What is another word for shifting?
1080 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ ʃˈɪftɪŋ], [ ʃˈɪftɪŋ], [ ʃ_ˈɪ_f_t_ɪ_ŋ]
Shifting, a term used for moving or changing something from its initial position, has many synonyms that can be used to convey the same meaning. The most common synonyms for shifting include relocating, transferring, altering, modifying, adjusting, and changing. All these words can be used interchangeably based on the context of the sentence. For instance, one can use "relocating" to indicate moving to a different place or "transferring" when moving something from one location to another. Similarly, "modifying" can be used when changing the structure of something or "adjusting" when making slight changes to a particular setting. In summary, all the synonyms for shifting effectively communicate the message of a movement or change of position.
Synonyms for Shifting:
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adj.
• active- Exertive ,
- at work ,
- in force ,
- in play ,
- in process ,
- alive ,
- astir ,
- bustling ,
- effective ,
- efficacious ,
- flowing ,
- functioning ,
- going ,
- hasty ,
- impelling ,
- operating ,
- operative ,
- progressive ,
- rapid ,
- running ,
- rushing ,
- rustling ,
- shifting ,
- simmering ,
- speeding ,
- speedy ,
- streaming ,
- swarming ,
- traveling ,
- walking ,
- working .
- Permutable ,
- Transposable ,
- Vicissitudinous ,
- adaptable ,
- adjustable ,
- alterable ,
- changeful ,
- commutative ,
- convertible ,
- ever-changing ,
- fickle ,
- flexible ,
- flighty ,
- inconstant ,
- irresolute ,
- mercurial ,
- modifiable ,
- movable ,
- mutable ,
- precarious ,
- protean ,
- reformable ,
- restless ,
- reversible ,
- revocable ,
- transformable ,
- unstable ,
- unsteady ,
- vacillating ,
- versatile ,
- volatile ,
- wavering ,
- agitated ,
- kaleidoscopic ,
- skittish ,
- variant .
- off straight and narrow ,
- Deviating ,
- Errable ,
- Misbehaving ,
- drifting ,
- erring ,
- fallible ,
- heretic ,
- mischievous ,
- miscreant ,
- naughty ,
- offending ,
- sinning ,
- unorthodox ,
- wandering .
- Flitting ,
- brief ,
- cursory ,
- ephemeral ,
- evanescent ,
- fading ,
- fleeting ,
- flickering ,
- impermanent ,
- instantaneous ,
- mortal ,
- passing ,
- short-lived ,
- temporal ,
- transient ,
- transitory .
- abnormal ,
- anomalous ,
- arbitrary ,
- bizarre ,
- dicey ,
- dubious ,
- idiosyncratic ,
- incalculable ,
- oddball ,
- peculiar ,
- strange ,
- unnatural ,
- unusual ,
- weird .
- alien ,
- conflicting ,
- contradictory ,
- discordant ,
- disparate ,
- distorted ,
- divergent ,
- extraneous ,
- fantastic ,
- foreign ,
- improper ,
- inappropriate ,
- inapt ,
- incoherent ,
- incompatible ,
- irreconcilable ,
- jumbled ,
- lopsided ,
- twisted ,
- unavailing ,
- unbalanced ,
- unbecoming ,
- unconnected ,
- uncoordinated ,
- unintelligible ,
- unrelated ,
- unsuitable ,
- unsuited .
- Discontinuing ,
- Isochronal ,
- Isochronous ,
- Punctuated ,
- Recurring ,
- alternate ,
- arrested ,
- checked ,
- cyclic ,
- cyclical ,
- discontinuous ,
- infrequent ,
- iterative ,
- metrical ,
- now and then ,
- on and off ,
- periodical ,
- rhythmic ,
- rhythmical ,
- serial .
- more emigrating ,
- more immigrant ,
- more immigrating ,
- more migrative ,
- more migratorial ,
- more nomad ,
- most emigrating ,
- most immigrant ,
- most immigrating ,
- most migrative ,
- most migratorial ,
- most nomad ,
- on move ,
- trampest .
- gone flash ,
- in wink an eye ,
- in wink eye ,
- in wink of eye ,
- more flashing ,
- most flashing ,
- short lived ,
- shortlived .
