makings

The word “makings” has 2 syllables: mak-ings

It's pronounced as /ˈmeɪ.kɪŋz/


What is synonym and antonym for makings?

In the thesaurus, “makings” has 119 synonyms and 34 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for makings

  • ability
  • ableness
  • accomplishment
  • address
  • adequacy
  • adroitness
  • advance
  • advancement
  • appropriateness
  • aptitude
  • aptness
  • art
  • artistry
  • attainment
  • attribute
  • bag
  • board
  • capability
  • capacity
  • chops
  • cleverness
  • clout
  • command
  • competence
  • competency
  • component
  • constituent
  • craft
  • cunning
  • cutting it
  • cutting the mustard
  • deftness
  • dexterity
  • division
  • dodge
  • ease
  • efficiency
  • eligibility
  • endowment
  • essential
  • experience
  • expertise
  • expertism
  • expertness
  • facility
  • factor
  • finesse
  • fitness
  • fixings
  • fixins
  • formula
  • fraction
  • goods
  • green thumb
  • hacking it
  • handiness
  • headway
  • ingeniousness
  • ingenuity
  • ingredient
  • intelligence
  • item
  • job
  • judgment
  • knack
  • know-how
  • knowledge
  • learning
  • line
  • making
  • making the grade
  • masterliness
  • mastery
  • material
  • matter
  • metal
  • might
  • moxie
  • oil
  • part
  • part and parcel
  • peripheral
  • piece
  • plug-in
  • portion
  • possibility
  • potential
  • potentiality
  • principle
  • profession
  • proficiency
  • progress
  • prowess
  • qualification
  • qualifiedness
  • quality
  • quickness
  • raw material
  • readiness
  • right stuff
  • savvy
  • segment
  • sharpness
  • skill
  • skillfulness
  • sleight
  • smarts
  • stuff
  • substance
  • suitability
  • suitableness
  • talent
  • technique
  • the goods
  • the right stuff
  • timber
  • trade
  • unit
  • what it takes

Antonyms for makings

  • avocation
  • block
  • clumsiness
  • decline
  • difficulty
  • disqualification
  • entertainment
  • entirety
  • failure
  • fun
  • halt
  • ignorance
  • impotence
  • inability
  • inadequacy
  • inappropriateness
  • inaptitude
  • incapability
  • incapacity
  • incompetence
  • inefficience
  • inefficiency
  • ineptness
  • inexperience
  • inexpertness
  • lack
  • loss
  • retreat
  • retrogression
  • stop
  • stoppage
  • stupidity
  • weakness
  • whole

Meanings of makings

  • noun
    1. The act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction.
    2. Process of growth or development.
    3. That which is needed for something: necessary ingredients.

Example Sentences

  • The coach believes the new player has the makings of a star athlete.
  • With her talent and determination, she has the makings of a successful entrepreneur.
  • The recipe includes all the makings for a delicious homemade pizza.
  • The documentary had the makings of a classic, with its compelling story and stunning visuals.
  • His leadership skills and charisma show the makings of a great politician.

On this page you'll find 153 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to makings, such as: ability, ableness, accomplishment, address, adequacy, adroitness, advance.

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

Related Words

abilities

  • addresses
  • adequacies
  • aptitudes
  • bravery
  • capabilities
  • capacities
  • competences
  • competencies
  • courage
  • credentials
  • dependability
  • dexterities
  • drive
  • endowments
  • equipments
  • essential qualities
  • experience
  • facilities
  • faculties
  • forms
  • gifts
  • gray matters
  • guts
  • hands
  • influences
  • instincts
  • intelligences
  • kens
  • knacks
  • knowledge
  • means
  • mights
  • potencies
  • power
  • prowesses
  • puissances
  • qualifications
  • reasons
  • resources
  • self-confidence
  • skills
  • staying powers
  • stuff
  • talent
  • talents
  • the goods
  • the makings
  • the stuff
  • understandings
  • what it takes
  • wherewithals

