What are the opposite words for carry on?
Carry on, meaning to continue or persist, has several antonyms depending on the context. The opposite of carrying on could be stopping or halting, especially when referring to something that was in motion. Another antonym could be abandoning or giving up, particularly in situations where perseverance is required. If we consider the emotional state, then the antonyms for carry on could be calming down, settling or relaxing. Finally, when referring to baggage or luggage, the antonym would be to unload or place down. Thus, using antonyms enables us to express the opposite meaning of carry on, depending on the specific context.
-
cease
- intermit,
- Intermitted,
- Intermitting,
- call it quits,
- call it a day,
- intermits,
- give over,
- pack in,
- bring to an end,
- come to an end,
- cut it out,
- bring an end,
- bring end,
- bringing an end,
- bringing end,
- bringing to an end,
- bringing to end,
- brings an end,
- brings end,
- brings to an end,
- brings to end,
- brought an end,
- brought end,
- brought to an end,
- brought to end,
- call a day,
- call day,
- call it day,
- call quits,
- called a day,
- called day,
- called it a day,
- called it day,
- called it quits,
- called quits,
- calling a day,
- calling day,
- calling it a day,
- calling it day,
- calling it quits,
- calling quits,
- calls a day,
- calls day,
- calls it a day,
- calls it day,
- calls it quits,
- calls quits,
- came an end,
- came end,
- came to an end,
- came to end,
- come an end,
- come end,
- come to end,
- comes an end,
- comes end,
- comes to an end,
- comes to end,
- coming an end,
- coming end,
- coming to an end,
- coming to end,
- cuts it out,
- cutting it out,
- gave over,
- gives over,
- packed in,
- packing in,
- packs in,
- quit cold turkey,
- quits cold turkey,
- quitted cold turkey,
- quitting cold turkey,
- sur cease,
- sur ceased,
- sur ceases,
- sur-cease,
- sur-ceased,
- sur-ceases,
- sur-ceasing.
-
abide
- hang in,
- hang out,
- live with,
- stick around,
- Bunked,
- Bunking,
- Lasted,
- Paused,
- Roomed,
- Rooming,
- Roosted,
- Roosting,
- put up with,
- putting up with,
- nested,
- nesting,
- hang in there,
- am big about,
- are big about,
- art big about,
- be big about,
- being big about,
- bunk out,
- bunked out,
- bunking out,
- bunks out,
- hang there,
- hanged in,
- hanged in there,
- hanged there,
- hanging in there,
- hangs in,
- hangs in there,
- hangs there,
- hung in,
- hung in there,
- hung there,
- in habit,
- in habited,
- in habiting,
- in habits,
- in-habit,
- in-habiting,
- in-habits,
- is big about,
- keeping on,
- keeps on,
- lived with,
- living with,
- put with,
- putting with,
- re side,
- re sided,
- re sides,
- re siding,
- re sting,
- re-mained,
- re-side,
- re-sided,
- re-sides,
- re-siding,
- re-sting,
- sticked around,
- sticking around,
- sticks around,
- stuck around,
- was big about,
- wast big about,
- with stand,
- with standing,
- with stands,
- with stood,
- with-stand,
- with-standing,
- with-stands.
-
hesitate
- hold off,
- pull back,
- pussyfoot,
- scruple,
- stutter,
- think about,
- think twice,
- Floundered,
- Hesitated,
- Stammered,
- thought about,
- thinking about,
- thinks about,
- shy away,
- be reluctant,
- be irresolute,
- pulling back,
- am irresolute,
- am reluctant,
- am unwilling,
- be unwilling,
- are irresolute,
- are reluctant,
- are unwilling,
- art irresolute,
- art reluctant,
- art unwilling,
- being irresolute,
- being reluctant,
- being unwilling,
- blow hot cold,
- de bate,
- de bated,
- de bates,
- de bating,
- de lay,
- de laying,
- de lays,
- de-bate,
- de-bated,
- de-bates,
- de-bating,
- de-lay,
- de-laying,
- de-lays,
- hem haw,
- holds off,
- is irresolute,
- is reluctant,
- is unwilling,
- pulled back,
- pulls back,
- sat fence,
- sat on fence,
- sate fence,
- sate on fence,
- shied away,
- shies away,
- shying away,
- sit fence,
- sit on fence,
- sits fence,
- sits on fence,
- sitting fence,
- sitting on fence,
- thinking twice,
- thinks twice,
- thought twice,
- was irresolute,
- was reluctant,
- was unwilling,
- wast irresolute,
- wast reluctant,
- wast unwilling,
- were irresolute,
- were reluctant,
- were unwilling,
- wert irresolute,
- wert reluctant,
- wert unwilling.
