paraphrasing

The word “paraphrasing” has 4 syllables: par-a-phras-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈpɛrəˌfreɪzɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for paraphrasing?

In the thesaurus, “paraphrasing” has 56 synonyms and 13 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for paraphrasing

  • Xerox
  • apery
  • aping
  • boiling down
  • carbon copy
  • clone
  • copy
  • counterfeit
  • counterfeiting
  • counterpart
  • ditto
  • dupe
  • duplicate
  • duplication
  • echoing
  • ersatz
  • fake
  • forgery
  • image
  • impersonation
  • impression
  • likeness
  • match
  • matching
  • mime
  • mimesis
  • mimicry
  • mirroring
  • mockery
  • parallel
  • paralleling
  • parody
  • parroting
  • patterning
  • phony
  • picture
  • recapitulating
  • reflection
  • reiterating
  • rephrasing
  • replica
  • representing
  • reproduction
  • resemblance
  • restating
  • rewording
  • ringer
  • semblance
  • sham
  • simulacrum
  • summarizing
  • summing up
  • takeoff
  • transcription
  • translating
  • travesty

Antonyms for paraphrasing

  • copying
  • difference
  • echoing
  • opposite
  • original
  • quoting
  • reality
  • repeating
  • reproducing
  • reverse
  • seriousness
  • solemnity
  • transcribing

Meanings of paraphrasing

  • verb
    1. To restate something as, or to compose a paraphrase.
  • noun
    1. A paraphrased statement.

Example Sentences

  • She is paraphrasing the article to make it easier to understand.
  • The teacher emphasized the importance of paraphrasing instead of copying.
  • He spent hours paraphrasing the complex report.
  • Paraphrasing can help avoid plagiarism in academic writing.
  • The student practiced paraphrasing to improve his writing skills.

On this page you'll find 69 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to paraphrasing, such as: Xerox, apery, aping, boiling down, carbon copy, clone, copy.

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

Related Words

echoing

  • Xerox
  • agreeable
  • alveolate
  • apery
  • aping
  • appealing
  • articulating
  • barrage
  • beating
  • blending
  • boom
  • booming
  • broad
  • cadenced
  • canorous
  • carbon copy
  • cavernous
  • ceaseless
  • chambered
  • chasmal
  • chattering
  • chiming
  • chordal
  • clangor
  • clangorous
  • clone
  • commodious
  • concave
  • consonant
  • continuous
  • conversing
  • copy
  • copycatting
  • copying
  • counterfeit
  • counterfeiting
  • counterpart
  • curved inward
  • deep
  • deep-set
  • deep-toned
  • discussing
  • ditto
  • dittoing
  • drone
  • drumbeat
  • drumming
  • dulcet
  • dull
  • dupe
  • duplicate
  • duplicating
  • duplication
  • earsplitting
  • electrifying
  • eloquent
  • emphatic
  • emulating
  • enhanced
  • enunciating
  • ersatz
  • euphonic
  • euphonious
  • expressing
  • fake
  • flat
  • flowing
  • following
  • forceful
  • forgery
  • full
  • gaping
  • ghostly
  • grumble
  • harmonic
  • harmonious
  • harmonizing
  • heightened
  • homophonic
  • huge
  • image
  • imitating
  • impersonation
  • impression
  • intensified
  • likeness
  • lilting
  • loud
  • low
  • lyric
  • lyrical
  • match
  • matching
  • mellifluent
  • mellifluous
  • mellow
  • melodic
  • melodious
  • mime
  • mimesis
  • mimicking
  • mimicry
  • miming
  • mirroring
  • mockery
  • mouthing
  • muffled
  • musical
  • mute
  • muted
  • noisy
  • orating
  • orchestral
  • orotund
  • parallel
  • paralleling
  • paraphrasing
  • parody
  • parroting
  • patterning
  • perpetual
  • phony
  • picture
  • plangent
  • pleasant
  • polyphonic
  • polyphonous
  • powerful
  • profound
  • pronouncing
  • pulsating
  • pulsing
  • quaver
  • quavering
  • quoting
  • racket
  • ranting
  • rat-a-tat
  • reduplicating
  • reechoing
  • reflecting
  • reflection
  • reiterative
  • repeating
  • repetitious
  • replica
  • representing
  • reproducing
  • reproduction
  • resemblance
  • resonance
  • resonant
  • resonating
  • resounding
  • reverberant
  • reverberating
  • rhythmic
  • rhythmical
  • rich
  • ringer
  • ringing
  • roar
  • roaring
  • rolling
  • roomy
  • rotund
  • round
  • rumble
  • rumbling
  • semblance
  • sepulchral
  • sham
  • simulacrum
  • socketed
  • songful
  • songlike
  • sonorant
  • sonorous
  • sounding
  • spacious
  • spouting
  • stentorian
  • strident
  • sunken
  • sweet
  • symphonic
  • symphonious
  • takeoff
  • thrilling
  • throbbing
  • thunder
  • thundering
  • thunderous
  • tonal
  • toneless
  • transcription
  • travesty
  • trilling
  • tuneful
  • vast
  • verbalizing
  • vibrant
  • vibrating
  • vocalizing
  • warbling
  • wide
  • yawning

