Definition for Opening:

• a possible alternative; " bankruptcy is always a possibility"

Synonyms for Opening:

• adj.

  •beginning (adjective)
  • initiatory,
  • Inceptive.

• n.

  •
  • cranny,
  • channel,
  • abyss,
  • blowhole,
  • primary,
  • chink,
  • cavity.
  •
  • open,
  • early,
  • initial,
  • original.
  •
  • conception,
  • starting point,
  • appearance,
  • birth,
  • arrival.
  •
  • business,
  • launch,
  • collaboration,
  • appointment,
  • call,
  • delegation,
  • calling,
  • background,
  • career.
  •
  • luck,
  • Possibilities.
  •
  • unlock,
  • pry,
  • unscrew,
  • open up,
  • try,
  • unfold,
  • undo,
  • force.
  •beginning (noun)
  • outset,
  • inception,
  • initiation,
  • start.
  •chance (noun)
  • squeak,
  • possibility,
  • availability,
  • connection,
  • look-in,
  • show,
  • place.
  •entrance (noun)
  • archway,
  • ingress,
  • entryway,
  • intake,
  • access,
  • input.
  •flower (noun)
  • bloom.
  •gap (noun)
  • breach,
  • Interspace.
  •gap, hole (noun)
  • tear,
  • orifice,
  • split,
  • window,
  • hatch,
  • rent,
  • slit,
  • spout,
  • rupture,
  • scuttle,
  • crack,
  • discontinuity,
  • mouth,
  • space,
  • interstice.
  •hoop (noun)
  • wicket.
  •introduction (noun)
  • preface,
  • forward,
  • preamble,
  • prelude.
  •opening (noun)
  • yawning,
  • embouchure,
  • inlet.

• v.

