Synonyms for Working:

adj.
• acting
- alternate
- deputy
- functioning
- operating
- performing
- practicing
- pro tem
- surrogate
- temporary
• active
- Exertive
- shifting
- swarming
- walking
• hired
- signed up
• occupied
- too much on plate
• operational
- in service
• running
- cursive
- in succession
• working
- laboring
- laborious
- on duty
- toiling
• active, occupied
- hot
- in full swing
- moving
- on fire
- on track
• alive
- Subsisting
- growing
- more around
- more subsisting
- more zoetic
- most around
- most subsisting
- most zoetic
- zoetic
• all
- working
• begun
- be gun
- be-gun
- more happening
- most happening
• busy
- having a full plate
- having enough on one plate
- having enough on ones plate
- having enough on plate
- having enough one plate
- having enough one's plate
- having enough ones plate
- having enough plate
- having fish fry
- having fish to fry
- having full plate
- having many irons fire
- having many irons in fire
- having many irons the fire
- in else possession
- in else's possession
- in elses possession
- in field
- in laboratory
- in meeting
- in someone else possession
- in someone elses possession
- in the laboratory
- more diligent
- more overloaded
- more slaving
- more snowed
- more swamped
- most overloaded
- most slaving
- most snowed
- most swamped
- on go
- over loaded
- over-loaded
- un available
- un-available
- up ears
- up one ears
- up one's ears
- up ones ears
- up to ears
- up to one ears
- up to ones ears
- with a customer
- with customer
• engaged
- doinger
- doingest
- in tent
- more interested
- more practicing
- most interested
- most practicing
- pre occupied
- pre-occupied
- preoccupied
- pursuing
- wrapped up
• exploitable
- more exploitative
- more exploitatory
- more exploitive
- most exploitative
- most exploitatory
- most exploitive
• jobholding
- more inked
- most inked
- on payroll
- on the payroll
• live
- un settled
- un-settled
• retaining
- Having
- Suppressing
n.
- O.K.
- all-right
- cardboard cut-out
- be back in business
- hold-down
- in someone's employ
- in the line of duty
• cultivation
- agrologies
- agronomicses
- plowings
- tillages
• on duty
- duty
• running
- Superintendency
- co-ordination
- coordination
- coordinations
- intendance
v.
• acting
- Behaving
- Comporting
- Endeavoring
- Perpetrating
- Transacting
- appearing
- conducting
- executing
- exercising
- officiating
- reacting
• serving
- Aiding
- Assisting
- helping
Other synonyms:

•

service

•

alive
employment

•

behavior
reaction

•

operation
performance

Other relevant words:

• busy

occupied

• employed

engaged

• engaged

busy

• functioning

effective
going

• on the job

on-the-job

• Other relevant words (adjective):

• Other relevant words (noun):

• Other relevant words (transitive noun):

Doing
serving

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Equivalence
- Verb, past tense
  collaborated.
Reverse Entailment
- Adjective
  hard-working.
- Verb, past tense
  functioned.
- Verb, gerund or present participle
  functioning.
Independent
- Adjective
  functioning, hardworking, involved, operative, workable, wrought, working-class, work-.
- Proper noun, singular
  collaboration, data, functioning, Has, women, Its, Minorities, Workmen, Boats, Collaborations, Drives, Forms, Recommendations, Records, Specialists, servants, statements, workers, vessels, decisions, contributions, definitions, participants, organisations.
- Noun, singular or mass
  collaboration, operative, walking, takes, operandi, professionnelle.
- Verb, past tense
  based, collaboration, involved, job, posted, suspended, Acted, Operated, Served.
- Verb, gerund or present participle
  according, actively, attacking, beginning, being, belonging, binding, caring, catering, changing, circulating, collaboration, combining, coming, concerning, conducting, consensus, contact, continuing, contributing, counselling, covering, creation, customer, dealing, devising, emerging, encouraging, exhibit, farming, fighting, financing, fishing, focusing, funding, getting, giving, going, growing, guiding, heart, helping, holding, household, improving, increasing, interesting, intervening, investigating, iraqi, joining, keeping, labouring, leading, looking, marching, means, moving, nick, passing, playing, popular, possible, practicing, pressing, problem, prostitution, pulling, pursuing, pushing, putting, regarding, rotating, round, rule, seeking, shooting, sitting, speaking, standard, starting, steps, strengthening, striving, struggling, studying, taking, thanks, travelling, trying, unloading, walking, writing, years, Addressing, Adjudicating, Adopting, Aiming, Attempting, Carrying, Delivering, Devoting, Discussing, Earning, Elaborating, Employing, Evolving, Facilitating, Formulating, Having, Including, Maintaining, Managing, Negotiating, Occupying, Organizing, Treating, Undergoing, 19, Considering, Cultivating, Preparing, Producing, Providing, takes, agents, cases, operates, principles, regards, outcomes, results, committees, implementing, representing, mechanisms, OECD, UNDP, examples, partnering, Iraqis, endeavouring, 2003, 2001, !, ..., \.
- Verb, 3rd person singular present
  needs, helps, operates, underlies.
- Verb, base form
  thrust, travailler.
Other Related
- Adjective
  job, work, works, Worked, working-level.
- Proper noun, singular
  job, work, works, Worked, jobs.
- Noun, singular or mass
  functioning, job, work, working-level.
- Adverb
  work.
- Verb, past tense
  engaged.
- Verb, gerund or present participle
  engaging, job, laboring, performing, proceeding, Assisting, Progressing.
- Verb, 3rd person singular present
  job.

