icing

The word “icing” has 2 syllables: i-cing

It's pronounced as /ˈaɪsɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for icing?

In the thesaurus, “icing” has 92 synonyms and 9 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for icing

  • annihilating
  • assassinating
  • assuring
  • attesting
  • award
  • benefaction
  • beneficence
  • benevolence
  • bestowal
  • blotting out
  • blowing away
  • boon
  • bounty
  • bumping off
  • butchering
  • carrying off
  • certifying
  • charity
  • cinching
  • claiming
  • contribution
  • cream
  • croaking
  • cutting down
  • destroying
  • dispatching
  • doing away with
  • doing in
  • donation
  • eliminating
  • ensuring
  • eradicating
  • executing
  • exterminating
  • favor
  • felling
  • freebee
  • freebie
  • fringe benefit
  • generosity
  • getting
  • gift
  • giveaway
  • glaze
  • grant
  • guaranteeing
  • guarantying
  • insuring
  • killing
  • knocking off
  • largess
  • largesse
  • liquidating
  • manna
  • massacring
  • murdering
  • neutralizing
  • offering
  • offing
  • ornamentation
  • pension
  • philanthropy
  • pledging
  • premium
  • present
  • presentation
  • prize
  • promising
  • putting away
  • reward
  • rubbing out
  • securing
  • shooting
  • shooting down
  • slaughtering
  • slaying
  • smiting
  • snuffing
  • subsidy
  • sugar paste
  • swearing
  • taking out
  • terminating
  • topping
  • trimming
  • vouching
  • warranting
  • whacking
  • windfall
  • wiping out
  • witnessing
  • zapping

Antonyms for icing

  • animating
  • enfeebling
  • raising
  • restoring
  • resurrecting
  • resuscitating
  • reviving
  • undermining
  • weakening

Meanings of icing

  • noun
    1. A sweet glaze made primarily of sugar and often flavored, typically used for baked goods; frosting.
    2. A minor violation of ice hockey rules, occurring when a player shoots the puck from his/her side of the red line so that it crosses the goal line on the opponent's side. A team playing short-handed is not penalized for this.
    3. The process of forming a layer of ice on a surface.
  • verb
    1. To cool with ice, as a beverage.
    2. To become ice; to freeze.
    3. To make icy; to freeze.
    4. To murder.
    5. To cover with icing (frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg); to frost; as cakes, tarts, etc.
    6. To put out a team for a match.
    7. To shoot the puck the length of the playing surface, causing a stoppage in play called icing.

Example Sentences

  • The cake looked delicious with a thick layer of creamy icing.
  • She skillfully applied the final touches of colorful icing to the cupcakes.
  • The baker perfected the art of creating intricate designs with royal icing.
  • The warm cinnamon rolls were topped with a generous swirl of sweet icing.
  • The birthday cake sparkled with edible glitter on its glossy icing.

On this page you'll find 101 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to icing, such as: animating, annihilating, assassinating, assuring, attesting, award, benefaction.

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

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  • enticement
  • enticing
  • harass
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  • irk
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  • mocking
  • needling
  • persuading
  • ridiculing
  • seduce
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  • taunting
  • tease
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dallying

