nixing
The word “nixing” has 2 syllables: nix-ing
It's pronounced as /ˈnɪksɪŋ/
What is synonym and antonym for nixing?
In the thesaurus, “nixing” has 79 synonyms and 45 antonyms.
Here are synonyms and antonyms for nixing along with examples of usage in sentences.
Synonyms for nixing
- abjuring
- avoiding
- backing down
- backing off
- backtracking
- banning
- blackballing
- blacklisting
- blowing off
- bypassing
- checking
- constraining
- contradicting
- controverting
- curbing
- declining
- denying
- deselecting
- detouring
- disallowing
- disapproving
- disavowing
- disclaiming
- disdaining
- dismissing
- disowning
- disproving
- disputing
- downing
- enjoining
- forbearing
- forbidding
- foreswearing
- forswearing
- gainsaying
- hindering
- holding
- ignoring
- impeding
- keeping
- killing
- negating
- negativing
- obstructing
- overruling
- passing
- passing up
- prohibiting
- proscribing
- rebuffing
- rebutting
- recalling
- recanting
- refusing
- refuting
- rejecting
- reneging
- renouncing
- repelling
- repressing
- reprobating
- repudiating
- restraining
- restricting
- retracting
- revoking
- scorning
- scouting
- shooting down
- spurning
- sticking
- taking back
- throwing out
- throwing over
- turning down
- unsaying
- vetoing
- withdrawing
- withholding
Antonyms for nixing
- acceding
- accepting
- according
- acquiescing
- admitting
- adopting
- affording
- agreeing
- allowing
- approving
- assenting
- authorizing
- choosing
- commissioning
- conceding
- condoning
- confirming
- consenting
- countenancing
- electing
- embracing
- espousing
- furnishing
- giving
- granting
- handpicking
- letting
- licencing
- licensing
- okaying
- passing
- permitting
- providing
- ratifying
- receiving
- sanctioning
- selecting
- supplying
- supporting
- swallowing
- taking
- tolerating
- vouchsafing
- warranting
- welcoming
Meanings of nixing
- verb
- To make something become nothing; to reject or cancel.
- To destroy or eradicate.
Example Sentences
- Management is nixing several expensive projects this quarter.
- She ended up nixing the idea after seeing the costs.
- They’re nixing any events that don’t draw enough people.
- His boss keeps nixing proposals without clear benefits.
- The editor is nixing redundant paragraphs to shorten the article.
On this page you'll find 124 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to nixing, such as: abjuring, acceding, accepting, according, acquiescing, admitting, adopting.
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Related Words
abnegation
- abandonment
- abstinence
- denial
- eschewal
- forbearance
- giving up
- nixing
- refusal
- rejection
- relinquishment
- renouncement
- renunciation
- repudiation
- resignation
- sacrifice
- self-abnegation
- self-denial
- self-renunciation
- stonewall
- surrender
- temperance
killing
- abbreviating
- alluring
- amusing
- annihilating
- annihilation
- antic
- arduous
- arresting
- assassinating
- assassination
- beckoning
- beguiling
- bewitching
- blackballing
- blacking out
- blacklisting
- bleeping
- blipping
- blithesome
- bloodbath
- bloodletting
- bloodshed
- blotting out
- blue-penciling
- bottom line
- bowdlerizing
- braking
- breaking
- bump off
- bumping off
- burdensome
- burning out
- busting
- butchering
- butchery
- campy
- canceling
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- capital punishment
- captivating
- carnage
- carrying off
- censoring
- challenging
- charming
- chocking
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- claiming
- cleanup
- clipping
- clownish
- comedic
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- compensation
- courting
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- cutting
- cutting down
- cutting off
- deactivating
- death
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- decimation
- declining
- deleing
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- delighting
- demanding
- demolishing
- destroying
- destruction
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- difficult
- disallowing
- disapproving
- disarming
- dismantling
- dismissing
- dispatching
- diverting
- doing away with
- doing for
- doing in
- doing up
- downing
- draining
- drawing
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- droll
- earnings
- effacing
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- emolument
- enchanting
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- entertaining
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- eradicating
- eradication
- erasing
- euthanatizing
- euthanizing
- exacting
- excising
- executing
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- expunging
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- extermination
- facetious
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- felling
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- flip
- flippant
