taking

The word “taking” has 2 syllables: tak-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈteɪkɪŋ/

What is synonym and antonym for taking?

In the thesaurus, “taking” has 414 synonyms and 169 antonyms.

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

Synonyms for taking

Junoesque
abiding
absorbing
accepting
accommodating
accounting
accrediting
acquiescing
acquiring
acting
addressing
admitting
adopting
adorable
aesthetic
aesthetical
affecting
agreeable
allowing
alluring
annihilating
appealing
appointing
arresting
asking
assassinating
assuming
attractive
bearing
beating
beauteous
beautiful
beckoning
begging
behaving
believing
besting
bettering
bewitching
bidding
biding
blotting out
blowing away
blowing out
bombing
bonnie
bonny
breaking
bringing off
brooking
bumping off
burying
butchering
buying
calling for
capitulating
capping
captivating
carrying
carrying off
carrying out
catching
challenging
charming
cherry-picking
chocolate-box
choosing
claiming
clasping
clenching
clobbering
clutching
comely
coming to grips with
commanding
communicative
concluding
confirming
conquering
contagious
containing
contracting
controlling
copping
countenancing
creaming
crediting
croaking
crushing
culling
cunning
cute
cutting down
dainty
decimating
deducing
defeating
delicate
delightful
demanding
designating
desirable
destroying
directing
dishy
dispatching
doing away with
doing down
doing for
doing in
dollish
drop-dead
drubbing
eclipsing
electing
elegant
embracing
enchanting
enclosing
encompassing
enduring
enfolding
engaging
engineering
enjoining
entailing
entering
entertaining
enthralling
enticing
espousing
esthetic
esthetical
euthanatizing
euthanizing
exacting
exceeding
excelling
executing
expansive
exquisite
eye-catching
failing
fair
fascinating
felling
fellowshiping
fellowshipping
fetching
fielding
financing
finessing
finishing
fitting
fixing
flamboyant
flashy
flattening
flawless
flourishing
foxy
gaining
garnering
getting
getting around
getting off
getting the better of
glamorous
glamourous
glorious
glossy
going
good
good-looking
goodly
gorgeous
grasping
gripping
guiding
hacking
handling
handpicking
handsome
hanging on to
harboring
having
having a grip on
holding
hot
housing
hunky
icing
inclosing
infectious
inferring
influencing
insisting
interesting
inviting
involving
jockeying
killing
killing off
knocking for a loop
knocking off
knocking over
knockout
lacking
languishing
laying hold of
licking
likely
living with
looker
lovely
lovesome
luring
luscious
magnetic
magnificent
making away with
managing
maneuvering
manipulating
marking
martyring
massacring
mastering
meeting
mesmeric
micromanaging
mowing
murdering
nabbing
naming
necessitating
needing
negotiating
neutralizing
nominating
nosing out
nubile
obtaining
offering
offing
okaying
operating
outdistancing
outdoing
outfighting
outshining
outstripping
overbearing
overcoming
overmatching
overpowering
overthrowing
overtopping
overwhelming
pandemic
panning out
perfect
performing
permitting
personable
photogenic
picking
picking up
pipping
playing
pleasant
pleasing
pocketing
preferring
prepossessing
preselecting
presentable
pressing
presuming
pretty
prettyish
procuring
provocative
pulchritudinous
pulling
purchasing
putting away
putting down
questing
radiant
ratifying
ravishing
reacting
rebuying
receiving
redounding
regulating
repurchasing
requiring
respecting
resplendent
responding
resulting
routing
rubbing out
running
sanctioning
scoring
scragging
seating
securing
seductive
seemly
seizing
selecting
setting
setting store by
setting store on
sexy
shellacking
shouldering
showstopping
showy
sightly
sinking
skinning
skunking
slaughtering
slaying
slick
smiting
smoking
snatching
snazzy
snowing under
snuffing
splashy
splendid
standing
standing for
statuesque
steering
sticking out
stipulating
stomaching
stopping
striking
studly
stunning
subduing
subjugating
sublime
succeeding
suffering
suiciding
superb
supporting
supposing
surmounting
surpassing
sustaining
swallowing
swaying
sweating out
sweeping
sweet
swinging
tabbing
tagging
taking effect
taking hold
taking out
tantalizing
tapping
teasing
telegenic
tempting
terminating
thrashing
tolerating
toothsome
topping
toughing it out
transcending
transferable
transmittable
treating
trimming
trouncing
trusting
understanding
unseating
upending
upsetting
vanquishing
walloping
wanting
warranting
wasting
waxing
weakening
wearing
welcoming
well-favored
whacking
whipping
wilting
winning
winsome
withering
working
worsening
worsting
zingy

