negativing

The word “negativing” has 4 syllables: neg-a-tiv-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈnɛɡəˌtaɪvɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for negativing?

In the thesaurus, “negativing” has 101 synonyms and 62 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for negativing

  • abjuring
  • annulling
  • avoiding
  • backing down
  • backing off
  • backtracking
  • banning
  • blackballing
  • blacklisting
  • blowing off
  • bypassing
  • challenging
  • checking
  • confuting
  • constraining
  • contradicting
  • controverting
  • correcting
  • counteracting
  • counterbalancing
  • counterpoising
  • curbing
  • declining
  • denying
  • deselecting
  • detouring
  • disaffirming
  • disallowing
  • disapproving
  • disavowing
  • disclaiming
  • disconfirming
  • disdaining
  • dismissing
  • disowning
  • disproving
  • disputing
  • downing
  • enjoining
  • forbearing
  • forbidding
  • foreswearing
  • forswearing
  • gainsaying
  • hindering
  • holding
  • ignoring
  • impeding
  • invalidating
  • keeping
  • killing
  • negating
  • neutering
  • neutralizing
  • nixing
  • nullifying
  • obstructing
  • offsetting
  • outbalancing
  • outweighing
  • overriding
  • overruling
  • passing
  • passing up
  • prohibiting
  • proscribing
  • rebuffing
  • rebutting
  • recalling
  • recanting
  • redeeming
  • redressing
  • refusing
  • refuting
  • rejecting
  • relieving
  • remedying
  • reneging
  • renouncing
  • repelling
  • repressing
  • reprobating
  • repudiating
  • restraining
  • restricting
  • retracting
  • revoking
  • scorning
  • scouting
  • shooting down
  • spurning
  • sticking
  • taking back
  • throwing out
  • throwing over
  • traversing
  • turning down
  • unsaying
  • vetoing
  • withdrawing
  • withholding

Antonyms for negativing

Meanings of negativing

  • verb
    1. To refuse; to veto.
    2. To contradict.
    3. To disprove.
    4. To make ineffective; to neutralize.

Example Sentences

  • The lawyer focused on negativing the claims made by the opposing party.
  • Her approach to negativing the criticism helped to clarify her position.
  • The team spent considerable time negativing the assumptions in the initial proposal.
  • His strategy involved negativing any doubts about the project’s feasibility.
  • By negativing the false information, she restored the team's confidence in the plan.

On this page you'll find 163 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to negativing, such as: abjuring, acceding, accepting, according, acknowledging, acquiescing, admitting.

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

Related Words

vetoing

  • blackballing
  • blacklisting
  • declining
  • disallowing
  • disapproving
  • dismissing
  • downing
  • killing
  • negativing
  • nixing
  • refusing
  • shooting down

offsetting

  • aid
  • amendment
  • amends
  • annulling
  • assistance
  • atonement
  • balancing
  • change
  • conciliation
  • correcting
  • correction
  • counteracting
  • counterbalancing
  • counterpoising
  • cure
  • ease
  • indemnity
  • invalidating
  • justice
  • negating
  • negativing
  • neutering
  • neutralizing
  • nullifying
  • outbalancing
  • outweighing
  • overriding
  • overruling
  • payment
  • quittance
  • recompense
  • rectification
  • redeeming
  • redressing
  • reestablishment
  • reformation
  • rehabilitation
  • relief
  • relieving
  • remedy
  • remedying
  • remission
  • remodeling
  • remunerative
  • renewal
  • repair
  • reparation
  • reprisal
  • requital
  • restitution
  • retribution
  • return
  • revision
  • reward
  • reworking
  • satisfaction
  • vengeance

neutralizing

  • abrogating
  • acrid
  • adverse
  • against
  • alkalescent
  • alkali
  • annihilating
  • annulling
  • antacid
  • antagonistic
  • anti
  • arms limitation
  • arms reduction
  • assassinating
  • baffling
  • balking
  • balky
  • bitter
  • blocking
  • blotting out
  • blowing away
  • bumping off
  • butchering
  • carrying off
  • caulking
  • caustic
  • claiming
  • colorless
  • con
  • conquest
  • contrary
  • contravening
  • cording
  • correcting
  • counteracting
  • counteractive
  • counterbalancing
  • counterpoising
  • covering
  • crippling
  • croaking
  • cushioning
  • cutting down
  • cynical
  • de-escalation
  • defending
  • demilitarization
  • demobilization
  • denying
  • destroying
  • deterrent
  • deterring
  • detrimental
  • disablement
  • disallowing
  • disavowing
  • dispatching
  • disqualification
  • dissentient
  • dissenting
  • doing away with
  • doing in
  • eliminating
  • eradicating
  • executing
  • exterminating
  • felling
  • foiling
  • freeze
  • frustrating
  • furring
  • gainsaying
  • getting
  • gloomy
  • hampering
  • hindering
  • icing
  • impeding
  • impugning
  • invalidating
  • isolating
  • jaundiced
  • killing
  • knocking off
  • lining
  • liquidating
  • massacring
  • murdering
  • naysaying
  • negating
  • negativing
  • neutering
  • nugatory
  • nullifying
  • occupation
  • offing
  • offsetting
  • opposing
  • outbalancing
  • outweighing
  • overriding
  • overruling
  • pacification
  • packing
  • padding
  • paralyzing
  • pessimistic
  • precautionary
  • preventative
  • preventive
  • privative
  • prophylactic
  • protecting
  • putting away
  • recusant
  • redeeming
  • redressing
  • refusing
  • rejecting
  • relieving
  • remedying
  • removed
  • rendering powerless
  • repugnant
  • resisting
  • resistive
  • retardant
  • rubbing out
  • salty
  • shooting
  • shooting down
  • slaughtering
  • slaying
  • smiting
  • snuffing
  • soluble
  • stalling
  • subjugation
  • surrounding
  • taking out
  • taping
  • terminating
  • thwarting
  • unaffirmative
  • unenthusiastic
  • unfavorable
  • uninterested
  • unwilling
  • weak
  • whacking
  • wiping out
  • zapping

