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giving - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: giving
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: bestowing
Synonyms: conferring, offering, permitting, yielding, allowing, awarding, bequeathing, ceding, contributing, conveying, dispensing, distributing, doling out, donating, endowing, expending, furnishing, granting, handing out, imparting, passing out, presenting, remitting, supplying, transferring
Antonyms: getting, appropriating, taking
Main Entry: give
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: contribute, supply, transfer
Synonyms: accord, administer, allow, award, bequeath, bestow, cede, come across, commit, confer, consign, convey, deed, deliver, dish out*, dispense, dispose of, dole out, donate, endow, entrust, furnish, gift, grant, hand down, hand out, hand over, lease, pass out, permit, present, provide, relinquish, remit, sell, shell out*, subsidize, tip, transmit, turn over, vouchsafe, will, ante up, fork over, heap upon, lavish upon, lay upon, let have, make over*, parcel out, part with, pass down, pony up, throw in
Antonyms: hold, keep, take
Main Entry: give
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: communicate
Synonyms: air, announce, broadcast, carry, deliver, emit, express, furnish, impart, issue, notify, present, pronounce, publish, put, read, render, state, supply, transfer, transmit, utter, vent, ventilate, be a source of
Antonyms: conceal, keep, refrain, withhold
Main Entry: give
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: demonstrate, proffer
Synonyms: administer, bestow, confer, dispense, display, evidence, extend, furnish, hold out, indicate, issue, manifest, minister, offer, pose, present, produce, provide, put on, render, return, show, tender, yield, set forth
Antonyms: keep
Main Entry: give
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: yield, collapse
Synonyms: allow, bend, break, cave, cede, concede, contract, crumble, crumple, devote, fail, fall, flex, fold, go, grant, hand over, lend, open, recede, relax, relent, relinquish, retire, retreat, sag, shrink, sink, slacken, surrender, weaken, bow to, fold up, give way
Antonyms: fight, hold up, withstand
Main Entry: give
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: perform action
Synonyms: address, apply, bend, buckle down, cause, devote, direct, do, engender, lead, make, occasion, produce, throw, turn
Concept Thesaurus
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-nouns
giving; bestowal, bestowment, donation; presentation, presentment; accordance; concession; delivery, consignment, dispensation, communication, endowment; investment, investiture; award., almsgiving, charity, liberality, generosity., [Thing given] gift, donation, present, cadeau; fairing; free gift, boon, favor, benefaction, grant, offering, oblation, sacrifice, immolation; lagniappe [U.S.], pilon [U.S.]., grace, act of grace, bonus., allowance, contribution, subscription, subsidy, tribute, subvention., bequest, legacy, devise, will, dotation, dot, appanage; voluntary settlement, voluntary conveyance [more]; amortization., alms, largess, bounty, dole, sportule, donative, help, oblation, offertory, honorarium, gratuity, Peter pence, sportula, Christmas box, Easter offering, vail, douceur, drink money, pourboire, trinkgeld, bakshish; fee (recompense) [more]; consideration., bribe, bait, ground bait; peace offering, handsel; boodle, graft, grease., giver, grantor; donor, feoffer, settlor.
-verbs
deliver, hand, pass, put into the hands of; hand over, make over, deliver over, pass over, turn over; assign dower., present, give away, dispense, dispose of; give out, deal out, dole out, mete out, fork out, squeeze out., pay [more]; render, impart, communicate., concede, cede, yield, part with, shed, cast; spend [more]., give, bestow, confer, grant, accord, award, assign., intrust, consign, vest in., make a present; allow, contribute, subscribe, furnish its quota., invest, endow, settle upon; bequeath, leave, devise., furnish, supply, help; administer to; afford, spare; accommodate with, indulge with, favor with; shower down upon; lavish, pour on, thrust upon., tip, bribe; tickle the palm, grease the palm; offer [more]; sacrifice, immolate.
-adjectives
giving; given; allowed, allowable; concessional; communicable; charitable, eleemosynary, sportulary, tributary; gratis [more]; donative.
