panning

The word “panning” has 2 syllables: pan-ning

It's pronounced as /ˈpænɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for panning?

In the thesaurus, “panning” has 103 synonyms and 17 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for panning

  • Bronx cheer
  • admonishing
  • animadversion
  • aspersion
  • assailing
  • attacking
  • bad press
  • bad-mouthing
  • beefing
  • belittling
  • bellyaching
  • berating
  • bitching
  • blaming
  • blast
  • blasting
  • brickbats
  • call down
  • carping
  • castigating
  • cavil
  • caviling
  • cavilling
  • censure
  • censuring
  • chiding
  • clobbering
  • complaining
  • condemning
  • crabbing
  • critical remarks
  • criticizing
  • croaking
  • crucifying
  • cut
  • decrying
  • denouncing
  • denunciation
  • deriding
  • discommending
  • disparagement
  • disparaging
  • dispraising
  • dissing
  • drubbing
  • excoriating
  • faultfinding
  • faulting
  • flak
  • flaying
  • fussing
  • gibbeting
  • griping
  • grousing
  • growling
  • grumbling
  • hammering
  • hit
  • keelhauling
  • kicking
  • knock
  • knocking
  • kvetching
  • lambasting
  • lashing
  • moaning
  • murmuring
  • muttering
  • niggling
  • nit-picking
  • objection
  • opprobrium
  • pan
  • pillorying
  • put down
  • putting down
  • quibble
  • quibbling
  • rap on knuckles
  • rebuking
  • reprehending
  • reprimanding
  • reproaching
  • reproof
  • reproving
  • roast
  • scolding
  • skewering
  • slagging
  • slam
  • slamming
  • slap
  • slap on wrist
  • slashing
  • static
  • stricture
  • swipe
  • taking to task
  • tweaking
  • upbraiding
  • vitriol
  • whining
  • zapper

Antonyms for panning

  • approval
  • approving
  • commending
  • compliment
  • endorsing
  • estimation
  • extolling
  • flattery
  • guess
  • indorsing
  • lauding
  • praise
  • praising
  • recommending
  • sanction
  • sanctioning
  • supposition

Meanings of panning

  • verb
    1. To wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold).
    2. To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to criticise severely.
    3. With "out" (to pan out), to turn out well; to be successful.
    4. (of a contest) To beat one's opposition convincingly.
    5. To criticize harshly a work (like a book, movie, etc.).
    6. Of a camera, etc.: to turn horizontally.
    7. To move the camera lens angle while continuing to expose the film, enabling a contiguous view and enrichment of context. In still-photography large-group portraits the film usually remains on a horizontal fixed plane as the lens and/or the film holder moves to expose the film laterally. The resulting image may extend a short distance laterally or as great as 360 degrees from the point where the film first began to be exposed.
    8. (audio) To spread a sound signal into a new stereo or multichannel sound field, typically giving the impression that it is moving across the sound stage.
    9. To join or fit together; to unite.
  • noun
    1. The act of one who pans, as for gold.
    2. Material that has been panned.
    3. (audio) The act by which a sound is panned.
    4. Thorough criticism.

Example Sentences

  • Panning the camera slowly across the landscape captured the breathtaking scenery in the film.
  • The photographer experimented with different panning techniques to capture the motion of the speeding car.
  • In audio production, panning allows for the distribution of sound between the left and right channels.
  • The director's use of panning shots created a sense of urgency and chaos during the action sequence.
  • During the cooking demonstration, the chef demonstrated the proper panning technique to sauté vegetables evenly.

On this page you'll find 120 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to panning, such as: Bronx cheer, admonishing, animadversion, approval, approving, aspersion, assailing.

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

Related Words

damning

  • abhorring
  • abominating
  • adjudging
  • admonishing
  • adverse
  • anathematizing
  • apocalyptic
  • apocalyptical
  • attacking
  • baleful
  • baneful
  • belittling
  • berating
  • blacklisting
  • blaming
  • blasting
  • calamitous
  • castigating
  • cataclysmal
  • cataclysmic
  • catastrophic
  • censuring
  • chastening
  • chastising
  • chiding
  • concluding
  • condemning
  • convicting
  • correcting
  • criticizing
  • cursing
  • damaging
  • damnatory
  • deciding
  • decreeing
  • decrying
  • deleterious
  • denouncing
  • deprecating
  • destructive
  • determining
  • detesting
  • detrimental
  • disastrous
  • disciplining
  • disparaging
  • dispraising
  • dissing
  • dooming
  • evil
  • excommunicating
  • execrating
  • fatal
  • fateful
  • faulting
  • finding
  • hapless
  • harmful
  • hating
  • hurtful
  • ill
  • ill-fated
  • ill-starred
  • imprecating
  • incriminating
  • injurious
  • judging
  • knocking
  • lambasting
  • loathing
  • luckless
  • maledicting
  • noxious
  • opining
  • ostracizing
  • panning
  • penalizing
  • pernicious
  • prejudicial
  • punishing
  • raking
  • rebuking
  • reprehending
  • reprimanding
  • reproaching
  • reprobating
  • reproving
  • resolving
  • reviling
  • ruinous
  • ruling
  • scolding
  • sentencing
  • slamming
  • unfortunate
  • upbraiding
  • vituperating