-
interrupt
- chime in,
- edge in,
- lay aside,
- put in,
- shortstop,
- Inned,
- INS,
- work in,
- brake train of thought,
- brake train thought,
- break train of thought,
- break train thought,
- breaking train of thought,
- breaking train thought,
- breaks train of thought,
- breaks train thought,
- broke train of thought,
- broke train thought,
- bust in,
- busted in,
- busting in,
- busts in,
- chimed in,
- chimes in,
- chiming in,
- crowd in,
- crowded in,
- crowding in,
- crowds in,
- cut in on,
- cut on,
- cuts in on,
- cuts on,
- cutting in on,
- cutting on,
- edged in,
- edges in,
- gat in the way,
- gat in way,
- gat the way,
- gat way,
- get in the way,
- get in way,
- get the way,
- gets in the way,
- gets in way,
- gets way,
- getting in the way,
- getting in way,
- getting the way,
- getting way,
- got in the way,
- got in way,
- got the way,
- got way,
- gotten in the way,
- gotten in way,
- gotten the way,
- in fringe,
- in fringed,
- in fringes,
- in sinuate,
- in sinuated,
- in sinuates,
- in sinuating,
- in-fringe,
- in-fringed,
- in-fringes,
- in-sinuate,
- in-sinuates,
- in-sinuating,
- laid aside,
- laying aside,
- pre vent,
- pre venting,
- pre vents,
- pre-vent,
- pre-vented,
- pre-venting,
- pre-vents,
- puts in,
- putting in,
- shortstopped,
- shortstops,
- worked in,
- working in,
- works in,
- wrought in.
-
stop
- sign off,
- am over,
- are over,
- art over,
- be over,
- being over,
- came a standstill,
- came to a standstill,
- come a standstill,
- come to a standstill,
- comes a standstill,
- comes to a standstill,
- coming a standstill,
- coming to a standstill,
- ran its course,
- run its course,
- running its course,
- runs its course,
- signed off,
- signing off,
- signs off,
- was over,
- wast over,
- were over,
- wert over.
-
remain
- bivouac,
- bivouacking,
- hold over,
- stay put,
- Bivouacked,
- stay over,
- bivouacs,
- held over,
- sit through,
- stay in,
- make camp,
- holding over,
- am left,
- are left,
- art left,
- be left,
- being left,
- held fort,
- held the fort,
- hold the fort,
- holding the fort,
- holds fort,
- holds over,
- holds the fort,
- is left,
- makes camp,
- making camp,
- out last,
- out lasted,
- out lasts,
- out live,
- out lived,
- out lives,
- out living,
- out-last,
- out-lasted,
- out-lasting,
- out-lasts,
- out-lives,
- out-living,
- pre vail,
- pre vailed,
- pre vailing,
- pre vails,
- pre-vail,
- pre-vailed,
- pre-vails,
- re main,
- re mained,
- re maining,
- re mains,
- re-main,
- re-mains,
- remain standing,
- remained standing,
- remains standing,
- sat through,
- sate through,
- sits through,
- sitting through,
- staid behind,
- staid in,
- staid over,
- staid put,
- stayed behind,
- stayed in,
- stayed over,
- stayed put,
- staying behind,
- staying in,
- staying over,
- staying put,
- stays behind,
- stays in,
- stays over,
- stays put,
- wast left,
- wert left.
