Synonyms for Leading:

adj.
• central
- Omphalic
- axial
- centric
- centroidal
- mid-way
- middlemost
- midmost
- nuclear
- umbilical
- inmost
• conducive
- calculated to produce
- productive of
- promotive
- helpful
• directing
- Managing
• front
- Vanward
- more frontal
- more obverse
- more vanward
- most frontal
- most obverse
- most vanward
• frontal
- avant-garde
- front-most
- frontal
- vanguard
• important
- four-star
- front page
- front-page
- high up
- high-up
- page-one
- upper-class
• influential
- authoritative
- big gun
- big-gun
- big-wheel
- commanding
- controlling
- hot-dog
- masterful
- motivational
- namer
- powerful
- prejudicial
• master
- Presiding
- directing
- governing
• preceding
- Precursive
- aforeknown
- aforementioned
- forerunning
- pre-existent
- preexistent
- prodromal
- supra
- one time
• superior
- A 1
- a-1
- above
- ascendant
- better
- champion
- choice
- chosen
- consummate
- crowning
- elite
- eminent
- furthermost
- furthest
- king
- maximum
- most
- quintessential
- signal
- sovereign
- superior
- zenith
• top
- apical
- five-star
- loftiest
- maximal
- tiptop
• advance
- beforehand
- earlier
- early
- leading
- previously
• advanced
- breakthrough
- extreme
- higher
- late
- liberal
- precocious
- progressive
- unconventional
• arch
- expert
- finished
• banner
- Red-letter
• best
- first rate
- firstrate
- in comparable
- in imitable
- in-comparable
- in-imitable
- more nonpareil
- more out of sight
- more out-of-sight
- more primo
- more transcendent
- most first rate
- most nonpareil
- most out of sight
- most out-of-sight
- most primo
- nonpareil
- number 1
- out-of-sight
- perfect
- second none
- topser
- topsest
- un equaled
- un paralleled
- un rivaled
- un-equaled
- un-paralleled
- un-rivaled
• big
- heavy duty
- heavyduty
- heavyweight
- more heavy duty
- more heavy-duty
- more heavyduty
- more serious
- most heavy duty
- most heavy-duty
- most heavyduty
- most valuable
• big-league
- bigleague
• blue-chip
- bluechip
• capital
- more overruling
- most fundamental
- most overruling
- over ruling
- over-ruling
- under lying
- under-lying
• cardinal
- in dispensable
- in-dispensable
- over riding
- over-riding
- pivotal
• chief
- more telling
- most telling
• dominant
- Over-bearing
- more obtaining
- more outweighing
- more overbalancing
- more overweighing
- more predominate
- more prevalent
- more surpassing
- most obtaining
- most outweighing
- most overbalancing
- most overweighing
- most predominate
- most surpassing
- out weighing
- out-weighing
- over balancing
- over bearing
- over weighing
- over-balancing
- over-weighing
- pre dominate
- pre siding
- pre vailing
- pre-dominate
- pre-siding
- pre-vailing
- sur passing
- sur-passing
• essential
- more necessary
- more right hand
- more right-hand
- more righthand
- most right hand
- most right-hand
- most righthand
- pre requisite
- re quired
- re-quired
- right-hand
- wanted
• exalted
- high minded
- highest ranking
- highestranking
- highminded
- more highest ranking
- more highest-ranking
- more highestranking
- more top ranking
- more top-ranking
- more topranking
- most highest ranking
- most highest-ranking
- most highestranking
- most ideal
- most top ranking
- most top-ranking
- most topranking
- over blown
- over-blown
- pretentious
- self important
- self-important
- selfimportant
- sub lime
- sub-lime
- top ranking
- topdrawer
- topranking
- up lifting
- up-lifting
• famous
- extra-ordinary
- mightiest
- more applauded
- more lionized
- more much publicized
- more much-publicized
- more muchpublicized
- most applauded
- most famous
- most lionized
- most much publicized
- most much-publicized
- most muchpublicized
- much publicized
- muchpublicized
- re cognized
- re-cognized
• first
- be ginning
- be-ginning
- firststring
- head most
- head of line
- head-most
- in augural
- in beginning
- in-augural
- incipient
- more ahead
- more beginning
- more first string
- more first-string
- more firststring
- more headmost