  •opening (verb)
  • unplugging,
  • revealing,
  • disclosing,
  • Exposing,
  • uncorking,
  • unsealing,
  • unlocking,
  • undoing,
  • releasing,
  • baring.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • golden opportunity,
  • incipiency,
  • window of opportunity,
  • incipience,
  • mining,
  • leadoff,
  • origination,
  • front end.
  •
  • vista,
  • kickoff,
  • yielding,
  • infancy,
  • moment,
  • occasion,
  • new,
  • glimpse.
  •
  • room,
  • hearing,
  • reception,
  • scope.
  •
  • choice.
  •
  • future.
  •flowering
  • blooming.
  •main
  • keynote.
  •Other relevant words:
  • station,
  • equals sign,
  • airlock,
  • hatchway,
  • depth,
  • service,
  • debut,
  • engagement,
  • escape,
  • jotting,
  • fearfully,
  • foreword,
  • exceedingly,
  • edge,
  • emptiness,
  • relief,
  • Franking,
  • creation,
  • ostentation,
  • option,
  • inflatable,
  • expanding,
  • stroke of luck,
  • interruption,
  • kick off,
  • valley,
  • key point,
  • porta,
  • dawning,
  • intermission,
  • ditch,
  • inaugural,
  • outfall,
  • Evolving,
  • interrupt,
  • eldest,
  • incur,
  • foundation,
  • key points,
  • performance,
  • open door,
  • low,
  • Broaching,
  • semicolon,
  • entranceway,
  • greatly,
  • extendible,
  • gully,
  • epiphany,
  • flume,
  • depression,
  • exhibit,
  • hyphen,
  • initiative,
  • particularly,
  • sluice,
  • means of access,
  • vernissage,
  • sorely,
  • take off,
  • dell,
  • bolding,
  • hollow,
  • rising,
  • cedilla,
  • loosening,
  • entering,
  • post,
  • fenestra,
  • emptying,
  • look,
  • pipe,
  • thoroughly,
  • fount,
  • Manifesting,
  • expansible,
  • profoundly,
  • daylight,
  • Enlarging,
  • alpha,
  • incident,
  • clear stage,
  • tap,
  • Fenestrae,
  • gangway,
  • opening night,
  • leisure,
  • sew,
  • setting in motion,
  • moat,
  • beget,
  • incarnation,
  • Desolateness,
  • Wantoning,
  • generate,
  • employment,
  • sphere,
  • diffusing,
  • foothold,
  • extremely,
  • origin,
  • maiden,
  • Fumarole,
  • apparition,
  • too,
  • reference,
  • immensely,
  • inanition,
  • blankness,
  • presentment,
  • gash,
  • gulch,
  • portico,
  • exhaust,
  • premonitory,
  • interpenetration,
  • expose,
  • case,
  • function,
  • uncommonly,
  • interchange,
  • lead-in,
  • terribly,
  • abysm,
  • exposition,
  • voyage,
  • cloister,
  • also,
  • dike,
  • Endosmosis,
  • Disentangling,
  • hypothesis,
  • display,
  • rime,
  • turning on,
  • plus sign,
  • separation,
  • port,
  • Dedicating,
  • expansive,
  • flue,
  • quite,
  • hachure,
  • railroad tunnel,
  • avatar,
  • out,
  • suspension,
  • mightily,
  • entree,
  • Consecrating,
  • gape,
  • crevasse,
  • forthcoming,
  • barrier,
  • disclosure,
  • path,
  • excellently,
  • permeation,
  • hollowness,
  • vastly,
  • rise,
  • Grubbing,
  • Covered way,
  • send off,
  • vacuum,
  • become,
  • respite,
  • frightfully,
  • open end,
  • Embarcation,
  • Affording,
  • significantly,
  • totally,
  • groundwork,
  • spot,
  • assignment,
  • seriously,
  • rip,
  • carat,
  • junction,
  • presentation,
  • party,
  • Distributing,
  • senior,
  • heavily,
  • disclose,
  • cleaning,
  • manifestation,
  • judgment,
  • realization,
  • dehiscence,
  • remarkably,
  • institution,
  • move,
  • returning,
  • running,
  • Pioneering,
  • extensible,
  • alcove,
  • Initiating,
  • conduit,
  • tilde,
  • incumbency,
  • blaze,
  • widely,
  • pit,
  • Dispersing,
  • canyon,
  • inference,
  • scissure,
  • Roomage,
  • disseminating,
  • levee,
  • laxative,
  • seam,
  • unbolting,
  • premises,
  • disruption,
  • Extending,
  • circumstance,
  • spread,
  • Handing,
  • flowering,
  • caesura,
  • furrow,
  • surfacing,
  • coming into being,
  • duct,
  • completely,
  • Prolegomenon,
  • billet,
  • lemma,
  • very much,
  • cleavage,
  • production,
  • high time,
  • pass,
  • dearly,
  • Patenting,
  • Divulging,
  • office,
  • fountain,
  • representation,
  • sadly,
  • sulcus,
  • Proposing,
  • deeply,
  • relaxing,
  • extend,
  • delay,
  • simply,
  • box canyon,
  • arroyo,
  • yawn,
  • distance,
  • Exempting,
  • circulating,
  • fair field,
  • theory,
  • discharge,
  • cutting edge,
  • prodigiously,
  • coal scuttle,
  • mesh,
  • idling,
  • Outgate,
  • Ventage,
  • cwm,
  • wait,
  • groove,
  • tunnel,
  • severely,
  • earliest,
  • absolutely,
  • stowage,
  • most,
