jabbing

The word “jabbing” has 2 syllables: jab-bing

It's pronounced as /ˈdʒæbɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for jabbing?

In the thesaurus, “jabbing” has 57 synonyms and 12 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for jabbing

  • bayoneting
  • bayonetting
  • clawlike
  • cutting
  • daggerlike
  • dirking
  • edged
  • edgy
  • gimleting
  • goring
  • ground
  • harpooning
  • honed
  • impaling
  • jagged
  • keen
  • knifelike
  • knifing
  • lacerating
  • lancing
  • pecking
  • perforating
  • picking
  • piercing
  • piking
  • pinking
  • pinpricking
  • pointed
  • pointy
  • poking
  • poniarding
  • pricking
  • pronging
  • punching
  • puncturing
  • quilling
  • riddling
  • running through
  • scratching
  • sharp
  • sharpened
  • skewering
  • slicing
  • spearing
  • spikey
  • spiking
  • spiky
  • spindling
  • spitting
  • stabbing
  • sticking
  • stropped
  • thrusting
  • transfixing
  • transpiercing
  • trenchant
  • whetted

Antonyms for jabbing

  • blunt
  • blunted
  • dull
  • dulled
  • even
  • flat
  • level
  • obtuse
  • rounded
  • slick
  • smooth
  • soft

Meanings of jabbing

  • verb
    1. To poke or thrust abruptly, or to make such a motion.
    2. To deliver a quick punch.
    3. To give someone an injection.
  • noun
    1. A motion or gesture that jabs; a jab.

Example Sentences

  • The boxer demonstrated impressive speed and precision in his jabbing technique during the match.
  • As the chef prepared the ingredients, the rhythmic sound of the knife jabbing into vegetables filled the kitchen.
  • The political cartoon depicted two rivals engaged in a verbal duel, each jabbing the other with pointed arguments.
  • During the intense tennis match, players focused on their footwork and quick jabbing movements to gain an advantage.
  • The comedian kept the audience in stitches with witty remarks, skillfully jabbing at societal quirks and norms.

On this page you'll find 69 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to jabbing, such as: bayoneting, bayonetting, blunt, blunted, clawlike, cutting, daggerlike.

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

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kayoing

  • banging
  • bashing
  • belting
  • bludgeoning
  • clobbering
  • downing
  • dropping
  • felling
  • flooring
  • hammering
  • hitting
  • jabbing
  • knocking down
  • knocking out
  • knocking over
  • leveling
  • levelling
  • overthrowing
  • pasting
  • poking
  • pounding
  • prostrating
  • punching
  • slamming
  • slapping
  • slogging
  • slugging
  • smacking
  • smiting
  • socking
  • swatting
  • swiping
  • throwing down
  • thumping
  • thwacking
  • toppling
  • walloping
  • whacking
  • whaling

