ranging

The word “ranging” has 2 syllables: rang-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈreɪn.dʒɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for ranging?

In the thesaurus, “ranging” has 136 synonyms and 22 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for ranging

  • aligning
  • alining
  • alphabetizing
  • alternating
  • ambling
  • ambulant
  • ambulatory
  • arranging
  • arraying
  • assorting
  • batting
  • breaking down
  • cataloging
  • cataloguing
  • categorizing
  • changing
  • classifying
  • classing
  • clumping
  • clustering
  • codifying
  • colligating
  • compartmentalizing
  • compartmenting
  • covering
  • cruising
  • cueing
  • cuing
  • culling
  • dawdling
  • differing
  • digesting
  • displaying
  • disposing
  • distinguishing
  • distributing
  • drawing up
  • drifting
  • emplacing
  • errant
  • extending
  • extensive
  • feeding
  • filing
  • floating
  • fluctuating
  • footloose
  • fugitive
  • galavanting
  • gallivanting
  • going
  • grading
  • grooming
  • grouping
  • gypsying
  • hierarchizing
  • hoboing
  • identifying
  • indexing
  • itinerant
  • kicking around
  • laying out
  • lining
  • lining up
  • listing
  • making up
  • marshaling
  • marshalling
  • maundering
  • meandering
  • migrant
  • migratory
  • mooching
  • moping
  • moving
  • mutating
  • nomad
  • nomadic
  • on the move
  • ordering
  • organizing
  • pasturing
  • pegging
  • perambulatory
  • peregrine
  • peripatetic
  • pigeonholing
  • placing
  • prioritizing
  • queueing
  • queuing
  • rambling
  • ranking
  • reaching
  • recategorizing
  • reclassifying
  • recognizing
  • referring
  • regrouping
  • relegating
  • roaming
  • roving
  • running
  • sauntering
  • screening
  • separating
  • sequencing
  • setting
  • setting out
  • shelving
  • shifting
  • sieving
  • sifting
  • sorting
  • spanning
  • straggling
  • straying
  • stretching
  • strolling
  • subcategorizing
  • sweeping
  • systematizing
  • traipsing
  • tramping
  • traversing
  • typing
  • unscrambling
  • vagabond
  • vagabonding
  • vagrant
  • varying
  • walking
  • wandering
  • wayfaring
  • widespread
  • winnowing

Antonyms for ranging

  • confusing
  • deranging
  • disarranging
  • disarraying
  • disordering
  • immobile
  • jumbling
  • lumping
  • mis-sorting
  • misclassifying
  • missorting
  • mistyping
  • motionless
  • nonmoving
  • rumpling
  • scrambling
  • settled
  • standing
  • static
  • stationary
  • still
  • upsetting

Meanings of ranging

  • verb
    1. To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander.
    2. To rove over or through.
    3. To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to, over.
    4. To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else.
    5. (followed by over) Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.
    6. To classify.
    7. To form a line or a row.
    8. To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
    9. To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order.
    10. To place among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; usually, reflexively and figuratively, to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc.
    11. To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.
    12. To separate into parts; to sift.
    13. To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near.
    14. Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play.
  • noun
    1. Act of one who ranges.
    2. A back-and-forth movement.

Example Sentences

  • The cost of living in the city can vary widely, ranging from affordable to extremely expensive.
  • His interests are diverse, ranging from sports to literature.
  • The temperature in the desert can fluctuate dramatically, ranging from scorching hot during the day to freezing at night.
  • The students' abilities in mathematics are ranging from basic to advanced, reflecting their different levels of understanding.
  • The size of the waves at the beach can be unpredictable, ranging from small ripples to towering swells.

On this page you'll find 158 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to ranging, such as: aligning, alining, alphabetizing, alternating, ambling, ambulant, ambulatory.

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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

accumulating

  • accelerating
  • accreting
  • accretion
  • accrual
  • accumulation
  • acquiring
  • acquisition
  • addition
  • agglomeration
  • agglutinating
  • aggregating
  • amassing
  • amassment
  • amplification
  • anthology
  • appreciating
  • archiving
  • arranging
  • assemblage
  • assembling
  • assembly
  • assortment
  • augmentation
  • augmenting
  • balling
  • ballooning
  • banding
  • banking
  • batch
  • batching
  • blowing up
  • booming
  • boost
  • bourgeoning
  • brigading
  • bringing together
  • broadening
  • building up
  • bulking
  • bunching
  • burgeoning
  • caboodle
  • climbing
  • clump
  • clumping
  • cluster
  • clustering
  • collating
  • collation
  • collecting
  • collection
  • collocating
  • combination
  • combining
  • company
  • compilation
  • compiling
  • concentrating
  • congeries
  • conglomerating
  • congregating
  • congregation
  • connecting
  • consolidating
  • constellating
  • convocation
  • corralling
  • creep
  • crescendoing
  • cresting
  • crowd
  • cumulation
  • developing
  • digest
  • distending
  • distension
  • distention
  • doubling
  • drifting
  • enlargement
  • enlarging
  • escalating
  • escalation
  • expanding
  • expansion
  • extension
  • flocking
  • flourishing
  • gain
  • gaining
  • garner
  • garnering
  • gathering
  • getting big
  • getting together
  • grouping
  • growing
  • growth
  • heap
  • heaping
  • heightening
  • herding
  • hike
  • hiving
  • hoard
  • huddling
  • incorporating
  • increase
  • increasing
  • increment
  • inflating
  • inflation
  • intensifying
  • joining
  • jumping
  • kit
  • lengthening
  • levy
  • linking
  • lot
  • lumping
  • mass
  • massing
  • maturing
  • medley
  • merging
  • mess
  • miscellany
  • mobilization
  • mounting
  • multiplication
  • multiplying
  • mushrooming
  • muster
  • mustering
  • number
  • obtaining
  • omnibus
  • organizing
  • packing
  • peaking
  • picking up
  • pile
  • piling
  • piling up
  • pooling
  • pressing
  • proliferating
  • proliferation
  • quadrupling
  • quantity
  • raising
  • rallying
  • re-collecting
  • redoubling
  • regathering
  • regrouping
  • ridging
  • rise
  • rising
  • rocketing
  • rolling up
  • rounding up
  • securing
  • selection
  • set
  • skyrocketing
  • snowballing
  • spread
  • spreading
  • sprouting
  • stack
  • stacking
  • stock
  • stockpile
  • store
  • surging
  • swarming
  • swelling
  • systematizing
  • thronging
  • treasury
  • tripling
  • unifying
  • uniting
  • waxing
  • widening