paralleling

  • Xerox
  • allegory
  • analogizing
  • analogy
  • analyzing
  • apery
  • aping
  • approaching
  • association
  • balancing
  • bringing together
  • carbon copy
  • clone
  • collating
  • collation
  • comparability
  • complementing
  • connection
  • contrast
  • copy
  • correlation
  • counterbalancing
  • counterfeit
  • counterfeiting
  • counterpart
  • counterpoising
  • discrimination
  • distinguishing
  • ditto
  • dividing
  • dupe
  • duplicate
  • duplication
  • echoing
  • emulating
  • equaling
  • equalling
  • ersatz
  • estimation
  • example
  • exemplification
  • facsimile
  • fake
  • following
  • forgery
  • identification
  • illustration
  • image
  • imaging
  • impersonation
  • impression
  • juxtaposition
  • likeness
  • likening
  • match
  • matching
  • measuring
  • metaphor
  • mime
  • mimesis
  • mimicry
  • mirroring
  • mockery
  • nearing
  • observation
  • opposition
  • parallel
  • paraphrasing
  • parody
  • parroting
  • patterning
  • phony
  • picture
  • ratio
  • reflecting
  • reflection
  • relating
  • relation
  • repeating
  • replica
  • representing
  • reproduction
  • resemblance
  • ringer
  • rivaling
  • rivalling
  • segregation
  • semblance
  • separation
  • sham
  • similarity
  • simulacrum
  • suggesting
  • supplementing
  • takeoff
  • testing
  • transcription
  • travesty
  • weighing

imitation

  • Xerox
  • adulterated
  • affected
  • apery
  • aping
  • approximation
  • artificial
  • bogus
  • brummagem
  • carbon
  • carbon copy
  • clone
  • concocted
  • copy
  • counterfeit
  • counterfeiting
  • counterpart
  • cultured
  • deceptive
  • designer
  • ditto
  • doctored
  • dummy
  • dupe
  • duplicate
  • duplication
  • echoing
  • engineered
  • ersatz
  • extra
  • fabricated
  • facsimile
  • factitious
  • fake
  • false
  • faux
  • feigned
  • forged
  • forgery
  • fraudulent
  • fudged
  • image
  • imitative
  • impersonation
  • impression
  • imprint
  • juggled
  • knockoff
  • likeness
  • man-made
  • manipulated
  • manufactured
  • match
  • matching
  • mime
  • mimesis
  • mimic
  • mimicry
  • miniature
  • mirroring
  • misleading
  • mock
  • mock-up
  • mockery
  • parallel
  • paralleling
  • paraphrasing
  • parody
  • parroting
  • patterning
  • phoney
  • phony
  • picture
  • pinchbeck
  • pretend
  • print
  • process
  • pseudo
  • re-creation
  • reconstruction
  • reduplication
  • reflection
  • reincarnation
  • replica
  • replication
  • representing
  • reproduction
  • resemblance
  • reserve
  • ringer
  • rip-off
  • rubber stamp
  • semblance
  • shadow
  • sham
  • simulacrum
  • simulated
  • simulation
  • spare
  • spurious
  • substitute
  • synthetic
  • takeoff
  • transcription
  • travesty
  • unauthentic
  • version

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