pairing

The word “pairing” has 2 syllables: pair-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈpɛrɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for pairing?

In the thesaurus, “pairing” has 102 synonyms and 25 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for pairing

  • accommodating
  • adapting
  • affiliation
  • aligning
  • alining
  • alliance
  • amalgamating
  • arranging
  • arraying
  • associating
  • attaching
  • attuning
  • balancing
  • blend
  • blending
  • bond
  • bridging
  • bringing together
  • catch
  • codifying
  • combination
  • combining
  • conciliating
  • concomitance
  • concordance
  • conforming
  • connecting
  • connection
  • connective
  • connotation
  • consolidating
  • coordinating
  • copulating
  • copulation
  • correlating
  • correlation
  • coupler
  • coupling
  • dovetailing
  • duet
  • equalizing
  • espousal
  • evening
  • fastening
  • fitting
  • fusing
  • harmonizing
  • identification
  • impression
  • integrating
  • intercourse
  • interlacing
  • intertwining
  • joined
  • joining
  • joint
  • juxtaposition
  • keying
  • link
  • linkage
  • linking
  • lumping together
  • marriage
  • marshaling
  • marshalling
  • matching
  • mating
  • merging
  • methodizing
  • mingling
  • mixing
  • mixture
  • orchestrating
  • ordering
  • organizing
  • pair
  • partnership
  • proportioning
  • recollection
  • reconciling
  • regularizing
  • relating
  • relation
  • remembrance
  • seam
  • sex
  • squaring
  • standardizing
  • suiting
  • synchronizing
  • synthesizing
  • systematizing
  • systemizing
  • tie
  • train of thought
  • tuning
  • tying together
  • unifying
  • union
  • uniting
  • welding
  • yoke

Antonyms for pairing

  • aloneness
  • antagonism
  • clash
  • confusing
  • difference
  • disarraying
  • disassociation
  • disharmonizing
  • disordering
  • disorganizing
  • disrupting
  • disturbing
  • disunion
  • division
  • divorce
  • imbalance
  • isolation
  • mismatch
  • opposition
  • rivalry
  • seclusion
  • separation
  • skewing
  • solitude
  • upsetting

Meanings of pairing

  • verb
    1. To group into one or more sets of two.
    2. To bring two (animals, notably dogs) together for mating.
    3. To engage (oneself) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions.
    4. To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.
    5. To impair, to make worse.
    6. To become worse, to deteriorate.
  • noun
    1. The combination or union of two things.
    2. An agreement between two members of a legislative body holding opposite opinions to refrain from voting, so that both may absent themselves.

Example Sentences

  • The pairing of wine and cheese is a classic culinary combination.
  • The art exhibit showcased an interesting pairing of paintings and sculptures.
  • The chef's creative pairing of flavors resulted in a unique and delicious dish.
  • In the dance class, students practiced their pairing with different partners.
  • The sommelier recommended the perfect pairing of wine to complement the main course.

On this page you'll find 127 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to pairing, such as: accommodating, adapting, affiliation, aligning, alining, alliance, aloneness.

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

Related Words

keying

  • accommodating
  • adapting
  • aligning
  • alining
  • arranging
  • arraying
  • attuning
  • balancing
  • blending
  • combining
  • conciliating
  • conforming
  • connecting
  • coordinating
  • correlating
  • dovetailing
  • equalizing
  • evening
  • fitting
  • fusing
  • harmonizing
  • integrating
  • joining
  • matching
  • merging
  • orchestrating
  • ordering
  • pairing
  • proportioning
  • reconciling
  • regularizing
  • squaring
  • standardizing
  • suiting
  • synchronizing
  • synthesizing
  • tuning
  • unifying
  • uniting