galas

  • carnivals
  • celebrations
  • exercises
  • exhibitions
  • exhibits
  • expositions
  • fairs
  • festivals
  • festivities
  • fests
  • fetes
  • fiestas
  • honors
  • jamborees
  • jollifications
  • jollities
  • jubilees
  • merriments
  • merrymakings
  • rejoicings
  • revelries
  • revels
  • shows

gambols

  • amusements
  • antics
  • benders
  • binges
  • bound
  • bounds
  • brannigans
  • bums
  • busts
  • caper
  • capers
  • carouses
  • carries on
  • carry on
  • cavort
  • cavorts
  • clowns
  • curvets
  • cut
  • cut a caper
  • cut loose
  • cuts capers
  • cuts up
  • dances
  • disports
  • diversions
  • enjoyments
  • entertainments
  • escapades
  • festivities
  • field days
  • flings
  • fool around
  • fools around
  • frisk
  • frisks
  • frolic
  • frolics
  • hop
  • hops
  • horse around
  • horses around
  • idylls
  • idyls
  • indulgences
  • joyrides
  • jump
  • kibitz around
  • kites
  • lark
  • larks
  • leap
  • leaps
  • lopes
  • merriments
  • merrymakings
  • monkeyshines
  • play
  • pleasures
  • ploys
  • prance
  • prances
  • pranks
  • recreations
  • revel
  • revels
  • roister
  • roisters
  • rollick
  • rollicks
  • romp
  • romps
  • roughhouses
  • self-indulgences
  • shenanigans
  • skip
  • skips
  • skylarks
  • souses
  • splores
  • sport
  • sports
  • sprees
  • spring
  • springs
  • toots
  • trips
  • tumbles
  • whoop it up