keelhauling

  • abusing
  • admonishing
  • assailing
  • attacking
  • bad-mouthing
  • basting
  • bawling out
  • belittling
  • berating
  • blaming
  • blasting
  • calling down
  • castigating
  • censuring
  • chastising
  • chewing out
  • chiding
  • condemning
  • criticizing
  • crucifying
  • denouncing
  • disparaging
  • dissing
  • dressing down
  • excoriating
  • faulting
  • flaying
  • hammering
  • haranguing
  • jawing
  • knocking
  • lambasting
  • lashing
  • laying into
  • lecturing
  • mocking
  • panning
  • putting down
  • ragging
  • rating
  • rebuking
  • reprehending
  • reprimanding
  • reproaching
  • reproving
  • reviling
  • ridiculing
  • scoffing
  • scolding
  • scoring
  • scorning
  • scourging
  • slamming
  • taking to task
  • tongue-lashing
  • upbraiding
  • vituperating

call down

  • Bronx cheer
  • abase
  • abuse
  • adjudge
  • admonish
  • advise
  • afflict
  • affront
  • animadversion
  • asperse
  • aspersion
  • assail
  • attack
  • bad press
  • bad-mouth
  • baste
  • bawl out
  • belittle
  • berate
  • black list
  • blackball
  • blame
  • blast
  • blister
  • blow whistle on
  • boo
  • boycott
  • brickbat
  • brickbats
  • brush-off
  • call on the carpet
  • call to task
  • caluminate
  • carping
  • castigate
  • castigation
  • catcall
  • cavil
  • caviling
  • censure
  • chastise
  • check
  • chew
  • chew out
  • chide
  • cold shoulder
  • come down hard on
  • come down on
  • condemn
  • contempt
  • counsel
  • cow
  • critical remarks
  • criticism
  • criticize
  • crucify
  • curb
  • curse
  • cuss
  • cuss out
  • cut
  • damn
  • debase
  • decry
  • defame
  • denigrate
  • denounce
  • denunciate
  • denunciation
  • deprecate
  • deprecation
  • depreciate
  • dig
  • ding
  • dis
  • disapprobation
  • disapprove
  • discipline
  • discontent
  • discourtesy
  • discredit
  • disdain
  • disfavor
  • dislike
  • disparage
  • disparagement
  • displeasure
  • disregard
  • diss
  • dissatisfaction
  • doom
  • draw the line
  • dress down
  • dump on
  • eat out
  • enjoin
  • excoriate
  • exhort
  • exprobate
  • fault
  • faultfinding
  • find fault
  • find fault with
  • find guilty
  • flak
  • flay
  • forewarn
  • frame
  • fulminate against
  • give a black eye
  • give a going over
  • give a hard time
  • give comeuppance
  • give one hell
  • give the devil
  • give what for
  • glue
  • go-by
  • growl
  • hammer
  • hang something on
  • harangue
  • have on the carpet
  • hiss
  • hit
  • hoist
  • humble
  • inattention
  • indifference
  • jack up
  • jaw
  • jawbone
  • jinx
  • judge
  • jump all over
  • keelhaul
  • kick
  • knock
  • lambast
  • lambaste
  • lash
  • lay into
  • lay on
  • lecture
  • lesson
  • let have it
  • libel
  • malign
  • mistreat
  • mock
  • monish
  • mudsling
  • name
  • neglect
  • nit-picking
  • nix
  • notice
  • objection
  • objurgate
  • opprobrium
  • ostracism
  • pan
  • panning
  • pass sentence on
  • penalize
  • pin it on
  • point finger at
  • pronounce
  • proscribe
  • punish
  • put a whammy on
  • put away
  • put down
  • put-down
  • quibble
  • rag
  • rag on
  • rail at
  • rake
  • rake over the coals
  • rap
  • rap on knuckles
  • rate
  • ream
  • rebuff
  • rebuke
  • rejection
  • reprehend
  • repress
  • reprimand
  • reproach
  • reprobate
  • reproof
  • reprove
  • restrain
  • revile
  • ridicule
  • rip up
  • roast
  • run down
  • scoff
  • scold
  • scorch
  • score
  • scorn
  • scourge
  • send up
  • send up the river
  • sentence
  • sit on
  • skin
  • skin alive
  • slam
  • slander
  • slap
  • slap in the face
  • slap on the wrist
  • slap on wrist
  • slur
  • smear
  • snub
  • soften
  • speak ill of
  • speak to
  • static
  • stricture
  • subdue
  • swipe
  • take down
  • take down a peg
  • take to task
  • talk to
  • tame
  • tear down
  • tear into
  • tell a thing or two
  • tell off
  • thumbs down on
  • thumbs-down
  • tick off
  • tongue-lash
  • traduce
  • trim
  • try
  • upbraid
  • vitriol
  • vituperate
  • voodoo
  • warn
  • zapper
  • zing