- more inaugural
- more opening
- more primogenial
- more ranking
- most ahead
- most beginning
- most first string
- most first-string
- most firststring
- most headmost
- most inaugural
- most opening
- most primogenial
- most ranking
- primeval
- right front
- top flight
- top list
- top of list
- top the list
• foremost
- at leading edge
- fore most
- fore-most
- heavy stuff
- more hotdog
- more hotshot
- most hotdog
- most hotshot
• forward
- forth
- forward looking
- forwardlooking
- more facial
- more forth
- more forward looking
- more forward-looking
- more forwardlooking
- more onward
- more progressing
- more propulsive
- more ventral
- more well developed
- more well-developed
- more welldeveloped
- most facial
- most forth
- most forward looking
- most forward-looking
- most forwardlooking
- most onward
- most progressing
- most propulsive
- most ventral
- most well developed
- most well-developed
- most welldeveloped
- pre mature
- pre maturer
- pre maturest
- pre-mature
- pre-maturer
- pre-maturest
- well developed
- welldeveloped
• grand
- grandest
• head
- header
• high-grade
- high grade
- highgrade
- worlder
- worldest
• high-ranking
- high ranking
- highranking
• initial
- in choate
- in-choate
- infant
- initiative
- more commencing
- more germinal
- more initiative
- more nascent
- most commencing
- most germinal
- most initiative
- most nascent
- virgin
• leading
- dominating
• loaded
- pre carious
- pre-carious
• loftiest
- more upmost
- most upmost
- up most
- up-most
• managing
- Organizing
- Overseeing
- more administering
- more advising
- more executing
- more handling
- more husbanding
- more inspecting
- more organizing
- more overseeing
- more piloting
- more regulating
- more steering
- more superintending
- more supervising
- most administering
- most advising
- most executing
- most handling
- most husbanding
- most inspecting
- most organizing
- most overseeing
- most piloting
- most regulating
- most steering
- most superintending
- most supervising
- over seeing
- over-seeing
- super intending
- super vising
- super-intending
- super-vising
• noted
- more celeb
- more redoubted
- more somebody
- most celeb
- most redoubted
- most somebody
- re doubted
- re-doubted
• notorious
- dis honorable
- dis reputable
- dis-honorable
- dis-reputable
- ill famed
- illfamed
- in famous
- more ill famed
- more ill-famed
- more illfamed
- most ill famed
- most ill-famed
- most illfamed
- un disputed
- un-disputed
- unadmirable belled
• successful
- Vaunted
- all-right
- breakout
- bumper
- established
- glorious
- go-go
- golden
- growth
- look back
- meteoric
- productive
- red hot
- self-made
- undefeated
- upwardly mobile
- well-established
adv.
• ahead
- Progressing
- advancing
- along
- ante
- forwards
- on
- onward
- previous
n.
- come in
- dead heat
- drop back
- false start
- the blocks
• prelude
- antecedent
- foregoing
- introduction
- prelude
v.
• controlling
- Bridling
- Disciplining
- Harnessing
• directing
- Bossing
- Lording
- conducting
- mastering
• influencing
- Authorizing
- Biasing
- Empowering
- Influencing
- Predominating
- Prejudicing
- motivating
- powering
- pressuring
- swaying
• lead
- affect
- attend
- be responsible for
- blaze a trail
- bring
- call the shots
- cause
- chaperone
- coerce
- come first
- compel
- convert
- convey
- convoy
- draw
- exceed
- excel
- find a way
- force
- get the jump on
- go along with
- go out in front
- guard
- impel
- introduce
- manage
- motivate
- move
- pass along
- persuade
- pilot
- point out
- point the way
- preface
- preside over
- prevail
- produce
- prompt
- protect
- quarterback
- route
- run things
- safeguard
- see
- serve
- shepherd
- show
- show around
- show in
- show the way
- span
- spur
- squire
- supervise
- tend
- trail-blaze
- transcend
- traverse
- watch over
• lead (a life)
- undergo
• preceding
- Antedating
- Anticipating
- Introducing
- Pioneering
- anteceding
- foreshadowing
- heading off
- predating
- trail-blazing
Other synonyms:

