bearing

The word “bearing” has 2 syllables: bear-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈbɛrɪŋ/

What is synonym and antonym for bearing?

In the thesaurus, “bearing” has 402 synonyms and 104 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for bearing along with examples of usage in sentences.

Synonyms for bearing

abiding
abounding
about-facing
absorbing
abundant
acceding
accepting
accommodating
accordance
acquiescing
acquitting
acting
actions
address
adopting
advocating
affectation
affecting
affiliation
affinity
affording
agreeing
agreement
aiming
air
alikeness
alliance
allowing
amenity
appertaining
applicability
applying
appositeness
appropriateness
aptness
asking
aspect
assenting
associating
association
assuming
attitude
attribute
awaiting
backing
beelining
begetting
begging
behaving
behavior
being
bending
biding
birthing
blooming
boasting
bolstering
bond
bountiful
bracing
breeding
bringing
bringing in
brooking
bursting
buttressing
calling for
calving
capitulating
carriage
carrying
carting
casing
challenging
championing
characteristic
checking
cherishing
civility
claiming
collecting
coming about
coming round
commanding
community
comporting
comportment
composing
concerning
conduct
conducting
conformity
congruity
connecting
connection
consenting
constraining
containing
controlling
convention
conveying
copious
cornucopian
correlation
correspondence
countenancing
coupling
coursing
courtesy
creative
crossing
cultivating
curbing
custom
cutting
decorum
delivering
demanding
demeaning
demeanor
deporting
deportment
directing
displaying
distinctiveness
dropping
dwelling
embracing
encasing
enclosing
encompassing
endorsing
enduring
enjoining
entailing
entertaining
espousing
etiquette
exacting
exhibiting
extending
facing
fashion
fat
fathering
fecund
felicitousness
ferrying
fertile
fetching
fitness
fitting
fittingness
flaunting
flourishing
following
form
formality
forwarding
fostering
fructuous
fruitful
furnishing
generating
generative
generous
gest
geste
getting
giving
giving birth to
going
habit
habitude
hacking
handing over
handling
hanging around
hanging on to
harboring
hauling
having
having to do with
heading
holding
holding on to
housing
hugging
identicalness
impersonating
importance
inclining
inclosing
indorsing
inhibiting
insisting
interesting
interrelating
interrelation
inventive
involving
keeping
kidding
kindling
kinship
kittening
laboring
lacking
leading
liaison
liberal
lighting out
likeness
link
linkage
linking
littering
living with
lodging
look
lugging
lush
luxuriant
lying
maintaining
making
manners
mark
materiality
meeting
mien
mode
moderating
modulating
mores
mothering
moving
multiplying
necessitating
needing
netting
nursing
nurturing
oddity
orienting
original
overlooking
packing
parading
passing
pattern
paying
paying off
peculiarity
permitting
pertaining
pertinence
playing
plenitudinous
plenteous
plentiful
pocketing
pointing
poise
politeness
pose
posting
posture
practice
practise
presence
preserving
pressing
producing
productive
prolific
propagating
proprieties
protocol
providing
pupping
putting
putting about
putting out
questing
quieting
quitting
reaccepting
reassuming
referring
relating
relation
relationship
relevance
relevancy
remaining
remembering
removing
repressing
reproducing
requiring
resemblance
residing
respecting
resting
restraining
retaining
returning
reversing
rich
rightness
rules
running
sameness
seemliness
sending
setting off
setting out
sheltering
shifting
shipping
shouldering
showing
showing off
significance
similarity
singularity
siring
sitting
spanning
spawning
sporting
standing
standing by
standing for
stationing
staying
steadying
steering
sticking around
sticking out
stipulating
stomaching
strangeness
striking
style
suffering
suitability
suitableness
supplying
supporting
sustaining
swallowing
swarming
sweating out
swerving
tacking
taking
taking off
taking over
taking up
tarrying
teeming
tempering
thriving
tie
tieing in
tolerating
toting
touching
toughing it out
trait
transferring
transmitting
transporting
traversing
treasuring
treating
trick
trussing
turning
turning back
tying in
undergirding
underlying
underpinning
undertaking
union
uniqueness
upholding
usefulness
veering
waiting
wanting
warranting
wearing
weirdness
wheeling
whelping
wont
yawing
yielding

Antonyms for bearing

abandoning
abjuring
abnegating
aborting
acting up
avoiding
backing down
backing off
backtracking
barren
bypassing
carrying on
circumventing
combating
combatting
contesting
cutting up
dead
declining
denying
deserting
detouring
disavowing
discarding
disclaiming
disdaining
dismissing
disowning
disregarding
dodging
dropping
eluding
erasing
escaping
evading
expunging
extraneousness
fighting
forbearing
forgetting
forsaking
giving up
having
holding
ignoring
inapplicability
inappositeness
inappropriateness
inaptness
incompatibility
incongruence
incongruity
incongruousness
infelicity
infertile
insignificance
irrelevance
irrelevancy
losing
meager
meagre
meaninglessness
misbehaving
miscarrying
misconducting
missing
neglecting
opposing
overlooking
owning
pointlessness
possessing
quitting
recanting
refusing
rejecting
relinquishing
renouncing
repudiating
resisting
retracting
scant
scanty
scorning
skimp
skimpy
spare
sparse
spurning
sterile
surrendering
taking back
throwing out
turning down
unfertile
unfitness
unfruitful
unproductive
unsaying
unsuitability
uselessness
variability
variance
withdrawing

Meanings of bearing

verb
1. To endeavour to depress the price of, or prices in.
2. To carry or convey, literally or figuratively.
3. To support, sustain, or endure.
4. To support, keep up, or maintain.
5. To press or impinge upon.
6. To produce, yield, give birth to.
7. (originally nautical) To be, or head, in a specific direction or azimuth (from somewhere).
8. To gain or win.
adjective
1. (in combination) That bears (some specified thing).
2. Of a beam, column, or other device, carrying weight or load.
noun
1. A mechanical device that supports another part and/or reduces friction.
2. The horizontal angle between the direction of an object and another object, or between it and that of true north; a heading or direction.
3. Relevance; a relationship or connection.
4. One's posture, demeanor, or manner.
5. (in the plural) Direction or relative position.
6. That part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports.
7. The portion of a support on which anything rests.
8. The unsupported span.
9. Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms.

Example Sentences

The captain struggled to keep his bearing in the thick fog.
Her calm bearing impressed everyone in the courtroom.
The compass helped the hiker find his bearing.
That comment has no bearing on the issue at hand.
The soldier’s proud bearing reflected his years of service.

On this page you'll find 506 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to bearing, such as: abandoning, abiding, abjuring, abnegating, aborting, abounding, about-facing.

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