keen

  • A-OK
  • A1
  • Einstein
  • OK
  • accentuated
  • acceptable
  • accurate
  • acid
  • acute
  • adequate
  • aggravated
  • agog
  • agonizing
  • alert
  • all right
  • almighty
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  • athirst
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  • banner
  • bawl
  • bay
  • beautiful
  • beef
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  • bemoan
  • better
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  • bitch
  • biting
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  • blubber
  • blue-chip
  • blue-ribbon
  • boffo
  • bonnie
  • bonny
  • boss
  • brag
  • brainy
  • brave
  • breathless
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  • brisk
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  • bumper
  • canny
  • capital
  • carp
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  • caustic
  • cavil
  • cerebral
  • champing at the bit
  • choice
  • chomping at the bit
  • classic
  • classical
  • clawlike
  • clear
  • clever
  • complain
  • complaint
  • concentrated
  • cool
  • corking
  • corrosive
  • covetous
  • crab
  • crackerjack
  • cracking
  • crafty
  • craving
  • crazy
  • creative
  • cri de coeur
  • croak
  • cry
  • cunning
  • cutting
  • daggerlike
  • dandy
  • decent
  • deep
  • deepened
  • delicate
  • deplore
  • desirous
  • devoted
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  • divine
  • dolor
  • dope
  • down
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  • dying to
  • dynamite
  • eager
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  • edged
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  • educated
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  • fab
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  • famous
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  • first-class
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  • fond of
  • four-star
  • foxy
  • fret
  • frightful
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  • gangbuster
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  • geeked
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  • gilt-edged
  • glad
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  • ground
  • grouse
  • growl
  • grumble
  • grump
  • gung ho
  • gung-ho
  • hair-trigger
  • hand-wringing
  • hankering
  • happy
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  • heartache
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  • heavenly
  • heavy
  • heavy-duty
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  • hellacious
  • hepped up
  • high-class
  • high-grade
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  • holler
  • honed
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  • hot
  • howl
  • hung up
  • hungry
  • hype
  • hyperacute
  • hyperintelligent
  • hypersensitive
  • immense
  • impassioned
  • impatient
  • incisive
  • inclined
  • informed
  • ingenious
  • insightful
  • intelligent
  • intense
  • intensified
  • intensive
  • intent
  • interested
  • inveigh
  • inventive
  • invigorating
  • jabbing
  • jagged
  • jim-dandy
  • judicious
  • juiced
  • kick
  • kick up a fuss
  • kick up a stink
  • knifelike
  • knowing
  • knowledgeable
  • kvetch
  • lacerating
  • lament
  • lamentation
  • learned
  • literate
  • lively
  • logical
  • longing
  • lovely
  • magnified
  • marvellous
  • marvelous
  • maunder
  • mean
  • moan
  • mourning
  • murmur
  • mutter
  • nag
  • neat
  • needlelike
  • nifty
  • nimble
  • nippy
  • noble
  • number one
  • numero uno
  • nuts
  • observant
  • obsessed
  • okay
  • out of this world
  • out-of-sight
  • outcry
  • oversensitive
  • par excellence
  • passable
  • peachy
  • peachy keen
  • penetrating
  • perceptive
  • percipient
  • perfervid
  • perspicacious
  • phat
  • piercing
  • pining
  • plaint
  • pointed
  • pointy
  • precise
  • premium
  • prickly
  • prime
  • primo
  • prize
  • prizewinning
  • profound
  • protest
  • prudent
  • pumped
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  • quibble
  • quick
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  • radical
  • raring
  • rational
  • raw
  • razor-sharp
  • ready
  • reasonable
  • receptive
  • regret
  • repine
  • resourceful
  • restive
  • restless
  • righteous
  • rigorous
  • sagacious
  • sage
  • sane
  • sapient
  • sardonic
  • satirical
  • satisfactory
  • savvy
  • scholarly
  • schooled
  • scratching
  • scream
  • screech
  • select
  • sensational
  • sensible
  • sensitive
  • severe
  • sharp
  • sharp as a tack
  • sharp-witted
  • sharpened
  • shrewd
  • shriek
  • shrill
  • skilled
  • slick
  • smart
  • smarting
  • snappy
  • sob
  • solicitous
  • sorrow
  • sorrowing
  • sound
  • special
  • spikey
  • spiky
  • spirited
  • splendid
  • sprightly
  • squall
  • squawk
  • squeal
  • stabbing
  • standard
  • stellar
  • sterling
  • stew
  • stinging
  • stoked
  • stressed
  • strong
  • stropped
  • subtle
  • suffering
  • superb
  • superfine
  • superior
  • superlative
  • supernal
  • supersensitive
  • supersmart
  • swell
  • tart
  • tears
  • terrible
  • terrific
  • thirsty
  • thorough
  • tingling
  • tip-top
  • tolerable
  • too much
  • top
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  • top-of-the-line
  • top-shelf
  • topflight
  • topping
  • traditional
  • trained
  • trenchant
  • ultrasmart
  • ululate
  • unblunted
  • unreluctant
  • unsurpassed
  • vehement
  • vicious
  • violent
  • vivacious
  • voracious
  • wail
  • warm
  • weeping
  • well-read
  • whetted
  • whimper
  • whine
  • whinge
  • whiz
  • wild
  • willing
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  • wise
  • wizard
  • woe
  • wonderful
  • worry
  • yammer
  • yaup
  • yawp
  • yell
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  • zealous