- more balancing ,
- more directing ,
- more directive ,
- more normalizing ,
- more regularizing ,
- more regulating ,
- more regulative ,
- most balancing ,
- most directing ,
- most directive ,
- most normalizing ,
- most regularizing ,
- most regulating ,
- most regulative .
- bandaid ,
- for time being ,
- makedo ,
- more band aid ,
- more band-aid ,
- more bandaid ,
- more make do ,
- more make-do ,
- more makedo ,
- more overnight ,
- most band aid ,
- most band-aid ,
- most bandaid ,
- most make do ,
- most make-do ,
- most makedo ,
- most overnight ,
- over-night ,
- pro visional ,
- suppliest .
- dis orderly ,
- dis-orderly ,
- ex plosive ,
- ex-plosive ,
- in secure ,
- in securer ,
- in securest ,
- in-secure ,
- in-securer ,
- in-securest ,
- more rattled ,
- more unnerved ,
- more unpeaceful ,
- more unrestful ,
- most rattled ,
- most unnerved ,
- most unpeaceful ,
- most unrestful ,
- pre carious ,
- pre-carious ,
- un easier ,
- un easiest ,
- un easy ,
- un nerved ,
- un peaceful ,
- un quiet ,
- un quieter ,
- un quietest ,
- un restful ,
- un settled ,
- un-easier ,
- un-easiest ,
- un-nerved ,
- un-peaceful ,
- un-quiet ,
- un-quieter ,
- un-quietest ,
- un-restful ,
- un-settled .
- more teetering ,
- most teetering ,
- tippier ,
- tippiest ,
- un sound ,
- un sounder ,
- un steadier ,
- un steadiest ,
- un steady ,
- un-sound ,
- un-sounder ,
- un-soundest ,
- un-steadier ,
- un-steadiest ,
- un-steady ,
- unsteadiest ,
- wabblier ,
- wabbliest ,
- wigglier ,
- wiggliest .
- more oscillating ,
- more swaying ,
- more vibrating ,
- most oscillating ,
- most swaying ,
- most vibrating ,
- un decided ,
- un sure ,
- un-decided ,
- un-sure .
- fancy free ,
- fancyfree ,
- fly by night ,
- more itinerate ,
- more mendicant ,
- more perambulant ,
- more perambulatory ,
- more rootless ,
- more sauntering ,
- more straggling ,
- more strolling ,
- most itinerate ,
- most mendicant ,
- most perambulant ,
- most perambulatory ,
- most rootless ,
- most sauntering ,
- most straggling ,
- most strolling .
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n.
• movement- Translatings ,
- dis placement ,
- dis placements ,
- dis-placement ,
- dis-placements ,
- dynamisms ,
- evolvings ,
- movablenesses ,
- operativenesses ,
- roamings ,
- trans feral ,
- trans planting ,
- trans-feral ,
- trans-planting ,
- transplantings ,
- under taking ,
- under-taking ,
- under-takings .
- re alignment ,
- re alignments ,
- re construction ,
- re constructions ,
- re form ,
- re formation ,
- re formations ,
- re forms ,
- re habilitation ,
- re habilitations ,
- re novation ,
- re novations ,
- re organization ,
- re organizations ,
- re working ,
- re workings ,
- re-alignment ,
- re-alignments ,
- re-construction ,
- re-constructions ,
- re-formations ,
- re-forms ,
- re-habilitation ,
- re-habilitations ,
- re-novation ,
- re-novations ,
- re-organization ,
- re-organizations ,
- re-working ,
- re-workings .
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v.
• carrying • deflecting • moving • shift Other synonyms:
- floating .
- away ,
- cosmetic ,
- developmental ,
- drastic ,
- evolutionary ,
- gradual ,
- gradually ,
- quicksilver ,
- radical ,
- radically .
