Gaining Synonyms and Antonyms

Increase (one's body weight)
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. recuperating
  2. recovering
  3. rallying
  4. mending
  5. improving
  6. convalescing
Antonyms:
  1. losing
  2. reducing
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To reach (a goal or objective)
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. attaining
Increase or develop
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. enlarging
  2. developing
  3. gathering
  4. expanding
Reach a destination, either real or abstract
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. reaching
  2. realizing
  3. attaining
  4. hitting
  5. scoring
  6. achieving
  7. making
  8. accomplishing
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Win something through one's efforts
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. winning
  2. getting
  3. making
  4. earning
  5. acquiring
Antonyms:
  1. exhausting
  2. forfeiting
  3. wasting
  4. spending
  5. passing
  6. missing
  7. losing
Derive a benefit from
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. profiting
  2. capitalizing
  3. benefitting
To acquire as a result of one's behavior or effort
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. earning
  2. rating
  3. winning
  4. meriting
  5. getting
  6. deserving

Words Related to Gaining

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.

Gaining Sentence Examples

  • Then she started gaining weight.

  • His kiss began softly, slowly gaining passion.

  • Both were in their late 30's, losing their hair, gaining a mid-section and happily married.

  • That state, where Bernadotte had latterly been chosen as crown prince, decided to throw off the yoke of the Continental System and join England and Russia, gaining from the latter power the promise of Norway at the expense of Denmark.

  • When a current is passed through the wire, continuous or alternating, it creates heat, which expands the air in the bulb and forces the liquid up one side of the U-tube to a certain position in which the rate of loss of heat by the air is equal to the rate at which it is gaining heat.

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