Applying Synonyms and Antonyms

To ask for employment, acceptance, or admission
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. petitioning
To make a request
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. petitioning
  2. demanding
  3. suing
  4. appealing
  5. approaching
  6. addressing
To look to when in need
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. turning
  2. running
  3. resorting
  4. repairing
  5. referring
  6. going
Be pertinent or relevant or applicable
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. referring
  2. pertaining
  3. relating
  4. holding
  5. suiting
  6. concerning
  7. fitting
  8. connecting
  9. regarding
  10. affecting
  11. involving
  12. touching
  13. appertaining
Antonyms:
  1. exempting
  2. defying
To devote (oneself or one's efforts)
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. turning
  2. giving
  3. focussing
  4. directing
  5. devoting
  6. dedicating
  7. concentrating
  8. bending
  9. addressing

Words Related to Applying

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Applying Sentence Examples

  • Left with her towel and her toiletries, she took her time applying the thick moisturizer and lotion over her entire body, then finished by combing through her hair.

  • More than two thousand years before Europe or England had conceived the idea of applying modern industry to the manufacture of cotton, India had matured a system of hand-spinning, weaving and dyeing which during that vast period received no recorded improvement.

  • Before applying for an absolute divorce the plaintiff must have resided in the state for the year next preceding, unless the cause of action is adultery committed while the plaintiff was a resident of the state.

  • The great river itself is known in Tibet by many names, being generally called the Nari Chu, Maghang Tsanpo or Yaro Tsanpo, above Lhasa; the word " tsanpo " (tsang-po) meaning (according to Waddell) the " pure one," and applying to all great rivers.

  • A county board of education examines applicants for teachers' positions and pupils applying to enter high schools.

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