talent

The word “talent” has 2 syllables: tal-ent

It's pronounced as /ˈtælənt/


What is synonym and antonym for talent?

In the thesaurus, “talent” has 61 synonyms and 14 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for talent

  • a way with
  • affinity
  • aptitude
  • aptness
  • art
  • bent
  • bias
  • capability
  • capacity
  • competence
  • craft
  • disposition
  • ear
  • endowment
  • expertise
  • eye
  • facility
  • faculty
  • feel
  • flair
  • forte
  • genius
  • gift
  • green thumb
  • habitude
  • hang
  • head
  • impulse
  • inclination
  • instinct
  • inventiveness
  • knack
  • know-how
  • leaning
  • mind
  • nose
  • partiality
  • penchant
  • potential
  • power
  • predilection
  • predisposition
  • proclivity
  • proficiency
  • propensity
  • savvy
  • set
  • skill
  • smarts
  • specialism
  • speciality
  • specialty
  • tendency
  • the formula
  • the goods
  • the right stuff
  • thing
  • touch
  • turn
  • way
  • what it takes

Antonyms for talent

Meanings of talent

  • noun
    1. A marked natural ability or skill.
    2. A unit of weight and money used in ancient times in Greece, the Roman Empire, and the Middle East.
    3. A desire or inclination for something.
    4. People of talent, viewed collectively; a talented person.
    5. The men or (especially) women of a place or area, judged by their attractiveness.

Example Sentences

  • She has a remarkable talent for playing the piano.
  • His artistic talent became evident at a young age.
  • The company is looking to hire individuals with diverse talents.
  • The school's talent show showcased a wide range of talents from singing to dance.
  • Developing a skill requires dedication and nurturing of one's talent.

On this page you'll find 75 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to talent, such as: a way with, affinity, aptitude, aptness, art, bent, bias.

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

Related Words

talentless

  • amateur
  • amateurish
  • beginning
  • crude
  • curbstone
  • dilettante
  • dilettantish
  • entry-level
  • fresh
  • green
  • incapable
  • incompetent
  • inexperienced
  • inexpert
  • jackleg
  • new
  • nonprofessional
  • primitive
  • raw
  • self-taught
  • unable
  • unfinished
  • unfit
  • ungifted
  • uninitiated
  • unpolished
  • unprepared
  • unprofessional
  • unqualified
  • unschooled
  • unseasoned
  • unskilled
  • unskillful
  • untalented
  • untaught
  • untested
  • untrained
  • untried
  • untutored
  • would-be

faculty

  • ability
  • academics
  • address
  • adequacy
  • adroitness
  • advisers
  • affinity
  • aptitude
  • aptness
  • bent
  • bias
  • body
  • capability
  • capableness
  • capacity
  • cleverness
  • clinic
  • college
  • competence
  • competency
  • corps
  • deftness
  • department
  • dexterity
  • disposition
  • ear
  • effectiveness
  • effectualness
  • employees
  • endowment
  • equipment
  • eye
  • facility
  • feel
  • fitness
  • flair
  • form
  • forte
  • function
  • genius
  • gift
  • gray matter
  • habitude
  • hand
  • hang
  • head
  • impulse
  • inclination
  • influence
  • instinct
  • institute
  • instructors
  • intelligence
  • ken
  • knack
  • knowing way around
  • leaning
  • lecturers
  • literati
  • means
  • mentors
  • might
  • mind
  • nose
  • organization
  • partiality
  • peculiarity
  • pedagogues
  • penchant
  • personnel
  • pistol
  • potency
  • potential
  • power
  • predilection
  • predisposition
  • proclivity
  • professorate
  • professors
  • proficiency
  • profs
  • propensity
  • property
  • prowess
  • puissance
  • quality
  • readiness
  • reason
  • researchers
  • resourcefulness
  • resources
  • right stuff
  • scholars
  • sense
  • skill
  • society
  • specialism
  • speciality
  • specialty
  • staff
  • staying power
  • strength
  • stuff
  • talent
  • tendency
  • touch
  • turn
  • tutors
  • understanding
  • university
  • usefulness
  • way
  • what it takes
  • wherewithal
  • wits
  • workers

