spreading
The word “spreading” has 2 syllables: spread-ing
It's pronounced as /ˈsprɛdɪŋ/
What is synonym and antonym for spreading?
In the thesaurus, “spreading” has 133 synonyms and 32 antonyms.
Here are synonyms and antonyms for spreading along with examples of usage in sentences.
Synonyms for spreading
- accelerating
- accumulating
- anointing
- applying
- appreciating
- ballooning
- bedaubing
- besmearing
- bestrewing
- blanketing
- blowing up
- booming
- bourgeoning
- breaking
- breaking up
- broadcasting
- building up
- bulking
- burgeoning
- carpeting
- catching
- circulating
- clearing out
- climbing
- coating
- coming out
- communicating
- conducting
- contagious
- contaminating
- conveying
- covering
- crescendoing
- cresting
- dabbing
- daubing
- delivering
- developing
- diffusing
- disarming
- disbanding
- disclosing
- dispelling
- dispensing
- dispersing
- disseminating
- dissipating
- distancing
- distending
- distributing
- diverging
- dividing
- endearing
- enlarging
- epidemic
- escalating
- expanding
- fetching
- forking
- gaining
- getting about
- getting around
- getting out
- getting round
- giving
- handing down
- handing on
- handing over
- heightening
- imparting
- increasing
- infecting
- infectious
- inflating
- intensifying
- inviting
- irresistable
- irresistible
- jumping
- layering
- laying
- laying on
- mantling
- mounting
- multiplying
- mushrooming
- outing
- overlaying
- overlying
- overpowering
- overspreading
- overwhelming
- palpable
- parting
- peaking
- perceptible
- plastering
- poisoning
- proliferating
- propagating
- radiating
- receding
- redoubling
- retreating
- revealing
- rising
- rocketing
- rolling up
- scattering
- separating
- sheeting
- skyrocketing
- slathering
- smearing
- snowballing
- sowing
- spilling
- sprawling
- surfacing
- surging
- surrendering
- swelling
- tangible
- telling
- transferring
- transfusing
- transmitting
- transpiring
- turning over
- unfolding
- waxing
- winning
- winsome
Antonyms for spreading
- assembling
- baring
- catching
- cloaking
- concealing
- containing
- contracting
- converging
- decreasing
- diminishing
- disguising
- dwindling
- enshrouding
- exposing
- gathering
- hiding
- joining
- lessening
- limiting
- masking
- meeting
- obscuring
- peeling
- receding
- restricting
- secreting
- shrouding
- stripping
- suppressing
- uncovering
- veiling
- waning
Meanings of spreading
- verb
- To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.
- To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions.
- To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.
- To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.
- To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present.
- To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.
- To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.
- To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.
- To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions.
- To open one’s legs, especially for sexual favours.
- noun
- The act by which something is spread.
Example Sentences
- The fire is spreading rapidly through the dry forest.
- Rumors about the event were spreading across the town.
- The company is spreading its operations to international markets.
- He was spreading kindness wherever he went.
- The disease is spreading faster than health officials expected.
On this page you'll find 165 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to spreading, such as: accelerating, accumulating, anointing, applying, appreciating, assembling, ballooning.
Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.
Related Words
dabbing
- anointing
- applying
- bedaub
- bedaubing
- besmear
- besmearing
- blanketing
- brushing
- carpeting
- chucking
- clapping
- clasping
- clenching
- clutching
- coating
- covering
- daub
- daubing
- feeling
- flicking
- grasping
- grazing
- gripping
- handling
- hitting
- holding
- knocking
- layering
- laying
- laying on
- mantling
- overlaying
- overlying
- overspreading
- palming
- palpating
- palping
- pat
- patting
- peck
- plaster
- plastering
- pounding
- rapping
- shaving
- sheeting
- skimming
- slathering
- smear
- smearing
- smudge
- spreading
- stipple
- surfacing
- swab
- tagging
- tap
- tapping
- tipping
- touching
- whacking
- wipe
gaining
- abduction
- accelerating
- accepting
- accomplishing
- accretion
- accruing
- accumulating
- achievement
- achieving
- acknowledgment
- acquiescence
- acquirement
- acquiring
- acquisition
- addition
- admission
- advancing
- advantageous
- affluent
- afloat
- afoot
- agreement
- alive
- alluring
- amassing
- annexing
- appreciating
- apprehension
- approaching
- appropriating
- appropriation
- approval
- arete
- arguing
- arrest
- arrival
- assent
- assimilating
- attaining
- attainment
- attracting
- auspicious
- bag
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- ballooning
- beating
- beguiling
- blandishing
- blarneying
- blessed
- blowing up
- booming
- boosting
- born with a silver spoon
- bourgeoning
- brainwashing
- bright
- bringing
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- bringing in
- building up
- bulking
- burgeoning
- bust
- buy
- cajoling
- capturing
- carrying
- catch
