laying out

The phrase “laying out” has 3 syllables: lay-ing out

It's pronounced as /ˈleɪ.ɪŋ aʊt/


What is synonym and antonym for laying out?

In the thesaurus, “laying out” has 133 synonyms and 35 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for laying out

  • advertising
  • aiming
  • airing
  • aligning
  • alining
  • alphabetizing
  • announcing
  • arrange
  • arranging
  • arraying
  • baring
  • blazing
  • blowing
  • blueprinting
  • brandishing
  • broadcasting
  • budgeting
  • calculating
  • chart
  • charting
  • choreographing
  • classifying
  • codifying
  • concerting
  • conspiring
  • contemplating
  • contriving
  • cueing
  • cuing
  • designing
  • devising
  • diagram
  • disburse
  • disbursing
  • discovering
  • display
  • displaying
  • disporting
  • disposing
  • dissipating
  • divulging
  • drafting
  • drawing up
  • dropping
  • emplacing
  • exhibit
  • exhibiting
  • expend
  • expending
  • exposing
  • figuring
  • filing
  • flashing
  • flaunting
  • flourishing
  • framing
  • getting up
  • give
  • giving
  • grooming
  • having on
  • heralding
  • hierarchizing
  • intending
  • intriguing
  • invest
  • lavishing
  • lend
  • lining
  • lining up
  • machinating
  • making up
  • map
  • marshaling
  • marshalling
  • meaning
  • meditating
  • ordering
  • organizing
  • outlay
  • outlaying
  • outline
  • outlining
  • parading
  • pay
  • paying
  • placarding
  • placing
  • planning
  • plotting
  • posting
  • premeditating
  • preparing
  • prioritizing
  • proclaiming
  • producing
  • projecting
  • publicizing
  • put out
  • put up
  • putting up
  • queueing
  • queuing
  • raining
  • ranging
  • revealing
  • running through
  • sequencing
  • set out
  • setting
  • setting out
  • shaping
  • shell out
  • shelling out
  • showing
  • showing off
  • sketching
  • sounding
  • spending
  • sporting
  • spread out
  • squandering
  • strutting
  • systematizing
  • throwing away
  • trumpeting
  • uncloaking
  • uncovering
  • unmasking
  • unscrambling
  • unveiling
  • wasting
  • waving

Antonyms for laying out

Example Sentences

  • She spent hours laying out the clothes for the fashion show.
  • The architect is laying out the plans for the new building.
  • He was laying out the cards for the game.
  • We are laying out the picnic blankets by the lake.
  • The designer is laying out the floor plan for the house.

On this page you'll find 168 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to laying out, such as: acquiring, advertising, aiming, airing, aligning, alining, alphabetizing.

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

Related Words

machinating

  • arranging
  • brewing
  • captaining
  • colluding
  • commanding
  • compassing
  • concerting
  • concluding
  • concocting
  • conducting
  • conniving
  • conspiring
  • contriving
  • counterplotting
  • designing
  • devising
  • directing
  • engineering
  • finagling
  • finessing
  • framing
  • gerrymandering
  • hammering out
  • handling
  • hatching
  • intriguing
  • jockeying
  • laying out
  • managing
  • maneuvering
  • manipulating
  • mapping
  • masterminding
  • negotiating
  • planning
  • plotting
  • putting up
  • quarterbacking
  • running
  • scheming
  • shaping
  • wangling
  • working out

calculating

  • Machiavellian
  • accomplishing
  • achieving
  • adding
  • adding up
  • advertent
  • aiming
  • alert
  • allowing
  • appraising
  • arranging
  • artful
  • aspiring
  • assessing
  • attempting
  • attentive
  • averaging
  • awake
  • banking on
  • blueprinting
  • budgeting
  • cagey
  • cagy
  • calibrating
  • calling
  • calling on
  • calling upon
  • canny
  • careful
  • cautious
  • charting
  • chary
  • choreographing
  • ciphering
  • circuitous
  • circular
  • circumlocutory
  • circumspect
  • committing
  • computing
  • concerting
  • concluding
  • confiding
  • conjecturing
  • conservative
  • considerate
  • considering
  • conspiring
  • contemplating
  • contriving
  • counting
  • crafty
  • crooked
  • cunning
  • curvy
  • debating
  • deceitful
  • deceptive
  • deducing
  • deducting
  • deliberate
  • depending
  • designing
  • devious
  • devising
  • discreet
  • dishonest
  • dividing
  • drafting
  • dreaming
  • duplicitous
  • effecting
  • endeavoring
  • entrusting
  • estimating
  • evaluating
  • executing
  • extrapolating
  • figuring
  • figuring in
  • figuring on
  • figuring out
  • foresighted
  • foresightful
  • forethoughtful
  • framing
  • gaging
  • gathering
  • gauging
  • getting up
  • gingerly
  • going
  • guarded
  • guessing
  • guileful
  • having on
  • heedful
  • hoping
  • hypercautious
  • indirect
  • inferring
  • insidious
  • intelligent
  • intending
  • intriguing
  • intrusting
  • itemizing
  • judging
  • laying out
  • leaning
  • long-winded
  • looking
  • looking to
  • machinating
  • making
  • manipulative
  • meandering
  • meaning
  • measuring
  • meditating
  • misleading
  • multiplying
  • numbering
  • observant
  • organizing
  • outlining
  • performing
  • placing
  • planning
  • plotting
  • politic
  • pondering
  • premeditating
  • preparing
  • projecting
  • prolix
  • proposing
  • provident
  • purporting
  • purposing
  • putting
  • putting up
  • rambling
  • rating
  • reasoning
  • recalculating
  • reckoning
  • recomputing
  • refiguring
  • regardful
  • relying
  • roundabout
  • safe
  • scaling
  • scheming
  • serpentine
  • shaping
  • sharp
  • shrewd
  • sinuous
  • sketching
  • slow
  • sly
  • sneaky
  • standing on
  • striving
  • struggling
  • subtle
  • subtracting
  • summing
  • supposing
  • tallying
  • thoughtful
  • tortuous
  • totaling
  • totalizing
  • totalling
  • tricky
  • trusting
  • trying
  • twisting
  • ultracareful
  • ultracautious
  • underhand
  • underhanded
  • understanding
  • valuing
  • verbose
  • vigilant
  • wandering
  • wary
  • watchful
  • wily
  • winding
  • wishing
  • working out