What are the hypernyms for Working?

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

Other hypernyms:
activity, effort, enterprise, industry, job, labor, occupation, profession, task, undertaking.

What are the hyponyms for Working?

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

hyponyms for working (as nouns)
- artifact
  excavation.

What are the opposite words for working?

The antonyms for the word "working" include, inaction, idleness, rest, relaxation, leisure, play, break, vacation, and holiday. Inaction or idleness refers to the absence of work, where one is not engaged in any activity or task. Rest, relaxation, and leisure denote taking a break from work or engaging in activities that do not require physical or mental exertion. Play refers to engaging in recreational activities that bring joy or entertainment. A break, vacation or holiday is a period of time where one takes time off from work to recharge or engage in non-work-related activities. Understanding the antonyms for the word working can help us appreciate the value of rest and recharging in achieving optimal productivity.

What are the antonyms for Working?

adj.
• active, occupied
- apathetic
- idle
- inactive
- inoperative
- passive
- unemployed
- unengaged
- unexciting
- unoccupied
- unworking
• brave, willing
- game
• broken
- Slivered
- coming unstuck
- de moralized
- de pressed
- de-moralized
- de-pressed
- dis connected
- dis heartened
- dis honored
- dis integrated
- dis jointed
- dis membered
- dis obeyed
- dis regarded
- dis-connected
- dis-heartened
- dis-honored
- dis-integrated
- dis-jointed
- dis-membered
- dis-obeyed
- dis-regarded
- fallen apart
- fractured
- gone pieces
- gone pot
- gone to pieces
- gone to pot
- in complete
- in disrepair
- in fringed
- in need of repair
- in need repair
- in operable
- in pieces
- in shop
- in the shop
- in-coherent
- in-complete
- in-fringed
- in-operable
- inoperable
- more browbeaten
- more busted
- more collapsed
- more crumbled
- more crushed
- more demolished
- more disheartened
- more dismembered
- more disobeyed
- more disregarded
- more fragmented
- more humbled
- more ignored
- more infringed
- more inoperable
- more mumbled
- more muttered
- more overpowered
- more rent
- more retracted
- more ruptured
- more severed
- more shattered
- more shivered
- more shot
- more shredded
- more slivered
- more spastic
- more stammering
- more tamed
- more traduced
- more transgressed
- more vanquished
- more wracked
- most browbeaten
- most burst
- most busted
- most collapsed
- most crumbled
- most crushed
- most demolished
- most disheartened
- most disintegrated
- most dismembered
- most disregarded
- most fractured
- most fragmented
- most humbled
- most ignored
- most infringed
- most inoperable
- most mangled
- most mumbled
- most muttered
- most overpowered
- most pulverized
- most rent
- most retracted
- most riven
- most ruptured
- most severed
- most shivered
- most shot
- most shredded
- most slivered
- most spastic
- most split
- most stammering
- most tamed
- most transgressed
- most vanquished
- most wracked
- not functioning
- on fritz
- on shelf
- on the shelf
- out
- out commission
- out kilter
- out of kilter
- out of whack
- out order
- out whack
- over powered
- over-powered
- spastic
- un satisfactory
- un-intelligible
- un-satisfactory
• broken, not working
- damaged
- defective
• closed
- Padlocked
- gone fishing
- more concluded
- more folded
- more padlocked
- more resolved
- more self sufficing
- more self supported
- more self sustained
- more self sustaining
- more self-sufficing
- more self-supported
- more self-sustained
- more self-sustaining
- more selfsufficing
- more selfsupported
- more selfsustained
- more selfsustaining
- most concluded
- most folded
- most padlocked
- most resolved
- most self sufficing
- most self supported
