Definition for Acting:

• Action; performance of an assumed or dramatic part.

Synonyms for Acting:

• adj.

  •acting (adjective)
  • enactment,
  • practicing,
  • deputy,
  • functioning,
  • surrogate,
  • histrionics,
  • alternate.

• n.

  •
  • auxiliary,
  • casual,
  • budding.
  •
  • in,
  • rep,
  • on.
  •
  • stage.
  •
  • show,
  • act,
  • true,
  • honest,
  • sham.
  •
  • continue.
  •act (noun)
  • playacting,
  • playing.
  •acting (noun)
  • impermanent.
  •enactment (noun)
  • personation.
  •entertaining, performing (noun)
  • characterization,
  • mimicry,
  • portraying,
  • depiction,
  • imitation,
  • portrayal,
  • performance,
  • assuming,
  • Enacting,
  • theatre,
  • posing,
  • pantomime,
  • Simulating,
  • impersonation,
  • seeming.

• v.

  •acting (verb)
  • laboring,
  • conducting,
  • reacting,
  • exercising,
  • Perpetrating,
  • Comporting,
  • appearing,
  • Endeavoring,
  • officiating,
  • Doing,
  • moving,
  • Transacting.
  •behaving (verb)
  • proceeding,
  • Deporting.
  •causing (verb)
  • Effecting,
  • motivating,
  • engineering,
  • causing,
  • making,
  • Originating,
  • Enforcing,
  • inducing,
  • Forcing,
  • Engendering,
  • Generating,
  • bringing about,
  • Evoking,
  • inspiring,
  • Eliciting,
  • driving,
  • Producing,
  • provoking,
  • giving rise to.
  •dramatizing (verb)
  • pantomiming,
  • Presenting,
  • Characterizing,
  • choreographing,
  • miming,
  • Improvising,
  • Burlesquing,
  • Dramatizing.
  •endeavoring (verb)
  • undertaking,
  • contracting,
  • exploiting,
  • engaging,
  • Venturing,
  • Committing,
  • approaching,
  • Maneuvering,
  • Assaying,
  • Attempting,
  • Aiming,
  • Volunteering.
  •venturing (verb)
  • pursuing,
  • Initiating,
  • scheming,
  • campaigning.
  •working (verb)
  • toiling.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • drama,
  • white-collar,
  • theater,
  • active,
  • roving,
  • blue-collar,
  • theatrical,
  • emeritus,
  • opposite,
  • repertory,
  • staging,
  • itinerant,
  • designate,
  • Dissemblance,
  • part-time,
  • full-time,
  • creative,
  • junior.
  •
  • live in,
  • simulation,
  • professional,
  • dark,
  • general,
  • outgoing.
  •
  • masquerade,
  • stock,
  • resident.
  •
  • disguise.
  •Other relevant words:
  • execute,
  • going on,
  • sales representative,
  • turning,
  • measuring,
  • employment,
  • cornet,
  • generalissimo,
  • Impersonating,
  • Naik,
  • vice,
  • answering,
  • on foot,
  • meretriciousness,
  • toying,
  • Snatching,
  • masking,
  • licking,
  • gesture,
  • play-acting,
  • ensign,
  • dramatic art,
  • first lieutenant,
  • effective,
  • corresponding,
  • subaltern,
  • chipping,
  • projection,
  • business,
  • express,
  • operational,
  • influential,
  • pose,
  • constitution,
  • melodrama,
  • serving,
  • simulacrum,
  • official,
  • handle,
  • colouring,
  • at work,
  • make out,
  • dizdar,
  • behavior,
  • consign,
  • ham,
  • personification,
  • Shaming,
  • temporal,
  • Flecking,
  • substituting,
  • sergeant,
  • window dressing,
  • actioning,
  • Aping,
  • supply,
  • demonstrate,
  • impart,
  • arrange,
  • march on,
  • be on,
  • fermenting,
  • biting,
  • buffoonery,
  • Theatric,
  • ostentation,
  • busy,
  • patter,
  • workings,
  • edict,
  • propelling,
  • Achieving,
  • cadet,
  • practises,
  • gag,
  • presentation,
  • face,
  • prompter,
  • histrionic art,
