Setting Synonyms and Antonyms

sĕtĭng
The place where an action or event occurs
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. scene
  2. locale
  3. site
  4. stage
The properties, backdrops, and other objects arranged for a dramatic presentation
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. ambience
  2. environment
  3. context
  4. backdrop
  5. background
  6. framework
  7. surroundings
  8. mounting
  9. scene
  10. scenery
  11. mise en scène
  12. frame
  13. ambiance
  14. decor
  15. perspective
  16. horizon
  17. shadow
  18. shade
  19. hardening
  20. distance
  21. locale
  22. mise en scene (French)
  23. location
  24. milieu
  25. set
  26. scope
  27. circumstance
Antonyms:
  1. front
  2. foreground
  3. focus
Arrange attractively
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. spreading
  2. doing
  3. arranging
  4. dressing
  5. laying
Estimate
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. estimating
  2. putting
  3. placing
  4. correcting
  5. reckoning
  6. rating
  7. adjusting
  8. approximating
Become gelatinous
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. congealing
  2. hardening
  3. petrifying
  4. indurating
  5. dry
  6. jelling
  7. concreting
  8. caking
Antonyms:
  1. ascending
  2. rising
Make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. fixing
  2. readying
  3. settling
  4. rigging
  5. negotiating
  6. preparing
  7. concluding
  8. arranging
  9. locking
Antonyms:
  1. liquefying
  2. softening
  3. melting
To change or be changed from a liquid into a soft, semisolid, or solid mass
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. jellying
  2. jelling
  3. curdling
  4. congealing
  5. coagulating
  6. clotting
Put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. laying
  2. planting
  3. fructifying
  4. hovering
  5. turning
  6. training
  7. pointing
  8. levelling
  9. hatching
  10. heading
  11. directing
  12. casting
  13. aiming
  14. incubating
To place (a story, for example) in a designated setting
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. laying
Put into a certain place or abstract location
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. positioning
  2. placing
  3. laying
  4. spotting
  5. siting
  6. posing
  7. locating
  8. putting
  9. installing
Establish as the highest level or best performance
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. marking
Arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. mise en scene
  2. stage setting
A mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. mount
A table service for one person
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. place-setting

Words Related to Setting

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.

Setting Sentence Examples

  • It was a lovely setting for a home, secluded in wildly beautiful forested hills.

  • You were setting me up.

  • Quinn went to work setting the stage for the visit.

  • He nodded, setting his cup on the counter.

  • He returned a few minutes later and rustled her blanket, setting a cup beside her.

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