-phrases
auctor pretiosa facit; ex dono; res est ingeniosa dare [Ovid].
Antonyms: receiving
Main Entry: big-hearted
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very kind
Synonyms: altruistic, benevolent, compassionate, generous, giving, gracious, noble
Main Entry: largess
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: generosity
Synonyms: aid, alms, altruistic, benefaction, benevolent, charitable, charity, donation, endowment, generous, gift, giving, philanthropy, thoughtful
Main Entry: openhanded
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: generous
Synonyms: altruistic, benevolent, big, big-hearted, bountiful, charitable, considerate, giving, helpful, hospitable, kind, kindhearted, kindly, liberal, magnanimous, philanthropic, thoughtful, unselfish
Main Entry: presentation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: performance; something given, displayed
Synonyms: act, appearance, arrangement, award, debut, delivery, demonstration, display, dog and pony show*, donation, exhibition, exposition, giving, introduction, launch, offering, overture, pitch, present, production, proposal, proposition, reception, remembrance, rendition, representation, show, submission, bestowal, coming out, conferral, delivering, investiture, knockdown*, launching, sales pitch, staging
Main Entry: production
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: creating of goods, result
Synonyms: assembly, bearing, blossoming, construction, creation, direction, fabrication, generation, giving, making, management, manufacture, manufacturing, origination, preparation, presentation, producing, provision, reproduction, return, yielding, authoring, elongation, engendering, extention, formulation, fructification, lengthening, prolongation, protraction, rendering, staging
Antonyms: destruction, ruin
Main Entry: aid
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: help, support
Synonyms: advancement, advice, advocacy, allowance, assist, assistance, attention, backing, backup, benefaction, benefit, benevolence, bounty, care, charity, comfort, compensation, cooperation, deliverance, encouragement, endowment, favor, furtherance, gift, giving, guidance, hand, handout, lift, ministry, patronage, promotion, reinforcement, relief, rescue, reward, salvation, service, subsidy, sustenance, treatment, alleviation, leg up, ministration, shot in the arm
Notes: aid is assistance or a source of assistance; aide is an assistant
Antonyms: hindrance, impediment, injury, obstruction, blockage
Main Entry: appropriation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: allocation, setting aside
Synonyms: allotment, allowance, apportionment, assignment, concession, donation, giving, grant, provision, stipend, stipulation, subsidy, budgeting, earmarking, endowing, funding, setting apart, sponsoring
Antonyms: keeping, refusal, rejection
Main Entry: plastic
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: easily influenced
Synonyms: amenable, bending, compliant, docile, ductile, flexible, giving, impressionable, malleable, manageable, pliable, pliant, receptive, responsive, supple, susceptible, tractable, yielding, influenceable, moldable, suggestible
Antonyms: inflexible, unflappable
Main Entry: accord
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: give approval, grant
Synonyms: accede, acquiesce, admit, allow, award, bestow, concede, confer, endow, give, present, render, tender, vouchsafe
Antonyms: argue, challenge, deny, disallow, disapprove, oppose, question, refuse, withhold
Main Entry: address
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: devote effort to something
Synonyms: dig, direct, give, go for*, take up, try, turn, undertake, apply oneself to, attend to, concentrate on, devote oneself to, engage in, focus on, go at*, hammer away, have a go at, have at*, knuckle down to, peg away, pitch into*, plug away at, take care of, throw oneself into, turn to
Antonyms: avoid, cut, disregard, ignore, overlook, pass, shun, slight
Main Entry: administer
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: dispense something needed
Synonyms: apply, apportion, authorize, bring, contribute, deal, deliver, disburse, distribute, dole out, execute, extend, furnish, give, impose, inflict, issue, offer, perform, portion, proffer, provide, regulate, serve, supply, tender, measure out, mete out
Antonyms: deny, frustrate, refuse, withhold
Main Entry: allocate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: assign; divide among
Synonyms: allot, apportion, appropriate, budget, cut, designate, dish out*, earmark, give, mete, share, slice, admeasure, divvy, set aside
Antonyms: keep, keep together
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