Waving Synonyms and Antonyms

Twist or roll into coils or ringlets
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. waggling
  2. setting
  3. wagging
  4. curling
  5. switching
Move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. curving
  2. undulating
  3. rippling
  4. coiling
  5. swelling
  6. rolling
  7. watering
  8. twisting
  9. wagging
  10. wafting
  11. vibrating
  12. flapping
  13. swinging
  14. curling
  15. swaying
  16. swirling
  17. signalling
  18. shaking
  19. twirling
  20. motioning
  21. gushing
  22. greeting
  23. gesturing
  24. surging
  25. beckoning
  26. fluttering
  27. fluctuating
  28. flourishing
  29. winding
  30. flooding
  31. floating
  32. flowing
  33. brandishing
  34. boring
To move (one's arms or wings, for example) up and down
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. flapping
  2. waggling
  3. fluttering
  4. flopping
  5. flittering
  6. beating
To give an alternating movement
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. hailing
  2. greeting
  3. signalling
  4. calling
  5. beckoning
  6. motioning
To move or swing as in giving a signal:
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. flourishing
The act of signaling by a movement of the hand
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. wave
  2. wafture

Waving Sentence Examples

  • They began waving their arms.

  • Joan interrupted, waving a tablet over her head.

  • He'll probably be pissed at me, so don't get comfortable, Dan said, waving her in.

  • Are you blowing your nose or waving a white flag?

  • She spotted him waving to her from the boardwalk outside the saloon.

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