Defining Synonyms and Antonyms

Show the form or outline of
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. delineating
  2. edging
  3. bounding
  4. curbing
  5. encompassing
  6. settling
  7. confining
  8. belting
  9. girding
  10. girdling
  11. enveloping
  12. encircling
  13. rimming
  14. enclosing
  15. bordering
  16. compassing
  17. establishing
  18. distinguishing
  19. determining
  20. setting
  21. marking
  22. circumscribing
  23. outlining
  24. limiting
  25. fixing
  26. demarcating
  27. delimiting
Antonyms:
  1. mixing
  2. obscuring
  3. distorting
  4. confusing
  5. concealing
Any process serving to define the shape of something
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. shaping

Words Related to Defining

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.

Related:

  1. surrounding
  2. analysing
  3. naming
  4. definitions

Defining Sentence Examples

  • July passed into August without any defining moments.

  • We should in fact have reached those two fundamentals of which man's whole outlook on the universe is constructed--the incomprehensible essence of life, and the laws defining that essence.

  • Antoneili profited by the situation to obtain Mneleks signature to a treaty fixing the frontiers of the Italian colony and defining Italo-Abyssinian relations.

  • Men are defining and protecting the positions they have inherited; they do not think of progress.

  • Experience forbids our excluding organic activity from natural causes, also our excluding intelligence from purposeful (zwecktdtigen) causes; hence experience forbids our defining the fundamental force or first cause out of which living creatures arose.'

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