backfiring

  • boomeranging
  • collapsing
  • declining
  • flopping
  • floundering
  • flunking
  • folding
  • slipping
  • slumping
  • struggling
  • waning
  • washing out

calculating

  • Machiavellian
  • accomplishing
  • achieving
  • adding
  • adding up
  • advertent
  • aiming
  • alert
  • allowing
  • appraising
  • arranging
  • artful
  • aspiring
  • assessing
  • attempting
  • attentive
  • averaging
  • awake
  • banking on
  • blueprinting
  • budgeting
  • cagey
  • cagy
  • calibrating
  • calling
  • calling on
  • calling upon
  • canny
  • careful
  • cautious
  • charting
  • chary
  • choreographing
  • ciphering
  • circuitous
  • circular
  • circumlocutory
  • circumspect
  • committing
  • computing
  • concerting
  • concluding
  • confiding
  • conjecturing
  • conservative
  • considerate
  • considering
  • conspiring
  • contemplating
  • contriving
  • counting
  • crafty
  • crooked
  • cunning
  • curvy
  • debating
  • deceitful
  • deceptive
  • deducing
  • deducting
  • deliberate
  • depending
  • designing
  • devious
  • devising
  • discreet
  • dishonest
  • dividing
  • drafting
  • dreaming
  • duplicitous
  • effecting
  • endeavoring
  • entrusting
  • estimating
  • evaluating
  • executing
  • extrapolating
  • figuring
  • figuring in
  • figuring on
  • figuring out
  • foresighted
  • foresightful
  • forethoughtful
  • framing
  • gaging
  • gathering
  • gauging
  • getting up
  • gingerly
  • going
  • guarded
  • guessing
  • guileful
  • having on
  • heedful
  • hoping
  • hypercautious
  • indirect
  • inferring
  • insidious
  • intelligent
  • intending
  • intriguing
  • intrusting
  • itemizing
  • judging
  • laying out
  • leaning
  • long-winded
  • looking
  • looking to
  • machinating
  • making
  • manipulative
  • meandering
  • meaning
  • measuring
  • meditating
  • misleading
  • multiplying
  • numbering
  • observant
  • organizing
  • outlining
  • performing
  • placing
  • planning
  • plotting
  • politic
  • pondering
  • premeditating
  • preparing
  • projecting
  • prolix
  • proposing
  • provident
  • purporting
  • purposing
  • putting
  • putting up
  • rambling
  • rating
  • reasoning
  • recalculating
  • reckoning
  • recomputing
  • refiguring
  • regardful
  • relying
  • roundabout
  • safe
  • scaling
  • scheming
  • serpentine
  • shaping
  • sharp
  • shrewd
  • sinuous
  • sketching
  • slow
  • sly
  • sneaky
  • standing on
  • striving
  • struggling
  • subtle
  • subtracting
  • summing
  • supposing
  • tallying
  • thoughtful
  • tortuous
  • totaling
  • totalizing
  • totalling
  • tricky
  • trusting
  • trying
  • twisting
  • ultracareful
  • ultracautious
  • underhand
  • underhanded
  • understanding
  • valuing
  • verbose
  • vigilant
  • wandering
  • wary
  • watchful
  • wily
  • winding
  • wishing
  • working out

daubing

  • anointing
  • bedaubing
  • befouling
  • begriming
  • bemiring
  • besmearing
  • besmirching
  • blackening
  • coating
  • collying
  • confusing
  • contaminating
  • crocking
  • defiling
  • dirtying
  • disarranging
  • disarraying
  • discoloring
  • disheveling
  • dishevelling
  • disordering
  • distaining
  • draggling
  • fouling
  • gauming
  • greasing
  • griming
  • gumming
  • jumbling
  • larding
  • messing
  • miring
  • mucking
  • muddling
  • muddying
  • oiling
  • painting
  • pitching
  • plastering
  • polluting
  • smearing
  • smirching
  • smudging
  • soiling
  • staining
  • sullying
  • tainting
  • tarring

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