Definition for Dodging:

• a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery

Synonyms for Dodging:

• n.

  •avoidance (noun)
  • escapism,
  • eschewal,
  • elusion,
  • restraint.
  •communication (noun)
  • dodge,
  • scheme.
  •dodging (noun)
  • avoidance,
  • turning away.
  •escape (noun)
  • circumvention.

• v.

  •avoiding (verb)
  • eluding,
  • shirking,
  • Abstaining,
  • declining,
  • sidestepping,
  • Skipping,
  • shunning,
  • Escaping,
  • averting,
  • Circumventing,
  • Recoiling,
  • shrinking,
  • Evading,
  • Avoiding,
  • ducking,
  • bypassing.
  •escaping (verb)
  • getting away,
  • Emigrating,
  • breaking out.

• Other synonyms:

  •Other relevant words:
  • equivocation,
  • elude,
  • diversion,
  • nonpayment,
  • prevarication,
  • lurk,
  • caviling,
  • lurching,
  • displace,
  • blinking,
  • Shelving,
  • bickering,
  • shifting,
  • encircling,
  • clock-watching,
  • blocking,
  • malingering,
  • subterfuge,
  • terminological inexactitude,
  • cartage,
  • Dipping,
  • Deflecting,
  • sidestep,
  • porterage,
  • escape valve,
  • Tabling,
  • weasel word,
  • dousing,
  • Shying,
  • transplantation,
  • alter,
  • vary,
  • device,
  • lam,
  • importation,
  • transition,
  • ferry,
  • Hoaxing,
  • disheartening,
  • misrepresenting,
  • false statement,
  • transit,
  • transport,
  • avoid,
  • traction,
  • eschew,
  • replace,
  • limit,
  • double-talk,
  • Flinching,
  • portage,
  • chicane,
  • fetching,
  • cheating,
  • limitation,
  • design,
  • Vection,
  • skirting,
  • wafture,
  • plan,
  • sophistry,
  • stratagem,
  • besieging,
  • transportation,
  • tergiversation,
  • shuffling,
  • chicanery,
  • outline,
  • relief valve,
  • Leisure Activity,
  • nit-picking,
  • hairsplitting,
  • overreaching,
  • reserve,
  • getting away from,
  • Manipulating,
  • shirk,
  • hesitation,
  • refuse,
  • disconcerting,
  • trickery,
  • fencing,
  • dancing,
  • confusing,
  • restriction,
  • soldiering,
  • distraction,
  • cooking,
  • Vectitation,
  • quibbling,
  • leakage,
  • Blenching,
  • evasiveness,
  • Outlining,
  • swerving,
  • passage,
  • hedging,
  • weasel words,
  • paltering,
  • Remitting,
  • skulking,
  • tax evasion,
  • Bilking,
  • slacking,
  • evade,
  • nitpicking,
  • interchange,
  • skulk,
  • Prevaricating,
  • bordering,
  • deception,
  • Equivocating,
  • falsifying,
  • excuse,
  • edge,
  • surrounding,
  • aversion,
  • leak,
  • Transumption,
  • schema,
  • hesitancy,
  • outwitting,
  • sketch,
  • freight,
  • deceit,
  • Pettifoggery,
  • shuffle,
  • take cover,
  • Shoveling,
  • translation,
  • Postponing,
  • form,
  • goofing off,
  • Conning,
  • flee,
  • steal,
  • Captiousness,
  • intrigue,
  • Boggling,
  • safety valve,
  • contrivance,
  • pastime,
  • exportation,
  • pussyfooting,
  • outsmarting,
  • line,
  • suppressio veri,
  • outfoxing,
  • Fudging,
  • shun,
  • transmission,
  • Tricking,
  • lying,
  • carting,
  • plot,
  • transposition,
  • creep,
  • beleaguering,
  • Deferring,
  • strategy,
  • draft,
  • Vecture,
  • dispersion,
  • Parrying,
  • artifice,
  • mendacity,
  • Flurrying,
  • wiling,
  • circumvent,
  • eschewing,
  • defy,
  • outflow,
  • sneak,
  • reservation,
  • shipment,
  • feinting,
  • flight,
  • gestation,
  • truancy,
  • scheming,
  • cunning,
  • system.

Paraphrases for Dodging:

• Forward Entailment

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Escaping.

• Independent

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Ignoring, Evading, Avoiding, Circumventing, bypassing, Refraining, Denying, Resisting, Preventing, averting, sparing, shirking, ducking.

• Other Related

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    sidestepping, eluding.

Antonyms for Dodging:

• n.

  • Other antonyms:
    endurance, toleration, abidance, submission.

Homophones for Dodging:

• descensus, diggings, De Kooning, dugong, diagnosis, disengage, designing, dowsing, digenesis, dismiss, Des Moines, dozens, degaussing, digging, dismaying, ducking, dousing, dehiscence, Dow Jones, dashing, dysgenesis, duskiness, death camas, dodecanese, dizziness, disowning, dickens, dicksoniaceae, decency, docking, dyskinesia, dishwashing, disco music, deaconess, dysgenics, dysgenic, diagnose, diogenes, dogging, De Quincey, dissonance, ditchmoss, dhodhekanisos, diakinesis.

Hypernym for Dodging:

• n.

  • act
    goldbricking, circumvention, malingering, slacking, escape mechanism, skulking, goofing off, soldiering, shirking.

Hyponym for Dodging:

• n.

  • act
    neglect, nonperformance, carelessness, negligence.
  • communication
    untruth, falsehood, falsity.