maintain

The word “maintain” has 2 syllables: main-tain

It's pronounced as /meɪnˈteɪn/


What is synonym and antonym for maintain?

In the thesaurus, “maintain” has 127 synonyms and 58 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for maintain

  • adduce
  • advance
  • advise
  • advocate
  • affirm
  • allege
  • announce
  • argue
  • assert
  • asseverate
  • attest
  • aver
  • avouch
  • avow
  • back
  • broadcast
  • carry on
  • champion
  • cite
  • claim
  • confirm
  • confute
  • conserve
  • consider
  • contend
  • continue
  • control
  • convince
  • correct
  • counsel
  • counter
  • cultivate
  • cure
  • debate
  • declare
  • defend
  • discuss
  • disprove
  • emphasize
  • enforce
  • espouse
  • explain
  • fight for
  • finance
  • fix
  • fund
  • give
  • go on with
  • guard
  • heal
  • hold
  • husband
  • insist
  • justify
  • keep
  • keep going
  • keep up
  • look after
  • manage
  • mend
  • mention
  • nurture
  • offer
  • patch
  • patronize
  • perpetuate
  • persevere
  • persist
  • persuade
  • plead
  • plead for
  • preserve
  • proclaim
  • profess
  • prolong
  • propose
  • protect
  • protest
  • provide
  • purport
  • put forth
  • rationalize
  • reaffirm
  • reason
  • reassert
  • rebuild
  • rebut
  • recommend
  • reconstruct
  • rectify
  • refute
  • rehabilitate
  • rejuvenate
  • remedy
  • renew
  • repair
  • report
  • restore
  • retain
  • right
  • safeguard
  • save
  • say
  • screen
  • service
  • set up
  • shield
  • sponsor
  • stake
  • stand by
  • stand up for
  • state
  • stick up for
  • stress
  • submit
  • suggest
  • supply
  • support
  • sustain
  • take care of
  • underline
  • underscore
  • underwrite
  • uphold
  • urge
  • vindicate
  • warrant

Antonyms for maintain

Meanings of maintain

  • verb
    1. To support (someone), to back up or assist (someone) in an action.
    2. To keep up; to preserve; to uphold (a state, condition etc.).
    3. To declare or affirm (a clause) to be true; to assert.

Example Sentences

  • It's important to maintain a healthy diet and exercise routine for overall well-being.
  • The company aims to maintain high standards of quality in its products.
  • He worked hard to maintain his reputation as a reliable and trustworthy employee.
  • Regular inspections are conducted to maintain the safety of the building.
  • The government is committed to maintaining public infrastructure to ensure smooth transportation and communication.

On this page you'll find 185 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to maintain, such as: abandon, abjure, adduce, advance, advise, advocate, affirm.

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

Related Words

abetted

  • accompanied
  • activated
  • advanced
  • advised
  • aided
  • approved
  • assisted
  • attended
  • authoritative
  • authorized
  • backed
  • backstopped
  • bailed out
  • befriended
  • benefited
  • benefitted
  • bolstered
  • boosted
  • bore a hand
  • brewed
  • buttressed
  • canonical
  • certified
  • championed
  • comforted
  • counseled
  • counselled
  • cultivated
  • delivered
  • detonated
  • eased
  • emboldened
  • encouraged
  • endorsed
  • energized
  • enflamed
  • enlivened
  • ex officio
  • excited
  • facilitated
  • favored
  • fermented
  • fired
  • fomented
  • forwarded
  • fostered
  • furthered
  • galvanized
  • guided
  • heartened
  • helped
  • incited
  • indorsed
  • inflamed
  • inspired
  • instigated
  • invigorated
  • launched
  • lawful
  • legal
  • legit
  • legitimate
  • licensed
  • licit
  • maintained
  • mentored
  • motivated
  • nourished
  • nursed
  • nurtured
  • obliged
  • official
  • patronized
  • permissible
  • picked
  • profited
  • promoted
  • provoked
  • quickened
  • raised
  • reenforced
  • regulation
  • reinforced
  • relieved
  • rescued
  • roused
  • sanctioned
  • saved
  • semiofficial
  • served
  • set
  • set in motion
  • set off
  • sowed
  • sponsored
  • stimulated
  • stood one in good stead
  • subsidized
  • succored
  • suggested
  • supported
  • sustained
  • taken care of
  • triggered
  • vitalized