good

  • Junoesque
  • OK
  • a posteriori
  • a priori
  • ability
  • able
  • acceptable
  • acceptably
  • accepting
  • accomplished
  • accurate
  • ace
  • actual
  • adept
  • adequate
  • adequately
  • admirable
  • admiring
  • adoring
  • adroit
  • adulatory
  • advantage
  • advantageous
  • advisable
  • advisory
  • aesthetic
  • aesthetical
  • affable
  • agreeable
  • aid
  • all right
  • all-around
  • all-round
  • alleviative
  • alluring
  • alright
  • altruistic
  • ameliorative
  • amelioratory
  • amiable
  • ample
  • amusing
  • analytic
  • analytical
  • angelic
  • angelical
  • anodyne
  • antiseptic
  • appealing
  • applauding
  • applicable
  • appointments
  • appreciative
  • approbatory
  • appropriate
  • appropriately
  • approving
  • apt
  • aptitude
  • aptly
  • ardent
  • arresting
  • aseptic
  • asset
  • assistance
  • astronomic
  • astronomical
  • attested
  • attractive
  • au fait
  • auspicious
  • authenticated
  • avail
  • average
  • avid
  • balanced
  • bang on
  • bearable
  • beauteous
  • beautiful
  • becoming
  • bedrock
  • befitting
  • behalf
  • belongings
  • benediction
  • benefic
  • beneficent
  • beneficial
  • benefit
  • benevolent
  • benignant
  • bettering
  • big
  • biggish
  • bighearted
  • blameless
  • blessed
  • blessing
  • blest
  • bliss
  • blissful
  • bona fide
  • bonnie
  • bonny
  • bonus
  • boon
  • boss
  • bounteous
  • bountiful
  • brave
  • bulky
  • bully
  • bumper
  • calculable
  • calming
  • capability
  • capable
  • capacity
  • capital
  • certain
  • certified
  • charitable
  • charming
  • chattels
  • cheerful
  • cheery
  • cherished
  • chocolate-box
  • choice
  • class
  • clean
  • clever
  • cogent
  • cognitive
  • coherent
  • collateral
  • colorable
  • colossal
  • comely
  • comfort
  • comfortable
  • comforting
  • command
  • commendable
  • commendatory
  • commending
  • commodities
  • common
  • commonsense
  • commonsensible
  • commonsensical
  • commonwealth
  • companionate
  • compassionate
  • competence
  • competency
  • competent
  • compleat
  • complete
  • complimentary
  • condign
  • confirmed
  • conformable
  • conforming
  • congenial
  • congruous
  • congruously
  • consequent
  • considerable
  • considerate
  • consolation
  • consonant
  • constant
  • constructive
  • consummate
  • content
  • contentedness
  • convenient
  • convincing
  • copacetic
  • copasetic
  • copesetic
  • correct
  • corrective
  • correctly
  • corroborated
  • crack
  • crackerjack
  • credentials
  • credible
  • creditable
  • creditably
  • cunning
  • curative
  • cut out
  • cute
  • dainty
  • darling
  • dead-on
  • decent
  • decently
  • decorous
  • decorously
  • dedicated
  • defendable
  • defensible
  • deft
  • delectable
  • delicate
  • delicious
  • delight
  • delightful
  • delightsome
  • deluxe
  • dependable
  • deserved
  • deserving
  • desirable
  • determined
  • devoted
  • devout
  • dexterous
  • dextrous
  • dignity
  • dishy
  • diverting
  • do-good
  • dollish
  • domestics
  • down-the-line
  • dreamy
  • drop-dead
  • ducky
  • duds
  • due
  • dulcet
  • durable goods
  • durables
  • dutiful
  • dyed-in-the-wool
  • eatable
  • ecstatic
  • educated
  • effective
  • effectively
  • effects
  • effectual
  • effectually
  • efficient
  • efficiently
  • elating
  • eleemosynary
  • elegant
  • elephantine
  • empiric
  • empirical
  • employable
  • enchanting
  • encomiastic
  • endowment
  • endurable
  • engaging
  • enjoyable
  • enormous
  • entertaining
  • enthusiastic
  • entire
  • enviable
  • equal
  • errorless
  • estate
  • esteemed
  • esthetic
  • esthetical
  • estimable
  • ethical
  • eulogistic
  • euphoric
  • exact
  • excellence
  • excellent
  • exceptional
  • exemplary
  • exhilarating
  • experienced
  • expert
  • expertise
  • export
  • exquisite
  • extensive
  • extra
  • eye-catching
  • facility
  • faculty
  • fair
  • fairish
  • faithful
