pace

The word “pace” has 1 syllable: pace

It's pronounced as /peɪs/


What is synonym and antonym for pace?

In the thesaurus, “pace” has 99 synonyms and 52 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for pace

  • accelerate
  • acceleration
  • actuate
  • advance
  • alacrity
  • ambulate
  • approach
  • beat
  • bounce
  • celerity
  • clip
  • come
  • come along
  • count
  • determine
  • dispatch
  • do
  • downbeat
  • drive
  • expedition
  • expeditiousness
  • fare
  • fast-forward
  • fastness
  • file
  • fleetness
  • foot it
  • footstep
  • forge
  • gain ground
  • gait
  • get along
  • get on
  • getalong
  • go
  • go along
  • go off
  • goose-step
  • haste
  • hastiness
  • hike
  • hoof it
  • hurry
  • hustle
  • impel
  • journey
  • lick
  • lumber
  • march
  • mark out
  • measure
  • momentum
  • motion
  • movement
  • near
  • parade
  • pass
  • patrol
  • perambulate
  • plod
  • pound
  • precipitation
  • precipitousness
  • proceed
  • progress
  • promptitude
  • promptness
  • propel
  • push
  • quickness
  • rapidity
  • rapidness
  • rate
  • repair
  • run
  • rush
  • speed
  • speediness
  • stamp
  • step
  • step off
  • stomp
  • stride
  • swiftness
  • take out
  • tempo
  • time
  • traipse
  • tramp
  • travel
  • tread
  • troop
  • trot
  • trudge
  • velocity
  • walk
  • walk up and down
  • warp speed
  • wend

Antonyms for pace

  • amble
  • arrest
  • balk
  • block
  • cease
  • check
  • cramp
  • delay
  • deliberateness
  • deliberation
  • detain
  • dilatoriness
  • halt
  • hamper
  • hinder
  • hold back
  • impede
  • inhibit
  • interrupt
  • languidness
  • languor
  • lateness
  • leisureliness
  • let up
  • lethargy
  • meander
  • nip
  • obstruct
  • pause
  • pokiness
  • procrastination
  • ramble
  • regress
  • reluctance
  • remain
  • repress
  • retard
  • sit
  • slowness
  • sluggishness
  • stall
  • stand
  • stay
  • stem
  • stop
  • stroll
  • stunt
  • suppress
  • torpidity
  • torpor
  • wait
  • wander

Meanings of pace

  • noun
    1. Step.
    2. Way of stepping.
    3. Speed or velocity in general.
    4. A measure of the hardness of a pitch and of the tendency of a cricket ball to maintain its speed after bouncing.
    5. (collective) A group of donkeys.
    6. Passage, route.
    7. Easter.
  • verb
    1. To walk back and forth in a small distance.
    2. To set the speed in a race.
    3. To measure by walking.
  • adjective
    1. Describing a bowler who bowls fast balls.
  • preposition
    1. With all due respect to.

Example Sentences

  • The runner maintained a steady pace throughout the marathon.
  • Despite the challenges, she continued to work at her own pace.
  • The music quickened, and the dancers matched the lively pace.
  • In the office, everyone worked at a brisk pace to meet the deadline.
  • The professor walked at a deliberate pace during the lecture.

On this page you'll find 151 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to pace, such as: accelerate, acceleration, actuate, advance, alacrity, amble, ambulate.

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

Related Words

abstracted

  • abridged
  • absent
  • absent-minded
  • absentminded
  • absorbed
  • amused
  • befogged
  • befuddled
  • beguiled
  • bemused
  • bewildered
  • birdbrained
  • boiled down
  • briefed
  • called off
  • clueless
  • concentrated
  • condensed
  • confused
  • consolidated
  • curtailed
  • cut back
  • daydreaming
  • dazed
  • decocted
  • detracted
  • digested
  • distracted
  • diverted
  • downsized
  • dreaming
  • dreamy
  • encapsulated
  • engrossed
  • entertained
  • epitomized
  • essentialized
  • faraway
  • flighty
  • foggy
  • forgetful
  • forgetting
  • hazy
  • heedless
  • inattentive
  • insensible
  • intent
  • lost in thought
  • muddled
  • oblivious
  • out in space
  • out to lunch
  • outlined
  • pensive
  • preoccupied
  • rapt
  • recapitulated
  • recapped
  • remote
  • reprised
  • scatterbrained
  • shortened
  • shrank
  • shrunk
  • simplified
  • strayed
  • streamlined
  • summarized
  • summed up
  • synopsized
  • threw off
  • unaware
  • unconscious
  • unfocused
  • unfocussed
  • unheeding
  • unknowing
  • unmindful
  • unperceptive
  • unthinking
  • unwary
  • unwitting
  • vacant
  • wandered
  • withdrawn
  • wrapped up

