultivating
  • cultivation
  • culture
  • farmwork
  • feeding
  • fertilizing
  • garden
  • gardening
  • geoponics
  • georgic
  • gleaning
  • grazing
  • growing
  • harrowing
  • harvesting
  • hoeing
  • homesteading
  • horticulture
  • husbandry
  • hydroponics
  • landscaping
  • mixed farming
  • monocultural
  • monoculture
  • operating
  • pastoral
  • pastoralism
  • pastoralist
  • planting
  • pomology
  • production
  • ranching
  • reaping
  • rural
  • rustic
  • rustical
  • seeding
  • share-cropping
  • sharecropping
  • soil culture
  • tending
  • threshing
  • tillage
  • tilling
  • villatic

Antonyms for farming

  • destruction
  • industrial
  • industrialized
  • metro
  • metropolitan
  • nonagricultural
  • urban

Meanings of farming

  • verb
    1. To work on a farm, especially in the growing and harvesting of crops.
    2. To devote (land) to farming.
    3. To grow (a particular crop).
    4. To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the revenue, etc., on condition of receiving in return a percentage of what it yields; to farm out.
    5. To lease or let for an equivalent, e.g. land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds.
    6. To take at a certain rent or rate.
    7. To engage in grinding (repetitive activity) in a particular area or against specific enemies for a particular drop or item.
    8. To cleanse; clean out; put in order; empty; empty out.
  • noun
    1. The business of cultivating land, raising stocks etc.
    2. A farming operation; a farm, or instance of farming on a piece of land.
  • adjective
    1. Pertaining to the agricultural business.
    2. Raising livestock or fish.

Example Sentences

  • He has been involved in farming for over 30 years.
  • The new technology is changing the way farming is done around the world.
  • They are focused on sustainable farming practices to protect the environment.
  • Farming in this region has become more challenging due to climate change.
  • The community relies heavily on farming as their primary source of income.

On this page you'll find 73 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to farming, such as: agrarian, agribusiness, agricultural, agriculture, agroecology, agroforestry, agronomic.

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

Related Words

cultivating

  • abetting
  • absorbing
  • achieving
  • acquiring
  • adopting
  • advancing
  • advertising
  • advocating
  • aiding
  • assisting
  • attaining
  • backing
  • boosting
  • breeding
  • championing
  • civilizing
  • clarifying
  • cleaning
  • cropping
  • culturing
  • developing
  • distillation
  • dressing
  • elevating
  • embracing
  • encouraging
  • endorsing
  • endowing
  • farming
  • financing
  • focusing
  • forming
  • forwarding
  • fostering
  • funding
  • furthering
  • gaining
  • gathering
  • germinating
  • getting
  • gleaning
  • growing
  • harrowing
  • harvesting
  • hoeing
  • honing
  • improving
  • incubating
  • indorsing
  • nourishing
  • nursing
  • nurturing
  • obtaining
  • patronizing
  • perfecting
  • planting
  • plugging
  • polishing
  • producing
  • promoting
  • propagating
  • publicizing
  • purifying
  • quickening
  • raising
  • reaching
  • reaping
  • rearing
  • ripening
  • rooting
  • sharecropping
  • sharpening
  • sowing
  • sprouting
  • staking
  • subsidizing
  • supporting
  • taking in
  • taking on
  • tending
  • tilling
  • touting
  • underwriting
  • upholding

farmland

  • acreage
  • acres
  • area
  • back country
  • backwoods
  • beach
  • boondocks
  • boonies
  • bush
  • continent
  • country
  • countryside
  • cow country
  • croft
  • cropland
  • dirt
  • district
  • earth
  • enclosure
  • estate
  • expanse
  • extent
  • farm
  • farmhouse
  • farming
  • farms
  • farmstead
  • farmyard
  • field
  • forests
  • garden
  • glebe
  • grange
  • grassland
  • green
  • green belt
  • ground
  • grounds
  • hacienda
  • hinterland
  • holding
  • home
  • homeland
  • homestead
  • lea
  • loam
  • mainland
  • manor
  • mead
  • meadow
  • middle of nowhere
  • moorland
  • nation
  • old sod
  • orchard
  • outback
  • outdoors
  • parcel
  • pasture
  • patch
  • plantation
  • plot
  • province
  • purlieu
  • quarry
  • quinta
  • ranch
  • ranchland
  • range
  • real estate
  • realty
  • region
  • shore
  • smallholding
  • sod
  • soil
  • spread
  • station
  • steading
  • sticks
  • stretch
  • sweep
  • terra firma
  • terrain
  • territory
  • tillage
  • tract
  • up country
  • vineyard
  • wide open space
  • wilderness
  • wilds
  • woodlands
  • woods

farmwork

  • agribusiness
  • agriculture
  • agroecology
  • agroforestry
  • agronomy
  • animal husbandry
  • aquaculture
  • aquiculture
  • arboriculture
  • cultivation
  • culture
  • farming
  • gardening
  • horticulture
  • husbandry
  • hydroponics
  • mixed farming
  • monoculture
  • pastoralism
  • pomology
  • sharecropping
  • tillage

garden

  • agrarian
  • agricultural
  • agronomic
  • amphitheater
  • aquacultural
  • arable
  • arboricultural
  • arena
  • arena theater
  • auditorium
  • average
  • back yard
  • ballroom
  • bed
  • bucolic
  • cafetorium
  • chamber
  • cold frame
  • common
  • commonplace
  • conservatory
  • country
  • customary
  • earthly
  • enclosure
  • everyday
  • expected
  • familiar
  • farming
  • field
  • frequent
  • generic
  • georgic
  • greenhouse
  • habitual
  • hall
  • hothouse
  • house
  • lyceum
  • monocultural
  • mundane
  • music hall
  • nitty-gritty
  • normal
  • nursery
  • oasis
  • odeum
  • ordinary
  • pastoral
  • pastoralist
  • patch
  • patio
  • plain
  • playhouse
  • plot
  • popular
  • predictable
  • prosaic
  • regular
  • routine
  • run-of-mine
  • run-of-the-mill
  • run-of-the-mine
  • rural
  • rustic
  • rustical
  • senate
  • standard
  • temporal
  • terrace
  • terrestrial
  • theater
  • theater-in-the-round
  • theatre
  • typical
  • unexceptional
  • unremarkable
  • usual
  • villatic
  • workaday
  • worldly

gardening

  • agribusiness
  • agriculture
  • agroecology
  • agroforestry
  • agronomy
  • animal husbandry
  • aquaculture
  • aquiculture
  • arboriculture
  • cultivation
  • culture
  • farming
  • farmwork
  • floriculture
  • groundskeeping
  • growing
  • horticulture
  • husbandry
  • hydroponics
  • landscaping
  • mixed farming
  • monoculture
  • pastoralism
  • planting
  • pomology
  • sharecropping
  • tillage
  • truck farming

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