joining

The word “joining” has 2 syllables: join-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈdʒɔɪ.nɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for joining?

In the thesaurus, “joining” has 351 synonyms and 114 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for joining

  • abutment
  • abutting
  • accumulating
  • accumulation
  • adjacent
  • adjoining
  • adjustment
  • admixture
  • affiliating
  • affiliation
  • aggregating
  • agreeing
  • agreement
  • alliance
  • allying
  • amalgam
  • amalgamation
  • ambient
  • annexation
  • anthology
  • apposition
  • approximal
  • approximate
  • articulating
  • articulation
  • assemblage
  • assembling
  • assembly
  • assistance
  • associating
  • association
  • assortment
  • attached
  • attachment
  • band
  • banding together
  • blend
  • body
  • bond
  • bordering
  • bordering on
  • bounding
  • brotherhood
  • building
  • bunch
  • business
  • cahoots
  • cartel
  • catenating
  • cementing
  • chaining
  • channel
  • chumminess
  • circumjacent
  • clan
  • clique
  • close
  • closest
  • club
  • clustering
  • coacting
  • coactive
  • coadjuvant
  • coalescent
  • coalescing
  • coalition
  • coefficient
  • coherence
  • collaborating
  • collaborative
  • collecting
  • collection
  • collective
  • collegial
  • collocating
  • collocation
  • collusive
  • combination
  • combine
  • combined
  • combining
  • coming together
  • commixture
  • common
  • communicating
  • community
  • companionship
  • company
  • compiling
  • compounding
  • concatenating
  • concatenation
  • concerted
  • concerting
  • concomitance
  • concordance
  • concourse
  • concurrent
  • concurring
  • concursion
  • confederating
  • confederation
  • confluence
  • conglomerate
  • congregating
  • conjoining
  • conjointment
  • conjugating
  • conjugation
  • conjunction
  • connected
  • connecting
  • connection
  • connective
  • conniving
  • connotation
  • consociation
  • consolidating
  • consolidation
  • conspiring
  • constellating
  • constituent
  • construction
  • contact
  • contacting
  • conterminous
  • contiguous
  • convening
  • convergence
  • convergent
  • converging
  • cooperating
  • cooperation
  • cooperative
  • coordinated
  • copula
  • cording
  • corporation
  • correlation
  • coterie
  • coterminous
  • coupler
  • coupling
  • crew
  • crossing
  • crossroads
  • crowd
  • crush
  • division
  • dovetail
  • dovetailing
  • elbow
  • element
  • embracing
  • encircling
  • enclosing
  • encompassing
  • ending at
  • entering
  • erection
  • fabrication
  • faction
  • fastening
  • fencing
  • firm
  • fitting together
  • flanking
  • flowing
  • flush
  • fraternity
  • friendship
  • fringing
  • fusing
  • fusion
  • gang
  • garner
  • garnering
  • gathering
  • getting in
  • going up to
  • gore
  • hand in glove
  • hanging together
  • harmonious
  • help
  • hinge
  • hitch
  • hitching
  • hooking
  • hookup
  • house
  • identification
  • immediate
  • impinging
  • impression
  • in
  • in league
  • inclosing
  • incorporating
  • incorporation
  • integrating
  • interconnecting
  • interconnection
  • interdependent
  • interest
  • interface
  • interfacing
  • interfusing
  • interlinking
  • interlocking
  • intermeshing
  • intermixture
  • intersection
  • join
  • joined
  • joint
  • jointure
  • junction
  • juncture
  • juxtaposed
  • juxtaposition
  • knee
  • knot
  • league
  • leaguing
  • ligament
  • ligation
  • ligature
  • lining
  • link
  • linkage
  • linked
  • linking
  • lodge
  • loop
  • lumping together
  • making common cause
  • manufacture
  • manufacturing
  • marginal
  • margining
  • marrying
  • mating
  • meeting
  • member
  • merger
  • merging
  • mingling
  • miter
  • mix
  • mixing
  • mixture
  • mob
  • modeling
  • molding
  • mortise
  • multitude
  • near
  • nearby
  • nearest
  • neighboring
  • network
  • next door
  • next-door
  • nexus
  • nigh
  • node
  • organization
  • outfit
  • ownership
  • pairing
  • part
  • participating
  • partnership
  • party
  • peripheral
  • piece
  • piecing together
  • pivot
  • playing ball
  • plug-in
  • pulling together
  • re-enlisting
  • re-enrolling
  • re-upping
  • reciprocal
  • recollection
  • recombining
  • reconnecting
  • reenlisting
  • reenrolling
  • reentering
  • rejoining
  • relation
  • relationship
  • remembrance
  • reunifying
  • reunion
  • reuniting
  • rimming
  • ring
  • rout
  • seam
  • section
  • setting up
  • shaping
  • shared
  • sharing
  • sisterhood
  • skirting
  • society
  • sorority
  • spanning
  • splice
  • splicing
  • spreading to
  • stretching
  • stringing
  • surrounding
  • suture
  • symbiotic
  • syndicate
  • synergetic
  • synergic
  • synergistic
  • tangency
  • tangent
  • tangential
  • team
  • terminal
  • throng
  • tie
  • tie up
  • tie-in
  • togetherness
  • touch
  • touching
  • train of thought
  • treasury
  • unification
  • unifying
  • union
  • united
  • uniting
  • verging
  • vinculum
  • weld
  • welding
  • wiring
  • yoke
  • yoking