- stammer
- bide
- cut off
-
dwell
- tenanted,
- tenting,
- Tenanting,
- Tented,
- keep house,
- established oneself,
- establishes oneself,
- establishing oneself,
- hang hat,
- hang one hat,
- hang one's hat,
- hang ones hat,
- hanged hat,
- hanged one hat,
- hanged one's hat,
- hanged ones hat,
- hanging hat,
- hanging one hat,
- hanging one's hat,
- hangs hat,
- hangs one hat,
- hangs one's hat,
- hangs ones hat,
- hung hat,
- hung one hat,
- hung one's hat,
- hung ones hat,
- keeping house,
- keeps house,
- kept house,
- made home,
- made one home,
- made ones home,
- make home,
- make one home,
- make one's home,
- make ones home,
- makes one's home,
- makes ones home,
- making home,
- making one home,
- making ones home,
- pitch tent,
- pitched tent,
- pitching tent.
-
halt
- close down,
- cool it,
- dithering,
- drop anchor,
- shillyshally,
- stand still,
- Whiffled,
- Whiffling,
- Whiffle,
- am defective,
- are defective,
- art defective,
- be defective,
- being defective,
- blew the whistle on,
- blew whistle on,
- blow the whistle on,
- blow whistle on,
- blowing the whistle on,
- blowing whistle on,
- blows the whistle on,
- blows whistle on,
- bring standstill,
- bring to standstill,
- bringing standstill,
- bringing to standstill,
- brings standstill,
- brings to standstill,
- brought standstill,
- brought to standstill,
- cease fire,
- ceased fire,
- ceases fire,
- ceasing fire,
- closed down,
- closes down,
- closing down,
- cooled it,
- cooling it,
- cools it,
- dithered,
- dropped anchor,
- dropping anchor,
- drops anchor,
- dropt anchor,
- held at bay,
- held bay,
- hold at bay,
- hold bay,
- holding at bay,
- holding bay,
- holds at bay,
- holds bay,
- is defective,
- put a cork in,
- put cork in,
- puts a cork in,
- puts cork in,
- putting a cork in,
- putting cork in,
- shilly shally,
- standing still,
- stands still,
- stood still,
- was defective,
- wast defective,
- were defective,
- wert defective,
- whiffles,
- wiggle waggle,
- wiggle waggles,
- wiggle waggling,
- wiggle-waggle,
- wiggle-waggled,
- wiggle-waggles,
- wiggle-waggling,
- wigglewaggle,
- wigglewaggled,
- wigglewaggles.
- live in
-
pause
- take a breather,
- take five,
- take ten,
- sidelined,
- brake it up,
- break it up,
- breaking it up,
- breaks it up,
- broke it up,
- call time,
- called time,
- calls time,
- came standstill,
- came to standstill,
- catch breath,
- catch one breath,
- catch ones breath,
- come standstill,
- come to standstill,
- comes standstill,
- comes to standstill,
- coming standstill,
- coming to standstill,
- de liberate,
- de liberated,
- de liberates,
- de liberating,
- de-liberate,
- de-liberated,
- de-liberates,
- de-liberating,
- put hold,
- put on hold,
- puts hold,
- putting hold,
- putting on hold,
- sidelining,
- stop briefly,
- stopped briefly,
- stopping briefly,
- stops briefly,
- stopt briefly,
- take a break,
- take breather,
- takes a break,
- takes break,
- takes five,
- taking a break,
- taking a breather,
- taking break,
- taking five,
- taking ten,
- took a break,
- took a breather,
- took break,
- took five,
- took ten.