  • aestivating
  • ambling
  • amorous
  • amusing
  • apathetic
  • apathy
  • arch
  • asleep on the job
  • backward
  • behindhand
  • bumming
  • careless
  • cavorting
  • chilling
  • comatose
  • come-hither
  • come-on
  • coquetting
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  • courting
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  • deliberate
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  • dilatory
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  • directionless
  • disporting
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  • dozing
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  • dull
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  • entertaining
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  • falling behind
  • filibustering
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  • flightiness
  • flippancy
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  • flummery
  • folly
  • fooling
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  • footling
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  • frisking
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  • frivoling
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  • frolicking
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  • furloughing
  • futile
  • gaiety
  • gamboling
  • gambolling
  • game
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  • goldbricking
  • good-for-nothing
  • hanging
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  • heavy-footed
  • hibernating
  • idle
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  • inactive
  • inattentive
  • inching
  • incompetent
  • indifferent
  • indolence
  • indolent
  • inert
  • inertia
  • jest
  • jesting
  • joking
  • joshing
  • kicking around
  • kicking back
  • kidding
  • killing time
  • kittenish
  • lackadaisical
  • laggard
  • lagging
  • lallygagging
  • languid
  • languor
  • languorous
  • lassitude
  • late
  • lax
  • laziness
  • lazing
  • lazy
  • lazying
  • leading on
  • leisurely
  • lethargic
  • lethargy
  • levity
  • libidinous
  • lifeless
  • lightheartedness
  • lightness
  • lingering
  • listless
  • listlessness
  • loafing
  • loitering
  • lolling
  • lollygagging
  • lounging
  • lumbering
  • malingering
  • manipulating
  • marking time
  • mashing
  • measured
  • messing
  • messing around
  • monkeying
  • moping
  • moratory
  • moseying
  • mucking
  • neglectful
  • negligent
  • nonsense
  • out of it
  • passive
  • piddling
  • play
  • playing
  • pleasing
  • plodding
  • pokey
  • poking
  • poky
  • procrastinating
  • puerility
  • putting off
  • putting on
  • rambling
  • razzing
  • recreating
  • relaxing
  • remiss
  • resting
  • ribbing
  • rollicking
  • romping
  • sauntering
  • screwing around
  • shallowness
  • shiftless
  • shiftlessness
  • shilly-shallying
  • shuffling
  • skylarking
  • slack
  • sleepy
  • sloth
  • slothful
  • slow
  • slow-footed
  • slow-moving
  • slowing
  • sluggish
  • sluggishness
  • snail-like
  • snail-paced
  • snaillike
  • snoozy
  • somnolent
  • spoony
  • sport
  • sporting
  • sportive
  • staggering
  • stalling
  • stringing along
  • strolling
  • superficiality
  • supine
  • supineness
  • swanning
  • tardy
  • tarrying
  • teasing
  • temporizing
  • time-wasting
  • tired
  • torpid
  • toying
  • trifling
  • triviality
  • truanting
  • unambitious
  • unconcerned
  • unenergetic
  • unhasty
  • unhurried
  • unindustrious
  • unmotivated
  • unpersevering
  • unready
  • vamping
  • vegging out
  • volatility
  • weary
  • whimsicality
  • whimsy
  • wooing
  • worthless

dampening

  • abating
  • alleviating
  • bathing
  • bedewing
  • benumbing
  • black
  • bleak
  • blunting
  • burning out
  • castrating
  • cauterizing
  • damping
  • daunting
  • deadening
  • debilitating
  • decreasing
  • dehydrating
  • demoralizing
  • depressing
  • depressive
  • desiccating
  • deterring
  • devitalizing
  • diminishing
  • dipping
  • disadvantageous
  • disappointing
  • discouraging
  • disheartening
  • dismal
  • dismaying
  • dispiriting
  • dissuading
  • doing in
  • dousing
  • dowsing
  • draining
  • dreary
  • drenching
  • dulling
  • dunking
  • dwindling
  • easing
  • enervating
  • enfeebling
  • exhausting
  • fatiguing
  • flushing
  • gelding
  • gloomy
  • hindering
  • humidifying
  • immerging
  • immersing
  • impregnating
  • inopportune
  • irrigating
  • laving
  • lessening
  • lightening
  • lobotomizing
  • lowering
  • moderating
  • moistening
  • muffling
  • muting
  • numbing
  • off-putting
  • oppressive
  • petrifying
  • receding
  • reducing
  • refreshing
  • rehydrating
  • remoistening
  • repressing
  • rinsing
  • sapping
  • saturating
  • sluicing
  • soaking
  • sousing
  • steeping
  • subduing
  • subsiding
  • undermining
  • unfavorable
  • unpropitious
  • waning
  • washing
  • watering
  • weakening
  • wearing
  • wearing out
  • wetting

damping

  • abating
  • alleviating
  • bathing
  • bedewing
  • benumbing
  • blunting
  • burning out
  • castrating
  • cauterizing
  • dampening
  • daunting
  • deadening
  • debilitating
  • decreasing
  • dehydrating
  • demoralizing
  • desiccating
  • devitalizing
  • diminishing
  • dipping
  • discouraging
  • disheartening
  • dispiriting
  • doing in
  • dousing
  • dowsing
  • draining
  • drenching
  • dulling
  • dunking
  • dwindling
  • easing
  • enervating
  • enfeebling
  • exhausting
  • fatiguing
  • flushing
  • gelding
  • humidifying
  • immerging
  • immersing
  • impregnating
  • irrigating
  • laving
  • lessening
  • lightening
  • lobotomizing
  • lowering
  • moderating
  • moistening
  • muffling
  • muting
  • numbing
  • petrifying
  • receding
  • reducing
  • refreshing
  • rehydrating
  • remoistening
  • rinsing
  • sapping
  • saturating
  • sluicing
  • soaking
  • sousing
  • steeping
  • subduing
  • subsiding
  • undermining
  • waning
  • washing
  • watering
  • weakening
  • wearing
  • wearing out
  • wetting

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