Headway Synonyms and Antonyms

hĕdwā
Vertical space available to allow easy passage under something
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. progress
  2. advance
  3. increase
  4. dent
  5. distance
  6. forward motion
  7. headroom
  8. ground
  9. promotion
  10. improvement
  11. clearance
Forward movement
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. advance
  2. advancement
  3. furtherance
  4. head
  5. march
  6. progress
  7. progression
  8. steerageway
  9. driftway
Antonyms:
  1. block
  2. stoppage
  3. hindrance
  4. regression
  5. retrogression
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Words Related to Headway

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. better
  2. forward
  3. inroad
  4. difference-x94

Headway Sentence Examples

  • Meanwhile in the Netherlands the sectaries had been making rapid headway in spite of the persecution.

  • If pollen is scarce, a substitute in the form of either pea-meal or wheaten flour must be supplied to the bees, as brood-rearing cannot make headway without the nitrogenous element indispensable in the food on which the young are reared.

  • In the meanwhile the Pisan war dragged on without much headway being made.

  • But as yet the idea of unity made but little headway, for southern Italy was too widely separated by geographical conditions, history, tradition and custom from the rest of the peninsula, and the majority of the Liberals - themselves a minority of the population - merely aspired to a constitutional Neapolitan monarchy, possibly forming part of a confederation of Italian states.

  • We know only that the last of them, a Paerisades, unable to make headway against the power of the natives, called in the help of Diophantus, general of Mithradates VI.

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