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prime
real

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core
popular

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radical

•

basic

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• exalted

high

• first

advance

• main

keynote

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Reverse Entailment
- Adjective
  market-leading.
Independent
- Adjective
  best, better, biggest, directorate, famous, first, groundbreaking, initial, outstanding, overriding, pilot, prevailing, sophisticated, top-ranking.
- Proper noun, singular
  Criteria, Guidelines, Trustees, officials, highlights, pests.
- Verb, past tense
  directed, Managed, Ran, Referred.
- Verb, gerund or present participle
  according, acting, advancing, affecting, approaching, arriving, asserting, assuming, assuring, attacking, attending, bearing, becoming, before, beginning, being, best, biggest, binding, bring, bringing, building, calling, casting, causing, centre, certain, challenging, clearing, co, collecting, coming, commissioning, completing, concerning, concluding, connecting, consequently, continuing, convening, coordinating, corresponding, counselling, covering, creation, crossing, crushing, dealing, deciding, decreasing, deepening, departing, deserving, designing, determining, developing, directorate, diverting, drafting, dragging, drawing, drive, driving, dumping, ec, economy, emerging, emphasizing, enabling, encouraging, ending, ensuing, expanding, exporting, facing, fighting, filing, finding, flowing, flying, focusing, focussing, follow, following, forecasting, foregoing, fostering, friend, fueling, functioning, generator, getting, giving, going, groundbreaking, growing, handling, happening, heading, hearing, helping, hence, highlighting, history, holding, identifying, impeding, imposing, increasing, incurring, inducing, initiative, instrument, joining, keeping, lacking, launching, learning, leaving, letting, leveraging, living, looking, making, marking, meaning, meeting, melting, missing, moderating, motivating, moving, name, offering, open, operating, ordering, orienting, origin, overlooking, owing, paving, paying, pending, perfect, performing, plan, playing, pointing, posing, posting, practicing, preaching, preceding, precipitating, prestige, prevailing, proceeding, prompting, propelling, protecting, provide, pulling, pushing, putting, qualifying, raising, ranging, ranking, reaching, reducing, reflecting, regarding, releasing, remaining, rendering, resulting, road, running, screening, seeing, seeking, sending, serving, setting, shanghai, shaping, showing, source, spurring, stirring, strengthening, studying, succeeding, suffering, supervising, surrounding, taking, talking, tending, testing, thanks, thinking, threatening, thriving, tracing, training, transition, traveling, trend, trying, turning, unfolding, using, waiting, walking, warning, wearing, where, widening, working, world, wounding, writing, yielding, Achieving, Adding, Addressing, Administering, Advocating, Agencies, Aiming, Alleging, Allowing, Anticipating, Applying, Arising, Arousing, Assessing, Assisting, Attaining, Attempting, Attracting, Begetting, Behaving, Boosting, Carrying, Championing, Claiming, Dialing, Discovering, Displaying, Doing, During, Eliciting, Emanating, Engendering, Enhancing, Entailing, Envisaged, Establishing, Exhibiting, Explaining, Expressing, Extending, Facilitating, Forcing, Forming, Fulfilling, Generating, Granting, Guaranteeing, Having, Hosting, Implying, Inciting, Including, Indicating, Inflicting, Initiating, Instigating, Introducing, Involving, Linking, Maintaining, Mentioning, Navigating, Necessitating, Needing, Negotiating, Obtaining, Occurring, Organizing, Originating, Outlining, Overseeing, Peaking, Permitting, Pertaining, Placing, Realizing, Receiving, Referring, Relating, Requesting, Requiring, Respecting, Routing, Securing, Throwing, Translating, Trending, Undergoing, Waging, Wreaking, 23, Commencing, Comprising, Conferring, Constituting, Containing, Creating, Culminating, Predominating, Preparing, Presenting, Producing, Proposing, Providing, Proving, Purporting, Spawning, Stating, Suggesting, Organizations, benefiting, stressing, burgeoning, sources, sparking, relocating, demonstrating, charting, guides, reasons, ensuring, representing, creates, triggering, unleashing, featuring, Sourcing, departments, targeting, redirecting, stoking, spearheading, Favouring, Practising, killing, e.
Other Related
- Adjective
  authoritative, bellwether, commanding, conducive, dominant, driving, first-rate, flagship, foremost, forward-looking, fundamental, grand, great, greatest, influential, large, lead, leadership, mainstream, managerial, notable, premier, preponderant, prestigious, ranking, renowned, reputable, salient, well-known, world-class, cutting-edge, top-notch, pre-eminent, first-class, high-profile, leading-edge, leadingedge, state-of-the-art, first-level, first-tier, industry-leading, roll-over, world-leading, executive-led.
- Proper noun, singular
  lead, leader, leaders, leadership.
- Verb, gerund or present participle
  commanding, dominating, overriding, provoking, pursuing, riding, Chairing, Delivering, Presiding, implementing, industry-leading.