Other relevant words:
- Amending ,
- Arousing ,
- Berthing ,
- Boggling ,
- Breaching ,
- Bumping ,
- Canting ,
- Captiousness ,
- Careening ,
- Channeling ,
- Channelling ,
- Charging ,
- Chopping ,
- Circumforaneous ,
- Commoving ,
- Converting ,
- Crusading ,
- Dethroning ,
- Deviatory ,
- Discharging ,
- Discursion ,
- Dislodging ,
- Displacing ,
- Errantry ,
- Exchanging ,
- Faulting ,
- Finessing ,
- Flawing ,
- Flipping ,
- Fomenting ,
- Fracturing ,
- Gadding ,
- Ganging ,
- Half-hearted ,
- Huckstering ,
- Interchanging ,
- Invoking ,
- Keeling ,
- Migrating ,
- Modifying ,
- Motory ,
- Parrying ,
- Pausing ,
- Pererration ,
- Persuading ,
- Pettifoggery ,
- Pocketing ,
- Pouching ,
- Prevaricating ,
- Prowling ,
- Recessing ,
- Reeling ,
- Relaying ,
- Respiting ,
- Rifting ,
- Roaming ,
- Rocking ,
- Rupturing ,
- Seesawing ,
- Shoveling ,
- Shunting ,
- Skidding ,
- Skying ,
- Slicking ,
- Strolling ,
- Swagging ,
- Teetering ,
- Tilting ,
- Tipping ,
- Transmigratory ,
- Transposing ,
- Transumption ,
- Tricking ,
- Unsolid ,
- Unstaid ,
- Unsteadfast ,
- Vection ,
- Vectitation ,
- Vecture ,
- Vicissitudinary ,
- aberrancy ,
- aberrant ,
- aberration ,
- aberrative ,
- action ,
- active ,
- activity ,
- adapt ,
- adrift ,
- afloat ,
- agitate ,
- agitating ,
- agitation ,
- alter ,
- altering ,
- alternating ,
- alternation ,
- amorphous ,
- angling ,
- annoy ,
- awkward ,
- bag ,
- bend ,
- bias ,
- bickering ,
- blemish ,
- branching off ,
- breach ,
- break ,
- budge ,
- campaigning ,
- capricious ,
- cartage ,
- casing ,
- caviling ,
- chameleon ,
- change ,
- change over ,
- changing ,
- chaotic ,
- chemise ,
- chicane ,
- chicanery ,
- circuitous ,
- circuitousness ,
- commotion ,
- commute ,
- commuting ,
- conjugation ,
- conjuring ,
- conscienceless ,
- construe ,
- conversion ,
- convert ,
- convertibility ,
- corner ,
- crack ,
- cracking ,
- crook ,
- crooked ,
- curve ,
- dangerous ,
- decipher ,
- declination ,
- deepening ,
- defect ,
- defecting ,
- deficiency ,
- departure ,
- deposition ,
- derange ,
- desultory ,
- dethronement ,
- detour ,
- deviance ,
- deviancy ,
- deviant ,
- deviation ,
- deviative ,
- devious ,
- deviousness ,
- devolution ,
- differ ,
- difference ,
- digression ,
- digressive ,
- disarrange ,
- discharge ,
- discompose ,
- disconcert ,
- disconnected ,
- discursive ,
- dishonest ,
- dislodge ,
- disloyal ,
- dismissal ,
- disordered ,
- disorderly ,
- disorganized ,
- dispersion ,
- displace ,
- displacement ,
- disrupt ,
- distract ,
- disturb ,
- disturbing ,
- divagation ,
- divarication ,
- divergence ,
- diversify ,
- diversion ,
- diversity ,
- diverting ,
- dizzy ,
- dodging ,
- doff ,
- dogleg ,
- double ,
- drift ,
- duty period ,
- eccentric ,
- equivocation ,
- erratic ,
- error ,
- evasion ,
- exchange ,
- exciting ,
- excursion ,
- excursive ,
- excursus ,
- exportation ,
- expulsion ,
- faithless ,
- false ,
- faltering ,
- fault ,
- faulty ,
- fencing ,
- ferry ,
- firing ,
- fitful ,
- fluctuating ,
- fluctuation ,
- flying ,
- footloose ,
- footloose and fancy-free ,
- formless ,
- fracture ,
- freakish ,
- freeing ,
- freight ,
- fugacious ,
- fugitive ,
- gaping ,
- gearing ,
- geological fault ,
- gestation ,
- get going ,
- giddy ,
