packing

The word “packing” has 2 syllables: pack-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈpækɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for packing?

In the thesaurus, “packing” has 93 synonyms and 19 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for packing

  • Styrofoam
  • bearing
  • bloating
  • blocking
  • brimming
  • bringing
  • buffer
  • bulking
  • bumper
  • bunging
  • calking
  • carrying
  • carting
  • caulking
  • charging
  • chinking
  • choking
  • clogging
  • clotting
  • congesting
  • conveying
  • cramming
  • crowding
  • crushing
  • cushion
  • damming
  • delivering
  • displaying
  • drenching
  • exhibiting
  • fender
  • ferrying
  • fetching
  • fill
  • filler
  • filling
  • flaunting
  • flooding
  • forwarding
  • glutting
  • handing over
  • hauling
  • heaping
  • honeycombing
  • interlining
  • jam-packing
  • jamming
  • lining
  • loading
  • lugging
  • matting
  • moving
  • obstructing
  • occluding
  • overcharging
  • overfilling
  • overflowing
  • pad
  • padding
  • parading
  • peanuts
  • penetrating
  • plugging
  • pressing
  • quilting
  • ramming
  • refilling
  • refreshing
  • reloading
  • removing
  • repacking
  • replenishing
  • restuffing
  • saturating
  • sealing
  • sending
  • shifting
  • shipping
  • shoving
  • showing
  • showing off
  • sporting
  • squashing
  • squeezing
  • stopping
  • stuffing
  • swamping
  • taking
  • toting
  • transferring
  • transmitting
  • transporting
  • wadding

Antonyms for packing

  • bleeding
  • cleaning
  • clearing
  • depleting
  • draining
  • eliminating
  • emptying
  • evacuating
  • excavating
  • exhausting
  • flushing
  • lightening
  • purging
  • scouring
  • shoveling
  • shovelling
  • sweeping
  • vacating
  • voiding

Meanings of packing

  • verb
    1. (physical) To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
    2. (social) To cheat.
    3. To load with a pack.
    4. To load; to encumber.
    5. To move, send or carry.
    6. To block a shot, especially in basketball.
    7. (of the forwards in a rugby team) To play together cohesively, specially with reference to their technique in the scrum.
    8. (of a drag king, transman, etc.) To wear a prosthetic penis inside one’s trousers for better verisimilitude.
  • noun
    1. The action of the verb.
    2. As a concrete noun.

Example Sentences

  • Before the journey, he focused on packing essentials for the long adventure.
  • The bustling market echoed with the sounds of vendors packing and unpacking goods.
  • Swiftly, she began packing her suitcase for the spontaneous weekend getaway.
  • In the kitchen, the chef was busy packing flavors into the exquisite dish.
  • The moving crew efficiently went about packing fragile items for the relocation.

On this page you'll find 112 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to packing, such as: Styrofoam, bearing, bleeding, bloating, blocking, brimming, bringing.

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

Related Words

damming

  • bar
  • barricade
  • blocking
  • brake
  • bunging
  • calking
  • caulking
  • check
  • chinking
  • choke
  • choking
  • clog
  • clogging
  • close
  • clotting
  • confine
  • congesting
  • corking
  • filling
  • flooding
  • furring
  • glutting
  • gridlocking
  • hinder
  • hold in
  • impede
  • inundating
  • jamming
  • obstruct
  • obstructing
  • occluding
  • overwhelming
  • packing
  • plugging
  • repacking
  • repress
  • restrain
  • restrict
  • restuffing
  • retard
  • sealing
  • silting
  • slow
  • spiling
  • stop up
  • stoppering
  • stopping
  • stoppling
  • stuffing
  • suppress
  • swamping

jamming

  • ad hoc
  • ad lib
  • ad-lib
  • at first glance
  • automatic
  • autoschediastic
  • bloating
  • blocking
  • boring
  • brimming
  • bulking
  • bulldozing
  • bulling
  • bunging
  • by ear
  • casual
  • charging
  • choking
  • clogging
  • clotting
  • congesting
  • corking
  • cramming
  • crashing
  • crowding
  • crushing
  • damming
  • drenching
  • elbowing
  • expedient
  • extemporary
  • extempore
  • fake
  • filling
  • flooding
  • free
  • furring
  • glutting
  • gridlocking
  • heaping
  • honeycombing
  • immediate
  • impromptu
  • improv
  • improvisatory
  • improvised
  • improviso
  • informal
  • inundating
  • jam-packing
  • jostling
  • loading
  • made-up
  • makeshift
  • matting
  • muscling
  • obstructing
  • occluding
  • off the cuff
  • off the top of head
  • offhand
  • on impulse
  • on-the-spot
  • overcharging
  • overfilling
  • overflowing
  • overwhelming
  • packing
  • penetrating
  • pressing
  • pushing
  • ramming
  • refilling
  • refreshing
  • reloading
  • repacking
  • replenishing
  • sandwiching
  • saturating
  • shoehorning
  • shouldering
  • shoving
  • silting
  • snap
  • spiling
  • spontaneous
  • spur-of-the-moment
  • squashing
  • squeezing
  • stoppering
  • stoppling
  • stuffing
  • swamping
  • taking for ride
  • thought out loud
  • thrusting
  • toss off
  • toss out
  • tossed off
  • tossed out
  • unplanned
  • unpremeditated
  • unprepared
  • unrehearsed
  • unstudied
  • wedging
  • winging it

jam-packing

  • bloating
  • brimming
  • bulking
  • charging
  • cramming
  • crowding
  • crushing
  • drenching
  • filling
  • flooding
  • glutting
  • heaping
  • honeycombing
  • jamming
  • loading
  • matting
  • overcharging
  • overfilling
  • overflowing
  • packing
  • penetrating
  • pressing
  • ramming
  • refilling
  • refreshing
  • reloading
  • repacking
  • replenishing
  • saturating
  • shoving
  • squashing
  • squeezing
  • stuffing
  • swamping

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

ladening

  • afflicting
  • burdening
  • clogging
  • cluttering
  • encumbering
  • filling
  • freighting
  • hampering
  • handicapping
  • heaping
  • lading
  • loading
  • lumbering
  • mounding
  • oppressing
  • overburdening
  • overloading
  • overtaxing
  • packing
  • piling
  • pressing
  • saddling
  • stacking
  • straining
  • surcharging
  • taxing
  • weighing
  • weighting

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