galvanizing

The word “galvanizing” has 4 syllables: gal-va-niz-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈɡæl.vəˌnaɪ.zɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for galvanizing?

In the thesaurus, “galvanizing” has 83 synonyms and 34 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for galvanizing

  • absorbing
  • animate
  • arouse
  • arousing
  • arresting
  • astonish
  • awaken
  • bewitching
  • breathtaking
  • captivating
  • charged
  • charging
  • charming
  • commove
  • delighting
  • dynamic
  • electric
  • electrify
  • electrifying
  • enchanting
  • energetic
  • energize
  • engrossing
  • enthralling
  • excite
  • exciting
  • exhilarating
  • exhilarative
  • fascinating
  • fire
  • frighten
  • galvanic
  • gripping
  • hair-raising
  • heart-stopping
  • high-voltage
  • hypnotizing
  • inciting
  • innervate
  • inspiring
  • interesting
  • intoxicating
  • intriguing
  • invigorate
  • jolt
  • kicky
  • kinetic
  • lively
  • lusty
  • mesmerizing
  • mind-bending
  • mind-blowing
  • mind-boggling
  • motivate
  • move
  • moving
  • pique
  • poignant
  • prime
  • provocative
  • provoke
  • provoking
  • pumping up
  • quicken
  • rip-roaring
  • riveting
  • rousing
  • shock
  • spellbinding
  • spur
  • startle
  • stimulating
  • stir
  • stirring
  • stun
  • tantalizing
  • thrill
  • thrilling
  • titillating
  • touching
  • turning on
  • vitalize
  • wake

Antonyms for galvanizing

  • bore
  • boring
  • calm
  • comfort
  • compose
  • deaden
  • dejecting
  • demoralizing
  • depress
  • deter
  • discourage
  • discouraging
  • dishearten
  • disheartening
  • disparage
  • dispiriting
  • dissuade
  • dreary
  • dull
  • expect
  • humdrum
  • jading
  • lull
  • mind-numbing
  • monotonous
  • palling
  • quiet
  • retard
  • tedious
  • tiresome
  • tiring
  • unexciting
  • uninteresting
  • wearying

Meanings of galvanizing

  • verb
    1. To coat with a thin layer of metal by electrochemical means.
    2. To coat with rust-resistant zinc.
    3. To shock or stimulate into sudden activity, as if by electric shock.
    4. To electrify.
    5. To switch sides between Union and Confederate in the American Civil War.

Example Sentences

  • The galvanizing speech rallied the community to take action against climate change.
  • Her perseverance in the face of adversity was truly galvanizing to those around her.
  • The galvanizing effect of the music brought people of different backgrounds together in harmony.
  • The galvanizing presence of the leader inspired confidence and determination among the team.
  • The galvanizing force of innovation propelled the company to new heights of success.

On this page you'll find 117 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to galvanizing, such as: absorbing, animate, arouse, arousing, arresting, astonish, awaken.

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abetting

  • accessory
  • activating
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absorbing

  • abating
  • abiding
  • accepting
  • acculturating
  • accustoming
  • acquiescing
  • allowing
  • alluring
  • amalgamating
  • amazing
  • amusing
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  • biding
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  • blowing
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  • burning
  • busying
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  • captivating
  • catching up
  • charming
  • co-opting
  • combining
  • commingling
  • conditioning
  • consuming
  • countenancing
  • crippling
  • curious
  • de-escalating
  • debilitating
  • decreasing
  • depleting
  • devouring
  • diminishing
  • disabling
  • dissipating
  • distracting
  • downsizing
  • draining
  • drawing down
  • drinking
  • drying up
  • dwindling
  • eating
  • electric
  • electrifying
  • embodying
  • emphatic
  • emptying
  • enchanting
  • enculturating
  • enduring
  • enfeebling
  • engaging
  • engrossing
  • entertaining
  • enthralling
  • enwrapping
  • eventful
  • exciting
  • exhausting
  • exhilarating
  • expending
  • eye-opening
  • fabulous
  • fascinating
  • fusing
  • galvanizing
  • going
  • gripping
  • gulping
  • guzzling
  • habituating
  • hacking
  • handling
  • hogging
  • hypnotizing
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  • immersing
  • impoverishing
  • incorporating
  • inspiring
  • integrating
  • interesting
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  • intriguing
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  • living with
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  • marvellous
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  • mesmerizing
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  • misspending
  • monopolizing
  • naturalizing
  • obsessing
  • occupying
  • odd
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  • playing out
  • pocketing
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  • provocative
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  • reducing
  • respecting
  • riveting
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  • running out of
  • running through
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  • showy
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  • slurping
  • spellbinding
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  • splashy
  • sponging
  • squandering
  • standing
  • standing for
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  • stimulating
  • stirring
  • stomaching
  • striking
  • suffering
  • supporting
  • surprising
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  • swallowing
  • sweating out
  • swigging
  • swilling
  • taking
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  • tantalizing
  • thrilling
  • throwing away
  • tolerating
  • toughing it out
  • undermining
  • unusual
  • using
  • using up
  • wasting
  • weakening
  • wearing
  • weird
  • wonderful
  • wondrous

