making out

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

It's pronounced as /ˈmeɪ.kɪŋ ˈaʊt/


What is synonym and antonym for making out?

In the thesaurus, “making out” has 134 synonyms and 18 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for making out

  • absorbing
  • acting
  • action
  • affecting
  • affording
  • appreciating
  • apprehending
  • ascertaining
  • assimilating
  • assuming
  • beholding
  • bluffing
  • bussing
  • camouflaging
  • canoodling
  • caress
  • caressing
  • carrying on
  • catching
  • cognizing
  • compassing
  • comprehending
  • concealing
  • conceiving
  • concluding
  • conjecturing
  • construing
  • contemplating
  • contriving
  • coping
  • counterfeiting
  • cuddling
  • deciding
  • deciphering
  • decoding
  • deducing
  • deriving
  • digesting
  • digging
  • discerning
  • disguising
  • dissembling
  • dissimulating
  • doing
  • drawing a conclusion
  • eking out
  • embracing
  • extrapolating
  • faking
  • faring
  • fathoming
  • feigning
  • feinting
  • fending for oneself
  • finding out
  • fondling
  • gathering
  • getting
  • getting along
  • getting by
  • getting on
  • grasping
  • grokking
  • guessing
  • heavy petting
  • impersonating
  • inferring
  • interpreting
  • intuiting
  • judging
  • kissing
  • knowing
  • lasting
  • letting on
  • lovemaking
  • making
  • making a pretense
  • making a show
  • making believe
  • making do
  • making ends meet
  • making love
  • making shift
  • managing
  • masking
  • masquerading
  • necking
  • oral sex
  • parking
  • penetrating
  • perceiving
  • petting
  • philosophizing
  • picking up on
  • piercing
  • playacting
  • playing
  • posing
  • pretending
  • professing
  • putting on
  • putting on an act
  • putting up a front
  • rationalizing
  • reading
  • realizing
  • reasoning
  • recognizing
  • registering
  • savvying
  • scrounging
  • seeing
  • seizing
  • sensing
  • sex
  • sexual activity
  • shamming
  • shifting
  • simulating
  • smooching
  • speculating
  • spooning
  • squeezing
  • sucking face
  • supposing
  • surmising
  • surviving
  • swinging
  • taking in
  • thinking
  • twigging
  • understanding
  • wresting
  • wringing

Antonyms for making out

  • collapsing
  • declining
  • failing
  • falling short
  • fizzling
  • floundering
  • giving up
  • misapprehending
  • misconceiving
  • misconstruing
  • misinterpreting
  • misperceiving
  • misreading
  • missing
  • mistaking
  • misunderstanding
  • slumping
  • waning

Example Sentences

  • They were caught making out behind the bleachers during the game.
  • The couple spent the evening making out on the couch while watching a movie.
  • She walked into the room and found her friends making out at the party.
  • He joked about teenagers making out in parked cars near the lake.
  • The characters in the movie were often shown making out during romantic scenes.

On this page you'll find 152 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to making out, such as: absorbing, acting, action, affecting, affording, appreciating, apprehending.

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

Related Words

making ends meet

savvying

  • absorbing
  • appreciating
  • apprehending
  • assimilating
  • beholding
  • catching
  • cognizing
  • compassing
  • comprehending
  • conceiving
  • deciphering
  • decoding
  • digesting
  • digging
  • discerning
  • fathoming
  • getting
  • grasping
  • grokking
  • intuiting
  • knowing
  • making
  • making out
  • penetrating
  • perceiving
  • picking up on
  • piercing
  • realizing
  • recognizing
  • registering
  • seeing
  • seizing
  • sensing
  • taking in
  • twigging
  • understanding

keeping up

  • abiding
  • balance
  • bearing up
  • biding
  • carrying on
  • carrying through
  • compete
  • conserving
  • contend
  • continue
  • continuing
  • coping
  • curing
  • defending
  • drawing out
  • emulate
  • enduring
  • faring
  • fixing
  • getting along
  • getting by
  • getting on
  • go on
  • going
  • guarding
  • hanging in
  • hanging on
  • healing
  • hold on
  • holding on
  • holding out
  • holding up
  • husbanding
  • keep pace
  • keep step
  • lasting
  • leftover
  • lingering
  • maintaining
  • making out
  • managing
  • match
  • mending
  • pace
  • patching
  • perduring
  • persevere
  • persevering
  • persisting
  • preserve
  • preserving
  • prevailing
  • protecting
  • rebuilding
  • reconstructing
  • rehabilitating
  • rejuvenating
  • remaining
  • remedying
  • residual
  • restoring
  • rival
  • run with
  • running on
  • safeguarding
  • saving
  • screening
  • servicing
  • shielding
  • staying
  • sticking around
  • stretching
  • supporting
  • surviving
  • sustaining
  • tarrying
  • vie

faring

  • accelerating
  • actuating
  • advance
  • advancing
  • affording
  • approaching
  • banqueting
  • boarding
  • breakfasting
  • breaking bread
  • carrying on
  • coming
  • coming along
  • contriving
  • coping
  • digging in
  • dining
  • dining out
  • do
  • doing
  • driving
  • eating
  • eking out
  • fast-forwarding
  • feasting
  • feeding
  • fending for oneself
  • forging
  • gaining ground
  • get by
  • get on
  • getting along
  • getting by
  • getting on
  • glutting
  • go
  • going
  • going along
  • going off
  • gorging
  • gormandizing
  • grazing
  • handle
  • happen
  • hie
  • impelling
  • journey
  • journeying
  • lasting
  • lunching
  • make headway
  • make out
  • making do
  • making ends meet
  • making out
  • making shift
  • manage
  • managing
  • marching
  • messing
  • muddle through
  • nearing
  • nibbling
  • noshing
  • overeating
  • overfeeding
  • pacing
  • partaking
  • pass
  • passing
  • picking
  • picnicking
  • pigging out
  • proceed
  • proceeding
  • progress
  • progressing
  • propelling
  • prosper
  • prove
  • pushing
  • refreshing
  • repairing
  • repasting
  • running
  • scrounging
  • shift
  • shifting
  • snacking
  • speeding
  • squeezing
  • stagger
  • supping
  • surviving
  • swinging
  • taking out
  • traveling
  • travelling
  • victualing
  • victualling
  • wending
  • wresting
  • wringing

lasting

  • abiding
  • ageless
  • bearing up
  • biding
  • carrying on
  • carrying through
  • ceaseless
  • changeless
  • constant
  • continual
  • continuing
  • coping
  • dateless
  • deep-rooted
  • drawing out
  • durable
  • endless
  • enduring
  • eternal
  • everlasting
  • faring
  • forever
  • getting along
  • getting by
  • getting on
  • going
  • hanging in
  • hanging on
  • holding on
  • holding out
  • holding up
  • immortal
  • imperishable
  • in for the long haul
  • incessant
  • indelible
  • indissoluble
  • inexhaustible
  • inexpungible
  • keeping up
  • lifelong
  • lingering
  • long-term
  • longstanding
  • making out
  • managing
  • old
  • ongoing
  • perdurable
  • perduring
  • perennial
  • permanent
  • perpetual
  • persevering
  • persisting
  • prevailing
  • remaining
  • running on
  • stable
  • stationary
  • staying
  • steady
  • sticking around
  • stretching
  • surviving
  • tarrying
  • till the cows come home
  • timeless
  • unceasing
  • unchanging
  • undying
  • unremitting
  • unvarying

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