observing

The word “observing” has 3 syllables: ob-ser-ving

It's pronounced as /əbˈzɜːrvɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for observing?

In the thesaurus, “observing” has 166 synonyms and 82 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for observing

  • abiding by
  • abounding
  • accompanying
  • administration
  • aegis
  • alert
  • allowing
  • articulating
  • attending
  • attentive
  • auspices
  • available
  • aware
  • beholding
  • bird-dogging
  • blessing
  • breathing
  • care
  • catching
  • celebrating
  • charge
  • clear-sighted
  • commemorating
  • commentating
  • commenting
  • conjecturing
  • consecrating
  • considering
  • contemplating
  • control
  • daresaying
  • descrying
  • direction
  • discerning
  • distinguishing
  • eagle-eyed
  • editorializing
  • egis
  • espying
  • examining
  • existent
  • existing
  • expressing
  • extant
  • eyeing
  • eying
  • falling in with
  • feting
  • following
  • gaping
  • gawking
  • gazing
  • generalship
  • getting a load of
  • glancing
  • glaring
  • glimpsing
  • goggling
  • government
  • guardianship
  • guarding
  • guessing
  • guidance
  • hawkeyed
  • headship
  • hearing
  • heeding
  • honoring
  • identifying
  • in
  • inspecting
  • keen
  • keeping
  • keeping to
  • latent
  • lauding
  • laying eyes on
  • leadership
  • live
  • looking
  • looking on
  • lynx-eyed
  • making out
  • management
  • marking
  • memorializing
  • minding
  • monitoring
  • mulling
  • noticing
  • noting
  • obeying
  • observance
  • observant
  • observation
  • opining
  • oversight
  • participating
  • peeking
  • peeping
  • peering
  • penetrating
  • perceiving
  • picking out
  • picking up
  • piloting
  • policing
  • pondering
  • praising
  • present
  • protection
  • reflecting
  • regarding
  • regulation
  • reign
  • remarking
  • remembering
  • respecting
  • rubbernecking
  • rule
  • running
  • sanctifying
  • saying
  • scanning
  • scrutinizing
  • seeing
  • setting eyes on
  • sharp-eyed
  • sharp-sighted
  • shepherding
  • sighted
  • sighting
  • solemnizing
  • speaking
  • speculating
  • spotting
  • spying
  • staring
  • stating
  • steering
  • stewardship
  • studying
  • superintendence
  • superintendency
  • supervision
  • supposing
  • surmising
  • surveillance
  • surveying
  • taking
  • talking
  • telling
  • trusteeship
  • tutelage
  • uttering
  • verbalizing
  • viewing
  • vigilant
  • vocalizing
  • waking
  • warding
  • watchful
  • watching
  • weighing
  • weighing in
  • witnessing

Antonyms for observing

  • AWOL
  • absent
  • astigmatic
  • away
  • belated
  • blind
  • blinking
  • blowing off
  • blunt
  • breaching
  • breaking
  • bucking
  • challenging
  • combating
  • combatting
  • contesting
  • daring
  • dead
  • deceased
  • defunct
  • defying
  • delayed
  • delinquent
  • demised
  • departed
  • deriding
  • directing
  • discounting
  • dismissing
  • disobeying
  • disobliging
  • disputing
  • disregarding
  • dull
  • eyeless
  • fighting
  • flouting
  • forgetting
  • gone
  • idiotic
  • ignoring
  • infringing
  • late
  • leading
  • lost
  • missing
  • mocking
  • myopic
  • nearsighted
  • neglecting
  • nonexistent
  • opposing
  • out
  • overdue
  • overlooking
  • overpassing
  • passing over
  • pooh-poohing
  • poohing
  • purblind
  • refusing
  • renouncing
  • repudiating
  • resisting
  • retired
  • scorning
  • shortsighted
  • shrugging off
  • sightless
  • slighting
  • snubbing
  • stone-blind
  • stupid
  • tardy
  • transgressing
  • truant
  • tuning out
  • vanished
  • violating
  • visionless
  • winking
  • withstanding

Meanings of observing

  • verb
    1. To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.
    2. To follow or obey the custom, practice, or rules (especially of a religion).
    3. To take note of and celebrate (a holiday or similar occurrence).
    4. To comment on something; to make an observation.
  • noun
    1. Observation.

Example Sentences

  • Observing the night sky through a telescope is a favorite pastime for many astronomy enthusiasts.
  • Scientists spend countless hours observing the behavior of animals in their natural habitats.
  • Observing the rituals of a foreign culture can provide valuable insights into its customs and beliefs.
  • The police officer remained vigilant, constantly observing the crowd for any signs of trouble.
  • Students learn best by actively observing and participating in hands-on experiments.

On this page you'll find 248 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to observing, such as: AWOL, abiding by, abounding, absent, accompanying, administration, aegis.

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

Related Words

eagle-eyed

  • X-ray eye
  • alert
  • attentive
  • aware
  • clear-sighted
  • hawk-eyed
  • hawkeyed
  • lynx-eyed
  • observant
  • observing
  • perceptive
  • perspicacious
  • sharp-eyed
  • sharp-sighted
  • sighted
  • vigilant
  • watchful

identifying

  • IDing
  • acceptance
  • acknowledging
  • admission
  • allowance
  • anecdotic
  • apperception
  • appreciation
  • apprehending
  • archetypal
  • archetypical
  • assimilation
  • associating
  • avowal
  • awareness
  • betraying
  • characteristic
  • characterizing
  • checking
  • circumstantial
  • classic
  • classificatory
  • clear
  • cognizance
  • common
  • comparing
  • concession
  • confession
  • connecting
  • consciousness
  • correlating
  • definitive
  • delineative
  • depictive
  • describing
  • designating
  • detailed
  • detection
  • determining
  • diagnosing
  • diagnostic
  • diagnostical
  • disclosing
  • discovering
  • discovery
  • discriminating
  • distinct
  • distinctive
  • distinguishing
  • double take
  • eloquent
  • equating
  • especial
  • examining
  • explicative
  • expository
  • expressive
  • extended
  • finding
  • fingering
  • general
  • generic
  • graphic
  • grouping
  • high sign
  • identifiable
  • idiosyncratic
  • illuminating
  • illuminative
  • illustrative
  • indicative
  • individual
  • inspecting
  • interpretive
  • investigating
  • joining
  • lifelike
  • likening
  • linking
  • locating
  • memory
  • model
  • narrative
  • normal
  • notice
  • noticing
  • observing
  • paradigmatic
  • particular
  • particularized
  • peculiar
  • perceiving
  • perception
  • picking out
  • pictorial
  • picturesque
  • pinpointing
  • placing
  • pronounced
  • proper
  • realization
  • recall
  • recalling
  • recognizance
  • recognizing
  • recollection
  • recurrence
  • regular
  • relating
  • remembering
  • remembrance
  • respect
  • revealing
  • salute
  • scrutinizing
  • sensibility
  • special
  • specific
  • spotting
  • symptomatic
  • true to life
  • tumble
  • typical
  • understanding
  • unmistakable
  • usual
  • verifying
  • vivid

IDing

  • betraying
  • checking
  • determining
  • diagnosing
  • disclosing
  • discovering
  • distinguishing
  • examining
  • finding
  • fingering
  • identifying
  • inspecting
  • investigating
  • locating
  • noticing
  • observing
  • picking out
  • pinpointing
  • placing
  • recognizing
  • revealing
  • scrutinizing
  • spotting

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

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