- formidable
- foul play
- frazzling
- funny
- gain
- genocide
- getting
- gleeful
- gratifying
- gross
- grueling
- gruelling
- halting
- harassing
- hard
- herculean
- hilarious
- holocaust
- homicide
- humoristic
- humorous
- hysteric
- hysterical
- icing
- income
- interest
- interesting
- intriguing
- inviting
- jamming
- jocose
- jocular
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- jokey
- joky
- jolly
- jovial
- killing off
- knockabout
- knocking off
- knocking out
- laborious
- laughable
- laughing
- laundering
- lucre
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- mad
- magnetizing
- making away with
- manslaughter
- martyring
- massacre
- massacring
- merry
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- mortality
- mothballing
- mowing
- murder
- murdering
- negativing
- net
- neutralizing
- nixing
- obliterating
- offing
- onerous
- oppressive
- outwearing
- pay
- payment
- payoff
- persnickety
- pert
- phasing out
- playful
- pleasing
- pogrom
- priceless
- proceeds
- profit
- pulling
- putting away
- putting down
- red-penciling
- redacting
- refusing
- remittal
- removing
- repressing
- requital
- revenue
- rich
- ridiculous
- rigid
- rigorous
- riotous
- risible
- rough
- rubbing out
- rugged
- salary
- sales
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- screaming
- seducing
- severe
- shooting down
- shortening
- shutting off
- sidesplitting
- silencing
- slapstick
- slapsticky
- slaughter
- slaughtering
- slaying
- smart
- smart-aleck
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- snickery
- snuffing
- soliciting
- stalling
- stern
- sticking
- stiff
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- strict
- stringent
- suiciding
- suppressing
- taking
- taking out
- taxing
- tempting
- terminating
- testing
- tiring
- toilsome
- tough
- trying
- turning off
- uproarious
- vetoing
- wages
- waggish
- washing out
- wasting
- weakening
- wearing
- wearing out
- wearing to a frazzle
- wearying
- whacking
- whimsical
- wiling
- windfall
- wiping out
- witching
- witty
- wooing
- wry
- yield
- zany
negativing
- abjuring
- annulling
- avoiding
- backing down
- backing off
- backtracking
- banning
- blackballing
- blacklisting
- blowing off
- bypassing
- challenging
- checking
- confuting
- constraining
- contradicting
- controverting
- correcting
- counteracting
- counterbalancing
- counterpoising
- curbing
- declining
- denying
- deselecting
- detouring
- disaffirming
- disallowing
- disapproving
- disavowing
- disclaiming
- disconfirming
- disdaining
- dismissing
- disowning
- disproving
- disputing
- downing
- enjoining
- forbearing
- forbidding
- foreswearing
- forswearing
- gainsaying
- hindering
- holding
- ignoring
- impeding
- invalidating
- keeping
- killing
- negating
- neutering
- neutralizing
- nixing
- nullifying
- obstructing
- offsetting
- outbalancing
- outweighing
- overriding
- overruling
- passing
- passing up
- prohibiting
- proscribing
- rebuffing
- rebutting
- recalling
- recanting
- redeeming
- redressing
- refusing
- refuting
- rejecting
- relieving
- remedying
- reneging
- renouncing
- repelling
- repressing
- reprobating
- repudiating
- restraining
- restricting
- retracting
- revoking
- scorning
- scouting
- shooting down
- spurning
- sticking
- taking back
- throwing out
- throwing over
- traversing
- turning down
- unsaying
- vetoing
- withdrawing
- withholding
vetoing
- blackballing
- blacklisting
- declining
- disallowing
- disapproving
- dismissing
- downing
- killing
- negativing
- nixing
- refusing
- shooting down
declining
- abatement
- abating
- abjuring
- aged
- aging
- ailing
- alleviating
- ancient
- angling
- at end of rope
- at the end of the rope
- atrophying
- avoiding
- backing down
- backing off
- backtracking
- backward
- banning
- bashful
- bedridden
- been around
- belligerent
- blowing off
- bottomward
- bowed
- bowing
- breaking down
- broken down
- burnt out
- bypassing
- canting
- cascading
- catabolic
- checking
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- collapsing
- compressing
- compression
- condensation
- condensing
- confined
- constraining
- constricting
- constriction
- contracting
- contraction
- contradicting
- contrary
- controverting
- contumacious
- corrupt
- corrupting
- coy
- crashing
- cratering
- crumbling
- curbing
- cutback
- dangling
- de-escalating
- death
- debased
- debauched
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- decadence
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- declinatory
- decline
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- defeated
- defective
- deficient
- deflating
- degenerate
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- degeneration
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- delicate
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- denying
- depraved
