imbibing

The word “imbibing” has 3 syllables: im-bi-bing

It's pronounced as /ɪmˈbaɪbɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for imbibing?

In the thesaurus, “imbibing” has 56 synonyms and 3 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for imbibing

  • absorbing
  • absorptive
  • bibulous
  • consuming
  • consumption
  • digestion
  • downing
  • drinking
  • drinking in
  • dry
  • exhaustion
  • fusion
  • gulping
  • guzzling
  • hoisting
  • impregnation
  • ingestion
  • ingurgitating
  • inhalation
  • intake
  • killing
  • knocking back
  • lapping
  • licking
  • nipping
  • osmosis
  • penetrable
  • penetration
  • permeable
  • pledging
  • porous
  • pregnable
  • putting away
  • quaffing
  • reception
  • retention
  • retentive
  • saturation
  • sipping
  • slurping
  • soaking up
  • sponging
  • spongy
  • sucking
  • suction
  • supping
  • swallowing
  • swigging
  • swilling
  • taking in
  • taking up
  • thirsty
  • tippling
  • toasting
  • uptake
  • wining

Antonyms for imbibing

  • boredom
  • distraction
  • impermeable

Meanings of imbibing

  • verb
    1. To drink (used frequently of alcoholic beverages).
    2. To take in; absorb.
  • noun
    1. The act by which something is imbibed.

Example Sentences

  • She was imbibing knowledge from every lecture she attended.
  • The soil was imbibing the rainfall, making it rich for planting.
  • He spent the evening imbibing the local culture and traditions.
  • The sponge was effectively imbibing the spilled liquid.
  • They enjoyed imbibing the rich flavors of the wine during the tasting event.

On this page you'll find 59 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to imbibing, such as: absorbing, absorptive, bibulous, boredom, consuming, consumption, digestion.

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

Related Words

absorbent

  • absorptive
  • bibulous
  • dry
  • imbibing
  • osmotic
  • penetrable
  • permeable
  • porous
  • pregnable
  • retentive
  • spongy
  • thirsty

absorbing

  • abating
  • abiding
  • accepting
  • acculturating
  • accustoming
  • acquiescing
  • allowing
  • alluring
  • amalgamating
  • amazing
  • amusing
  • arresting
  • assimilating
  • astonishing
  • astounding
  • attracting
  • attractive
  • bankrupting
  • bearing
  • beguiling
  • bemusing
  • bewitching
  • biding
  • blending
  • blowing
  • breathtaking
  • brooking
  • burning
  • busying
  • capitulating
  • 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
  • imbibing
  • immersing
  • impoverishing
  • incorporating
  • inspiring
  • integrating
  • interesting
  • intermingling
  • intriguing
  • involving
  • lavishing
  • lessening
  • living with
  • lowering
  • marvellous
  • marvelous
  • meeting
  • merging
  • mesmerizing
  • mingling
  • misspending
  • monopolizing
  • naturalizing
  • obsessing
  • occupying
  • odd
  • permitting
  • playing out
  • pocketing
  • preoccupying
  • provocative
  • quaffing
  • reducing
  • respecting
  • riveting
  • rousing
  • running out of
  • running through
  • sapping
  • showy
  • sipping
  • slurping
  • spellbinding
  • spending
  • splashy
  • sponging
  • squandering
  • standing
  • standing for
  • sticking out
  • stimulating
  • stirring
  • stomaching
  • striking
  • suffering
  • supporting
  • surprising
  • sustaining
  • swallowing
  • sweating out
  • swigging
  • swilling
  • taking
  • taking up
  • tantalizing
  • thrilling
  • throwing away
  • tolerating
  • toughing it out
  • undermining
  • unusual
  • using
  • using up
  • wasting
  • weakening
  • wearing
  • weird
  • wonderful
  • wondrous

absorption

  • alertness
  • application
  • attention
  • awareness
  • captivation
  • concentration
  • consciousness
  • consideration
  • consumption
  • contemplation
  • digestion
  • drinking in
  • engagement
  • engrossment
  • enthrallment
  • exhaustion
  • fascination
  • fixation
  • fusion
  • hang-up
  • heedfulness
  • holding
  • imbibing
  • immersion
  • impregnation
  • ingestion
  • inhalation
  • intake
  • intentness
  • involvement
  • meditation
  • musing
  • obsession
  • occupation
  • osmosis
  • penetration
  • pondering
  • preoccupation
  • raptness
  • reception
  • regard
  • retention
  • rumination
  • saturation
  • soaking up
  • suction
  • taking in
  • uptake

quaffing

  • consuming
  • downing
  • drinking
  • gulping
  • guzzling
  • hoisting
  • imbibing
  • ingurgitating
  • killing
  • knocking back
  • lapping
  • licking
  • nipping
  • pledging
  • putting away
  • sipping
  • slurping
  • sucking
  • supping
  • swigging
  • swilling
  • tippling
  • toasting
  • wining

taking in

  • absorption
  • accommodating
  • acquiring
  • admission
  • admitting
  • adopting
  • anabolism
  • assimilating
  • bamboozling
  • barracking
  • beguiling
  • bestowing
  • billeting
  • bivouacking
  • bleeding
  • bluffing
  • boarding
  • bracketing
  • buffaloing
  • bunking
  • burning
  • camping
  • carrying
  • catabolism
  • catching
  • chambering
  • cheating
  • chiseling
  • chiselling
  • clearing
  • composing
  • comprehending
  • comprising
  • conning
  • constituting
  • consumption
  • containing
  • cozening
  • deceiving
  • defrauding
  • deluding
  • diddling
  • digestion
  • doing a number on
  • domiciling
  • drinking in
  • duping
  • embodying
  • embracing
  • encamping
  • encompassing
  • ensconcing
  • entailing
  • euchring
  • exhaustion
  • faking out
  • fleecing
  • flimflamming
  • fooling
  • forming
  • fosterage
  • fostering
  • fusion
  • gaffing
  • gaining
  • gammoning
  • getting
  • gulling
  • harboring
  • having
  • having on
  • hoaxing
  • holding
  • homing
  • hoodwinking
  • hornswoggling
  • housing
  • humbugging
  • hustling
  • imbibing
  • impregnation
  • including
  • incorporating
  • ingestion
  • inhalation
  • inheriting
  • input
  • intake
  • integrating
  • involving
  • juggling
  • kidding
  • leading one down the garden path
  • leading one up the garden path
  • lodging
  • making
  • metabolism
  • misguiding
  • misinforming
  • misleading
  • mulcting
  • naturalizing
  • netting
  • numbering
  • obtaining
  • osmosis
  • owning
  • penetration
  • possessing
  • profit
  • putting on
  • putting up
  • quartering
  • raising
  • receiving
  • reception
  • retention
  • roofing
  • rooking
  • rooming
  • roosting
  • saturation
  • securing
  • shedding
  • sheltering
  • shortchanging
  • skinning
  • snookering
  • snowing
  • soaking up
  • spoofing
  • squeezing
  • stabling
  • sticking
  • stinging
  • stringing along
  • subsuming
  • suckering
  • sucking in
  • suction
  • swindling
  • teasing
  • tenting
  • tricking
  • uptake

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