Synonyms for Encountering:

• adj.

  •confronting (adjective)
  • more meeting,
  • more encountering,
  • most meeting,
  • most encountering,
  • face face.

• v.

  •confronting (verb)
  • challenging,
  • Defying,
  • daring,
  • dealing with,
  • braving.
  •contending (verb)
  • contrasting,
  • standing,
  • protesting,
  • conflicting,
  • wrangling,
  • Resisting,
  • arguing,
  • contending,
  • bickering,
  • dissenting,
  • Vying,
  • wrestling,
  • antagonizing,
  • Withstanding,
  • Disputing,
  • opposing,
  • defending,
  • brawling,
  • clashing,
  • facing,
  • hassling,
  • struggling,
  • Quarreling.

• Other synonyms:

  •adj.
  • confronting.
  •Other relevant words:
  • abide,
  • abiding,
  • absorb,
  • absorption,
  • accept,
  • accretion,
  • accrual,
  • accruement,
  • accumulate,
  • ache,
  • acquire,
  • acquit,
  • adjoin,
  • admit,
  • adopt,
  • adventure,
  • affiance,
  • affiliation,
  • affirm,
  • agglomerate,
  • aggregate,
  • agony,
  • airless,
  • alluring,
  • amass,
  • ambitious,
  • apogee,
  • appeal,
  • apprehensible,
  • argue,
  • argument,
  • armed combat,
  • ascertain,
  • aspect,
  • assaultive,
  • assemble,
  • assiduity,
  • assiduousness,
  • assume,
  • assumptive,
  • assure,
  • at odds,
  • attain,
  • attend,
  • attendance,
  • attention,
  • audacious,
  • avant-garde,
  • bally,
  • battlefront,
  • bechance,
  • befall,
  • beguiling,
  • behave,
  • belligerent,
  • betroth,
  • bicker,
  • birth,
  • blinking,
  • bloody,
  • blooming,
  • blow,
  • blowout,
  • boldness,
  • brass,
  • break,
  • breakthrough,
  • brook,
  • brush,
  • bulge,
  • bully,
  • butt against,
  • calculation,
  • caressing,
  • carry,
  • case,
  • casual,
  • catch,
  • catching,
  • charter,
  • check,
  • cheek,
  • cheeseparing,
  • citizens committee,
  • cladding,
  • clamber,
  • clang,
  • clangor,
  • clangoring,
  • clangorous,
  • clangour,
  • clank,
  • clasp,
  • clench,
  • climax,
  • close down,
  • close up,
  • close-fitting,
  • closelipped,
  • closely,
  • closemouthed,
  • closing,
  • closing curtain,
  • clutch,
  • co-occurrence,
  • coincidence,
  • collecting,
  • collide with,
  • combining,
  • come about,
  • come out,
  • come over,
  • come together,
  • come up,
  • coming together,
  • coming upon,
  • commission,
  • compactness,
  • compete,
  • compiling,
  • completion,
  • comport,
  • compounding,
  • computation,
  • conclude,
  • conclusion,
  • conduct,
  • confining,
  • confirm,
  • conflux,
  • conform to,
  • confrontation,
  • conglobation,
  • congregating,
  • conjunction,
  • connection,
  • connexion,
  • consider,
  • construe,
  • contact,
  • contain,
  • content,
  • contention,
  • contest,
  • contestation,
  • contradictory,
  • contrastive,
  • contravene,
  • control,
  • controversy,
  • convalescent,
  • converge,
  • convergence,
  • convergency,
  • cope,
  • coquetry,
  • corking,
  • corroborate,
  • count,
  • counting,
  • cracking,
  • crash,
  • creation,
  • cuddling,
  • cumulate,
  • cumulus cloud,
  • dalliance,
  • dandy,
  • dare,
  • date,
  • dawdling,
  • deal,
  • debate,
  • deciding,
  • decussate,
  • defending team,
  • defense department,
  • defense force,
  • defense lawyers,
  • defense mechanism,
  • defense reaction,
  • defense team,
  • defensive measure,
  • defensive structure,
  • delegating,
  • delegation,
  • deliver,
  • demote,
  • demurrer,
  • denial,
  • denseness,
  • density,
  • department of defense,
  • dependable,
  • deport,
  • deputation,
  • detection,
  • detective work,
  • determinant,
  • determinative,
  • determine,
  • difference,
  • difference of opinion,
  • dig up,
  • digest,
  • disaffected,
  • discover,
  • discovery,
  • disgraceful,
  • dislodge,
  • disputation,
  • dispute,
  • dissentient,
  • dissident,
  • distress,
  • dod,
  • dramatic,
  • empire,
  • employ,
  • encroach,
  • end,
  • endeavor,
  • endeavour,
  • ending,
  • endure,
  • engagement,
  • engross,
  • engrossment,
  • enlist,
  • ensure,
  • enter upon,
  • entrench,
  • enumeration,
  • envision,
  • escort,
  • examine,
  • excavate,
  • excrescence,
  • excruciation,
  • exhibition,
  • existence,
  • expect,
  • exposition,
  • expression,
  • extrusion,
  • fabrication,
  • face up,
  • facial expression,
  • fair,
  • faithful,
  • fall out,
  • fall upon,
  • fancy,
  • feel,
  • fence,
  • fight,
  • fighting,
  • figure,
  • figurehead,
  • fill,
  • fill up,
  • finale,
  • find oneself,
  • find out,
  • finis,
  • finish,
  • fit,
  • fitting,
  • flaming,
  • flirt,
  • flirtation,
  • fold,
  • fold up,
  • fondling,
  • font,
  • footling,
  • foregather,
  • forepart,
  • forgather,
  • fortune,
  • forum,
  • fount,
  • friction,
  • front end,
  • front line,
  • front man,
  • fulfil,
  • fulfill,
  • fuss,
  • gala,
  • gala affair,
  • gamble,
  • gaming,
  • gather,
  • gestate,
  • get,