qualification

  • ability
  • accomplishment
  • adequacy
  • allowance
  • aptitude
  • attainment
  • attribute
  • capability
  • capacity
  • caveat
  • command
  • competence
  • competency
  • condition
  • contingency
  • credentials
  • criterion
  • demand
  • eligibility
  • endowment
  • essential
  • exception
  • exemption
  • experience
  • expertise
  • facility
  • faculty
  • fitness
  • flair
  • forte
  • genius
  • gift
  • goods
  • if
  • knack
  • know-how
  • limitation
  • long suit
  • makings
  • mastership
  • mastery
  • metier
  • might
  • modification
  • must
  • necessity
  • need
  • objection
  • postulate
  • potentiality
  • precondition
  • prerequisite
  • proficiency
  • provision
  • proviso
  • qualifiedness
  • quality
  • requirement
  • requisite
  • reservation
  • restriction
  • skill
  • specialism
  • speciality
  • specialty
  • stipulation
  • strings
  • strong suit
  • stuff
  • suitability
  • suitableness
  • talent
  • terms
  • what it takes

effecting

  • ability
  • accomplishing
  • achievement
  • achieving
  • act
  • acting
  • adequate
  • advancing
  • arete
  • art
  • attainment
  • begetting
  • beginning
  • binding
  • breeding
  • bringing
  • bringing about
  • bringing forth
  • bringing on
  • building
  • capability
  • capable
  • carrying through
  • carrying-out
  • catalyzing
  • causing
  • completion
  • composing
  • conclusion
  • conclusive
  • constructing
  • consummation
  • contentedness
  • contentment
  • coup
  • creating
  • crowning
  • culmination
  • cultivating
  • deciding
  • decisive
  • deed
  • determinative
  • determining
  • developing
  • discharge
  • discharging
  • doing
  • drawing on
  • effective
  • effectuating
  • efficacious
  • efficient
  • effort
  • enacting
  • encouraging
  • end
  • engendering
  • establishing
  • executing
  • execution
  • exploit
  • fabricating
  • fashioning
  • fathering
  • feat
  • finish
  • forcible
  • forging
  • forming
  • forwarding
  • fostering
  • founding
  • fruition
  • fulfilling
  • fulfillment
  • furthering
  • generating
  • giving rise to
  • gratification
  • implementation
  • in force
  • inaugurating
  • inducing
  • initiating
  • innovating
  • instituting
  • introducing
  • invoking
  • just the ticket
  • kick
  • kicks observance
  • launching
  • lawful
  • legal
  • licit
  • making
  • manufacturing
  • nourishing
  • nurturing
  • occasioning
  • operating
  • originating
  • perfection
  • performance
  • pioneering
  • potent
  • powerful
  • practicable
  • producing
  • production
  • productive
  • proficiency
  • promoting
  • prompting
  • qualified
  • realization
  • rendering
  • serviceable
  • setting
  • setting up
  • shaping
  • skill
  • sound
  • spawning
  • starting
  • stroke
  • strong
  • successful
  • talent
  • telling
  • triumph
  • turning out
  • useful
  • valid
  • virtuous
  • workable
  • working
  • yielding
  • you got it

able

  • accomplished
  • ace
  • adept
  • adequate
  • adroit
  • all-around
  • all-round
  • allowed
  • apt
  • capable
  • clever
  • competent
  • effective
  • empowered
  • enabled
  • equal
  • equal to
  • equipped
  • experienced
  • expert
  • facile
  • fit
  • free
  • good
  • in a position to
  • know the ropes
  • master
  • masterful
  • masterly
  • on the ball
  • overqualified
  • practiced
  • practised
  • prepared
  • proficient
  • protean
  • qualified
  • ready
  • savvy
  • schooled
  • seasoned
  • skilled
  • skillful
  • smart
  • suitable
  • suited
  • talented
  • trained
  • up to it
  • up to snuff
  • versatile
  • veteran
  • willing

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