hamming

The word “hamming” has 2 syllables: ham-ming

It's pronounced as /ˈhæmɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for hamming?

In the thesaurus, “hamming” has 60 synonyms.

Here are synonyms for hamming along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for hamming

  • acting
  • acting out
  • aping
  • assuming
  • characterization
  • clowning
  • co-acting
  • co-starring
  • coacting
  • costarring
  • depicting
  • depiction
  • doing
  • dramatics
  • dramatizing
  • enacting
  • enactment
  • feigning
  • histrionics
  • imitating
  • imitation
  • impersonating
  • impersonation
  • improvisation
  • interpreting
  • masquerading
  • mime
  • mimicking
  • mimicry
  • miming
  • overacting
  • overplaying
  • pantomime
  • pantomiming
  • performance
  • performing
  • play acting
  • playacting
  • playing
  • portrayal
  • portraying
  • posing
  • posturing
  • pretending
  • pretense
  • putting
  • rendering
  • rendition
  • representing
  • role-playing
  • roleplaying
  • seeming
  • showing off
  • simulating
  • stagecraft
  • stooging
  • taking on
  • theatre
  • theatricals
  • underplaying

Meanings of hamming

  • verb
    1. To overact; to act with exaggerated emotions.

Example Sentences

  • The actor was caught hamming it up for the camera during rehearsals.
  • She couldn't resist hamming for the audience, adding humor to her performance.
  • His playful hamming brought laughter to the room during the talent show.
  • The comedian's exaggerated hamming delighted the crowd at the comedy club.
  • Despite his serious role, he couldn't help but indulge in a bit of hamming during the scene.

On this page you'll find 60 synonyms or another words to hamming, such as: acting, acting out, aping, assuming, characterization, clowning, co-acting.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

pantomime

impersonating

  • acting
  • acting out
  • aping
  • clowning
  • co-acting
  • co-starring
  • coacting
  • copying
  • costarring
  • depicting
  • doing
  • dramatizing
  • enacting
  • hamming
  • imitating
  • interpreting
  • masquerading
  • mimicking
  • miming
  • mocking
  • monkeying
  • overacting
  • overplaying
  • pantomiming
  • parodying
  • performing
  • personating
  • playacting
  • playing
  • portraying
  • rendering
  • representing
  • role-playing
  • roleplaying
  • taking on
  • travestying
  • underplaying

acting

  • acting out
  • ad interim
  • adjutant
  • administering
  • affecting
  • alternate
  • amusement
  • aping
  • appearing
  • assistant
  • assuming
  • backup
  • behaving
  • bluffing
  • boards
  • camouflaging
  • carrying on
  • characterization
  • clowning
  • co-acting
  • co-starring
  • coacting
  • concealing
  • controlling
  • copying
  • costarring
  • counterfeiting
  • delegated
  • depicting
  • depiction
  • deputy
  • directing
  • disguising
  • dissembling
  • dissimulating
  • distraction
  • diversion
  • doing
  • drama
  • dramatics
  • dramatizing
  • enacting
  • enactment
  • entertainment
  • exhibition
  • faking
  • feeling
  • feigning
  • feinting
  • footlights
  • forging
  • functioning
  • guiding
  • hamming
  • handling
  • hinting
  • histrionics
  • imitating
  • imitation
  • impersonating
  • impersonation
  • implying
  • improvisation
  • influencing
  • insinuating
  • interim
  • interpreting
  • jackleg
  • letting on
  • looking
  • make-do
  • makeshift
  • making
  • making believe
  • malingering
  • managing
  • masking
  • masquerading
  • mime
  • mimicking
  • mimicry
  • miming
  • mocking
  • monkeying
  • operating
  • overacting
  • overplaying
  • overseeing
  • pageant
  • pageantry
  • panning out
  • pantomime
  • pantomiming
  • parodying
  • performance
  • performing
  • personating
  • play acting
  • playacting
  • playing
  • portrayal
  • portraying
  • posing
  • posturing
  • presentation
  • pretending
  • pretense
  • pro tem
  • pro tempore
  • production
  • professing
  • provisional
  • provisionary
  • provisory
  • proxy
  • putting
  • putting on
  • reacting
  • recalling
  • recreation
  • redounding
  • regulating
  • rendering
  • rendition
  • representing
  • resembling
  • responding
  • resulting
  • role-playing
  • roleplaying
  • running
  • seeming
  • serving
  • shamming
  • show
  • show business
  • showbiz
  • showing off
  • simulating
  • sounding
  • spectacle
  • stage
  • stagecraft
  • stooging
  • stopgap
  • substitute
  • suggesting
  • supervising
  • surrogate
  • swaying
  • taking
  • taking effect
  • taking hold
  • taking on
  • temporary
  • theater
  • theatre
  • theatricals
  • theatrics
  • travestying
  • underplaying
  • working

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