What are the hypernyms for Leading?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Other hypernyms:
commanding, controlling, directing, governing, guiding, heading, Managing, Overseeing, Shepherding, guiding principle.

What are the hyponyms for Leading?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.

hyponyms for leading (as nouns)
- artifact
  slip, strip.

What are the opposite words for leading?

The term "leading" denotes the act of guiding or directing someone or something. However, it is also important to know its antonyms, which include lagging, following, trailing, and pursuing. The opposite of leading is lagging, which means not being in synchronization with the rest or moving slower. Following is another antonym, which is the act of coming after someone or something. It is used in the context of being a follower or complying with something that is already established. Trailing is another antonym that signifies being behind or following someone or something, while pursuing is an act of chasing or going after something that is out of reach. Knowing antonyms for leading is essential to understand the various contexts in which the word can be used.

What are the antonyms for Leading?

adj.
• advance
- after
- behind
• all
- following
• following
- Seriate
- a while later
- after a while
- after while
- by and by
- by by
- coming after
- coming next
- directly after
- ensuing
- in pursuit
- in search of
- in the wake of
- in wake of
- later on
- more afterward
- more henceforth
- more hinder
- more presently
- more resulting
- more seriate
- most afterward
- most henceforth
- most hinder
- most presently
- most resulting
- most seriate
- next off
- on scent
- on the scent
- sub sequent
- sub-sequent
- thener
- thenest
- trailing
- whener
- whenest
• hindmost
- hind most
- hind-most
• last
- hindmost
• leading
- inferior
- last
- subordinate
- supplementary
- unimportant
• noun
- ancillary
- assistant
- coadjutor
- collateral
- deputy
- down
- inconsequential
- inconsiderable
- insignificant
- junior
- least
- less
- lesser
- lower
- lowly
- negligible
- pursuing
- second
- secondary
- slight
- subsidiary
- trifling
- trivial
- under
• trailing
- falling behind
- more behind
- more dawdling
- more tracking
- most behind
- most dawdling
- most hunting
- most tracking
v.
• lead
- comply
- consent
- fall behind
- follow
- lose
- obey
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Usage examples for Leading

There is no power on earth like the power of a holy, consecrated life, because he who is leading such a life is already above the world, and belongs to a higher kingdom.

"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"

Marcus Dods

leading her to a fence he tied her to it and began again.

"My Lady of the Chimney Corner"

Alexander Irvine

What's all this leading up to, colonel?

"The Foreign Hand Tie"

Gordon Randall Garrett

Famous quotes with Leading

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

Edward Abbey
When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.

M. H. Abrams
When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.

Maude Adams
When I came from horizontal vertical straight all old stuff then suddenly I go also again in curved lines. And there I submit to changes in the intensity of my hand leading a tool, you see.

Josef Albers
I've been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I'm nominated as actor in a supporting part. If I don't win, I'll just wait until I'm nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?

Alan Alda

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adj.

adv.

n.

v.

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