-
quit
- give notice,
- sew up,
- kick over,
- sewed up,
- gat on the wagon,
- gat on wagon,
- gat the wagon,
- gat wagon,
- gave notice,
- get on wagon,
- get the wagon,
- get wagon,
- gets on the wagon,
- gets on wagon,
- gets the wagon,
- gets wagon,
- getting on the wagon,
- getting on wagon,
- getting the wagon,
- gives notice,
- giving notice,
- got on the wagon,
- got on wagon,
- got the wagon,
- got wagon,
- gotten on the wagon,
- gotten on wagon,
- gotten the wagon,
- hang it up,
- hanged it up,
- hanged up,
- hanging it up,
- hanging up,
- hung it up,
- kick habit,
- kick the habit,
- kicked habit,
- kicked over,
- kicked the habit,
- kicking habit,
- kicking the habit,
- kicks habit,
- kicks the habit,
- quit cold,
- quits cold,
- quitted cold,
- quitting cold,
- re tire,
- re tired,
- re tires,
- re tiring,
- re-tire,
- re-tiring,
- sews up,
- take cure,
- take the cure,
- takes cure,
- takes the cure,
- taking cure,
- taking the cure,
- took cure,
- took the cure,
- with draw,
- with drawing,
- with drawn,
- with draws,
- with drew,
- with-draw,
- with-drawing,
- with-drawn,
- with-drew.
-
stay
- outstay,
- ward off,
- outstays,
- outstayed,
- sweat out,
- stay out,
- de tain,
- de tains,
- de-tain,
- de-tains,
- out stay,
- out stayed,
- out staying,
- out stays,
- out-stay,
- out-stayed,
- out-staying,
- out-stays,
- post pone,
- post pones,
- post-pones,
- put down roots,
- puts down roots,
- putting down roots,
- staid out,
- stayed out,
- staying out,
- stays out,
- sweat it out,
- sweated it out,
- sweated out,
- sweating it out,
- sweating out,
- sweats it out.
-
trail
- drop back,
- fall behind,
- nose out,
- tag along,
- spooring,
- take out after,
- poke along,
- shag,
- hang down,
- falling behind,
- be dog,
- be dogged,
- be dogging,
- be dogs,
- be-dog,
- be-dogged,
- be-dogging,
- be-dogs,
- bedog,
- bedogged,
- bedogging,
- bedogs,
- bring rear,
- bring the rear,
- bring up rear,
- bring up the rear,
- bringing rear,
- bringing the rear,
- bringing up rear,
- bringing up the rear,
- brings rear,
- brings the rear,
- brings up rear,
- brings up the rear,
- brought rear,
- brought the rear,
- brought up rear,
- brought up the rear,
- dropped back,
- dropping back,
- drops back,
- dropt back,
- ex tend,
- ex tended,
- ex tending,
- ex tends,
- ex-tend,
- ex-tended,
- ex-tending,
- ex-tends,
- fell behind,
- follow a scent,
- follow scent,
- followed a scent,
- followed scent,
- following a scent,
- following scent,
- follows a scent,
- follows scent,
- hanged down,
- hanging down,
- hangs down,
- nosed out,
- noses out,
- nosing out,
- poked along,
- pokes along,
- poking along,
- shagging,
- shags,
- spoored,
- tagged along,
- tagging along,
- tags along,
- taking out after,
- took out after.
-
wait
- bide,
- hold on,
- look for,
- looking for,
- stay,
- stand by,
- looks for,
- lay low,
- sit up for,
- look forward to,
- standing by,
- stay up for,
- bide one time,
- bide one's time,
- bide ones time,
- bide time,
- bided one time,
- bided one's time,
- bided ones time,
- bided time,
- bides one time,
- bides one's time,
- bides ones time,
- bides time,
- biding one time,
- biding one's time,
- biding ones time,
- biding time,
- bode one time,
- bode one's time,
- bode ones time,
- bode time,
- fill time,
- filled time,
- filling time,
- fills time,
- fore saw,
- fore seeing,
- fore seen,
- fore sees,
- fore-saw,
- fore-see,
- fore-seen,
- fore-sees,
- hanged onto hat,
- hanged onto your hat,
- hanging onto hat,
- hanging onto your hat,
- hangs onto hat,
- hangs onto your hat,
- held everything,
- held on,
- hold everything,
- holds everything,
- holds on,
- hung onto hat,
- keep shirt on,
- keeping shirt on,
- keeps shirt on,
- kept shirt on,
- lied low,
- lies low,
- looked for,
- looked forward to,
- looking forward to,
- lying low,
- sat for,
- sat up for,
- sate for,
- sate up for,
- save it,
- saved it,
- saves it,
- saving it,
- sit for,
- sits for,
- sits up for,
- sitting for,
- sitting up for,
- staid for,
- stands by,
- stay for,
- stayed for,
- stayed up for,
- staying for,
- staying up for,
- stays for,
- stays up for,
- stood by.
