palling

The word “palling” has 2 syllables: pal-ling

It's pronounced as /ˈpælɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for palling?

In the thesaurus, “palling” has 114 synonyms and 86 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for palling

  • abating
  • alleviating
  • arid
  • aseptic
  • barren
  • blah
  • blank
  • boring
  • collapsing
  • colorless
  • common
  • commonplace
  • compressing
  • condensing
  • constricting
  • contracting
  • cumbersome
  • de-escalating
  • declining
  • decreasing
  • deflating
  • diminishing
  • drab
  • dreary
  • drudging
  • dry
  • dull
  • dullish
  • dusty
  • dwindling
  • earthbound
  • easing
  • ebbing
  • evaporating
  • falling
  • falling away
  • flagging
  • flat
  • giving out
  • gray
  • grey
  • heavy
  • ho-hum
  • humdrum
  • inanimate
  • jading
  • jejune
  • leaden
  • lessening
  • letting up
  • longsome
  • lowering
  • lumbering
  • mind-numbing
  • moderating
  • monochromatic
  • monotonous
  • numbing
  • old
  • ordinary
  • pallid
  • pedantic
  • pedestrian
  • phasing down
  • pleasureless
  • plodding
  • pokey
  • poky
  • ponderous
  • prosaic
  • prosy
  • receding
  • relaxing
  • relenting
  • remitting
  • shrinking
  • sinking
  • slackening
  • slow
  • soggy
  • spiritless
  • stale
  • sterile
  • stodgy
  • stuffy
  • stupid
  • subsiding
  • suspenseless
  • tame
  • tapering
  • tapering off
  • tedious
  • tepid
  • tiresome
  • tiring
  • undramatic
  • uneventful
  • unexceptional
  • unexciting
  • unimaginative
  • uninspiring
  • uninteresting
  • unnewsworthy
  • unrewarding
  • unsensational
  • unspectacular
  • unsurprising
  • vanishing
  • vapid
  • waning
  • weakening
  • wearisome
  • weary
  • wearying

Antonyms for palling

  • absorbing
  • accumulating
  • alluring
  • amazing
  • amusing
  • animating
  • appearing
  • arresting
  • astonishing
  • astounding
  • attracting
  • attractive
  • awesome
  • ballooning
  • beguiling
  • bewitching
  • blowing up
  • bourgeoning
  • breathtaking
  • building
  • burgeoning
  • captivating
  • charming
  • distending
  • diverting
  • electrifying
  • elongating
  • emerging
  • enchanting
  • energizing
  • engaging
  • engrossing
  • enlarging
  • enlivening
  • entertaining
  • enthralling
  • entrancing
  • escalating
  • exciting
  • exhilarating
  • expanding
  • eye-opening
  • fabulous
  • fascinating
  • galvanizing
  • gripping
  • growing
  • hair-raising
  • increasing
  • inspiring
  • intensifying
  • interesting
  • intriguing
  • invigorating
  • involving
  • lengthening
  • marvellous
  • marvelous
  • mesmerizing
  • mounting
  • moving
  • mushrooming
  • picking up
  • poignant
  • provocative
  • rip-roaring
  • rising
  • riveting
  • rousing
  • sensational
  • showing up
  • snowballing
  • soaring
  • spectacular
  • spellbinding
  • stimulating
  • stirring
  • surprising
  • suspenseful
  • swelling
  • tantalizing
  • thrilling
  • touching
  • waxing
  • wonderful
  • wondrous

Meanings of palling

  • verb
    1. To cloak or cover with, or as if with, a pall.
    2. To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull, to weaken.
    3. To become dull, insipid, tasteless, or vapid; to lose life, spirit, strength, or taste.
    4. Be friends with, hang around with.

Example Sentences

  • The friends were palling around at the park, enjoying the sunny weather.
  • Their palling over shared interests made their bond even stronger.
  • I found them palling up in the cafeteria, laughing over inside jokes.
  • Despite their differences, they were often seen palling together after work.
  • The siblings were caught palling around in their room, oblivious to the time.

On this page you'll find 200 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to palling, such as: abating, absorbing, accumulating, alleviating, alluring, amazing, amusing.