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

killing

  • abbreviating
  • alluring
  • amusing
  • annihilating
  • annihilation
  • antic
  • arduous
  • arresting
  • assassinating
  • assassination
  • beckoning
  • beguiling
  • bewitching
  • blackballing
  • blacking out
  • blacklisting
  • bleeping
  • blipping
  • blithesome
  • bloodbath
  • bloodletting
  • bloodshed
  • blotting out
  • blue-penciling
  • bottom line
  • bowdlerizing
  • braking
  • breaking
  • bump off
  • bumping off
  • burdensome
  • burning out
  • busting
  • butchering
  • butchery
  • campy
  • canceling
  • cancelling
  • capital punishment
  • captivating
  • carnage
  • carrying off
  • censoring
  • challenging
  • charming
  • chocking
  • chucklesome
  • claiming
  • cleanup
  • clipping
  • clownish
  • comedic
  • comic
  • comical
  • compensation
  • courting
  • croaking
  • cropping
  • cutting
  • cutting down
  • cutting off
  • deactivating
  • death
  • debilitating
  • decimating
  • decimation
  • declining
  • deleing
  • deleting
  • delighting
  • demanding
  • demolishing
  • destroying
  • destruction
  • devastation
  • difficult
  • disallowing
  • disapproving
  • disarming
  • dismantling
  • dismissing
  • dispatching
  • diverting
  • doing away with
  • doing for
  • doing in
  • doing up
  • downing
  • draining
  • drawing
  • drawing up
  • droll
  • earnings
  • effacing
  • eliding
  • emolument
  • enchanting
  • enervating
  • enfeebling
  • enrapturing
  • entertaining
  • enthralling
  • enticing
  • entrancing
  • eradicating
  • eradication
  • erasing
  • euthanatizing
  • euthanizing
  • exacting
  • excising
  • executing
  • execution
  • exhausting
  • expunging
  • expurgating
  • extermination
  • facetious
  • fagging
  • farcical
  • fascinating
  • fatiguing
  • felling
  • finishing
  • flip
  • flippant
  • formidable
  • foul play
  • frazzling
  • funny
  • gain
  • genocide
  • getting
  • gleeful
  • gratifying
  • gross
  • grueling
  • gruelling
  • halting
  • harassing
  • hard
  • herculean
  • hilarious
  • holocaust
  • homicide
  • humoristic
  • humorous
  • hysteric
  • hysterical
  • icing
  • income
  • interest
  • interesting
  • intriguing
  • inviting
  • jamming
  • jocose
  • jocular
  • jocund
  • jokey
  • joky
  • jolly
  • jovial
  • killing off
  • knockabout
  • knocking off
  • knocking out
  • laborious
  • laughable
  • laughing
  • laundering
  • lucre
  • ludicrous
  • luring
  • mad
  • magnetizing
  • making away with
  • manslaughter
  • martyring
  • massacre
  • massacring
  • merry
  • mirthful
  • mortality
  • mothballing
  • mowing
  • murder
  • murdering
  • negativing
  • net
  • neutralizing
  • nixing
  • obliterating
  • offing
  • onerous
  • oppressive
  • outwearing
  • pay
  • payment
  • payoff
  • persnickety
  • pert
  • phasing out
  • playful
  • pleasing
  • pogrom
  • priceless
  • proceeds
  • profit
  • pulling
  • putting away
  • putting down
  • red-penciling
  • redacting
  • refusing
  • remittal
  • removing
  • repressing
  • requital
  • revenue
  • rich
  • ridiculous
  • rigid
  • rigorous
  • riotous
  • risible
  • rough
  • rubbing out
  • rugged
  • salary
  • sales
  • sapping
  • scragging
  • screaming
  • seducing
  • severe
  • shooting down
  • shortening
  • shutting off
  • sidesplitting
  • silencing
  • slapstick
  • slapsticky
  • slaughter
  • slaughtering
  • slaying
  • smart
  • smart-aleck
  • smart-alecky
  • smiting
  • snickery
  • snuffing
  • soliciting
  • stalling
  • stern
  • sticking
  • stiff
  • strenuous
  • strict
  • stringent
  • suiciding
  • suppressing
  • taking
  • taking out
  • taxing
  • tempting
  • terminating
  • testing
  • tiring
  • toilsome
  • tough
  • trying
  • turning off
  • uproarious
  • vetoing
  • wages
  • waggish
  • washing out
  • wasting
  • weakening
  • wearing
  • wearing out
  • wearing to a frazzle
  • wearying
  • whacking
  • whimsical
  • wiling
  • windfall
  • wiping out
  • witching
  • witty
  • wooing
  • wry
  • yield
  • zany

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