- catching
- chalking up
- charmed
- chewing over
- clearing
- climbing
- clutching
- coaxing
- collar
- coming around
- coming back
- coming by
- coming round
- coming to
- commandeering
- completion
- compliance
- confiscating
- confiscation
- consent
- continuing
- convalescing
- convenient
- conversing
- converting
- convincing
- cooperation
- crescendoing
- cresting
- debating
- discussing
- disputing
- distending
- drawing
- drop
- earning
- elevating
- encouraging
- enhancing
- enlarging
- enriching
- ensnaring
- enticing
- entreating
- equaling
- equalling
- escalating
- excelling
- exciting
- exhorting
- expanding
- extending
- fall
- fast-talking
- favorable
- favored
- feat
- felicitous
- finish
- flourishing
- fortuitous
- fulfillment
- functioning
- gain
- garnering
- gathering
- get a break
- getting
- go ahead
- going
- golden
- grab
- grasping
- green light
- grossing
- happening
- happy
- healing
- healthy
- heightening
- helpful
- hit the jackpot
- hitting
- hook
- hopeful
- imprisonment
- improving
- in luck
- in the gravy
- inclining
- increasing
- inducing
- inflating
- influencing
- inheriting
- intensifying
- interesting
- jumping
- knock off
- knocking down
- landing
- laying hold of
- leading on
- learning
- logging
- lucky
- luring
- making
- mastering
- matching
- maximizing
- meeting
- mending
- mooting
- mounting
- moving
- multiplying
- mushrooming
- nab
- nail
- netting
- nod
- obtaining
- obtainment
- occupation
- occupying
- okay
- on a roll
- ongoing
- operating
- opportune
- outdoing
- overcoming
- overpersuading
- peaking
- permission
- persuading
- pick up
- picking up
- pinch
- possession
- prize
- proceeding
- procuration
- procurement
- procuring
- profitable
- proliferating
- promising
- prompting
- property
- propitious
- prosperous
- providential
- pull
- pulling down
- pulling round
- pulling through
- purchase
- pursuing
- pursuit
- racking up
- rallying
- reaching
- reacquiring
- realization
- realizing
- reaping
- reattaining
- recapturing
- receipt
- receiving
- reception
- recognition
- recouping
- recovering
- recovery
- recruiting
- recuperating
- redoubling
- regaining
- remaking
- retrieval
- reviving
- ringing up
- rising
- rivaling
- rivalling
- rocketing
- rolling up
- rosy
- run-in
- salvage
- satisfying
- scoring
- securing
- seducing
- seizing
- seizure
- selling
- sitting pretty
- skyrocketing
- snapping back
- snatching
- snowballing
- snowing
- spreading
- stepping up
- stimulating
- succeeding
- successful
- sunny side
- surging
- surpassing
- surviving
- swaying
- sweep
- swelling
- taking
- taking captive
- taking in
- taking into custody
- taking on
- taking over
- tempting
- thriving
- tieing
- timely
- topping
- touching
- trapping
- trip
- triumphant
- tying
- undertaking
- urging
- victorious
- waxing
- wealthy
- well-off
- well-to-do
- wheedling
- winning
- working
- yes
radiating
- arising
- beaming
- bedazzling
- blazing
- blinding
- blinking
- branched
- branching
- brightening
- brilliant
- burning
- casting
- coruscating
- dazing
- dazzling
- deriving
- diffusing
- discharging
- dispelling
- dispersing
- dissipating
- diverging
- dividing
- effulgent
- ejecting
- eliminating
- emanating
- emitting
- erupting
- evacuating
- evolving
- excreting
- exhaling
- expelling
- expiring
- exuding
- firing
- flaming
- flaring
- flashing
- flickering
- flowing
- forking
- giving out
- glaring
- gleaming
- glimmering
- glinting
- glistening
- glistering
- glittering
- glorious
- glowing
- gushing
- illuminating
- illumining
- incandescent
- irradiating
- issuing
- jetting
- lambent
- lightening
- lighting
- lucent
- luminescing
- lustering
- lustring
- lustrous
- oozing
- outpouring
- outspread
- parting
- pouring
- proceeding
- ramifying
- raying
- refulgent
- releasing
- resplendent
- scattering
- scintillating
- secreting
- separating
- sheening
- shimmering
- shining
- shooting
- spangling
- sparkling
- spewing
- spiral
- splaying
- splitting
- spoked
- spouting
- spraying
- spreading
- springing
- spurting
- squirting
- stemming
- sunny
- throwing out
- twinkling
- uncoupling
- unlinking
- unyoking
- venting
- winking
- winkling
caking
ballooning
- accelerating
- accumulating
- aeronautics
- appreciating
- aviation
- bagging
- ballooned
- beetling
- bellying
- billowing
- bloated
- blowing up
- blown
- blown up
- booming
- bourgeoning
- building up
- bulging
- bulking
- bunching
- burgeoning
- climbing
- crescendoing
- cresting
- dilated
- dilating
- distended
- distending
- doming
- elongating
- enlarging
- escalating
- expanded
- expanding
- extending
- flight
- flying
- gaining
- gliding
- hang gliding
- heightening
- increasing
- inflating
- intensifying
- jumping
- jutting
- lengthening
- mounting
- multiplying
- mushrooming
- overhanging
- overinflated
- paragliding
- peaking
- poking
- pooching
- pouching
- pouting
- projecting
- proliferating
- protruding
- protuberant
- puffed
- redoubling
- rising
- rocketing
- rolling up
- skydiving
- skyrocketing
- snowballing
- soaring
- spreading
- standing out
- starting
- sticking out
- stretching
- surging
- swelling
- swollen
- tumescent
- tumid
- turgescent
- turgid
- varicose
- varicosed
- ventricose
- waxing