joining

  • abutment
  • abutting
  • accumulating
  • accumulation
  • adjacent
  • adjoining
  • adjustment
  • admixture
  • affiliating
  • affiliation
  • aggregating
  • agreeing
  • agreement
  • alliance
  • allying
  • amalgam
  • amalgamation
  • ambient
  • annexation
  • anthology
  • apposition
  • approximal
  • approximate
  • articulating
  • articulation
  • assemblage
  • assembling
  • assembly
  • assistance
  • associating
  • association
  • assortment
  • attached
  • attachment
  • band
  • banding together
  • blend
  • body
  • bond
  • bordering
  • bordering on
  • bounding
  • brotherhood
  • building
  • bunch
  • business
  • cahoots
  • cartel
  • catenating
  • cementing
  • chaining
  • channel
  • chumminess
  • circumjacent
  • clan
  • clique
  • close
  • closest
  • club
  • clustering
  • coacting
  • coactive
  • coadjuvant
  • coalescent
  • coalescing
  • coalition
  • coefficient
  • coherence
  • collaborating
  • collaborative
  • collecting
  • collection
  • collective
  • collegial
  • collocating
  • collocation
  • collusive
  • combination
  • combine
  • combined
  • combining
  • coming together
  • commixture
  • common
  • communicating
  • community
  • companionship
  • company
  • compiling
  • compounding
  • concatenating
  • concatenation
  • concerted
  • concerting
  • concomitance
  • concordance
  • concourse
  • concurrent
  • concurring
  • concursion
  • confederating
  • confederation
  • confluence
  • conglomerate
  • congregating
  • conjoining
  • conjointment
  • conjugating
  • conjugation
  • conjunction
  • connected
  • connecting
  • connection
  • connective
  • conniving
  • connotation
  • consociation
  • consolidating
  • consolidation
  • conspiring
  • constellating
  • constituent
  • construction
  • contact
  • contacting
  • conterminous
  • contiguous
  • convening
  • convergence
  • convergent
  • converging
  • cooperating
  • cooperation
  • cooperative
  • coordinated
  • copula
  • cording
  • corporation
  • correlation
  • coterie
  • coterminous
  • coupler
  • coupling
  • crew
  • crossing
  • crossroads
  • crowd
  • crush
  • division
  • dovetail
  • dovetailing
  • elbow
  • element
  • embracing
  • encircling
  • enclosing
  • encompassing
  • ending at
  • entering
  • erection
  • fabrication
  • faction
  • fastening
  • fencing
  • firm
  • fitting together
  • flanking
  • flowing
  • flush
  • fraternity
  • friendship
  • fringing
  • fusing
  • fusion
  • gang
  • garner
  • garnering
  • gathering
  • getting in
  • going up to
  • gore
  • hand in glove
  • hanging together
  • harmonious
  • help
  • hinge
  • hitch
  • hitching
  • hooking
  • hookup
  • house
  • identification
  • immediate
  • impinging
  • impression
  • in
  • in league
  • inclosing
  • incorporating
  • incorporation
  • integrating
  • interconnecting
  • interconnection
  • interdependent
  • interest
  • interface
  • interfacing
  • interfusing
  • interlinking
  • interlocking
  • intermeshing
  • intermixture
  • intersection
  • join
  • joined
  • joint
  • jointure
  • junction
  • juncture
  • juxtaposed
  • juxtaposition
  • knee
  • knot
  • league
  • leaguing
  • ligament
  • ligation
  • ligature
  • lining
  • link
  • linkage
  • linked
  • linking
  • lodge
  • loop
  • lumping together
  • making common cause
  • manufacture
  • manufacturing
  • marginal
  • margining
  • marrying
  • mating
  • meeting
  • member
  • merger
  • merging
  • mingling
  • miter
  • mix
  • mixing
  • mixture
  • mob
  • modeling
  • molding
  • mortise
  • multitude
  • near
  • nearby
  • nearest
  • neighboring
  • network
  • next door
  • next-door
  • nexus
  • nigh
  • node
  • organization
  • outfit
  • ownership
  • pairing
  • part
  • participating
  • partnership
  • party
  • peripheral
  • piece
  • piecing together
  • pivot
  • playing ball
  • plug-in
  • pulling together
  • re-enlisting
  • re-enrolling
  • re-upping
  • reciprocal
  • recollection
  • recombining
  • reconnecting
  • reenlisting
  • reenrolling
  • reentering
  • rejoining
  • relation
  • relationship
  • remembrance
  • reunifying
  • reunion
  • reuniting
  • rimming
  • ring
  • rout
  • seam
  • section
  • setting up
  • shaping
  • shared
  • sharing
  • sisterhood
  • skirting
  • society
  • sorority
  • spanning
  • splice
  • splicing
  • spreading to
  • stretching
  • stringing
  • surrounding
  • suture
  • symbiotic
  • syndicate
  • synergetic
  • synergic
  • synergistic
  • tangency
  • tangent
  • tangential
  • team
  • terminal
  • throng
  • tie
  • tie up
  • tie-in
  • togetherness
  • touch
  • touching
  • train of thought
  • treasury
  • unification
  • unifying
  • union
  • united
  • uniting
  • verging
  • vinculum
  • weld
  • welding
  • wiring
  • yoke
  • yoking