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Related Words

abating

  • abbreviating
  • abolishing
  • aborting
  • abridging
  • abrogating
  • allaying
  • alleviating
  • analeptic
  • annihilating
  • annulling
  • assuaging
  • avoiding
  • bankrupting
  • banning
  • bereaving
  • breaking down
  • calling
  • calling off
  • canceling
  • cancelling
  • ceasing
  • cheating
  • clipping
  • closing
  • collapsing
  • compressing
  • concluding
  • condensing
  • consolatory
  • consoling
  • constricting
  • contracting
  • countermanding
  • cropping
  • crumbling
  • curing
  • curtailing
  • cutting
  • cutting back
  • cutting down
  • de-escalating
  • declinatory
  • declining
  • decreasing
  • decrescent
  • deducting
  • deflating
  • defrauding
  • denting
  • denuding
  • depleting
  • depreciating
  • depriving
  • descending
  • desisting
  • diminishing
  • disallowing
  • disannulling
  • discontinuing
  • discounting
  • disfurnishing
  • dismissing
  • dissolving
  • divesting
  • docking
  • doing away with
  • downscaling
  • downsizing
  • dropping
  • dwindling
  • dying
  • dying down
  • easing
  • ebbing
  • eliminating
  • encouraging
  • ending
  • enjoining
  • eradicating
  • erasing
  • evaporating
  • expiring
  • fading away
  • falling
  • falling away
  • finishing
  • flagging
  • forbidding
  • freeing
  • giving out
  • health-giving
  • heart-warming
  • impoverishing
  • inspiriting
  • invalidating
  • invigorating
  • knocking down
  • knocking off
  • lapsing
  • leaving off
  • lessening
  • letting up
  • lightening
  • liquidating
  • losing momentum
  • lowering
  • minimizing
  • mitigating
  • moderating
  • modifying
  • modulating
  • narrowing
  • negating
  • nicking
  • nullifying
  • nulling
  • outlawing
  • overriding
  • overruling
  • overturning
  • palling
  • paring
  • passing
  • phasing down
  • plummeting
  • plunging
  • prohibiting
  • pruning
  • qualifying
  • quashing
  • quieting
  • quitting
  • reassuring
  • recalling
  • receding
  • reducing
  • refreshing
  • rejecting
  • relaxing
  • relenting
  • relieving
  • remedying
  • remitting
  • removing
  • repealing
  • rescinding
  • restoring
  • retracting
  • retrenching
  • reversing
  • revitalizing
  • revivifying
  • revoking
  • rolling back
  • sagging
  • setting aside
  • settling
  • shortchanging
  • shortening
  • shrinking
  • shriveling up
  • sinking
  • slackening
  • slashing
  • sliding
  • slipping
  • slowing
  • slumping
  • softening
  • solacing
  • soothing
  • stopping
  • striking down
  • stripping
  • subsiding
  • subtracting
  • succoring
  • suspending
  • sustaining
  • taking off
  • tapering
  • tapering off
  • terminating
  • throwing out
  • toppling
  • tottering
  • tranquilizing
  • trimming
  • truncating
  • tumbling
  • upholding
  • vacating
  • vanishing
  • vetoing
  • voiding
  • waning
  • warming
  • wasting
  • weakening
  • wearing down
  • wearing off
  • whittling
  • winding up
  • withdrawing
  • writing off