queueing

  • aligning
  • alining
  • alphabetizing
  • arranging
  • arraying
  • balancing
  • classifying
  • codifying
  • cueing
  • cuing
  • displaying
  • disposing
  • drawing up
  • emplacing
  • equalizing
  • evening
  • filing
  • grooming
  • hierarchizing
  • laying out
  • lining
  • lining up
  • making up
  • marshaling
  • marshalling
  • ordering
  • organizing
  • placing
  • prioritizing
  • proportioning
  • ranging
  • regularizing
  • sequencing
  • setting
  • setting out
  • standardizing
  • systematizing
  • unscrambling

queuing

  • aligning
  • alining
  • alphabetizing
  • arranging
  • arraying
  • balancing
  • classifying
  • codifying
  • cueing
  • cuing
  • displaying
  • disposing
  • drawing up
  • emplacing
  • equalizing
  • evening
  • filing
  • grooming
  • hierarchizing
  • laying out
  • lining
  • lining up
  • making up
  • marshaling
  • marshalling
  • ordering
  • organizing
  • placing
  • prioritizing
  • proportioning
  • ranging
  • regularizing
  • sequencing
  • setting
  • setting out
  • standardizing
  • systematizing
  • unscrambling

ranging

  • aligning
  • alining
  • alphabetizing
  • alternating
  • ambling
  • ambulant
  • ambulatory
  • arranging
  • arraying
  • assorting
  • batting
  • breaking down
  • cataloging
  • cataloguing
  • categorizing
  • changing
  • classifying
  • classing
  • clumping
  • clustering
  • codifying
  • colligating
  • compartmentalizing
  • compartmenting
  • covering
  • cruising
  • cueing
  • cuing
  • culling
  • dawdling
  • differing
  • digesting
  • displaying
  • disposing
  • distinguishing
  • distributing
  • drawing up
  • drifting
  • emplacing
  • errant
  • extending
  • extensive
  • feeding
  • filing
  • floating
  • fluctuating
  • footloose
  • fugitive
  • galavanting
  • gallivanting
  • going
  • grading
  • grooming
  • grouping
  • gypsying
  • hierarchizing
  • hoboing
  • identifying
  • indexing
  • itinerant
  • kicking around
  • laying out
  • lining
  • lining up
  • listing
  • making up
  • marshaling
  • marshalling
  • maundering
  • meandering
  • migrant
  • migratory
  • mooching
  • moping
  • moving
  • mutating
  • nomad
  • nomadic
  • on the move
  • ordering
  • organizing
  • pasturing
  • pegging
  • perambulatory
  • peregrine
  • peripatetic
  • pigeonholing
  • placing
  • prioritizing
  • queueing
  • queuing
  • rambling
  • ranking
  • reaching
  • recategorizing
  • reclassifying
  • recognizing
  • referring
  • regrouping
  • relegating
  • roaming
  • roving
  • running
  • sauntering
  • screening
  • separating
  • sequencing
  • setting
  • setting out
  • shelving
  • shifting
  • sieving
  • sifting
  • sorting
  • spanning
  • straggling
  • straying
  • stretching
  • strolling
  • subcategorizing
  • sweeping
  • systematizing
  • traipsing
  • tramping
  • traversing
  • typing
  • unscrambling
  • vagabond
  • vagabonding
  • vagrant
  • varying
  • walking
  • wandering
  • wayfaring
  • widespread
  • winnowing

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