- desist
-
discontinue
- blow off,
- intervenes,
- put an end to,
- putting an end to,
- refrain from,
- bag it,
- bagged it,
- bagging it,
- bags it,
- blew off,
- blowing off,
- blows off,
- dis continue,
- dis continued,
- dis continues,
- dis continuing,
- dis join,
- dis joined,
- dis joining,
- dis joins,
- dis sever,
- dis severed,
- dis severing,
- dis severs,
- dis unite,
- dis united,
- dis unites,
- dis uniting,
- dis-continue,
- dis-continued,
- dis-continues,
- dis-continuing,
- dis-join,
- dis-joined,
- dis-joining,
- dis-joins,
- dis-sever,
- dis-severed,
- dis-severing,
- dis-severs,
- dis-unite,
- dis-united,
- dis-unites,
- dis-uniting,
- inter pose,
- inter posed,
- inter posing,
- inter-pose,
- inter-posed,
- inter-posing,
- put end to,
- puts an end to,
- puts end to,
- putting end to,
- refrained from,
- refraining from,
- refrains from.
-
linger
- Idled,
- tooled,
- tooling,
- sit around,
- wait around,
- take time,
- am dilatory,
- am long,
- am tardy,
- are dilatory,
- are long,
- are tardy,
- art dilatory,
- art long,
- art tardy,
- be dilatory,
- be long,
- be tardy,
- being dilatory,
- being long,
- being tardy,
- is dilatory,
- is long,
- sat around,
- sate around,
- sits around,
- sitting around,
- take one time,
- take one's time,
- take ones time,
- takes one's time,
- takes ones time,
- takes time,
- taking one time,
- taking one's time,
- taking ones time,
- taking time,
- took one time,
- took ones time,
- took time,
- waited around,
- waiting around,
- waits around,
- was dilatory,
- was long,
- wast dilatory,
- wast tardy,
- were dilatory,
- wert dilatory,
- wert long.
- loiter
-
refrain
- pass up,
- sit out,
- take the pledge,
- am temperate,
- are temperate,
- art temperate,
- be temperate,
- being temperate,
- go on the wagon,
- go on wagon,
- go the wagon,
- go wagon,
- goes on the wagon,
- goes on wagon,
- goes the wagon,
- goes wagon,
- going on the wagon,
- going on wagon,
- going the wagon,
- going wagon,
- is temperate,
- passed up,
- passes up,
- passing up,
- re strain,
- re strained,
- re straining,
- re strains,
- re-strain,
- re-strained,
- re-straining,
- re-strains,
- sate out,
- sits out,
- sitting out,
- take pledge,
- takes pledge,
- takes the pledge,
- taking pledge,
- taking the pledge,
- took pledge,
- took the pledge,
- was temperate,
- wast temperate,
- went on the wagon,
- went on wagon,
- went the wagon,
- went wagon,
- were temperate,
- wert temperate,
- with held,
- with hold,
- with holding,
- with holds,
- with-held,
- with-hold,
- with-holds.
-
remit
- ease up,
- prorogue,
- Amnestied,
- Amnestying,
- Prorogued,
- Proroguing,
- prorogues,
- de crease,
- de creased,
- de creases,
- de creasing,
- de-crease,
- de-creased,
- de-creases,
- de-creasing,
- eased up,
- eases up,
- easing up,
- falls away,
- fell away,
- pro rogue,
- pro rogues,
- pro roguing,
- pro-rogued,
- pro-rogues,
- pro-roguing,
- re duce,
- re duces,
- re lax,
- re lease,
- re leases,
- re peal,
- re pealed,
- re pealing,
- re peals,
- re spite,
- re spited,
- re spites,
- re-duce,
- re-duces,
- re-lax,
- re-lease,
- re-leased,
- re-leases,
- re-pealed,
- re-peals,
- re-spites,
- re-spiting.