  • fancy
  • fascinating
  • fast
  • faultless
  • favor
  • favorable
  • favoring
  • felicific
  • felicitous
  • felicitously
  • felicity
  • fervent
  • fervid
  • fetching
  • fine
  • firm
  • first-class
  • first-rate
  • fit
  • fit to eat
  • fitness
  • fitted
  • fitting
  • fittingly
  • fixtures
  • flair
  • flamboyant
  • flashy
  • flattering
  • flawless
  • forte
  • fortune
  • foxy
  • free
  • freehanded
  • fresh
  • friendly
  • fruitful
  • full
  • furnishings
  • gain
  • gainful
  • gear
  • generous
  • genial
  • genius
  • genuine
  • gift
  • gifted
  • gigantic
  • glad
  • glamorous
  • glamourous
  • glorious
  • glossy
  • gnarly
  • godsend
  • good fortune
  • good-looking
  • good-natured
  • goodly
  • goody-goody
  • gorgeous
  • grace
  • gracious
  • grateful
  • gratification
  • gratifying
  • gratifyingly
  • great
  • greathearted
  • guiltless
  • gung ho
  • habile
  • hagiographic
  • hagiographical
  • handsome
  • handy
  • happily
  • happiness
  • happy
  • hard
  • hard goods
  • harmonious
  • health
  • healthful
  • healthiness
  • healthy
  • heavenly
  • hefty
  • help
  • helpful
  • herculean
  • high-grade
  • high-minded
  • holdings
  • honest
  • honorable
  • hospitable
  • hot
  • huge
  • hulking
  • humane
  • humanitarian
  • hunky
  • hunky-dory
  • hygienic
  • ideal
  • idolizing
  • immaculate
  • immeasurable
  • immense
  • impassioned
  • impeccable
  • import
  • in order
  • incorrupt
  • incorrupted
  • incorruptible
  • inculpable
  • indifferent
  • inerrant
  • infallible
  • informed
  • innocent
  • inoffensive
  • intact
  • intent
  • interest
  • intoxicating
  • invaluable
  • inventory
  • inveterate
  • inviting
  • irreprehensible
  • irreproachable
  • jake
  • job lot
  • jolly
  • joy
  • joyous
  • jumbo
  • just
  • justifiable
  • justified
  • kind
  • kindhearted
  • kindly
  • kindness
  • king-size
  • king-sized
  • knack
  • knockout
  • know-how
  • knowledgeable
  • kosher
  • lagniappe
  • large
  • largish
  • laudable
  • laudative
  • laudatory
  • law-abiding
  • legitimate
  • letter-perfect
  • levelheaded
  • liberal
  • likely
  • lily-white
  • line
  • logical
  • long
  • long suit
  • long-term
  • lovely
  • lovesome
  • loyal
  • lucrative
  • luscious
  • magnanimous
  • magnificent
  • maintainable
  • major
  • makings
  • mammoth
  • manna
  • mannerly
  • marvelous
  • massive
  • master
  • masterful
  • masterly
  • mastership
  • mastery
  • medicinal
  • mediocre
  • meet
  • meetly
  • menschy
  • merchandise
  • merciful
  • mercy
  • merit
  • meritorious
  • metier
  • middling
  • middlingly
  • minimal
  • mitzvah
  • monstrous
  • monumental
  • moral
  • moralistic
  • movables
  • moveables
  • much
  • multiskilled
  • multitalented
  • munificent
  • neat
  • neatly
  • needed
  • nice
  • nicely
  • nirvanic
  • noble
  • nonpoisonous
  • nontoxic
  • normal
  • nourishing
  • nubile
  • nugget
  • nutritional
  • nutritious
  • obedient
  • obliging
  • okay
  • old
  • on target
  • on the ball
  • on the money
  • on-target
  • openhanded
  • openhearted
  • opportune
  • orderly
  • ordinary
  • orthodox
  • outsize
  • outsized
  • overqualified
  • oversize
  • oversized
  • palatable
  • panegyrical
  • paraphernalia
  • passable
  • passably
  • passionate
  • paying
  • perfect
  • personable
  • personal effects
  • personal property
  • personalty
  • pharisaical
  • philanthropic
  • philanthropical
  • photogenic
  • pious
  • pitch-perfect
  • plausible
  • pleasant
  • pleasing
  • pleasurable
  • pleasure
  • plum
  • plunder
  • polished
  • polite
  • positive
  • possession
  • potentiality
  • practiced
  • practised
  • praiseful
  • praiseworthy
  • precious
  • precise
  • prepared
  • prepossessing
  • prerogative
  • presentable
  • pretty
  • prettyish
  • priceless
  • primary
  • prime
  • principled
  • prize
  • prized
  • probity
  • prodigious
  • professed
  • proficiency
  • proficient