amazing

  • alluring
  • animating
  • astonishing
  • astounding
  • attracting
  • attractive
  • awe-inspiring
  • awesome
  • awful
  • befuddling
  • beguiling
  • bewildering
  • bewitching
  • blindsiding
  • blowing away
  • bowling over
  • breathtaking
  • captivating
  • charming
  • confounding
  • confusing
  • conspicuous
  • dazing
  • discomfiting
  • disconcerting
  • dismaying
  • dumbfounding
  • dumfounding
  • enchanting
  • energizing
  • enlightening
  • enlivening
  • entertaining
  • enthralling
  • excellent
  • exciting
  • extraordinary
  • eye-opening
  • fabulous
  • fantastic
  • fascinating
  • flabbergasting
  • flooring
  • flustering
  • galvanizing
  • good
  • great
  • heart-stopping
  • impressive
  • incomprehensible
  • inconceivable
  • incredible
  • interesting
  • invigorating
  • jarring
  • jaw-dropping
  • jolting
  • knocking for a loop
  • marvellous
  • marvelous
  • mind-bending
  • mind-blowing
  • mind-boggling
  • miraculous
  • muddling
  • nonplusing
  • nonplussing
  • notable
  • noticeable
  • outstanding
  • perplexing
  • phenomenal
  • portentous
  • prodigious
  • rare
  • remarkable
  • rocking
  • sensational
  • shaking up
  • shocking
  • singular
  • smashing
  • spectacular
  • staggering
  • startling
  • stimulating
  • striking
  • stunning
  • stupefying
  • stupendous
  • sublime
  • superb
  • surprising
  • surprizing
  • swell
  • taking aback
  • taking by surprise
  • terrific
  • thunderstriking
  • tremendous
  • unannounced
  • unanticipated
  • unbelievable
  • uncommon
  • unexpected
  • unforeseen
  • unimaginable
  • unique
  • unlikely
  • unthinkable
  • unusual
  • unwonted
  • upsetting
  • very good
  • wonderful
  • wondrous

