keeping

The word “keeping” has 2 syllables: keep-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈkiːpɪŋ/

What is synonym and antonym for keeping?

In the thesaurus, “keeping” has 257 synonyms and 86 antonyms.

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

Synonyms for keeping

abidance
abiding by
accession
accomplishing
achieving
acquiescence
adherence
administering
administrating
agreement
answering
arresting
attendance
attention
authority
averting
balance
battling
bearing
blessing
blocking
boasting
bridling
bringing about
bringing off
buffering
bulwarking
care
carrying on
carrying out
celebrating
cellaring
charge
checking
cherishing
claiming
co-directing
co-managing
codirecting
collaring
comanaging
command
commandeering
commanding
commemorating
committing
compassing
completing
compliance
concluding
condition
conducting
confiscation
conformance
conformity
consecrating
conserving
constraining
consummating
containing
contending
control
controlling
covering
curbing
custodianship
custody
defending
deference
detaining
directing
discharging
dominion
effecting
enjoying
enjoyment
estate
executing
fencing
fending
feting
fettle
fighting
filing
filling
finalizing
financing
finishing
footing
forfending
form
fulfilling
funding
gagging
garaging
governing
governorship
guardianship
guarding
guiding
hampering
handcuffing
handling
hands
hangaring
hanging on to
harboring
harmony
having
health
heed
hindering
holding
holding back
holding on to
honor
honoring
housing
hugging
impeding
inhibiting
interrupting
kilter
lauding
leading
maintaining
making
making good
making good on
management
managing
mastery
measuring
meeting
memorializing
micromanaging
mincing
minding
muffling
muzzling
nick
notice
obedience
observance
observation
observing
obstructing
operating
opposing
order
overlooking
overseeing
ownership
owning
packing
palisading
pass
patronizing
perfecting
performing
phase
picketing
picture
piloting
pocketing
possessing
possession
posture
power
practice
practise
praising
preservation
preserving
preventing
procurement
proprietorship
protecting
protection
pulling in
putting up
rank
redeeming
regard
regulating
remembering
repair
repositing
repossession
repressing
reserving
resisting
respect
restraining
retaining
retention
ruling
running
safeguarding
safekeeping
sanctifying
satisfying
saving
scene
screening
securing
setting up
shape
shelving
shielding
silencing
sinking
situation
smothering
solemnizing
sponsoring
squelching
stage
stage-managing
staking
standing
standing up for
status
steering
stewarding
stifling
stopping
storing
stowing
strangling
submission
superintendence
superintending
supervising
supervision
supporting
suppressing
surrender
swallowing
taking care of
taming
tending
treasuring
trim
trust
underwriting
uniformity
upholding
walling
ward
warding
warehousing
warring
watching
watching over
withholding
withstanding

Antonyms for keeping

abandoning
airing
assailing
assaulting
attacking
besetting
besieging
blowing off
bombarding
breach
breaching
breaking
brush-off
capitulating
carelessness
caving
ceding
challenge
contravention
contributing
declining
defiance
delinquency
dereliction
disagreement
discarding
discord
disorder
dispossession
disproportion
disregard
disregarding
disrepair
donating
dropping
dumping
expressing
fighting
flouting
forgetting
giving
giving up
handing out
handing over
ignoring
imbalance
infraction
infringement
liberating
loosening
loosing
losing
neglect
neglecting
nonobservance
nonpossession
offence
offense
overlooking
overpassing
overrunning
passing over
rebellion
rejecting
releasing
relinquishing
relinquishment
repudiating
sin
slighting
spurning
storming
submitting
surrendering
taking out
thoughtlessness
transferal
transgressing
transgression
trespass
unleashing
venting
violating
violation
wrong
yielding

Meanings of keeping

verb
1. To continue in (a course or mode of action); not to intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
2. (heading) To hold the status of something.
3. (heading) To hold or be held in a state.
4. To wait for, keep watch for.
5. To act as wicket-keeper.
6. To take care; to be solicitous; to watch.
7. To be in session; to take place.
8. To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; not to swerve from or violate.
9. (by extension) To visit (a place) often; to frequent.
10. To observe or celebrate (a holiday).
noun
1. Conformity or harmony.
2. Charge or care.
3. Maintenance; support; provision; feed.

Example Sentences

She's always busy keeping her workspace organized and tidy.
The dedicated gardener spends hours each day keeping the plants healthy.
The hiker values solitude, often keeping to the quiet trails away from the crowds.
The chef emphasizes the importance of keeping ingredients fresh for the best flavors.
The teacher commended the student for consistently keeping up with assignments and deadlines.

On this page you'll find 343 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to keeping, such as: abandoning, abidance, abiding by, accession, accomplishing, achieving, acquiescence.

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