  • get a line,
  • get by,
  • get hold,
  • get together,
  • get wind,
  • get word,
  • getting,
  • getup,
  • gibbosity,
  • gibbousness,
  • give birth,
  • go on,
  • go steady,
  • go through,
  • good,
  • grapple,
  • grappling,
  • grasp,
  • graspable,
  • great,
  • grimace,
  • grip,
  • groovy,
  • haggle,
  • haggling,
  • hand-to-hand struggle,
  • hap,
  • hardihood,
  • hardiness,
  • have,
  • hazard,
  • header,
  • heap,
  • hear,
  • hire,
  • hitting,
  • hold,
  • hold up,
  • honorable,
  • hookup,
  • horse barn,
  • hugging,
  • human face,
  • hump,
  • hurt,
  • ill-affected,
  • image,
  • imagery,
  • imagination,
  • immersion,
  • imperishable,
  • impinge on,
  • impinging,
  • incur,
  • information,
  • infringe,
  • ingathering,
  • insult,
  • insure,
  • interpose,
  • interpret,
  • interpretation,
  • intersectant,
  • intervene,
  • intriguing,
  • invite,
  • jar,
  • jar against,
  • jostle,
  • jut,
  • jutting,
  • keen,
  • keep,
  • keep up,
  • kick downstairs,
  • knock,
  • knock against,
  • know,
  • last,
  • learn,
  • lease,
  • light upon,
  • lilliputian,
  • lining,
  • little,
  • live,
  • locate,
  • lock,
  • long-suffering,
  • look,
  • looking at,
  • looking for,
  • lose,
  • luck,
  • luck into,
  • lurid,
  • macrocosm,
  • maintain,
  • make do,
  • make out,
  • malcontent,
  • manage,
  • materialise,
  • materialize,
  • meeting of minds,
  • meeting place,
  • mental imagery,
  • merging,
  • mesh,
  • militant,
  • miserable,
  • mop up,
  • mound,
  • movement,
  • multitude,
  • natural event,
  • near,
  • neat,
  • necking,
  • negligible,
  • nerve,
  • nifty,
  • niggling,
  • nigh,
  • nominal head,
  • not bad,
  • notice,
  • nourish,
  • numeration,
  • nurture,
  • observance,
  • observant,
  • observation,
  • observe,
  • obtain,
  • occupy,
  • occur,
  • occurrence,
  • old,
  • operate,
  • opinion,
  • opponent,
  • opportunity,
  • opposite,
  • outfit,
  • output,
  • outstanding,
  • outturn,
  • over-crowding,
  • paltry,
  • pass,
  • pass off,
  • pay,
  • peachy,
  • penny-pinching,
  • perceivable,
  • performing,
  • petting,
  • petty,
  • picayune,
  • pick,
  • pictorial representation,
  • picture,
  • piddling,
  • piffling,
  • pile,
  • pile up,
  • piquant,
  • play,
  • plight,
  • postulate,
  • presence,
  • present,
  • presumptuous,
  • principal,
  • principal sum,
  • probability,
  • project,
  • projected,
  • prolong,
  • prominence,
  • prominent,
  • prosecute,
  • prospect,
  • protruding,
  • protrusion,
  • protuberance,
  • prove,
  • pudding stone,
  • pursue,
  • railroad siding,
  • rassling,
  • reach,
  • realise,
  • realize,
  • reckon,
  • recover,
  • refutation,
  • regain,
  • regard,
  • regnant,
  • reigning,
  • relegate,
  • relegation,
  • reliable,
  • relieved,
  • rendering,
  • rendition,
  • rent,
  • repugn,
  • resonant,
  • resonate,
  • resounding,
  • restitution,
  • restoration,
  • retrieve,
  • return,
  • reverberating,
  • reverberative,
  • rig,
  • risk,
  • rule,
  • run a risk,
  • run afoul,
  • salient,
  • salutation,
  • satisfy,
  • scandalous,
  • scramble,
  • scrap,
  • screening,
  • secretive,
  • see to it,
  • self-contradictory,
  • shameful,
  • shattering,
  • shin,
  • shinny,
  • show up,
  • showdown,
  • showing,
  • shut,
  • shut down,
  • side,
  • sidetrack,
  • siding,
  • skin,
  • skinny,
  • skirmish,
  • slap-up,
  • sleuthing,
  • smooching,
  • snug,
  • snuggling,
  • social movement,
  • solicitation,
  • sounding,
  • spat,
  • spectacular,
  • sports meeting,
  • spot,
  • sputter,
  • spy,
  • squabble,
  • stalls,
  • stand,
  • static,
  • stick out,
  • sticking out,
  • sticking,
  • stomach,
  • stopping point,
  • strain,
  • straw man,
  • strawman,
  • strike,
  • stuffy,
  • substantiate,
  • support,
  • surface,
  • swell,
  • swelling,
  • table of contents,
  • tackle,
  • take,
  • take a chance,
  • take care,
  • take chances,
  • take over,
  • take place,
  • tally,
  • tempting,
  • thought-provoking,
  • throng,
  • tie,
  • tiff,
  • tight,
  • tightlipped,
  • tightness,
  • tilt,
  • tolerate,
  • tomography,
  • touch,
  • trench,
  • trivial,
  • true,
  • typeface,
  • unaired,
  • unchanging,
  • uncovering,
  • understand,
  • undertake,
  • united states congress,
  • universe,
  • veneer,
  • venturesome,
  • venturous,
  • vie,
  • view,
  • vindication,
  • visit,
  • visualise,
  • visualize,
  • wage,
  • wake,
  • war-ridden,
  • watch,
  • wear,
  • weft,
  • welcome,
  • widening,
  • windup,
  • witness,
  • woe,
  • woof,
  • world,
  • wrangle,
  • wrestle,
  • wretched,
  • yield,
  • geological dating,
  • cosmea,
  • turn out,
  • pick up,
  • have a bun in the oven,
  • put up,
  • take in,
  • go out,
  • line up,
  • diss,
  • step in,
  • breast,
  • fucking,
  • bang-up,
  • come on,
  • face-off,
  • tie-up,
  • face-to-face.