- most self sustaining
- most self-sufficing
- most self-supported
- most self-sustained
- most self-sustaining
- most selfsupported
- not open
- out business
- re-solved
- self centered
- self contained
- self sufficient
- self sufficing
- self supported
- self supporting
- self sustaining
- self-sufficing
- self-sustained
- self-sustaining
- selfcentered
- selfcontained
- selfsufficient
- selfsufficing
- selfsupported
- selfsupporting
- selfsustaining
• crippled
- de formed
- de-formed
- gimper
- gimpest
- halter
- haltest
- housebound
- in capacitated
- in-capacitated
- more enfeebled
- more hamstrung
- more hog tied
- more hog-tied
- more hogtied
- more housebound
- more marred
- more sidelined
- most enfeebled
- most hamstrung
- most hog tied
- most hog-tied
- most hogtied
- most marred
- most sidelined
- sidelined
• cut open
- torn
• damaged
- beat-up
- beatup
- flawed
- flubbed
- glitched
- in poor condition
- in smithereens
- more beat up
- more beat-up
- more beatup
- more blemished
- more dinged
- more flawed
- more flubbed
- more glitched
- more snafued
- more sunk
- more totaled
- most beat up
- most beat-up
- most beatup
- most blemished
- most dinged
- most flawed
- most flubbed
- most glitched
- most snafued
- most sunk
- most totaled
- mucked up
- no go
- out action
- out of action
- totaled
- un sound
- un sounder
- un soundest
- un-sound
- un-sounder
- un-soundest
• dead
- anesthetized
- bereft life
- bereft of life
- by gone
- by-gone
- de ceased
- de parted
- de-ceased
- de-parted
- gone meet maker
- gone reward
- gone to meet maker
- gone to reward
- in animate
- in operative
- in sensitive
- in sipid
- in-animate
- in-operative
- in-sensitive
- in-sipid
- more anesthetized
- more deadened
- more erased
- more expired
- more liquidated
- more mortified
- more numbed
- more offed
- more perished
- more reposing
- more unanimated
- most anesthetized
- most deadened
- most erased
- most expired
- most liquidated
- most mortified
- most numbed
- most offed
- most perished
- most reposing
- most unanimated
- no more
- not existing
- offed
- out and out
- out misery
- out of misery
- out of one misery
- out of one's misery
- out of ones misery
- out one misery
- out right
- out righter
- out rightest
- out-right
- out-righter
- pushing daisies
- pushing up daisies
- resting in peace
- resting peace
- sterile
- un animated
- un conditional
- un feeling
- un interesting
- un mitigated
- un qualified
- un responsive
- un-animated
- un-conditional
- un-employed
- un-mitigated
- un-profitable
- un-qualified
- un-responsive
- unanimated
• defective
- in adequate
- in-adequate
- in-sufficient
- more seconds
- more subnormal
- most seconds
- on bum
- sub normal
- sub-normal
- un finished
- un healthier
- un healthiest
- un healthy
- un-finished
- un-healthiest
- un-healthy
• defunct
- Non-existent
- down drain
- ex animate
- ex-animate
- exanimate
- in valid
- in-valid
- more exanimate
- most exanimate
- non existent
• destroyed; made into pieces from a whole
- broken
• disabled
- crippled
• effete
- Infecund
- de based
- de cadent
- de generate
- de-based
- de-cadent
- de-generate
- dis solute
- dis-solute
- far-gone
- fargone
- impotent
- in fecund
- in fertile
- in-fecund
- in-fertile
- more declining
- more far gone
- more fargone
- more infecund
- more overrefined
- more overripe
- more unprolific
- more vitiated
- most declining
- most far gone
- most far-gone
- most fargone
- most infecund
- most overripe
- most unprolific
- most vitiated
- over refined
- over ripe
- over-refined
- over-ripe
- overrefined
- overripe
- played out
- un fruitful
- un prolific
- un-fruitful
- un-prolific
- unprolific
- washed out
- washedout
• extinct, not functioning
- defunct
• faulty
- imprecise
- in accurate
- in sufficient
- in-accurate
- incomplete
- insufficient
- lame
- lamest
- malformed
- malfunctioning
- more botched