  • profit
  • profitable
  • promising
  • proper
  • property
  • propitious
  • prosperity
  • prosperousness
  • protean
  • proven
  • pulchritudinous
  • pure
  • qualification
  • qualified
  • quality
  • rad
  • radiant
  • rapturous
  • rational
  • ravishing
  • ready
  • real
  • reasonable
  • reasoned
  • recommendatory
  • recreative
  • rectitude
  • rectitudinous
  • recuperative
  • refined
  • refreshing
  • regular
  • rehabilitative
  • rejuvenating
  • rejuvenescent
  • reliable
  • relief
  • relishable
  • remedial
  • remunerative
  • reputable
  • required
  • requisite
  • resolute
  • respectable
  • respectably
  • respected
  • respectful
  • resplendent
  • responsible
  • restorative
  • rewarding
  • right
  • right-minded
  • righteous
  • righteousness
  • rightful
  • rightly
  • rigorous
  • robustness
  • run-of-mine
  • run-of-the-mill
  • run-of-the-mine
  • safe
  • sake
  • salubrious
  • salutary
  • salutiferous
  • sanative
  • sanctimonious
  • sanitary
  • satisfaction
  • satisfactorily
  • satisfactory
  • satisfying
  • satisfyingly
  • savory
  • savoury
  • schooled
  • scrumptious
  • scrupulous
  • seasoned
  • second-rate
  • secure
  • seductive
  • seemly
  • select
  • self-righteous
  • self-sacrificing
  • selfless
  • sensible
  • serious
  • service
  • serviceable
  • serviceably
  • sexy
  • shipshape
  • showstopping
  • showy
  • sightly
  • significant
  • sincere
  • single-minded
  • sizable
  • sizeable
  • skilled
  • skillful
  • slick
  • snazzy
  • so
  • so-so
  • sober
  • social-minded
  • solace
  • solid
  • soothing
  • sound
  • soundness
  • spanking
  • special
  • specialism
  • speciality
  • specialty
  • splashy
  • splendid
  • spot-on
  • spotless
  • stable
  • stanch
  • standard
  • staples
  • statuesque
  • staunch
  • steadfast
  • steady
  • sterling
  • stock
  • straight
  • strict
  • striking
  • stringent
  • strong
  • strong suit
  • studly
  • stuff
  • stunning
  • stupendous
  • sublime
  • substantial
  • substantiated
  • substantive
  • success
  • successfulness
  • sufferable
  • sufficient
  • sufficiently
  • suitability
  • suitable
  • suitableness
  • suitably
  • suited
  • super
  • super-eminent
  • super-excellent
  • superb
  • superior
  • supply
  • support
  • supportable
  • supportive
  • sure
  • sure-handed
  • sustainable
  • sweet
  • sworn
  • syllogistic
  • sympathetic
  • taking
  • talent
  • talented
  • tangibles
  • tasty
  • taught
  • telegenic
  • telling
  • tempting
  • tenable
  • things
  • thorough
  • thoughtful
  • tidily
  • tidy
  • tiptop
  • titanic
  • tolerable
  • tolerably
  • tolerant
  • tonic
  • toothsome
  • toward
  • tractable
  • trained
  • treasure
  • treasured
  • treasures
  • tremendous
  • tried
  • tried-and-true
  • true
  • true-blue
  • trustable
  • trustworthy
  • trusty
  • tutored
  • unblemished
  • uncontaminated
  • uncorrupted
  • undamaged
  • undecayed
  • unerring
  • unexceptional
  • unfaltering
  • unhesitating
  • unhurt
  • unimpaired
  • unimpeachable
  • unobjectionable
  • unquestionable
  • unselfish
  • unsparing
  • unspoiled
  • untainted
  • unwavering
  • up to snuff
  • upright
  • uprightness
  • upstanding
  • use
  • useful
  • usefulness
  • valid
  • validated
  • valuable
  • valuables
  • value
  • veracious
  • verified
  • versatile
  • versed
  • veteran
  • vigorous
  • virtue
  • virtuoso
  • virtuous
  • voluminous
  • wares
  • warm
  • weal
  • welcome
  • welfare
  • well
  • well-behaved
  • well-being
  • well-disposed
  • well-favored
  • well-founded
  • well-grounded
  • well-mannered
  • well-rounded
  • wellness
  • whole
  • wholeness
  • wholesome
  • wholesomeness
  • whopping
  • willing
  • windfall
  • wonderful
  • workmanlike
  • worshipful
  • worshiping
  • worshipping
  • worth
  • worthwhile
  • worthy
  • zingy

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

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