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- depression
- descendant
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- descent
- deselecting
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- developing
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- dilapidating
- diminishing
- diminution
- dipping
- disallowing
- disapproval
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- disclaiming
- discount
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- diseased
- disintegrating
- dismissing
- disordered
- disowning
- disproving
- disputing
- dissatisfaction
- dissipated
- dissolute
- divergent
- diving
- done for
- doomed
- down
- downgrade
- downhill
- downsizing
- downturn
- downward
- drained
- drooping
- droopy
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- dwindling
- dying
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- earthward
- easing
- ebb
- ebbing
- effete
- end
- enervated
- enfeebled
- enjoining
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- evil
- exit
- expiration
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- expiry
- fading
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- far-gone
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- feeble
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- forswearing
- frail
- funny
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- getting along
- getting on
- giving out
- giving up the ghost
- going
- going to pot
- going to seed
- gone bad
- gone to the dogs
- gravitating
- gray
- green
- groundward
- hanging
- heeling
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- hoary
- holding
- hospitalized
- hung
- ignoring
- ill
- immoral
- impaired
- impatient
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- imperfect
- in a bad way
- in extremis
- in poor health
- inadequate
- inclining
- incurable
- indisposed
- infected
- inferior
- infirm
- insufficient
- invalid
- inverse
- inverted
- irregular
- keeping
- lagging
- laid-up
- languishing
- lapsing
- leaning
- lessening
- letting up
- lightening
- limp
- listing
- long in tooth
- losing momentum
- loss
- lost
- lot of mileage
- lousy
- lowering
- markdown
- maturing
- mean
- mellowing
- moderating
- modest
- moldering
- moribund
- mortal
- mortally ill
- narrowing
- nauseated
- negating
- negative
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- nether
- nixing
- no
- no spring chicken
- nodding
- nose-diving
- not so hot
- objecting
- obsolete
- obstructing
- old
- olden
- on last leg
- one foot in grave
- one foot in the grave
- ostracism
- over the hill
- overrefined
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- prohibiting
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- rebellious
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- rebuffing
- rebutting
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- recalling
- recanting
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- red light
- reducing
- reduction
- refractory
- refusal
- refusing
- refuting
- regressing
- regression
- regrets
- rejecting
- rejection
- relaxing
- relenting
- remitting
- reneging
- renouncing
- repelling
- repressing
- reprobating
- repudiating
- restive
- restraining
- restricting
- retired
- retiring
- retracting
- retreating
- retrograding
- retrogression
- reversed
- reversion
- revoking
- rickety
- rocky
- rotten
- rotting
- run down
- running down
- running to seed
- sagging
- scant
- scanty
- scarce
- scorning
- scouting
- senescent
- settling
- shooting down
- short
- shrinkage
- shrinking
- shriveling
- shriveling up
- shrivelling
- shy
- sick as a dog
- sinking
- skidding
- slackening
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- sliding
- slipping
- sloping
- sloping downward
- slowing
- slumping
- snub
- soft
- softening
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- spent
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- spurning
- stale
- sticking
- stooping
- striction
- subjacent
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- subsiding
- suffering
- suspended
- taking back
- tapering
- tapering off
- throwing out
- throwing over
- tilting
- timid
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- tired
- to the bottom
- toppling
- tottering
- truculent
- tumbling
- turndown
- turning down
- unavailing
- under
- under medication
- under the weather
- undermining
- underneath
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- veto
- vetoing
- vitiated
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- wanting
- wanton
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- wasted
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- weak
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- wearing off
- wearing out
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- withdrawing
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- worn-out
- worsening