waving

The word “waving” has 2 syllables: wav-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈweɪvɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for waving?

In the thesaurus, “waving” has 122 synonyms and 20 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for waving

  • acquainting
  • advising
  • aerial
  • aeronautical
  • airborne
  • avian
  • beckoning
  • bouncing
  • bouncy
  • bulgy
  • bumpy
  • coiled
  • convoluted
  • corkscrew
  • crimped
  • crimpy
  • crinkling
  • crinkly
  • crisp
  • curled
  • curling
  • curly
  • curved
  • dislocation
  • distended
  • drifting
  • ebbing and flowing
  • express
  • fiddling
  • fidgeting
  • flagging
  • flailing
  • flapping
  • fleet
  • flexuous
  • floating
  • flourishing
  • fluctuating
  • fluttering
  • frizzed
  • frizzy
  • fuzzy
  • gesticulating
  • gesturing
  • gliding
  • heaving
  • hovering
  • informing
  • kinky
  • locomotion
  • looped
  • mercurial
  • migration
  • miming
  • mobile
  • mobility
  • motility
  • motion
  • motioning
  • motivity
  • move
  • movement
  • nodding
  • on the wing
  • pantomiming
  • permed
  • plangent
  • plumed
  • puffy
  • quivering
  • relating
  • relocation
  • rippled
  • rippling
  • rising
  • rising and falling
  • rolling
  • shift
  • shifting
  • shrugging
  • signaling
  • signalizing
  • signalling
  • signing
  • sinuate
  • sinuous
  • snaky
  • soaring
  • speedy
  • spiralled
  • squiggly
  • squirm
  • squirming
  • stir
  • stirring
  • streaming
  • swaying
  • swelling
  • swirling
  • swollen
  • swooping
  • telling
  • twitching
  • undulant
  • undulate
  • undulated
  • undulating
  • undulatory
  • unstable
  • vermiculate
  • vibration
  • volant
  • volar
  • volitant
  • waved
  • wavy
  • winding
  • winging
  • wound
  • wriggling
  • writhing
  • zooming

Antonyms for waving

  • cessation
  • discontinuance
  • ending
  • expiration
  • finish
  • halt
  • immobility
  • inertia
  • inertness
  • lapse
  • motionlessness
  • pause
  • shutdown
  • shutoff
  • stillness
  • stop
  • stoppage
  • straight
  • surcease
  • termination

Meanings of waving

  • verb
    1. To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego.
    2. To put aside, avoid.
    3. To outlaw (someone).
    4. To abandon, give up (someone or something).
    5. To move from side to side; to sway.
    6. To stray, wander.
    7. To move back and forth repeatedly and somewhat loosely.
    8. To move one’s hand back and forth (generally above the shoulders) in greeting or departure.
    9. (metonymic) To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion, as of the hand; to signify by waving; to beckon; to signal; to indicate.
    10. To have an undulating or wavy form.
    11. To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.
    12. To produce waves to the hair.
    13. To swing and miss at a pitch.
    14. To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.
    15. (metonymic) To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
    16. To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state.
    17. To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
  • noun
    1. The motion of something that waves.
    2. Repeated moving of arms or hands to signal.

Example Sentences

  • She stood at the door waving goodbye.
  • The flag was waving proudly in the wind.
  • Children were waving their hands excitedly at the parade.
  • He came running, waving his arms to get attention.
  • The girl was waving from the balcony with a big smile.

On this page you'll find 142 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to waving, such as: acquainting, advising, aerial, aeronautical, airborne, avian, beckoning.

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

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  • accelerating
  • accumulating
  • aerial
  • aeronautical
  • airborne
  • appreciating
  • arrowing
  • avian
  • ballooning
  • barreling
  • barrelling
  • beating it
  • beelining
  • beetling
  • belting
  • blasting
  • blazing
  • blowing
  • bolting
  • bombing
  • bourgeoning
  • bowling
  • breezing
  • building up
  • bumbling
  • bundling
  • burgeoning
  • burring
  • bustling
  • buzzing
  • cannonballing
  • careening
  • careering
  • catching up
  • chasing
  • chirring
  • churring
  • cooing
  • coursing
  • cresting
  • curring
  • darting
  • dashing
  • drifting
  • driving
  • droning
  • enlarging
  • escalating
  • expanding
  • express
  • fast
  • fast-forwarding
  • fizzing
  • flapping
  • fleet
  • flitting
  • floating
  • fluttering
  • flying
  • galloping
  • getting a move on
  • gliding
  • haring
  • hastening
  • heightening
  • hieing
  • highballing
  • hissing
  • hovering
  • humming
  • humping
  • hurling
  • hurrying
  • hurtling
  • hustling
  • hying
  • increasing
  • intensifying
  • jetting
  • jogging
  • jumping
  • making tracks
  • mercurial
  • mobile
  • motoring
  • mounting
  • multiplying
  • murmuring
  • mushrooming
  • nipping
  • on the wing
  • outpacing
  • outrunning
  • outstripping
  • overtaking
  • peaking
  • pelting
  • plumed
  • proliferating
  • purring
  • quickening
  • racing
  • ramming
  • ripping
  • rocketing
  • running
  • rushing
  • rustling
  • sailing
  • scampering
  • scooting
  • scudding
  • scuffling
  • scurrying
  • scuttling
  • shaking a leg
  • shooting
  • sighing
  • sizzling
  • skyrocketing
  • snowballing
  • soaring
  • speeding
  • speedy
  • sprinting
  • stampeding
  • stepping
  • stepping on it
  • stepping out
  • streaking
  • streaming
  • surging
  • swelling
  • swift
  • swishing
  • swooping
  • tearing
  • thrumming
  • traveling
  • travelling
  • trotting
  • volant
  • volar
  • volitant
  • waving
  • waxing
  • wheezing
  • whirling
  • whirring
  • whishing
  • whisking
  • whispering
  • whistling
  • whizzing
  • whooshing
  • winging
  • zipping

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