kilter

The word “kilter” has 2 syllables: kil-ter

It's pronounced as /ˈkɪl.tər/


What is synonym and antonym for kilter?

In the thesaurus, “kilter” has 28 synonyms and 3 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for kilter

  • commission
  • condition
  • estate
  • fettle
  • fitness
  • footing
  • form
  • health
  • keeping
  • nick
  • order
  • pass
  • phase
  • picture
  • posture
  • practice
  • practise
  • rank
  • repair
  • scene
  • shape
  • situation
  • stage
  • standing
  • state
  • status
  • trim
  • whack

Antonyms for kilter

  • disorder
  • disorganization
  • disrepair

Meanings of kilter

  • noun
    1. (usually in the negative) (Good) condition, form, or order; fettle.
    2. A hand of playing cards which is useless; a dead man's hand.

Example Sentences

  • After the incident, everything felt out of kilter, and I struggled to regain my focus.
  • The constant changes in the schedule threw our plans completely out of kilter.
  • She realized her emotions were a bit off kilter after the stressful week at work.
  • His sense of humor was often kilter, making it difficult for others to understand his jokes.
  • When the team is not working together, the project can go out of kilter and miss deadlines.

On this page you'll find 31 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to kilter, such as: commission, condition, disorder, disorganization, disrepair, estate, fettle.

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

Related Words

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

form

  • absorb
  • accumulate
  • achieve
  • acquire
  • act as
  • actualize
  • adopt
  • air
  • amenities
  • anatomy
  • appear
  • appearance
  • application
  • approach
  • appropriateness
  • arise
  • arrange
  • arrangement
  • arrive
  • articulation
  • assemble
  • associate
  • attain
  • attention
  • attentiveness
  • attitude
  • be
  • bearing
  • become a reality
  • become visible
  • begin
  • behavior
  • being
  • blank
  • block out
  • blueprint
  • break
  • breathe
  • breed
  • bring about
  • bring up
  • build
  • by the book
  • by the numbers
  • canon
  • care
  • carefulness
  • carriage
  • cast
  • celebration
  • ceremonial
  • ceremony
  • channels
  • character
  • chart
  • civilities
  • civility
  • class
  • coalesce
  • cohere
  • combine
  • come on
  • commence
  • complement
  • complete
  • compose
  • composition
  • comprise
  • conceive
  • concoct
  • condense
  • condition
  • conduct
  • configuration
  • conformation
  • conjoin
  • conjugate
  • connect
  • constellation
  • constitute
  • constitution
  • construct
  • construction
  • consummate
  • continue
  • contour
  • contrive
  • convenance
  • convention
  • cook up
  • correctitude
  • correctness
  • couple
  • courteousness
  • courtesy
  • craft
  • create
  • crystalize
  • crystallize
  • cultivate
  • custom
  • cut
  • data sheet
  • dawn
  • decency
  • decorousness
  • decorum
  • demeanor
  • deportment
  • description
  • design
  • develop
  • devise
  • die
  • dignity
  • discretion
  • document
  • doll
  • done thing
  • dream up
  • dummy
  • embodiment
  • embody
  • embrace
  • emerge
  • endure
  • engender
  • envisage
  • epitomize
  • erect
  • establish
  • estate
  • etiquette
  • eventuate
  • exist
  • expedient
  • fabricate
  • fall into place
  • fashion
  • father
  • fettle
  • figure
  • figure in
  • filing
  • finish
  • fitness
  • fix
  • footing
  • forge
  • formalities
  • formality
  • format
  • formation
  • foster
  • found
  • frame
  • framework
  • fuse
  • gain
  • game
  • game plan
  • gentilesse
  • gentility
  • geometry
  • get
  • getup
  • give character
  • goodness
  • grace
  • graces
  • graciousness
  • grade
  • ground plan
  • grow
  • guise
  • habit
  • hammer out
  • handcraft
  • harden
  • harmony
  • health
  • hew
  • high-mindedness
  • honesty
  • honor
  • how
  • imagine
  • incarnate
  • incorporate
  • institute
  • instruct
  • instrument
  • integrate
  • integrity
  • intrigue
  • invent
  • jell
  • join
  • keeping
  • kilter
  • knock off
  • knock out
  • last
  • law
  • layout
  • letter
  • line
  • live
  • make
  • make up
  • makeup
  • manifestation
  • manikin
  • mannequin
  • manner
  • mannerliness
  • manners
  • mannikin
  • manufacture
  • materialize
  • mature
  • method
  • methodology
  • mien
  • mint
  • mode
  • model
  • modus operandi
  • mold
  • morality
  • mores
  • motif
  • move
  • nick
  • nourish
  • nurture
  • object
  • observance
  • obtain
  • order
  • orderliness
  • ordonnance
  • organization
  • organize
  • originate
  • outline
  • paper
  • pass
  • pattern
  • perfect
  • persist
  • person
  • personify
  • phase
  • phenomenon
  • physique
  • picture
  • placement
  • plan
  • pleasantries
  • plot
  • poise
  • policy
  • polish
  • politeness
  • politesse
  • pose
  • posture
  • practice
  • practise
  • precept
  • prefabricate
  • presence
  • probity
  • proceeding
  • process
  • produce
  • profile
  • program
  • project
  • promote
  • proportion
  • proprieties
  • propriety
  • protocol
  • prudence
  • put together
  • put up
  • questionnaire
  • raise
  • rank
  • reach
  • rear
  • recipe
  • rectitude
  • refashion
  • refinement
  • regulation
  • remake
  • remanufacture
  • repair
  • righteousness
  • rightness
  • rise
  • rite
  • ritual
  • ropes
  • route
  • routine
  • rule
  • rules
  • scene
  • scheme
  • school
  • seemliness
  • semblance
  • serve as
  • service
  • set
  • set in
  • set up
  • settle
  • setup
  • shape
  • shape up
  • sheet
  • shell
  • shift
  • show up
  • silhouette
  • situation
  • skeleton
  • solemnity
  • solidify
  • sort
  • species
  • spring
  • stage
  • stamp
  • standard
  • standing
  • start
  • status
  • step
  • straightness
  • strategy
  • structure
  • style
  • subsist
  • substantiate
  • supplement
  • survive
  • symmetry
  • system
  • tack
  • tactics
  • take in
  • take on
  • take on character
  • take shape
  • teach
  • technique
  • theme
  • thing
  • throw together
  • throw up
  • torso
  • trace
  • tradition
  • train
  • trick
  • trim
  • turn out
  • unify
  • unite
  • uprightness
  • usage
  • variety
  • virtue
  • virtuousness
  • visualize
  • way
  • wont
  • work
  • writ

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