- more malfunctioning
- more unretentive
- more warped
- most botched
- most imprecise
- most lemon
- most malfunctioning
- most unretentive
- most warped
- un fit
- un reliable
- un retentive
- un-fit
- un-reliable
- un-retentive
- unretentive
- warped
• fissured
- cracked
• game
- dis posed
- dis-posed
- pre pared
- pre-pared
- re solute
- re-solute
- un afraid
- un flinching
- un-afraid
- un-flinching
- up for
• gone
- burned up
- de camped
- de-camped
- dis appeared
- dis placed
- dis solved
- dis-appeared
- dis-placed
- dis-solved
- dried up
- more away
- more consumed
- more decamped
- more disappeared
- more disintegrated
- more dissolved
- more elapsed
- more flown
- more nonextant
- more passed
- more quit
- more run off
- more run-off
- more runoff
- more shifted
- more split
- most away
- most consumed
- most decamped
- most disappeared
- most dissolved
- most elapsed
- most flown
- most nonextant
- most passed
- most quit
- most run off
- most run-off
- most runoff
- most shifted
- non extant
- non-extant
- nonextant
- not a sign of
- not here
- not sign of
- out the window
- out window
- re moved
- run off
- run-off
- taken a powder
- taken leave
- taken powder
- turned dust
- turned to dust
- with drawn
- with-drawn
• idle
- in significant
- more laid off
- more unhelpful
- most laid off
- most mothballed
- most unhelpful
- not serious
- of no avail
- on the bench
- un availing
- un helpful
- un necessary
- un productive
- un successful
- un used
- un-availing
- un-necessary
- un-productive
- un-successful
- unhelpful
• inactive
- dis engaged
- dis-engaged
- do nothing
- donothing
- draggier
- draggiest
- draggy
- in active
- in holding pattern
- in-active
- indolent
- low key
- lowkey
- more do nothing
- more do-nothing
- more donothing
- more mothballed
- most do nothing
- most do-nothing
- most donothing
- mothballed
- on hold
- out of service
- out service
- out work
- un occupied
- un-occupied
- un-used
• inert
- inert
- more sluggard
- more unreactive
- most sluggard
- most unreactive
- un moving
- un reactive
- un-moving
- un-reactive
- unreactive
• motionless, dirty
- stagnant
• neutral
- uninvolved
• no longer alive
- dead
• not present, no longer in existence
- gone
• not profitable
- unprofitable
• not working; incorrect
- faulty
• not working; not valuable
- useless
• noun
- abstract
- academic
- armchair
- arrested
- asleep
- deactivated
- decommissioned
- inaccessible
- inapplicable
- ineffective
- ineffectual
- kaput
- lasting
- lifeless
- nonoperational
- nonoperative
- nonproductive
- permanent
- quiescent
- slow
- theoretical
- unavailable
- unobtainable
- unproductive
- unreachable
- unsuitable
• playful
- Gamesome
- coltish
- elvish
- feeling oats
- feeling one oats
- feeling one's oats
- feeling ones oats
- flirtatious
- full of pep
- full pep
- good natured
- goodnatured
- impish
- more antic
- more coltish
- more elvish
- more gamesome
- more jesting
- more prankish
- most antic
- most coltish
- most elvish
- most gamesome
- most jesting
- most prankish
- playful
- prankish
- tongue in cheek
• punctured
- leaky
• retired
- Emerita
- cidevant
- dis charged
- dis-charged
- emeritus
- in retirement
- more apart
- more cidevant
- more emerita
- more emeritus
- more immured
- more retreated
- more sequestered
- most apart
- most cidevant
- most emerita
- most emeritus
- most immured
- most retreated
- most sequestered
- re signed
- re tired
- re tiring
- re-signed
- re-tired
- re-tiring
- re-treated
- retired
- un frequented
- un-frequented
• spoiled, exhausted
- effete
• torn
- more cleaved
- more gashed
- more lacerated
- more ripped
- more slashed
- more slit
- more snapped
- most cleaved
- most gashed
- most lacerated
- most ripped
- most slashed
- most sliced
- most slit
- most wrenched
• unemployed
- Unexercised
- Workless
- at liberty
- between jobs
- closed down
