What are the opposite words for continuing?
Continuing means to persist in something or to keep doing a particular activity. Its antonyms, on the other hand, refer to stopping, pausing or discontinuing the action. Some of the antonyms for continuing are halting, ceasing, stopping, discontinuing, interrupting, abstaining and desisting. Halting refers to coming to a stop gradually, while ceasing means to stop or to bring an activity to an end. Discontinuing implies stopping something which has been going on for a while, similar to interrupting. Abstaining and desisting imply voluntarily stopping oneself from doing something. In summary, the antonyms of continuing all infer an action being stopped or put on hold.
- up
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situated above
- up.
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dead
- anesthetized,
- entire,
- inoperable,
- no more,
- unanimated,
- by-gone,
- pushing up daisies,
- bereft life,
- bereft of life,
- by gone,
- de ceased,
- de parted,
- de-ceased,
- de-parted,
- gone meet maker,
- gone reward,
- gone to meet maker,
- gone to reward,
- in animate,
- in operable,
- in operative,
- in sensitive,
- in sipid,
- in-active,
- in-animate,
- in-operable,
- in-operative,
- in-sensitive,
- in-sipid,
- more anesthetized,
- more deadened,
- more erased,
- more expired,
- more inoperable,
- more liquidated,
- more mortified,
- more numbed,
- more offed,
- more perished,
- more reposing,
- more unanimated,
- most anesthetized,
- most deadened,
- most erased,
- most expired,
- most inoperable,
- most liquidated,
- most mortified,
- most numbed,
- most offed,
- most perished,
- most reposing,
- most unanimated,
- not existing,
- offed,
- out and out,
- out misery,
- out of misery,
- out of one misery,
- out of one's misery,
- out of ones misery,
- out one misery,
- out right,
- out righter,
- out rightest,
- out-right,
- out-righter,
- out-rightest,
- pushing daisies,
- resting in peace,
- resting peace,
- un animated,
- un conditional,
- un employed,
- un feeling,
- un interesting,
- un mitigated,
- un profitable,
- un qualified,
- un responsive,
- un-animated,
- un-conditional,
- un-mitigated,
- un-qualified,
- un-responsive.
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closed
- self-sufficing,
- self-sustained,
- self-sustaining,
- Padlocked,
- not open,
- gone fishing,
- more concluded,
- more folded,
- more padlocked,
- more resolved,
- more self sufficing,
- more self supported,
- more self sustained,
- more self sustaining,
- more self-sufficing,
- more self-supported,
- more self-sustained,
- more self-sustaining,
- more selfsufficing,
- more selfsupported,
- more selfsustained,
- more selfsustaining,
- most concluded,
- most folded,
- most padlocked,
- most resolved,
- most self sufficing,
- most self supported,
- most self sustaining,
- most self-sufficing,
- most self-supported,
- most self-sustained,
- most self-sustaining,
- most selfsupported,
- out business,
- out order,
- re solved,
- re-solved,
- self centered,
- self contained,
- self sufficient,
- self sufficing,
- self supported,
- self supporting,
- self sustaining,
- selfcentered,
- selfcontained,
- selfsufficient,
- selfsufficing,
- selfsupported,
- selfsupporting,
- selfsustaining.
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final
- final,
- unanswerable,
- unappealable,
- de finite,
- de terminate,
- de terminative,
- de-finite,
- de-terminate,
- de-terminative,
- endest,
- hind most,
- in controvertible,
- in-controvertible,
- laggest,
- last-minute,
- lastminute,
- more last minute,
- more last-minute,
- more lastminute,
- more unanswerable,
- more unappealable,
- most last minute,
- most last-minute,
- most lastminute,
- most terminating,
- most unanswerable,
- most unappealable,
- un answerable,
- un appealable,
- un-answerable,
- un-appealable.
- ongoing
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intermittent
- epochal,
- every other,
- here and there,
- occasional,
- recurrent,
- seasonal,
- shifting,
- Iterant,
- by bits and pieces,
- by bits pieces,
- dis continuing,
- dis continuous,
- dis-continuing,
- dis-continuous,
- here there,
- in frequent,
- in-frequent,
- more checked,
- more discontinuing,
- more epochal,
- more iterant,
- more periodical,
- more punctuated,
- more recurring,
- more seasonal,
- more shifting,
- more stop and go,
- more stop-and-go,
- most checked,
- most discontinuing,
- most epochal,
- most iterant,
- most periodical,
- most punctuated,
- most recurring,
- most seasonal,
- most shifting,
- most stop and go,
- most stop-and-go,
- now then,
- re current,
- re curring,
- re-current,
- re-curring,
- stop and go,
- stop-and-go.
- shut, out of service
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no longer alive
- dead.
- irregular, sporadic
- recently discovered
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Other relevant words
- alternate,
- alternating,
- antiquated,
- archaic,
- cyclic,
- dated,
- discontinued,
- discontinuous,
- erratic,
- fitful,
- intermittent,
- irregular,
- noncontinuous,
- obsolete,
- occasional,
- out-of-date,
- outdated,
- outmoded,
- passe,
- periodic,
- periodical,
- recurrent,
- rhythmic,
- seasonal,
- serial,
- short,
- spasmodic,
- sporadic,
- spotty,
- unsteady,
- outworn.
- Other antonyms
Antonym of the day
hath number
- Antonyms:
- estimate, guess, subtract.