easing

  • abatement
  • abating
  • abbreviating
  • abetting
  • abridging
  • acceding
  • accelerating
  • accommodation
  • adjustment
  • advancing
  • aiding
  • allaying
  • alleviating
  • alleviation
  • ameliorating
  • amending
  • amends
  • assisting
  • assuagement
  • assuaging
  • automated
  • automatic
  • bettering
  • blunting
  • calming
  • clipping
  • collapsing
  • compressing
  • compromise
  • computerized
  • concession
  • conciliation
  • condensing
  • consolatory
  • consoling
  • constricting
  • contracting
  • correcting
  • cropping
  • curing
  • curtailing
  • cutting
  • cutting back
  • cutting down
  • de-escalating
  • declining
  • decreasing
  • deflating
  • denting
  • depleting
  • detaching
  • diminishing
  • disentangling
  • docking
  • downscaling
  • downsizing
  • dropping
  • dwindling
  • ebbing
  • emending
  • enhancing
  • enriching
  • evaporating
  • expediting
  • facilitating
  • falling
  • falling away
  • fixing
  • flagging
  • forwarding
  • freeing
  • furthering
  • giving out
  • grant
  • greasing
  • hastening
  • healing
  • helping
  • hurrying
  • improving
  • knocking down
  • laborsaving
  • lessening
  • letting up
  • lightening
  • loosening
  • lowering
  • lulling
  • mechanical
  • meliorating
  • mending
  • minimizing
  • mitigating
  • mitigation
  • moderating
  • moderation
  • modifying
  • modulating
  • mollification
  • mollifying
  • motorized
  • nicking
  • nonmanual
  • pacifying
  • palliating
  • palliative
  • palling
  • paring
  • peace offering
  • perfecting
  • phasing down
  • placation
  • promoting
  • propitiation
  • pruning
  • qualifying
  • quelling
  • quenching
  • quickening
  • quieting
  • reassuring
  • receding
  • reconciliation
  • rectifying
  • reducing
  • refining
  • reforming
  • relaxing
  • relenting
  • relieving
  • remedying
  • remitting
  • repairing
  • reparation
  • restoration
  • retrenching
  • robotic
  • rushing
  • self-acting
  • self-operating
  • self-regulating
  • semiautomatic
  • settlement
  • shortening
  • shrinking
  • simplifying
  • sinking
  • slackening
  • slacking
  • slashing
  • smoothing
  • softening
  • solace
  • soothing
  • speeding
  • streamlining
  • subsiding
  • tapering
  • tapering off
  • tempering
  • time-saving
  • tranquilization
  • tranquilizing
  • trimming
  • truncating
  • unbinding
  • unclogging
  • undoing
  • unfastening
  • untangling
  • untieing
  • untying
  • vanishing
  • waning
  • warming
  • weakening
  • whittling

ebbing

  • abatement
  • abating
  • alleviating
  • at end of rope
  • atrophy
  • atrophying
  • backsliding
  • breaking down
  • ceasing
  • ceasing to exist
  • closing
  • collapsing
  • comedown
  • compressing
  • concluding
  • condensing
  • constricting
  • contracting
  • corrupting
  • cropper
  • crumbling
  • de-escalating
  • debilitating
  • debilitation
  • decay
  • decaying
  • declension
  • declinatory
  • decline
  • decline and fall
  • declining
  • decomposing
  • decreasing
  • decrepitude
  • decrescent
  • deflating
  • degeneracy
  • degenerating
  • degeneration
  • degrading
  • dematerialization
  • departure
  • depreciating
  • descending
  • descent
  • desertion
  • desisting
  • deteriorating
  • deterioration
  • devolution
  • devolving
  • dilapidating
  • diminishing
  • diminution
  • disappearing act
  • discontinuing
  • disintegrating
  • disintegration
  • dispersal
  • dissipation
  • dissolution
  • dive
  • done for
  • doomed
  • downfall
  • downgrade
  • downsizing
  • downturn
  • drooping
  • drop
  • dropping
  • dwindling
  • dying
  • dying down
  • easing
  • ebb
  • eclipse
  • ending
  • enfeeblement
  • escape
  • evanescence
  • evaporating
  • evaporation
  • exhaustion
  • exit
  • exodus
  • expiring
  • fade-out
  • fading
  • fading away
  • failing
  • failure
  • fall
  • fall-off
  • falling
  • falling away
  • falling-off
  • fated
  • final
  • finishing
  • flagging
  • flight
  • flop
  • giving out
  • giving up the ghost
  • going
  • going to pot
  • going to seed
  • in extremis
  • lagging
  • languishing
  • lapse
  • lapsing
  • leaving off
  • lessening
  • letting up
  • lightening
  • limping
  • losing momentum
  • loss
  • lowering
  • melting
  • moderating
  • moldering
  • moribund
  • mortal
  • narrowing
  • on last leg
  • on the skids
  • one foot in grave
  • palling
  • passing
  • perishing
  • phasing down
  • plummeting
  • plunging
  • pratfall
  • putrefying
  • quieting
  • quitting
  • receding
  • recession
  • reducing
  • regressing
  • regression
  • relapse
  • relaxing
  • relenting
  • remitting
  • removal
  • retirement
  • retrograding
  • rotting
  • running down
  • running to seed
  • sagging
  • senility
  • setback
  • settling
  • shrinking
  • shriveling up
  • sinking
  • skids
  • slackening
  • sliding
  • slipping
  • slowing
  • slump
  • slumping
  • softening
  • souring
  • spoiling
  • stopping
  • subsiding
  • tapering
  • tapering off
  • terminating
  • toppling
  • tottering
  • tumbling
  • undermining
  • vanishing
  • wane
  • waning
  • wasting
  • weakening
  • wearing away
  • wearing down
  • wearing off
  • wilting
  • winding up
  • withdrawal
  • withering
  • worsening