  • donga,
  • rendering,
  • be short of,
  • outcome,
  • Emunctory,
  • outgo,
  • prior,
  • prefatory,
  • avenue,
  • Intercurrence,
  • incipient,
  • margin,
  • antecedent,
  • oldest,
  • emergence,
  • colonnade,
  • retrospective,
  • social,
  • possibleness,
  • rest,
  • venthole,
  • laxing,
  • Devoting,
  • revelation,
  • asterisk,
  • gaping,
  • chute,
  • issuance,
  • produce,
  • demonstration,
  • vomitory,
  • slash,
  • expandable,
  • suitable time,
  • chap,
  • brackets,
  • unveiling,
  • extendable,
  • apostrophe,
  • gorge,
  • explain,
  • amplify,
  • colon,
  • stretching,
  • gangplank,
  • mortally,
  • argument,
  • originate,
  • offset,
  • Generating,
  • ford,
  • Collapsing,
  • Inchoation,
  • materialization,
  • very,
  • entirely,
  • chess opening,
  • second job,
  • grossly,
  • data,
  • curtain raising,
  • Arising,
  • dreadfully,
  • enormously,
  • go ahead,
  • Dissipating,
  • peephole,
  • Commencing,
  • establishment,
  • quotation marks,
  • unfolding,
  • passage,
  • acutely,
  • Nonresidence,
  • nullah,
  • unfastening,
  • imparting,
  • debouchment,
  • preparation,
  • ambulatory,
  • vestibule,
  • spare time,
  • opening move,
  • spring,
  • erect,
  • lane,
  • occurrence,
  • estuary,
  • soberly,
  • setting up,
  • brunt,
  • enterprise,
  • penetration,
  • directing,
  • grow,
  • prove,
  • exhibition,
  • comma,
  • creek,
  • curly brackets,
  • fresh start,
  • terms,
  • get,
  • maiden speech,
  • vacuity,
  • first night,
  • Inaugurating,
  • appearing,
  • underlining,
  • foundering,
  • alley,
  • notch,
  • double quotes,
  • Materializing,
  • Blunting,
  • opportunism,
  • Expressing,
  • blossoming,
  • create,
  • utterly,
  • stepping-stone,
  • gallery,
  • hall,
  • contributing,
  • annotation,
  • pigeon-hole,
  • bring,
  • shockingly,
  • tremendously,
  • uncovering,
  • afford,
  • gateway,
  • freeing,
  • preceding,
  • Coulee,
  • spare room,
  • former,
  • opportuneness,
  • admission,
  • considerably,
  • moonlighting,
  • postulate,
  • earnestly,
  • Applying,
  • gat,
  • barrenness,
  • engender,
  • takeoff,
  • enterprisingness,
  • Parentheses,
  • outbreak,
  • elbow room,
  • unroll,
  • unusually,
  • draw,
  • fully,
  • fault,
  • air lock,
  • square one,
  • develop,
  • unrolling,
  • blast off,
  • terrifically,
  • ampersand,
  • Voidness,
  • possible action,
  • coming,
  • Loosing,
  • berth,
  • principle,
  • spreading,
  • good deal,
  • unpacking,
  • liberty,
  • question mark,
  • journey,
  • percent sign,
  • Breaching,
  • Trajet,
  • infiltration,
  • deep,
  • Dilatable,
  • Sublineation,
  • division,
  • Gifting,
  • executing,
  • single quote,
  • arrows,
  • projection,
  • flaw,
  • intersection,
  • Fairing,
  • artery,
  • come,
  • position,
  • open arms,
  • Setout,
  • pause,
  • Traject,
  • forerunning,
  • expand,
  • deficiency,
  • perfectly,
  • gig,
  • desperately,
  • extraordinarily,
  • forward slash,
  • begin,
  • Establishing,
  • Kloof,
  • halt,
  • arise,
  • Presenting,
  • ferry,
  • commence,
  • tenure,
  • note,
  • chimney,
  • inaugurate,
  • dash,
  • bareness,
  • leak,
  • enactment,
  • escape hatch,
  • divulge,
  • awfully,
  • exempt from,
  • proposition,
  • preview,
  • corridor,
  • acquire,
  • debouch,
  • unbarring,
  • advantage,
  • braces,
  • DO,
  • flat,
  • fair game,
  • ever,
  • transmission,
  • exclamation point,
  • release,
  • passageway,
  • theophany,
  • expandible,
  • wadi,
  • floodgate,
  • foremost,
  • excavation,
  • Couloir,
  • nick of time,
  • period,
  • overpass,
  • sally port,
  • Subjecting,
  • underpass,
  • Occurring,
  • precedence,
  • exposure,
  • bleakness,
  • gravely,
  • funnel,
  • situation,
  • lull,
  • reveal,
  • col,
  • pound sign,
  • highly,
  • oncoming,
  • approach,
  • heartily,
  • desertedness,
  • start-up,
  • Unfoldment,
  • joint,
  • solemnly,
  • transudation,
  • poorly,
  • communication,
  • Blow-hole,
  • arcade,
  • trench,
  • advance,
  • loophole,
  • precursor,
  • safety valve,
  • defile,
  • Bestowing,
  • Debouchure,
  • proper time,
  • spiracle,
  • corner,
  • check,
  • Committing,
  • infinitely,
  • establish,
  • showing,
  • ha-ha,
  • untying,
  • intensely,
  • badly,
  • private showing,
  • hugely,
  • overspreading,
  • excessively,
  • Italics,
  • arena,
  • air duct,
  • Granting,
  • slashes.