Antonyms for joining

  • aloneness
  • antagonism
  • apart
  • away
  • breaking up
  • broken up
  • cleaving
  • cleft
  • crack
  • crevice
  • demitting
  • detached
  • detaching
  • detachment
  • disaffiliating
  • disassociation
  • disbanding
  • disconnected
  • disconnecting
  • disconnection
  • discontinuous
  • discrete
  • disengaging
  • disjoined
  • disjoining
  • disjoint
  • disjointing
  • disobliging
  • dispersing
  • dissevered
  • dissevering
  • dissociated
  • dissociating
  • dissolution
  • distant
  • disunion
  • disunited
  • disuniting
  • divided
  • dividing
  • division
  • divorce
  • divorced
  • divorcing
  • dropping out
  • encumbering
  • estrangement
  • far
  • far-off
  • faraway
  • farthest
  • fissure
  • fractionating
  • free-standing
  • gap
  • hindering
  • hindrance
  • hurting
  • isolate
  • isolated
  • isolating
  • isolation
  • line
  • mispronunciation
  • nonadjacent
  • noncontiguous
  • noncontinuous
  • opening
  • opposition
  • parted
  • parting
  • preventing
  • quitting
  • ramified
  • remote
  • removed
  • resolved
  • resolving
  • rift
  • rivalry
  • rupturing
  • scattering
  • seclusion
  • sectioning
  • separate
  • separating
  • separation
  • severance
  • severed
  • severing
  • single
  • sisterhood
  • solitude
  • split
  • splitting
  • stoppage
  • sundered
  • sundering
  • unattached
  • unchaining
  • unconnected
  • uncooperative
  • uncoordinated
  • uncoupled
  • uncoupling
  • unhelpful
  • unhitching
  • unlinked
  • unlinking
  • unsupportive
  • unyoked
  • unyoking
  • whole
  • withdrawing

Meanings of joining

  • verb
    1. To connect or combine into one; to put together.
    2. To come together; to meet.
    3. To come into the company of.
    4. To become a member of.
    5. To produce an intersection of data in two or more database tables.
    6. To unite in marriage.
    7. To enjoin upon; to command.
    8. To accept, or engage in, as a contest.
  • noun
    1. The act or result of joining; a joint or juncture.

Example Sentences

  • She is excited about joining the new book club this month.
  • They are considering joining forces to tackle the project together.
  • After joining the team, he quickly adapted to the new role.
  • The company is joining a partnership with a major tech firm.
  • Are you interested in joining us for the upcoming workshop?

On this page you'll find 465 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to joining, such as: abutment, abutting, accumulating, accumulation, adjacent, adjoining, adjustment.

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

Related Words

abatement

  • abolishment
  • abolition
  • abortion
  • abrogation
  • annulment
  • avoidance
  • banning
  • calling off
  • cancelation
  • cancellation
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  • curtailment
  • cut
  • cutback
  • decline
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  • deduction
  • defeasance
  • dent
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  • disallowance
  • discount
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  • elimination
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  • fall
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  • invalidation
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  • reversal
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  • shortening
  • shrinkage
  • slip
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  • step-down
  • subtraction
  • suspension
  • veto
  • voiding
  • withdrawal