Paraphrases for Encountering:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    encounter.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    confrontation.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    uncovering, confronting, Counteracting, Undergoing, contending, suffering, Introducing, gathering, unlocking, Experiencing, Overcoming, existing, Suggesting, Contemplating, coping, locating, Occurring, experimenting, Combating, combatting, Responding, challenging, Noting, upsetting, observing, Delivering, identifying, Resisting, Interviewing, incurring, colliding, Obtaining, counseling, grappling, overlooking, Addressing, Afflicting, Arising, appearing, tackling, Witnessing, Treating, adversarial, striking, knowing, leaving, find, finding, Preparing, approaching, watching, bearing, opposing, impeding, punishing, hurting, hitting, dropping, seeing, piloting, Remedying, Impacting, dealing, trying, Allowing, Implying, demanding, Displaying, falling, lapsing, dividing, Having, causing, damaging, letting, taking, dating.

• Other Related

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    countering, Discovering, struggling, Battling, discovery.

Encountering Sentence Examples:

• After an inspection of the more prominent objects, such as may be taken in at a glance from the little church, I wandered at will, encountering at every few steps some new surprise.

• Each of us imitated him, quick as thought, for this was our previous training in the event of encountering an enemy; and we all well knew the importance of a cover in forest warfare.

Homophones for Encountering:

• enchanter, engender.