making

The word “making” has 2 syllables: mak-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈmeɪ.kɪŋ/

What is synonym and antonym for making?

In the thesaurus, “making” has 377 synonyms and 125 antonyms.

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

Synonyms for making

about-facing
absorbing
accomplishing
accumulating
achieving
acing
acquiring
acting
actualizing
adding up to
administering
advancing
aggregating
aiming
allowing
amassing
annexing
appearing
appreciating
apprehending
approaching
approving
assembling
assimilating
attaining
authoring
authorizing
backing
badgering
bagging
banging
barring
bearing
beating
beelining
begetting
beginning
beholding
bending
blackjacking
blackmailing
bolting
breeding
bringing
bringing about
bringing forth
bringing in
bringing off
bringing on
browbeating
building
bulldozing
bullying
calculating
calling
capturing
carpentering
carrying
carrying off
carrying out
catalyzing
catching
causation
causing
chaining
chalking up
clapping
clearing
closing
coercing
cognizing
coining
combining
coming about
coming by
coming round
committing
compassing
compelling
completing
composing
composition
comprehending
computing
conceiving
conception
concluding
concocting
confecting
confirming
conjecturing
consisting of
constituting
constraining
constructing
construction
contriving
cowing
crafting
creating
cultivating
cutting
deciding
deciphering
decoding
decreeing
deducing
designing
determining
developing
devising
dictating
digesting
digging
directing
discerning
dissembling
doing
dragging
dragooning
drawing
drawing on
driving
earning
effecting
effectuating
enacting
encouraging
ending
engendering
envisaging
equaling
equalling
erecting
establishing
estimating
excelling
executing
extrapolating
fabricating
fabrication
facing
fancying
fashioning
fastening
fathering
fathoming
feeling
figuring
finishing
forcing
forging
forming
formulation
forwarding
fostering
founding
framing
fulfilling
furthering
gaging
gaining
garnering
gathering
gauging
generating
getting
giving rise to
going through
grasping
grokking
grossing
guessing
hammering
handcrafting
harassing
heading
hectoring
hewing
high-pressuring
hinting
hitting
hounding
imagining
impelling
implementing
implying
impressing
inaugurating
inclining
inducing
inferring
initiating
innovating
insinuating
instituting
intimidating
introducing
intuiting
inventing
invoking
jerry-building
judging
knocking down
knocking out
knowing
landing
latching
launching
laying down
legislating
lighting out
locking
logging
looking
making out
making up
manufacturing
matching
material
matter
meeting
menacing
metal
minting
molding
muscling
nailing
negotiating
netting
nourishing
nurturing
obligating
obliging
obtaining
occasioning
occupying
ordaining
organizing
orienting
originating
origination
outdoing
passing
penetrating
perceiving
performing
permitting
perpetrating
picking up
picking up on
picturing
piecing
piercing
pioneering
placing
planning
plugging
pointing
possibility
potential
potentiality
practicing
practising
prefabricating
pressing
pressuring
pretending
proclaiming
procuring
producing
production
promoting
prompting
prosecuting
pulling down
pulling off
putting
putting about
putting out
putting through
putting together
putting up
racking up
raising
ratifying
raw material
reacquiring
realizing
reaping
rearing
reasoning
reassembling
reattaining
rebuilding
recalling
recapturing
reckoning
recognizing
reconstructing
redeveloping
reduplicating
reedifying
reenacting
refashioning
regaining
registering
remaking
remanufacturing
rendering
repassing
repeating
resembling
retrofitting
reversing
ringing up
rivaling
rivalling
sanctioning
sandbagging
savvying
scoring
sealing
securing
seeing
seeming
seizing
sensing
setting
setting off
setting out
setting up
shaming
shaping
shutting
slamming
sounding
spawning
starting
steeking
steering
stoppering
striking
structuring
stuff
substance
suggesting
summing
supposing
surpassing
swerving
tacking
taking in
taking off
taking over
terrorizing
threatening
throwing up
tieing
timber
topping
touching
turning
turning back
turning out
twigging
tying
understanding
uniting
veering
visualizing
wheeling
winding up
winning
working
yawing
yielding

Antonyms for making

abolishing
abrogating
according
allowing
annihilating
annulling
arguing
arresting
blowing up
breaking up
calibrating
canceling
cancelling
canning
checking
computing
controlling
convincing
crushing
curbing
dampening
demolishing
demounting
destroying
destruction
detaching
devastating
disassembling
disconnecting
disengaging
disjoining
dismantling
dismembering
disuniting
dividing
eradicating
exploding
exterminating
extinguishing
failing
flattening
forfeiting
giving
giving up
granting
handing over
impeding
inducing
inhibiting
invalidating
killing
knocking down
letting
leveling
levelling
limiting
liquidating
losing
measuring
misapprehending
misconceiving
misconstruing
misinterpreting
misperceiving
misreading
missing
mistaking
misunderstanding
moving
nullifying
opening
overturning
paying
permitting
persuading
pulling down
pulverizing
putting down
quashing
quelling
quenching
razing
relinquishing
repealing
repressing
rescinding
restraining
restricting
retarding
reversing
revoking
ruin
ruinating
ruining
satisfying
scaling
separating
shattering
skimping
slighting
slurring
smashing
smothering
squashing
squelching
stifling
stilling
striking
subduing
suppressing
surrendering
taking apart
taking down
tearing down
unbarring
unbolting
unchaining
unfastening
unlatching
unlocking
unsealing
voiding
working out
wrecking
yielding

Meanings of making

noun
1. The act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction.
2. Process of growth or development.
verb
1. To create.
2. To behave, to act.
3. To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
4. To constitute.
5. To add up to, have a sum of.
6. (construed with of, typically interrogative) To interpret.
7. (usually stressed) To bring into success.
8. (ditransitive, second object is an adjective or participle) To cause to be.
9. To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
10. (ditransitive, second object is a verb) To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
11. (ditransitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) To force to do.
12. (ditransitive, of a fact) To indicate or suggest to be.
13. (of a bed) To cover neatly with bedclothes.
14. (law enforcement) To recognise, identify, spot.
15. To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
16. To proceed (in a direction).
17. To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
18. To move at (a speed).
19. To appoint; to name.
20. To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
21. To defecate or urinate.
22. To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
23. To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
24. To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
25. To enact; to establish.
26. To develop into; to prove to be.
27. To form or formulate in the mind.
28. To perform a feat.
29. To gain sufficient audience to warrant its existence.
30. To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in the phrase to meddle or make.
31. To increase; to augment; to accrue.
32. To be engaged or concerned in.
33. To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what.
34. To take the virginity of.
35. To have sexual intercourse with.

Example Sentences

Making a cake requires careful measurement of ingredients.
She is making a presentation for her upcoming project at work.
The artist spent hours making the sculpture from clay.
Making new friends can be challenging in a new city.
They are making plans for a vacation next summer.

On this page you'll find 502 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to making, such as: abolishing, about-facing, abrogating, absorbing, accomplishing, according, accumulating.

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