jading

  • annoying
  • arid
  • aseptic
  • barren
  • blah
  • blank
  • boring
  • bothersome
  • burning out
  • colorless
  • common
  • commonplace
  • cumbersome
  • debilitating
  • dejecting
  • demoralizing
  • disabling
  • discouraging
  • disheartening
  • dispiriting
  • doing in
  • drab
  • draining
  • dreary
  • drudging
  • dry
  • dull
  • dullish
  • dusty
  • earthbound
  • enervating
  • enfeebling
  • exhausting
  • fagging
  • fatiguing
  • flat
  • gray
  • grey
  • heavy
  • ho-hum
  • humdrum
  • inanimate
  • irksome
  • irritating
  • jejune
  • leaden
  • longsome
  • lumbering
  • mind-numbing
  • monochromatic
  • monotonous
  • numbing
  • old
  • ordinary
  • pallid
  • palling
  • pedantic
  • pedestrian
  • pleasureless
  • plodding
  • pokey
  • poky
  • ponderous
  • prosaic
  • prosy
  • putting to sleep
  • slow
  • soggy
  • spiritless
  • stale
  • sterile
  • stodgy
  • stuffy
  • stupid
  • suspenseless
  • tame
  • tedious
  • tepid
  • tiresome
  • tiring
  • undramatic
  • uneventful
  • unexceptional
  • unexciting
  • unimaginative
  • uninspiring
  • uninteresting
  • unnewsworthy
  • unrewarding
  • unsensational
  • unspectacular
  • unsurprising
  • vapid
  • washing out
  • wearing
  • wearing out
  • wearisome
  • weary
  • wearying

jejune

  • adolescent
  • annoying
  • arid
  • aseptic
  • babyish
  • banal
  • barren
  • blah
  • bland
  • blank
  • boring
  • bothersome
  • boyish
  • brattish
  • bratty
  • childish
  • childlike
  • colorless
  • common
  • commonplace
  • cumbersome
  • debilitating
  • demoralizing
  • discouraging
  • disheartening
  • dispiriting
  • drab
  • draining
  • dreary
  • drudging
  • dry
  • dull
  • dullish
  • dusty
  • earthbound
  • empty
  • enervating
  • enfeebling
  • exhausting
  • fatiguing
  • flat
  • girlie
  • girlish
  • girly
  • gray
  • grey
  • heavy
  • ho-hum
  • humdrum
  • immature
  • inane
  • inanimate
  • infantile
  • innocent
  • innocuous
  • insipid
  • irksome
  • irritating
  • jading
  • juvenile
  • kiddish
  • leaden
  • longsome
  • lumbering
  • meager
  • mind-numbing
  • monochromatic
  • monotonous
  • naive
  • numbing
  • old
  • ordinary
  • pallid
  • palling
  • pedantic
  • pedestrian
  • pleasureless
  • plodding
  • pokey
  • poky
  • ponderous
  • prosaic
  • prosy
  • puerile
  • simple
  • simplistic
  • slow
  • soggy
  • spiritless
  • stale
  • sterile
  • stodgy
  • stuffy
  • stupid
  • suspenseless
  • tame
  • tedious
  • tepid
  • tiresome
  • tiring
  • trite
  • undramatic
  • uneventful
  • unexceptional
  • unexciting
  • unimaginative
  • uninspiring
  • uninteresting
  • unnewsworthy
  • unrewarding
  • unsensational
  • unsophisticated
  • unspectacular
  • unsurprising
  • vapid
  • wearing
  • wearisome
  • weary
  • wearying

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