  • front,
  • Seraskier,
  • Bluffing,
  • noncommissioned officer,
  • the West End,
  • on hand,
  • staff officer,
  • touring,
  • pretext,
  • play out,
  • lieutenant colonel,
  • in process,
  • semblance,
  • sergeant major,
  • Managing,
  • Hetman,
  • afoot,
  • Jobbing,
  • Humbuggery,
  • hammy,
  • evince,
  • work,
  • overacting,
  • facade,
  • playing a part,
  • manager,
  • in play,
  • marechal,
  • lieutenant,
  • activism,
  • boards,
  • twisting,
  • gloss,
  • deliver,
  • lance corporal,
  • boasting,
  • law,
  • ordering,
  • colonel,
  • powerful,
  • play,
  • Lawing,
  • Acquitting,
  • showbiz,
  • operation,
  • in force,
  • in hand,
  • warrant officer,
  • attitudinizing,
  • spieling,
  • go with,
  • ongoing,
  • play over,
  • praxis,
  • slapstick,
  • Flaking,
  • broadway,
  • aide-de-camp,
  • thespian,
  • effectual,
  • scraping,
  • appearance,
  • portray,
  • accomplish,
  • color,
  • Typifying,
  • Major general,
  • pro tempore,
  • footlights,
  • bring,
  • transition,
  • ply,
  • brigadier,
  • Cloaking,
  • running,
  • imposture,
  • rounding,
  • pretension,
  • pendragon,
  • in operation,
  • lieutenant general,
  • in harness,
  • mimesis,
  • Decreeing,
  • statute,
  • behavioral,
  • ruling,
  • false front,
  • Sufficing,
  • practice,
  • Shamming,
  • fulfill,
  • represent,
  • succeed,
  • eventing,
  • behaviour,
  • coloring,
  • posture,
  • forging,
  • property man,
  • wrought upon,
  • representation,
  • false show,
  • humbug,
  • falsity,
  • depict,
  • perform,
  • stage directions,
  • in action,
  • jeu de theatre,
  • administer,
  • drum major,
  • affectation,
  • occupation,
  • Encountering,
  • swing,
  • achieve,
  • dressing,
  • Movements,
  • makeshift,
  • representing,
  • defending,
  • incarnation,
  • falsehood,
  • Accomplishing,
  • Displacing,
  • hoke,
  • businesslike,
  • functional,
  • officer,
  • workaday,
  • acted upon,
  • thespian art,
  • stunt,
  • stage business,
  • dramatic performance,
  • dumb show,
  • efficacious,
  • embodiment,
  • Knight marshal,
  • major,
  • walk,
  • Tricking,
  • color sergeant,
  • Cropping,
  • minuting,
  • dissembling,
  • centurion,
  • gilt,
  • behave,
  • Constituting,
  • stage manager,
  • assume,
  • brigade major,
  • faking,
  • marshal,
  • solving,
  • prove,
  • speciousness,
  • cheating,
  • hokum,
  • manage,
  • delusion,
  • decree,
  • in the works,
  • assistant,
  • passaging,
  • field marshal,
  • cope,
  • machinist,
  • adjutant,
  • Kneading,
  • potent,
  • DO,
  • director,
  • stooping,
  • bluff,
  • roleplaying,
  • skipper,
  • inaction,
  • affectedness,
  • sustain,
  • histrionic,
  • Seconding,
  • trifling,
  • ad hoc,
  • diddling,
  • Inciting,
  • Delegated,
  • deeding,
  • captain general,
  • assert,
  • in practice,
  • varnish,
  • Jemidar,
  • souring,
  • exemplifying,
  • mummery,
  • symbolising,
  • foot it,
  • Wagering,
  • Crooking,
  • fraud,
  • captain,
  • Carrying,
  • second lieutenant,
  • numbering,
  • commander in chief,
  • processing,
  • by proxy,
  • operative,
  • operations,
  • going,
  • costumier,
  • Dallying,
  • four-flushing,
  • byplay,
  • deception,
  • interpretation,
  • exercise,
  • Recreating,
  • representative,
  • symbolizing,
  • Comprising,
  • Mimicking,
  • mapping,
  • function,
  • feint,
  • Stagery,
  • passage,
  • sublieutenant,
  • corporal,
  • show business.

