negating

The word “negating” has 3 syllables: ne-ga-ting

It's pronounced as /nɪˈɡeɪtɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for negating?

In the thesaurus, “negating” has 125 synonyms and 76 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for negating

  • abating
  • abolishing
  • aborting
  • abrogating
  • adverse
  • against
  • agin
  • annihilating
  • annulling
  • anti
  • antipodal
  • antipodean
  • antithetic
  • antithetical
  • avoiding
  • baffling
  • balking
  • banning
  • blocking
  • breaking down
  • calling
  • calling off
  • canceling
  • cancelling
  • challenging
  • con
  • conflicting
  • confuting
  • contradicting
  • contrary
  • converse
  • counter
  • counteractive
  • countermanding
  • debunking
  • denying
  • deriding
  • deterrent
  • deterring
  • diametric
  • disaffirming
  • disallowing
  • disannulling
  • disavowing
  • disbelieving
  • disclaiming
  • disconfirming
  • discrediting
  • discrepant
  • dismissing
  • disowning
  • disproving
  • disputing
  • dissolving
  • distrusting
  • doing away with
  • doubting
  • dropping
  • eliminating
  • enjoining
  • eradicating
  • erasing
  • foiling
  • forbidding
  • frustrating
  • gainsaying
  • hampering
  • hindering
  • impeding
  • incompatible
  • incongruous
  • inconsistent
  • invalidating
  • irreconcilable
  • liquidating
  • mistrusting
  • negativing
  • neutralizing
  • nullifying
  • nulling
  • opposing
  • opposite
  • ornery
  • outlawing
  • overriding
  • overruling
  • overturning
  • paradoxical
  • polar
  • pooh-poohing
  • poohing
  • precautionary
  • preventative
  • preventive
  • prohibiting
  • prophylactic
  • quashing
  • rebutting
  • recalling
  • refuting
  • rejecting
  • removing
  • repealing
  • repudiating
  • repugnant
  • rescinding
  • retardant
  • retracting
  • reverse
  • reversing
  • revoking
  • rolling back
  • setting aside
  • stalling
  • striking down
  • suspecting
  • suspending
  • throwing out
  • thwarting
  • traversing
  • vacating
  • vetoing
  • voiding
  • withdrawing
  • writing off

Antonyms for negating

  • abetting
  • accepting
  • acknowledging
  • admitting
  • adopting
  • affirming
  • agreeing
  • aiding
  • allowing
  • announcing
  • approving
  • asserting
  • assisting
  • authenticating
  • authorizing
  • averring
  • avowing
  • believing
  • claiming
  • clearing
  • commanding
  • conceding
  • confirming
  • consistent
  • consonant
  • corroborating
  • crediting
  • declaring
  • decreeing
  • easing
  • embracing
  • enacting
  • encouraging
  • endorsing
  • equal
  • espousing
  • establishing
  • facilitating
  • formalizing
  • forwarding
  • fostering
  • founding
  • furthering
  • harmonious
  • indorsing
  • instituting
  • laying down
  • legalizing
  • legislating
  • legitimating
  • legitimizing
  • maintaining
  • mandating
  • nurturing
  • ordering
  • owning
  • passing
  • permitting
  • prescribing
  • professing
  • promoting
  • ratifying
  • reconcilable
  • reconciled
  • same
  • sanctioning
  • similar
  • smoothing
  • submitting
  • substantiating
  • swallowing
  • trusting
  • validating
  • verifying
  • vouching
  • warranting

Meanings of negating

  • verb
    1. To deny the existence, evidence, or truth of; to contradict.
    2. To nullify or cause to be ineffective.
    3. To be negative; bring or cause negative results.
    4. To perform the NOT operation on.

Example Sentences

  • The new evidence presented during the trial is crucial for negating the defendant's alibi.
  • His constant criticism is negating the positive effects of the team's hard work.
  • By negating the previous findings, the researchers opened up new avenues for exploration.
  • The team's strategy is focused on negating any advantages the opponents might have.
  • Negating the contract will require both parties to come to an agreement.

On this page you'll find 201 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to negating, such as: abating, abetting, abolishing, aborting, abrogating, accepting, acknowledging.