jawing

lambasting

  • abuse
  • abusing
  • admonishing
  • admonishment
  • admonition
  • affronting
  • aspersing
  • assailing
  • assault
  • assaulting
  • attack
  • attacking
  • bad-mouthing
  • bashing
  • basting
  • battering
  • batting
  • bawling out
  • bawling-out
  • beating
  • beating up on
  • belaboring
  • belittlement
  • belittling
  • belting
  • berating
  • besetting
  • birching
  • blackguarding
  • blackjacking
  • blaming
  • blaspheming
  • blasting
  • blow
  • bludgeoning
  • boxing
  • broadside
  • buffet
  • buffeting
  • bump
  • bunging up
  • busting
  • calling down
  • caning
  • castigating
  • castigation
  • censure
  • censuring
  • chastising
  • chewing out
  • chiding
  • chopping
  • clobbering
  • clouting
  • clubbing
  • collision
  • concussion
  • condemnation
  • condemning
  • contact
  • cowhiding
  • cracking
  • crash
  • criticism
  • criticizing
  • crucifying
  • cudgeling
  • cudgelling
  • cuffing
  • currying
  • cursing
  • denouncing
  • denunciation
  • deprecation
  • depreciation
  • diatribe
  • disparagement
  • disparaging
  • dissing
  • doing
  • dressing down
  • drubbing
  • encounter
  • excoriating
  • excoriation
  • execrating
  • execration
  • faulting
  • fibbing
  • flagellating
  • flaying
  • flogging
  • fulminating
  • fustigating
  • goring
  • hammering
  • harangue
  • haranguing
  • harassing
  • harrying
  • hiding
  • hit
  • hitting
  • horsewhipping
  • impact
  • impingement
  • imprecating
  • insulting
  • invective
  • jar
  • jawing
  • jeremiad
  • jolt
  • jounce
  • keelhauling
  • kick
  • knock
  • knocking
  • lacerating
  • lacing
  • lamming
  • lashing
  • lathering
  • laying into
  • laying on
  • leathering
  • lecture
  • lecturing
  • libeling
  • libelling
  • licking
  • lighting into
  • maiming
  • mangling
  • mauling
  • meeting
  • mocking
  • mutilating
  • paddling
  • panning
  • pasting
  • pelting
  • philippic
  • pistol-whipping
  • pommeling
  • pommelling
  • potshotting
  • pounding
  • profaning
  • pummeling
  • pummelling
  • punch
  • punching
  • punching out
  • putting down
  • ragging
  • raiding
  • rant
  • rap
  • rating
  • rawhiding
  • rebuke
  • rebuking
  • reprehending
  • reprimand
  • reprimanding
  • reproach
  • reproaching
  • reproof
  • reproving
  • revilement
  • reviling
  • ridiculing
  • rushing
  • sailing into
  • savaging
  • scathing
  • scoffing
  • scolding
  • scoring
  • scorning
  • scourging
  • sermon
  • shock
  • slam
  • slamming
  • slandering
  • slap
  • slapping
  • slating
  • slogging
  • slurring
  • smacking
  • smash
  • smashing
  • socking
  • spanking
  • storming
  • strapping
  • strike
  • swatting
  • swiping
  • switching
  • taking to task
  • tanning
  • thrashing
  • threshing
  • thump
  • thumping
  • thwacking
  • tirade
  • tongue-lashing
  • touch
  • traducing
  • trashing
  • tromping
  • tying into
  • upbraiding
  • vilifying
  • vituperating
  • vituperation
  • wallop
  • walloping
  • whacking
  • whaling
  • whamming
  • whapping
  • whipping
  • whomping
  • whopping
  • whupping
  • working over
  • wounding

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