Paraphrases for Acting:

• Forward Entailment

  • Adjective
    act.
  • Proper noun, singular
    act.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    act.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    practicing.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    active, second-generation, incumbent, theatrical, third-generation, interpretive, stepping-stone.
  • Proper noun, singular
    responsibilities, assignments, participants, stakeholders, tasks, players, Children.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    performing, comedy.
  • Verb, past tense
    DO.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    reacting, Impacting, characterising, Characterizing, conducting, information, accepting, reconstructing, operating, participating, Effecting, affecting, demonstrating, Committing, Constructing, Measures, compensation, Indicating, Behaving, Negotiating, collecting, reflecting, Deliberating, decisions, Incorporating, Respecting, tackling, Administering, Guaranteeing, undertaking, existing, Creating, Mainstreaming, independence, Responding, Containing, executing, implementing, according, accounting, Treating, Attempting, commissioning, endeavouring, measurement, integrating, Considering, facing, striving, updating, Addressing, Maintaining, moving, substituting, Managing, exercising, Achieving, tracking, Carrying, representing, trading, understanding, competing, rotating, services, pointing, Establishing, Displaying, Organizing, contributing, changing, Alleviating, convening, deciding, Influencing, struggling, temping, becoming, talking, Consisting, Debating, Comprising, steps, Stepping, completing, starting, Granting, Pertaining, Exerting, coming, assuming, determining, resulting, conforming, sitting, interfering, concluding, Discussing, retaining, Adopting, Progressing, resolving, pretending, enabling, identifying, Relating, deputising, leaving, following, Alleging, Suppressing, parts, regarding, observing, Delivering, replacing, advancing, rebuilding, Claiming, Realizing, Occupying, turning, dealing, Disposing, causing, fighting, Replying, Entailing, defending, honouring, Discharging, appearing, Arising, follow-up, basic, Occurring, incurring, Shouldering, Fulfilling, filming, framework, voting, Receiving, laying, striking, Depending, upholding, impeding, Submitting, walking, seeking, Placing, monitoring, quality, Allowing, drawing, pursuing, opposing, offering, showing, pressing, assuring, leading, leads, shooting, paying, Including, Parties, Employing, Promoting, faking, Applying, using, ensures, building, trying, entering, Involving, pushing, bearing, posing, looking, i.e., setting, Referring, covering, core, feeling, Bridging, \, posting, Linking, asking, Providing, giving, varying, ranging, rushing, thinking, hearing, Adding, shopping, driving, Having, running, bringing, raising, sharing, holding, focusing, owing, putting, find, finding, going, killing, S, meeting, age, keeping, Doing, getting, names, performing.
  • Verb, past participle
    Carried, engaged, related, Regarded, driven.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    affaires.

• Other Related

  • Interjection
    MOVIES.

Antonyms for Acting:

• adj.

  • substituting in a role
    permanent.
  • Other antonyms:
    lasting, long-term.

Homophones for Acting:

• actinic, auction house, astonish, academic, assistance, accidence, astuteness, actinomyces, acuteness, agitating, asthenic, actinozoa, acquittance, azotemic, agedness, actinomycosis, acetonic, actuating.

Holonyms for Acting:

• n.

  • act
    performance.

Hypernym for Acting:

• n.

  • act
    method, heroics, characterization, business, hamming, skit, overacting, dumb show, portrayal, pantomime, roleplaying, Reenactment, personation, enactment, mime, byplay, stage business, impersonation, method acting.

Hyponym for Acting:

• n.

  • act
    activity, performing arts.