accommodating

  • abetting
  • acclimating
  • acclimatizing
  • accommodative
  • accustoming
  • acquainting
  • adapting
  • adjusting
  • agreeable
  • aiding
  • aligning
  • alining
  • altering
  • amenable
  • appeasing
  • arranging
  • arraying
  • assisting
  • attending
  • attuning
  • balancing
  • barracking
  • bending
  • bestowing
  • billeting
  • bivouacking
  • blending
  • boarding
  • bunking
  • camping
  • carrying
  • chambering
  • coddling
  • combining
  • comforting
  • complaisant
  • conciliating
  • conditioning
  • conforming
  • connecting
  • considerate
  • containing
  • converting
  • cooperative
  • coordinating
  • correcting
  • correlating
  • customizing
  • delighting
  • doctoring
  • domiciling
  • dovetailing
  • editing
  • encamping
  • enclosing
  • encompassing
  • enfolding
  • ensconcing
  • equalizing
  • equipping
  • establishing
  • evening
  • familiarizing
  • fashioning
  • favoring
  • fine-tuning
  • fitting
  • friendly
  • fusing
  • gearing
  • generous
  • gladdening
  • gracious
  • gratifying
  • habilitating
  • habituating
  • handy
  • harboring
  • hardening
  • harmonizing
  • helpful
  • helping
  • holding
  • homing
  • hospitable
  • housing
  • humoring
  • inclosing
  • indulgent
  • indulging
  • integrating
  • inuring
  • joining
  • keying
  • kind
  • lenient
  • lodging
  • making over
  • matching
  • merging
  • modeling
  • modelling
  • modifying
  • mollifying
  • mollycoddling
  • naturalizing
  • neighborly
  • obliging
  • on deck
  • on tap
  • orchestrating
  • ordering
  • orientating
  • orienting
  • overindulgent
  • pacifying
  • pairing
  • pampering
  • patterning
  • permissive
  • phasing
  • placating
  • pleasing
  • polite
  • preparing
  • priming
  • proportioning
  • putting
  • putting up
  • quartering
  • readapting
  • readjusting
  • readying
  • recasting
  • reclaiming
  • reconciling
  • recycling
  • redesigning
  • redeveloping
  • redoing
  • reengineering
  • refashioning
  • refiguring
  • refitting
  • refocusing
  • registering
  • regularizing
  • regulating
  • rehearsing
  • reinventing
  • rejiggering
  • relieving
  • remaking
  • remodeling
  • revamping
  • revising
  • reworking
  • rigging
  • roofing
  • rooming
  • roosting
  • rooting
  • satisfying
  • seasoning
  • seating
  • securing
  • settling
  • shaping
  • shedding
  • sheltering
  • solicitous
  • squaring
  • stabling
  • standardizing
  • succoring
  • suiting
  • supporting
  • synchronizing
  • synthesizing
  • tailoring
  • taking
  • taking in
  • tenting
  • thoughtful
  • toughening
  • training
  • transforming
  • tuning
  • unifying
  • uniting
  • unselfish
  • user friendly

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