- leisured
- more leisured
- more unapplied
- more underemployed
- more unengaged
- more unexercised
- more workless
- most leisured
- most unapplied
- most underemployed
- most unengaged
- most unexercised
- most workless
- on bench
- on layoff
- on the dole
- out job
- out of a job
- out of job
- re sting
- re-sting
- un applied
- un employed
- un engaged
- un exercised
- un-applied
- un-exercised
- unapplied
- under employed
- under-employed
- underemployed
- without gainful employment
• uninvolved
- by standing
- by-standing
- bystanding
- dis interested
- dis passionate
- dis-interested
- dis-passionate
- fair minded
- fairminded
- in different
- in-different
- middle of road
- middle-of-road
- more bystanding
- more middle of road
- more middle-of-road
- more neuter
- more nonbelligerent
- more noncombatant
- more nonparticipating
- more poker faced
- most bystanding
- most middle of road
- most middle-of-road
- most neuter
- most nonbelligerent
- most noncombatant
- most poker faced
- most poker-faced
- most unaligned
- non aligned
- non belligerent
- non combatant
- non participating
- non partisan
- non-belligerent
- non-combatant
- non-participating
- non-partisan
- nonbelligerent
- noncombatant
- nonparticipating
- on fence
- on sidelines
- poker faced
- poker-faced
- un aligned
- un biased
- un committed
- un concerned
- un decided
- un involved
- un prejudiced
- un-aligned
- un-committed
- un-concerned
- un-decided
- un-involved
- un-prejudiced
• unprofitable
- Gainless
- frustaneous
- more frustaneous
- more gainless
- more unlucrative
- more unremunerative
- more unrewarding
- most frustaneous
- most unlucrative
- most unremunerative
- most unrewarding
- un lucrative
- un profitable
- un remunerative
- un rewarding
- un-lucrative
- un-remunerative
- un-rewarding
- unlucrative
- unremunerative
- unrewarding
• useless
- Unpurposed
- counter productive
- counter-productive
- counterproductive
- dis advantageous
- dis-advantageous
- good for nothing
- in competent
- in effective
- in effectual
- in utile
- in-competent
- in-effective
- in-effectual
- in-utile
- more counterproductive
- more good for nothing
- more good-for-nothing
- more impracticable
- more nonfunctional
- more profitless
- more unfunctional
- more unpurposed
- more unusuable
- most counterproductive
- most good for nothing
- most good-for-nothing
- most nonfunctional
- most profitless
- most unfunctional
- most unpurposed
- most unusuable
- no good
- non functional
- non-functional
- nonfunctional
- of no use
- profitless
- scrapper
- scrappest
- un available
- un functional
- un purposed
- un workable
- un-available
- un-functional
- un-purposed
- un-workable
- unfunctional
- unusuable
- wastest
n.
• breakdown, failure
- malfunction
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Usage examples for Working

Two nights before he had 'phoned her that he was working late at the office.

"The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories"

Charles Weathers Bump

working people are so good to one another, Dick.

"Jane Oglander"

Marie Belloc Lowndes

A few years ago you had a Swede working for you in your garden.

"The Eye of Dread"

Payne Erskine

Famous quotes with Working

I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character.

Aaliyah
Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.

Aaliyah
I had never really pictured myself working in children's ministries. I always figured I would be more comfortable with maybe teens or adult ministries.

Willie Aames
They did interviews with my wife and daughter-they were genuinely in fear of me having a heart attack, working 20 hours a day, eating fast food.

Willie Aames
The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.

Grace Abbott

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adj.

n.

v.

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