- stagger
-
suspend
- inactivate,
- lay over,
- hang up,
- inactivated,
- inactivates,
- put a stop to,
- put on ice,
- put on the shelf,
- de bar,
- de barred,
- de barring,
- de bars,
- de-bar,
- de-barred,
- de-barring,
- de-bars,
- hanged fire,
- hanging fire,
- hangs fire,
- hung fire,
- in activate,
- in activated,
- in activates,
- in activating,
- in-activate,
- in-activated,
- in-activates,
- laid on table,
- laid on the table,
- laid over,
- laid the table,
- lay on the table,
- lay table,
- lay the table,
- laying on table,
- laying on the table,
- laying table,
- lays on table,
- lays on the table,
- lays table,
- lays the table,
- pinkslip,
- pro tract,
- pro tracts,
- pro-tract,
- pro-tracts,
- put back burner,
- put ice,
- put on back burner,
- put shelf,
- put the shelf,
- puts a stop to,
- puts back burner,
- puts ice,
- puts on back burner,
- puts on ice,
- puts on the shelf,
- puts shelf,
- puts stop to,
- puts the shelf,
- putting a stop to,
- putting back burner,
- putting ice,
- putting on back burner,
- putting on ice,
- putting on the shelf,
- putting shelf,
- putting stop to,
- putting the shelf.
-
tarry
- drag one's feet,
- Filibustering,
- stop over,
- filibustered,
- goof around,
- drag feet,
- drag one feet,
- drag ones feet,
- dragged feet,
- dragged one feet,
- dragged one's feet,
- dragged ones feet,
- dragging feet,
- dragging one feet,
- dragging one's feet,
- dragging ones feet,
- drags feet,
- drags one feet,
- drags one's feet,
- drags ones feet,
- goofed around,
- goofing around,
- goofs around,
- gotten no place fast,
- held phone,
- held the phone,
- lose time,
- loses time,
- losing time,
- lost time,
- stopped over,
- stopping over,
- stops over,
- stopt over,
- takes one time,
- took one's time,
- warm a chair,
- warm chair,
- warmed a chair,
- warmed chair,
- warming a chair,
- warming chair,
- warms a chair,
- warms chair.
-
terminate
- Ultimated,
- Ultimating,
- Prorogate,
- wind down,
- de fine,
- de fined,
- de fines,
- de fining,
- de-fine,
- de-fined,
- de-fines,
- de-fining,
- dis charge,
- dis charged,
- dis charges,
- dis charging,
- dis missed,
- dis missing,
- dis solve,
- dis solved,
- dis solves,
- dis solving,
- dis-charge,
- dis-charged,
- dis-charges,
- dis-charging,
- dis-missed,
- dis-missing,
- dis-solve,
- dis-solved,
- dis-solves,
- dis-solving,
- ex pire,
- ex-pire,
- prorogated,
- prorogates,
- prorogating,
- re cessed,
- re cesses,
- re strict,
- re-cess,
- re-cessed,
- re-cessing,
- re-strict,
- ultimates,
- winded down,
- winding down,
- winds down,
- wound down.
- submit to, put up with
- end activity
- continue activity
- stop, conclude
- prevent; interrupt
- dawdle, delay
- stop, refrain from
- prevent activity from going on
-
stop, cause to stop
- halt.
- wait; be uncertain
- bother, interfere
- loiter, delay
- hang around; stroll
- wait, delay
-
stop doing something
- quit.
- do without; keep from doing
- stay, wait
- stop, postpone
- travel briefly; visit
- walk falteringly
- sojourn
- stutter in speech
-
bring or come to a halt or end
- stop.
- delay, hold off
- stop, finish
- lag behind, follow
-
pause, rest
- wait.
- Other relevant words
Antonym of the day
un-friendlinesses
- Antonyms:
- accord, affection, agreement.