abating

  • abbreviating
  • abolishing
  • aborting
  • abridging
  • abrogating
  • allaying
  • alleviating
  • analeptic
  • annihilating
  • annulling
  • assuaging
  • avoiding
  • bankrupting
  • banning
  • bereaving
  • breaking down
  • calling
  • calling off
  • canceling
  • cancelling
  • ceasing
  • cheating
  • clipping
  • closing
  • collapsing
  • compressing
  • concluding
  • condensing
  • consolatory
  • consoling
  • constricting
  • contracting
  • countermanding
  • cropping
  • crumbling
  • curing
  • curtailing
  • cutting
  • cutting back
  • cutting down
  • de-escalating
  • declinatory
  • declining
  • decreasing
  • decrescent
  • deducting
  • deflating
  • defrauding
  • denting
  • denuding
  • depleting
  • depreciating
  • depriving
  • descending
  • desisting
  • diminishing
  • disallowing
  • disannulling
  • discontinuing
  • discounting
  • disfurnishing
  • dismissing
  • dissolving
  • divesting
  • docking
  • doing away with
  • downscaling
  • downsizing
  • dropping
  • dwindling
  • dying
  • dying down
  • easing
  • ebbing
  • eliminating
  • encouraging
  • ending
  • enjoining
  • eradicating
  • erasing
  • evaporating
  • expiring
  • fading away
  • falling
  • falling away
  • finishing
  • flagging
  • forbidding
  • freeing
  • giving out
  • health-giving
  • heart-warming
  • impoverishing
  • inspiriting
  • invalidating
  • invigorating
  • knocking down
  • knocking off
  • lapsing
  • leaving off
  • lessening
  • letting up
  • lightening
  • liquidating
  • losing momentum
  • lowering
  • minimizing
  • mitigating
  • moderating
  • modifying
  • modulating
  • narrowing
  • negating
  • nicking
  • nullifying
  • nulling
  • outlawing
  • overriding
  • overruling
  • overturning
  • palling
  • paring
  • passing
  • phasing down
  • plummeting
  • plunging
  • prohibiting
  • pruning
  • qualifying
  • quashing
  • quieting
  • quitting
  • reassuring
  • recalling
  • receding
  • reducing
  • refreshing
  • rejecting
  • relaxing
  • relenting
  • relieving
  • remedying
  • remitting
  • removing
  • repealing
  • rescinding
  • restoring
  • retracting
  • retrenching
  • reversing
  • revitalizing
  • revivifying
  • revoking
  • rolling back
  • sagging
  • setting aside
  • settling
  • shortchanging
  • shortening
  • shrinking
  • shriveling up
  • sinking
  • slackening
  • slashing
  • sliding
  • slipping
  • slowing
  • slumping
  • softening
  • solacing
  • soothing
  • stopping
  • striking down
  • stripping
  • subsiding
  • subtracting
  • succoring
  • suspending
  • sustaining
  • taking off
  • tapering
  • tapering off
  • terminating
  • throwing out
  • toppling
  • tottering
  • tranquilizing
  • trimming
  • truncating
  • tumbling
  • upholding
  • vacating
  • vanishing
  • vetoing
  • voiding
  • waning
  • warming
  • wasting
  • weakening
  • wearing down
  • wearing off
  • whittling
  • winding up
  • withdrawing
  • writing off

abolishing

  • abandoning
  • abandonment
  • abating
  • abolition
  • aborting
  • abrogating
  • abrogation
  • annihilating
  • annihilation
  • annulling
  • annulment
  • assassinating
  • atomizing
  • avoiding
  • bane
  • banning
  • blacking out
  • blasting
  • blotting out
  • blowing up
  • breaking down
  • calling
  • calling off
  • canceling
  • cancelling
  • carnage
  • consuming
  • countermanding
  • crashing
  • crushing
  • cutting
  • dashing
  • decimating
  • deletion
  • demolishing
  • destroying
  • devastating
  • devastation
  • devouring
  • disallowing
  • disannulling
  • discarding
  • disintegrating
  • dismantling
  • dismissing
  • disrupting
  • dissolution
  • dissolving
  • ditching
  • doing away with
  • dooming
  • downfall
  • dropping
  • dynamiting
  • effacing
  • ejecting
  • eliminating
  • elimination
  • end
  • enjoining
  • eradicating
  • eradication
  • erasing
  • excising
  • expelling
  • expunging
  • exterminating
  • extermination
  • extinction
  • extinguishing
  • extinguishment
  • extirpating
  • extirpation
  • finishing
  • flattening
  • forbidding
  • fragmenting
  • havoc
  • invalidating
  • invalidation
  • jettisoning
  • killing
  • killing off
  • liquidating
  • liquidation
  • loss
  • massacre
  • murder
  • negating
  • nullification
  • nullifying
  • nulling
  • obliterating
  • obliteration
  • ousting
  • outlawing
  • overriding
  • overruling
  • overthrow
  • overturning
  • powdering
  • prohibiting
  • pulverizing
  • quashing
  • ravaging
  • razing
  • recall
  • recalling
  • rejecting
  • removing
  • repeal
  • repealing
  • repudiation
  • rescinding
  • retirement
  • retracting
  • retraction
  • reversal
  • reversing
  • revocation
  • revoking
  • rolling back
  • rubbing out
  • ruin
  • ruination
  • ruining
  • sacking
  • setting aside
  • shattering
  • slaughter
  • slaying
  • smashing
  • splintering
  • striking down
  • subjugation
  • subversion
  • subverting
  • suspending
  • tearing down
  • terminating
  • throwing out
  • totaling
  • totalling
  • undoing
  • vacating
  • vetoing
  • voiding
  • wasting
  • wiping out
  • withdrawing
  • wrack
  • wreck
  • wreckage
  • wrecking
  • writing off
  • zapping

abolishment

abolition


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