lacerating

  • amputating
  • anatomizing
  • bruising
  • butchering
  • carving
  • chipping
  • chiseling
  • chiselling
  • chopping
  • clawlike
  • cleaving
  • crosscutting
  • cutting
  • cutting off
  • daggerlike
  • dicing
  • dissecting
  • edged
  • edgy
  • gashing
  • goring
  • ground
  • hacking
  • hacksawing
  • haggling
  • honed
  • incising
  • jabbing
  • jagged
  • keen
  • knifelike
  • mangling
  • mincing
  • notching
  • piercing
  • pointed
  • pointy
  • rending
  • ripping
  • riving
  • sawing
  • scissoring
  • scratching
  • sectioning
  • severing
  • sharp
  • sharpened
  • shearing
  • slashing
  • slicing
  • slitting
  • spikey
  • spiky
  • splitting
  • stabbing
  • stropped
  • tearing
  • trenchant
  • whetted
  • wounding

nailing

  • abducting
  • affirming
  • apprehending
  • arresting
  • assuring
  • bagging
  • banging
  • bashing
  • battering
  • batting
  • baying
  • beaning
  • beating
  • belting
  • biffing
  • binding
  • blowing the whistle on
  • bludgeoning
  • bobbing
  • bonking
  • bopping
  • boxing
  • braining
  • buffeting
  • bumping
  • bunging
  • bunting
  • busting
  • butting
  • caning
  • capturing
  • catching
  • chopping
  • clapping
  • clarifying
  • clasping
  • clinching
  • clipping
  • clobbering
  • clocking
  • clouting
  • clubbing
  • clutching
  • collaring
  • committing
  • concluding
  • confining
  • conking
  • copping
  • cornering
  • corralling
  • cracking
  • creaming
  • cudgeling
  • cudgelling
  • cuffing
  • debunking
  • deciding
  • decking
  • defining
  • demolishing
  • demonstrating
  • detaining
  • determining
  • disclosing
  • discrediting
  • disproving
  • divulging
  • drubbing
  • dumping
  • enchaining
  • ending
  • enmeshing
  • ensnaring
  • ensuring
  • entangling
  • entrapping
  • establishing
  • exposing
  • felling
  • fettering
  • finishing
  • fisting
  • flailing
  • flicking
  • flogging
  • flooring
  • getting
  • glomming
  • gloving
  • grabbing
  • grappling
  • grasping
  • gripping
  • haltering
  • hammering
  • handcuffing
  • hanging one on
  • hitting
  • holding
  • hooking
  • illuminating
  • immeshing
  • immuring
  • imprisoning
  • incarcerating
  • insuring
  • interning
  • jabbing
  • jailing
  • jostling
  • jugging
  • kicking
  • kidnaping
  • kidnapping
  • kneeing
  • knocking
  • knocking down
  • lacing
  • lambasting
  • landing
  • lashing
  • lassoing
  • leveling
  • levelling
  • licking
  • manacling
  • mangling
  • mauling
  • meshing
  • nabbing
  • netting
  • nicking
  • nobbling
  • pasting
  • pelting
  • peppering
  • picking up
  • pinching
  • poking
  • pommeling
  • pommelling
  • pounding
  • prodding
  • proving
  • pulling in
  • pummeling
  • pummelling
  • punching
  • pushing
  • rabbit-punching
  • rapping
  • rearresting
  • remanding
  • rending
  • restraining
  • roping
  • roughing
  • running in
  • sapping
  • scuffing
  • securing
  • seizing
  • settling
  • shackling
  • shoving
  • showing
  • showing up
  • skulling
  • slamming
  • slapping
  • slashing
  • sledgehammering
  • sledging
  • slogging
  • slugging
  • smacking
  • smiting
  • snagging
  • snaring
  • snatching
  • socking
  • spearing
  • specifying
  • stabbing
  • stamping
  • stating
  • stipulating
  • striking
  • stroking
  • sucker punching
  • swatting
  • swiping
  • switching
  • tagging
  • tapping
  • telling
  • thrashing
  • thumping
  • thwacking
  • trammeling
  • trammelling
  • trapping
  • uncloaking
  • uncovering
  • undressing
  • unmasking
  • unveiling
  • walloping
  • whacking
  • whaling
  • whipping
  • wresting
  • zapping

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