acceleration

acceptable

  • A-OK
  • OK
  • adequate
  • admissible
  • agreeable
  • all right
  • appropriate
  • average
  • bearable
  • big
  • common
  • cooking with gas
  • cool
  • copacetic
  • correct
  • decent
  • delightful
  • due
  • endurable
  • fair
  • fairish
  • fine
  • fitting
  • good
  • gratifying
  • hep
  • hip
  • hunky-dory
  • in the swim
  • indifferent
  • kosher
  • large
  • mediocre
  • meet
  • middling
  • minimal
  • okay
  • on the ball
  • on the beam
  • ordinary
  • passable
  • peachy keen
  • pleasant
  • pleasing
  • proper
  • respectable
  • right
  • right on
  • run-of-mine
  • run-of-the-mill
  • run-of-the-mine
  • satisfactory
  • satisfying
  • second-rate
  • seemly
  • serviceable
  • so-so
  • standard
  • sufferable
  • sufficient
  • suitable
  • swell
  • tolerable
  • trendy
  • unexceptional
  • unobjectionable
  • up to code
  • up to snuff
  • useful
  • welcome
  • worthy

back of

  • aback
  • abaft
  • aft
  • after
  • afterwards
  • astern
  • at the heels of
  • at the rear of
  • back
  • backward
  • behind
  • below
  • bringing up the rear
  • eating the dust
  • ensuing
  • final
  • following
  • hind
  • hindmost
  • in back of
  • in the background
  • in the rear
  • in the wake
  • in the wake of
  • later
  • later than
  • next
  • off the pace
  • posterior
  • postern
  • postliminary
  • rear
  • rearmost
  • rearward
  • subsequential
  • subsequently
  • succeeding
  • tail
  • thereafter
  • trailing

baffled

  • abashed
  • addled
  • addlepated
  • adhered
  • agape
  • aghast
  • agitated
  • agnostic
  • agog
  • appalled
  • arrested
  • astonished
  • astounded
  • at a loss
  • at sea
  • at sixes and sevens
  • averted
  • awe-struck
  • awed
  • balked
  • bamboozled
  • barred
  • beat
  • befogged
  • befuddled
  • beguiled
  • bemused
  • bested
  • bewildered
  • blocked
  • bollixed
  • bothered
  • bowled over
  • buffaloed
  • caught
  • chagrined
  • checked
  • checkmated
  • circumvented
  • clogged
  • clueless
  • come apart
  • come unzipped
  • confounded
  • confused
  • confusional
  • conquered
  • counteracted
  • cowed
  • cozened
  • crushed
  • dazed
  • dazzled
  • deceived
  • defeated
  • deluded
  • disappointed
  • discombobulated
  • discomfited
  • discomforted
  • discomposed
  • disconcerted
  • discountenanced
  • disheartened
  • dismayed
  • disorganized
  • disoriented
  • disquieted
  • distracted
  • distressed
  • distrustful
  • disturbed
  • dizzy
  • dopey
  • doubtful
  • doubting
  • dubious
  • dumbfounded
  • dumbstruck
  • duped
  • embarrassed
  • encumbered
  • equivocal
  • faithless
  • faltering
  • fazed
  • fettered
  • fixed
  • flabbergasted
  • flipped-out
  • floored
  • flummoxed
  • flustered
  • foggy
  • foiled
  • fooled
  • forestalled
  • fouled-up
  • foxed
  • frozen
  • frustrated
  • fuddled
  • giddy
  • glassy-eyed
  • glued
  • gone
  • got
  • graveled
  • gravelled
  • gulled
  • halted
  • hampered
  • handicapped
  • hard put
  • hard-pressed
  • held back
  • hesitant
  • hesitating
  • hindered
  • hoaxed
  • hobbled
  • hoodwinked
  • humbled
  • humbugged
  • hung up
  • impeded
  • in a dither
  • in a fog
  • in a quandary
  • in clouds
  • in dilemma
  • indecisive
  • inhibited
  • irresolute
  • joined
  • licked
  • like doubting Thomas
  • lost
  • loused up
  • manacled
  • mastered
  • mazed
  • messed-up
  • mind-blown
  • mired
  • misguided
  • misled
  • mixed up
  • mortified
  • mucked up
  • muddied
  • muddled
  • mystified
  • negated
  • neutralized
  • nonplused
  • nonplussed
  • not following
  • not with it
  • nullified
  • obstructed
  • obviated
  • of two minds
  • offset
  • out to lunch
  • overcame
  • overcome
  • overpowered
  • overthrown
  • overwhelmed
  • perplexed
  • perturbed
  • posed
  • precluded
  • prevented
  • punch-drunk
  • punchy
  • put out
  • put to it
  • puzzled
  • questioning
  • rattled
  • reeling
  • routed
  • ruined
  • saddled
  • screwed-up
  • screwy
  • set back
  • shackled
  • shocked
  • shook
  • shook-up
  • short-circuited
  • shot to pieces
  • skeptical
  • slap-happy
  • slaphappy
  • snowed
  • spaced out
  • speechless
  • staggered
  • stalled
  • startled
  • stopped
  • strung along
  • stuck
  • stumped
  • stunned
  • stupefied
  • stymied
  • subjugated
  • surmounted
  • surprised
  • suspicious
  • taken aback
  • tentative
  • theoretical
  • thrown
  • thrown off balance
  • thunderstruck
  • thwarted
  • tied up
  • took in
  • trammeled
  • trammelled
  • tricked
  • troubled
  • trounced
  • turbid
  • uncertain
  • unconvinced
  • undecided
  • undone
  • unglued
  • unhinged
  • unresolved
  • unscrewed
  • unsettled
  • unsure
  • unzipped
  • upset
  • vacillating
  • vanquished
  • vexed
  • vext
  • wavering
  • weirded out
  • without a clue
  • without belief
  • woolly
  • worsted

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