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Related Words

abating

  • abbreviating
  • abolishing
  • aborting
  • abridging
  • abrogating
  • allaying
  • alleviating
  • analeptic
  • annihilating
  • annulling
  • assuaging
  • avoiding
  • bankrupting
  • banning
  • bereaving
  • breaking down
  • calling
  • calling off
  • canceling
  • cancelling
  • ceasing
  • cheating
  • clipping
  • closing
  • collapsing
  • compressing
  • concluding
  • condensing
  • consolatory
  • consoling
  • constricting
  • contracting
  • countermanding
  • cropping
  • crumbling
  • curing
  • curtailing
  • cutting
  • cutting back
  • cutting down
  • de-escalating
  • declinatory
  • declining
  • decreasing
  • decrescent
  • deducting
  • deflating
  • defrauding
  • denting
  • denuding
  • depleting
  • depreciating
  • depriving
  • descending
  • desisting
  • diminishing
  • disallowing
  • disannulling
  • discontinuing
  • discounting
  • disfurnishing
  • dismissing
  • dissolving
  • divesting
  • docking
  • doing away with
  • downscaling
  • downsizing
  • dropping
  • dwindling
  • dying
  • dying down
  • easing
  • ebbing
  • eliminating
  • encouraging
  • ending
  • enjoining
  • eradicating
  • erasing
  • evaporating
  • expiring
  • fading away
  • falling
  • falling away
  • finishing
  • flagging
  • forbidding
  • freeing
  • giving out
  • health-giving
  • heart-warming
  • impoverishing
  • inspiriting
  • invalidating
  • invigorating
  • knocking down
  • knocking off
  • lapsing
  • leaving off
  • lessening
  • letting up
  • lightening
  • liquidating
  • losing momentum
  • lowering
  • minimizing
  • mitigating
  • moderating
  • modifying
  • modulating
  • narrowing
  • negating
  • nicking
  • nullifying
  • nulling
  • outlawing
  • overriding
  • overruling
  • overturning
  • palling
  • paring
  • passing
  • phasing down
  • plummeting
  • plunging
  • prohibiting
  • pruning
  • qualifying
  • quashing
  • quieting
  • quitting
  • reassuring
  • recalling
  • receding
  • reducing
  • refreshing
  • rejecting
  • relaxing
  • relenting
  • relieving
  • remedying
  • remitting
  • removing
  • repealing
  • rescinding
  • restoring
  • retracting
  • retrenching
  • reversing
  • revitalizing
  • revivifying
  • revoking
  • rolling back
  • sagging
  • setting aside
  • settling
  • shortchanging
  • shortening
  • shrinking
  • shriveling up
  • sinking
  • slackening
  • slashing
  • sliding
  • slipping
  • slowing
  • slumping
  • softening
  • solacing
  • soothing
  • stopping
  • striking down
  • stripping
  • subsiding
  • subtracting
  • succoring
  • suspending
  • sustaining
  • taking off
  • tapering
  • tapering off
  • terminating
  • throwing out
  • toppling
  • tottering
  • tranquilizing
  • trimming
  • truncating
  • tumbling
  • upholding
  • vacating
  • vanishing
  • vetoing
  • voiding
  • waning
  • warming
  • wasting
  • weakening
  • wearing down
  • wearing off
  • whittling
  • winding up
  • withdrawing
  • writing off

abdicating

abjuring

  • abandoning
  • abnegating
  • avoiding
  • backing down
  • backing off
  • backtracking
  • bolting
  • bucking
  • checking
  • combating
  • combatting
  • constraining
  • contradicting
  • controverting
  • curbing
  • denying
  • disallowing
  • disavowing
  • disclaiming
  • disowning
  • disproving
  • disputing
  • eschewing
  • fighting
  • forbearing
  • foregoing
  • foreswearing
  • forgoing
  • forsaking
  • forswearing
  • gainsaying
  • giving up
  • inhibiting
  • negating
  • negativing
  • rebutting
  • recalling
  • recanting
  • refusing
  • refuting
  • rejecting
  • relinquishing
  • reneging
  • renouncing
  • repealing
  • repudiating
  • retracting
  • revoking
  • shunning
  • spurning
  • surrendering
  • taking back
  • unsaying
  • withdrawing

abnegating

abolishing

  • abandoning
  • abandonment
  • abating
  • abolition
  • aborting
  • abrogating
  • abrogation
  • annihilating
  • annihilation
  • annulling
  • annulment
  • assassinating
  • atomizing
  • avoiding
  • bane
  • banning
  • blacking out
  • blasting
  • blotting out
  • blowing up
  • breaking down
  • calling
  • calling off
  • canceling
  • cancelling
  • carnage
  • consuming
  • countermanding
  • crashing
  • crushing
  • cutting
  • dashing
  • decimating
  • deletion
  • demolishing
  • destroying
  • devastating
  • devastation
  • devouring
  • disallowing
  • disannulling
  • discarding
  • disintegrating
  • dismantling
  • dismissing
  • disrupting
  • dissolution
  • dissolving
  • ditching
  • doing away with
  • dooming
  • downfall
  • dropping
  • dynamiting
  • effacing
  • ejecting
  • eliminating
  • elimination
  • end
  • enjoining
  • eradicating
  • eradication
  • erasing
  • excising
  • expelling
  • expunging
  • exterminating
  • extermination
  • extinction
  • extinguishing
  • extinguishment
  • extirpating
  • extirpation
  • finishing
  • flattening
  • forbidding
  • fragmenting
  • havoc
  • invalidating
  • invalidation
  • jettisoning
  • killing
  • killing off
  • liquidating
  • liquidation
  • loss
  • massacre
  • murder
  • negating
  • nullification
  • nullifying
  • nulling
  • obliterating
  • obliteration
  • ousting
  • outlawing
  • overriding
  • overruling
  • overthrow
  • overturning
  • powdering
  • prohibiting
  • pulverizing
  • quashing
  • ravaging
  • razing
  • recall
  • recalling
  • rejecting
  • removing
  • repeal
  • repealing
  • repudiation
  • rescinding
  • retirement
  • retracting
  • retraction
  • reversal
  • reversing
  • revocation
  • revoking
  • rolling back
  • rubbing out
  • ruin
  • ruination
  • ruining
  • sacking
  • setting aside
  • shattering
  • slaughter
  • slaying
  • smashing
  • splintering
  • striking down
  • subjugation
  • subversion
  • subverting
  • suspending
  • tearing down
  • terminating
  • throwing out
  • totaling
  • totalling
  • undoing
  • vacating
  • vetoing
  • voiding
  • wasting
  • wiping out
  • withdrawing
  • wrack
  • wreck
  • wreckage
  • wrecking
  • writing off
  • zapping

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