awesome

  • A-OK
  • A1
  • OK
  • acceptable
  • adequate
  • affecting
  • all right
  • alluring
  • amazing
  • animating
  • arresting
  • astonishing
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  • attracting
  • attractive
  • august
  • awe-inspiring
  • awful
  • bang-up
  • banner
  • beautiful
  • beguiling
  • better
  • bewitching
  • blue-chip
  • blue-ribbon
  • boffo
  • bonnie
  • bonny
  • boss
  • brag
  • brave
  • breathtaking
  • bully
  • bumper
  • capital
  • captivating
  • charming
  • choice
  • classic
  • classical
  • conspicuous
  • cool
  • corking
  • crackerjack
  • cracking
  • dandy
  • daunting
  • decent
  • divine
  • dope
  • down
  • dreadful
  • dynamite
  • enchanting
  • energizing
  • enlightening
  • enlivening
  • entertaining
  • enthralling
  • exalted
  • excellent
  • exceptional
  • exciting
  • extraordinary
  • eye-opening
  • fab
  • fabulous
  • famous
  • fancy
  • fantabulous
  • fantastic
  • fascinating
  • fearsome
  • fine
  • first-class
  • first-rate
  • first-string
  • five-star
  • formidable
  • four-star
  • frontline
  • galvanizing
  • gangbuster
  • gangbusters
  • gilt-edge
  • gilt-edged
  • gone
  • good
  • grand
  • great
  • groovy
  • heavenly
  • high-class
  • high-grade
  • high-test
  • hot
  • hype
  • immense
  • imposing
  • impressive
  • incomprehensible
  • inconceivable
  • incredible
  • inspiring
  • intense
  • interesting
  • intimidating
  • invigorating
  • jim-dandy
  • keen
  • lovely
  • magnificent
  • majestic
  • marvellous
  • marvelous
  • mean
  • mind-bending
  • mind-blowing
  • mind-boggling
  • miraculous
  • moving
  • neat
  • nifty
  • noble
  • notable
  • noticeable
  • number one
  • numero uno
  • okay
  • out of this world
  • out-of-sight
  • outstanding
  • overwhelming
  • par excellence
  • passable
  • peachy
  • peachy keen
  • phat
  • phenomenal
  • portentous
  • premium
  • prime
  • primo
  • prize
  • prizewinning
  • prodigious
  • quality
  • radical
  • rare
  • remarkable
  • righteous
  • satisfactory
  • select
  • sensational
  • shocking
  • singular
  • slick
  • smashing
  • solemn
  • special
  • spectacular
  • splendid
  • staggering
  • standard
  • stellar
  • sterling
  • stimulating
  • striking
  • stunning
  • stupefying
  • stupendous
  • sublime
  • superb
  • superfine
  • superior
  • superlative
  • supernal
  • surprising
  • swell
  • terrific
  • tip-top
  • tolerable
  • too much
  • top
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  • top-of-the-line
  • top-shelf
  • topflight
  • topping
  • traditional
  • transcendent
  • unbelievable
  • uncommon
  • unimaginable
  • unique
  • unsurpassed
  • unthinkable
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  • unwonted
  • wizard
  • wonderful
  • wondrous

edgy

  • activating
  • aflutter
  • aggravating
  • aggrieved
  • angering
  • annoying
  • antsy
  • anxious
  • apprehensive
  • atwitter
  • bothered
  • bothersome
  • charged
  • clawlike
  • concerned
  • critical
  • cutting
  • daggerlike
  • disquieted
  • distraught
  • distressed
  • disturbed
  • dithery
  • edged
  • energizing
  • enraging
  • exasperating
  • excitable
  • excited
  • exciting
  • explosive
  • fidgety
  • fiery
  • flighty
  • flustered
  • fluttery
  • foreboding
  • freaked
  • freaked-out
  • fretful
  • fretting
  • galling
  • galvanizing
  • goosey
  • ground
  • hesitant
  • het up
  • high-strung
  • hinky
  • honed
  • hung up
  • hypertense
  • ill at ease
  • impatient
  • incendiary
  • inciting
  • inducing
  • inflammatory
  • insecure
  • inspirational
  • inspiring
  • instigating
  • instigative
  • irascible
  • irksome
  • irritable
  • irritating
  • jabbing
  • jagged
  • jeering
  • jittery
  • jumpy
  • keen
  • keyed up
  • knifelike
  • lacerating
  • maddening
  • misgiving
  • motivating
  • motivational
  • motivative
  • nervous
  • nervy
  • obsessed
  • on edge
  • on pins and needles
  • on tenterhooks
  • overstrung
  • perturbed
  • pesky
  • piercing
  • piquing
  • pointed
  • pointy
  • preoccupied
  • provocative
  • provoking
  • qualmish
  • qualmy
  • queasy
  • queazy
  • quickening
  • restive
  • restless
  • scratching
  • sharp
  • sharpened
  • shook-up
  • skittish
  • spikey
  • spiky
  • spooky
  • stabbing
  • stewing
  • stimulating
  • stropped
  • taunting
  • teasing
  • tense
  • touchy
  • trenchant
  • triggering
  • troubled
  • twittered
  • undone
  • uneasy
  • unnerved
  • unquiet
  • unstrung
  • upset
  • upsetting
  • uptight
  • vexatious
  • vexed
  • vexing
  • vitalizing
  • whetted
  • worried

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