Paraphrases for Opening:

• Equivalence

  • Coordinating conjunction
    open.
  • Adjective
    open, introductory.
  • Proper noun, singular
    opens, open, introductory.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    open, introductory.
  • Adverb
    open.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    openning.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    open-door, open-mindedness, outward-looking, open-, teething, open-ended, re-opened.
  • Proper noun, singular
    ministers, remarks, mascots.
  • Noun, plural
    EARS, calls, opened.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    paragraphs, open-mindedness, convening, closing, outset, operating, teething, inclusion, Disconnecting, pioneer, Booting, premiere.
  • Verb, past tense
    initiated, paved, discovered, conquered, attended, shot, found, Began, appropriated, unlocked, inauguration, closing.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    deepening, Incorporating, Involving, Exploring, Inaugurating, happening, broadening, developing, accommodating, Generating, Exposing, Presenting, Discovering, implementing, initializing, Deploying, pointing, connecting, Liberalizing, concluding, Originating, Employing, expanding, Opportunities, integrating, Instigating, Preparing, enabling, Instituting, proceeding, performing, deregulating, Announcing, leaving, reforming, Facilitating, identifying, moving, freeing, activating, accessing, increasing, provide, Providing, accepting, joining, leveraging, Conferring, authorising, Organizing, Embarking, conquering, determining, Channelling, Permitting, Authorizing, becoming, revealing, being, conducting, answering, embracing, Unlatching, Extending, Including, Allowing, breaking, rendering, Harnessing, Establishing, attending, Addressing, using, shouting, Receiving, orders, importing, prevailing, Committing, keeping, ensuring, going, giving, Arising, detecting, emerging, Maintaining, Delivering, Relating, amend, Having, turning, forging, reaching, Submitting, services, Adjusting, Admitting, Displaying, qualifying, tourism, rolling, absorbing, acquiring, Ushering, Throwing, issuing, posting, find, clearing, Granting, putting, Burrowing, urging, raising, paying, authoring, relaxing, creates, paving, according, tackling, soiling, showing, Carrying, Hosting, bearing, serving, heading, charting, Linking, driving, seeking, wearing, taking, Adding, banking, letting, winning, standing, Lifting, dumping, speaking, yakking, releasing, Doing, getting, trying, making, commissioning, convening, operating, teething, liberalising, opportunity, Booting.
  • Verb, past participle
    initiated, Entered, Begun, Instituted, commissioned, Undertaken, expressed, sent, conducted, mounted, called, unlocked.
  • Verb, non-3rd person singular present
    Began.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    commences, begins, increases, observes, allows, establishes, arises, remarks.
  • Verb, base form
    lay, inaugurate, pave, liberalize, liberalise, institute, embark, broaden, instigate, pop, usher, proceed, pioneer.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    opening-up, open-minded, maiden, inaugural, editorial.
  • Proper noun, singular
    initiation, inaugural, opener, inauguration, opened.
  • Noun, plural
    Opportunities.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    opening-up, commissioning, open-endedness, inception, initiation, opener, receptiveness, inauguration, breakthrough, editorial, onset, deregulation, liberalising, opportunity.

Antonyms for Opening:

• adj.

  • all
    closing.

• n.

  • act
    closing.
  • beginning
    stop, completion, end.
  • gap, hole
    misfortune, conclusion, closing, ending, finish, solid, juncture, continuation, closure, agreement.
  • Other antonyms:
    filler, year-end, seal, blockage, filling, stopper, patch, fill, plug.

Holonyms for Opening:

• n.

  • object
    earth's surface, surface.

Hypernym for Opening:

• n.

  • act
    cut, cutting.
  • artifact
    window, fly, fly front, port, intake, rear of barrel, throat, neck, muzzle, outlet, exit, embrasure, neck opening, spout, lunette, gun muzzle, rear of tube, porthole, pass-through, issue, bell, grille, wicket, slit, fenestella, crack, breech, lattice, aperture, gap, interstice, inlet, way out, mouth, hole.
  • communication
    salutation, teaser.
  • object
    window, Ranvier's Nodes, Nodes Of Ranvier, foramen, hole, crack, Diastema, hiatus, crevice, snag, split, breach, fissure, scissure, pocket, chasm, mouth, rent, cleft, rip, rift, tear.

Hyponym for Opening:

• n.

  • act
    move, movement, change of integrity, motion, motility.
  • artifact
    artefact, artifact.
  • communication
    introduction.
  • event
    ceremony, ceremonial, ceremonial occasion, observance.
  • object
    space.
  • state
    chance, opportunity.