accompanied

  • abetted
  • advised
  • assisted
  • associated
  • attended
  • backed
  • befriended
  • bolstered
  • brought
  • chanced
  • chaperoned
  • co-occurred
  • coexisted
  • coincided
  • companied
  • companioned
  • concurred
  • conducted
  • consorted
  • convoyed
  • defended
  • encouraged
  • escorted
  • followed
  • guarded
  • guided
  • happed
  • happened
  • led
  • maintained
  • nursed
  • piloted
  • protected
  • relieved
  • saw
  • shadowed
  • squired
  • steered
  • subsidized
  • supported
  • sustained
  • synchronized
  • tagged
  • tagged along
  • tailed
  • taken care of
  • transpired
  • ushered
  • walked

accomplishing

  • accomplishment
  • achieving
  • acing
  • act
  • action
  • activity
  • actualizing
  • adequate
  • administering
  • at work
  • attaining
  • binding
  • biz
  • bringing about
  • bringing off
  • building
  • business
  • calling
  • capable
  • career
  • carrying off
  • carrying out
  • carrying-out
  • committing
  • compassing
  • completing
  • composing
  • conclusive
  • conducting
  • constructing
  • consummating
  • contriving
  • creating
  • decisive
  • deed
  • determinative
  • determining
  • directing
  • do
  • doing
  • driving
  • effecting
  • effective
  • effectuating
  • efficacious
  • efficient
  • employment
  • ending
  • executing
  • execution
  • exploit
  • fabricating
  • fashioning
  • finishing
  • forcible
  • forging
  • forming
  • fulfilling
  • game
  • generating
  • go
  • going through
  • guiding
  • handiwork
  • hang
  • hobby
  • implementation
  • implementing
  • in force
  • job
  • lawful
  • legal
  • licit
  • line
  • maintaining
  • making
  • managing
  • manipulating
  • manufacturing
  • moving
  • nailing
  • negotiating
  • occupation
  • ordering
  • originating
  • pastime
  • perfecting
  • performance
  • performing
  • perpetrating
  • pleasure
  • potent
  • powerful
  • practicable
  • practicing
  • practising
  • producing
  • productive
  • prosecuting
  • pulling off
  • putting through
  • qualified
  • racket
  • reaching
  • realizing
  • reduplicating
  • reenacting
  • regulating
  • repeating
  • revolving
  • running
  • serviceable
  • serving
  • shaping
  • sound
  • spinning
  • strong
  • successful
  • supervising
  • sustaining
  • telling
  • thing
  • transacting
  • turning
  • undertaking
  • useful
  • using
  • valid
  • venture
  • virtuous
  • vocation
  • wielding
  • winding up
  • work
  • workable

bankroll

  • advocate
  • aid
  • assets
  • back
  • bread
  • capital
  • capitalize
  • cash
  • cash flow
  • champion
  • chips
  • clear
  • coffers
  • cofinance
  • currency
  • deep pockets
  • defray
  • discharge
  • dough
  • endorse
  • endow
  • exchequer
  • finance
  • finances
  • financing
  • foot
  • fortune
  • fund
  • gold
  • grubstake
  • indorse
  • jack
  • legal tender
  • liquidate
  • lucre
  • maintain
  • means
  • nourish
  • opulence
  • patronize
  • pay
  • pay off
  • pay up
  • pelf
  • pocket
  • purse
  • quit
  • recompense
  • refinance
  • refund
  • resources
  • riches
  • roll
  • scratch
  • settle
  • shirt
  • sponsor
  • stake
  • stand
  • subsidize
  • substance
  • support
  • tender
  • treasury
  • underwrite
  • wampum
  • wealth
  • wherewithal

bankrolled

  • advocated
  • aided
  • approved
  • assisted
  • backed
  • bolstered
  • boosted
  • capitalized
  • championed
  • cleared
  • co-financed
  • cofinanced
  • defrayed
  • discharged
  • encouraged
  • endorsed
  • endowed
  • favored
  • financed
  • footed
  • fostered
  • funded
  • furthered
  • grubstaked
  • helped
  • indorsed
  • liquidated
  • maintained
  • nourished
  • paid
  • paid off
  • paid up
  • patronized
  • promoted
  • propped
  • quit
  • quitted
  • recompensed
  • refinanced
  • refunded
  • seconded
  • settled
  • sponsored
  • staked
  • stood
  • subsidized
  • supported
  • underwritten
  • underwrote
  • upheld

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