Antonyms for taking

abhorrent
abominable
animating
avoiding
backfiring
bad
banishing
banning
barring
blackballing
blacklisting
boring
botching
bungling
bypassing
challenging
circumventing
collapsing
combating
combatting
coming back
contesting
declining
delivering
denying
deporting
disagreeable
disallowing
disapproving
disbelieving
discarding
discharging
discrediting
disenchanting
disgusting
dismissing
disputing
distrusting
dodging
doubting
dreadful
dropping
eluding
entrusting
escaping
evading
exiling
expelling
failing
falling
fighting
fizzling
flopping
flunking
folding
foozling
forbearing
foul
freeing
frightful
frumpish
frumpy
fumbling
gaining
ghastly
giving
giving up
going down
going under
grotesque
handing
handing over
having
healing
hideous
holding
holding off
homely
horrible
ill-favored
intrusting
jettisoning
liberating
loathsome
lousing up
marketing
mending
merchandising
merchandizing
misdoubting
mishandling
missing
mistrusting
muffing
nasty
nauseating
negativing
nurturing
objectionable
offensive
opposing
ostracizing
ousting
owning
passing
plain
possessing
protesting
questioning
raising
rallying
rebounding
recouping
recovering
recuperating
refusing
rejecting
releasing
relinquishing
repellant
repellent
repudiating
repugnant
repulsive
resisting
restoring
resurrecting
resuscitating
retailing
reviving
revolting
scamping
selling
shocking
sickening
snapping back
spurning
suspecting
terrible
throwing away
throwing out
transferring
transmitting
turning down
turning over
ugly
unaesthetic
unappealing
unappetizing
unattractive
unbeautiful
unbecoming
uncomely
uncute
unhanding
unhandsome
unimposing
unlovely
unpleasant
unpleasing
unprepossessing
unpretty
unshapely
unsightly
vending
vetoing
vile
washing out
withstanding

Meanings of taking

verb
1. To get into one's hands, possession or control, with or without force.
2. To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
3. To remove.
4. To have sex with.
5. To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
6. To grasp or grip.
7. To select or choose; to pick.
8. To adopt (select) as one's own.
9. To carry or lead (something or someone).
10. To use as a means of transportation.
11. To visit; to include in a course of travel.
12. To obtain for use by payment or lease.
13. To consume.
14. To experience, undergo, or endure.
15. To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
16. To regard in a specified way.
17. To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
18. To understand (especially in a specified way).
19. To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
20. To believe, to accept the statements of.
21. To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
22. To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
23. To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
24. To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
25. To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
26. To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
27. (of a material) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to being treated by (polish, etc).
28. (of a ship) To let in (water).
29. To require.
30. To proceed to fill.
31. To fill, to use up (time or space).
32. To avail oneself of.
33. To practice; perform; execute; carry out; do.
34. To assume or perform (a form or role).
35. To bind oneself by.
36. To move into.
37. To go into, through, or along.
38. To have and use one's recourse to.
39. To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
40. To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
41. To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
42. To take a picture, photograph, etc of (a person, scene, etc).
43. To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
44. (now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
45. To deal with.
46. To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
47. To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow to pass.
48. To accept as an input to a relation.
49. To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
50. To engage, take hold or have effect.
51. To become; to be affected in a specified way.
52. (possibly obsolete) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
53. An intensifier.
54. To deliver, bring, give (something) to (someone).
55. (obsolete outside dialectal and slang) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or hit.
noun
1. The act by which something is taken.
2. A seizure of someone's goods or possessions.
3. A state of mental distress, resulting in excited or erratic behavior (in the expression in a taking).
4. (in the plural) Cash or money received (by a shop or other business, for example).
adjective
1. Alluring; attractive.
2. Infectious; contagious.

Example Sentences

She is taking a break from her studies to travel abroad.
The teacher praised him for taking initiative in solving the problem.
They are taking precautions to ensure the safety of everyone involved.
He is taking medication to manage his condition effectively.
The team is taking the lead in implementing new strategies for growth.

On this page you'll find 583 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to taking, such as: Junoesque, abhorrent, abiding, abominable, absorbing, accepting, accommodating.

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