making good

The phrase “making good” has 3 syllables: mak-ing good

It's pronounced as /ˈmeɪ.kɪŋ ɡʊd/


What is synonym and antonym for making good?

In the thesaurus, “making good” has 72 synonyms and 19 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for making good

  • abiding by
  • accomplishing
  • achieving
  • adjustment
  • answering
  • apology
  • arriving
  • atonement
  • bringing about
  • bringing off
  • carrying out
  • committing
  • compassing
  • completing
  • concluding
  • consummating
  • cutting it
  • cutting the mustard
  • damages
  • discharging
  • dues
  • effecting
  • emolument
  • excelling
  • executing
  • expiation
  • filling
  • finalizing
  • finishing
  • flourishing
  • fulfilling
  • getting ahead
  • getting somewhere
  • getting there
  • hacking it
  • hitting it big
  • indemnification
  • indemnity
  • keeping
  • making
  • making it
  • making the grade
  • meeting
  • payment
  • penance
  • perfecting
  • performing
  • prevailing
  • propitiation
  • prospering
  • quittance
  • recompense
  • redeeming
  • redemption
  • redress
  • remuneration
  • renewal
  • repair
  • repayment
  • reprisal
  • requital
  • restitution
  • retribution
  • reward
  • satisfaction
  • satisfying
  • settlement
  • squaring things
  • succeeding
  • thriving
  • triumphing
  • winning

Antonyms for making good

  • breaching
  • breaking
  • disregarding
  • extortion
  • failing
  • floundering
  • forgetting
  • ignoring
  • neglecting
  • overlooking
  • overpassing
  • passing over
  • penalty
  • slighting
  • struggling
  • sympathy
  • theft
  • transgressing
  • violating

Example Sentences

  • He is committed to making good on his promise to help the community.
  • After a tough start, she is finally making good progress in her studies.
  • The company is focused on making good its commitment to sustainability.
  • They are making good use of their resources to achieve their goals efficiently.
  • By making good choices, he improved his health and well-being.

On this page you'll find 91 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to making good, such as: abiding by, accomplishing, achieving, adjustment, answering, apology, arriving.

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

Related Words

abiding by

hacking it

  • adequacy
  • appropriateness
  • arriving
  • capability
  • capacity
  • competency
  • cutting it
  • cutting the mustard
  • excelling
  • expertise
  • fitness
  • flourishing
  • getting ahead
  • getting somewhere
  • getting there
  • hitting it big
  • know-how
  • making good
  • making it
  • making the grade
  • makings
  • might
  • moxie
  • prevailing
  • proficiency
  • prospering
  • qualification
  • qualifiedness
  • savvy
  • skill
  • succeeding
  • suitability
  • the goods
  • the right stuff
  • thriving
  • triumphing
  • what it takes
  • winning

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

making it

  • arriving
  • cutting it
  • cutting the mustard
  • excelling
  • flourishing
  • getting ahead
  • getting somewhere
  • getting there
  • hacking it
  • hitting it big
  • making good
  • making the grade
  • prevailing
  • prospering
  • succeeding
  • thriving
  • triumphing
  • winning

making the grade

  • adequacy
  • appropriateness
  • arriving
  • capability
  • capacity
  • competency
  • cutting it
  • cutting the mustard
  • excelling
  • expertise
  • fitness
  • flourishing
  • getting ahead
  • getting somewhere
  • getting there
  • hacking it
  • hitting it big
  • know-how
  • making good
  • making it
  • makings
  • might
  • moxie
  • prevailing
  • proficiency
  • prospering
  • qualification
  • qualifiedness
  • savvy
  • skill
  • succeeding
  • suitability
  • the goods
  • the right stuff
  • thriving
  • triumphing
  • what it takes
  • winning

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