- hairpin ,
- hairsplitting ,
- halting ,
- haphazard ,
- harlequin ,
- hawking ,
- hazardous ,
- hedging ,
- hesitant ,
- hesitating ,
- hypocritical ,
- impetuous ,
- importation ,
- impulsive ,
- in motion ,
- inclining ,
- incongruent ,
- incongruous ,
- inconsistent ,
- inconstancy ,
- indecisive ,
- indefinite ,
- indirect ,
- indirection ,
- infirm ,
- innovation ,
- insecure ,
- insincere ,
- insubstantial ,
- interchange ,
- intermittent ,
- interpret ,
- irregular ,
- irresponsible ,
- itinerant ,
- jerky ,
- labile ,
- labyrinthine ,
- landloping ,
- lapse ,
- lapsing ,
- loose ,
- lurching ,
- mazy ,
- meandering ,
- mendacity ,
- migrational ,
- migratory ,
- miss ,
- mobile ,
- modify ,
- momentaneous ,
- mongering ,
- moody ,
- moon ,
- motion ,
- motive ,
- move about ,
- move over ,
- movement ,
- nit-picking ,
- nitpicking ,
- nodding ,
- nomad ,
- nomadic ,
- obliquity ,
- oscillating ,
- oscillation ,
- ouster ,
- ousting ,
- out-of-the-way ,
- paltering ,
- passage ,
- peddling ,
- pendulating ,
- perfidious ,
- perilous ,
- permute ,
- perturb ,
- phase ,
- pitching ,
- planetary ,
- plastic ,
- pliant ,
- poking ,
- portage ,
- porterage ,
- pressing ,
- prevarication ,
- pro tem ,
- progress ,
- provisional ,
- purge ,
- pushing ,
- pushover ,
- pussyfooting ,
- quibbling ,
- quicksand ,
- raising ,
- rambling ,
- random ,
- ranging ,
- reassigning ,
- recreant ,
- reformation ,
- releasing ,
- relocate ,
- removal ,
- replace ,
- repositioning ,
- resourcing ,
- reversion ,
- riddance ,
- risky ,
- rolling ,
- rousing ,
- roving ,
- rupture ,
- sack ,
- sacking ,
- sand drift ,
- scatterbrained ,
- scheming ,
- serpentine ,
- shaky ,
- shapeless ,
- sheer ,
- shift ,
- shifty ,
- shimmy ,
- shimmying ,
- shipment ,
- short-range ,
- shuffling ,
- sideslipping ,
- sidestepping ,
- skew ,
- slant ,
- slanting ,
- slide ,
- slip ,
- slippery ,
- slipping ,
- sloping ,
- smocking ,
- snaky ,
- spasmodic ,
- spineless ,
- staggering ,
- stammering ,
- stimulating ,
- stir ,
- straggling ,
- stray ,
- straying ,
- stripping ,
- stumbling ,
- stuttering ,
- subterfuge ,
- succession ,
- supersede ,
- swaying ,
- sweep ,
- swerve ,
- swerving ,
- swinging ,
- switch over ,
- switching ,
- tack ,
- teddies ,
- teddy ,
- teeter-tottering ,
- tentative ,
- tergiversation ,
- terminological inexactitude ,
- throwing out ,
- ticklish ,
- timing ,
- tossing ,
- tottering ,
- touring ,
- traction ,
- traipsing ,
- traitorous ,
- transfer ,
- transference ,
- transferral ,
- transformation ,
- transit ,
- transition ,
- transitional ,
- transitive ,
- translate ,
- translation ,
- transmigration ,
- transmission ,
- transmutation ,
- transplantation ,
- transplanting ,
- transport ,
- transportation ,
- transposition ,
- travel ,
- travelling ,
- treacherous ,
- trimming ,
- turbulence ,
- turmoil ,
- turn ,
- turning ,
- twist ,
- twisting ,
- unaccountable ,
- uncertain ,
- uncontrolled ,
- undecided ,
- undependable ,
- undetermined ,
- undirected ,
- undisciplined ,
- uneven ,
- unfaithful ,
- unfirm ,
- unfixed ,
- unformed ,
- unmethodical ,
- unorganized ,
- unpredictable ,
- unquiet ,
- unreliable ,
- unresolved ,
- unrestrained ,
- unscrupulous ,
- unseating ,
- unsound ,
- unsubstantial ,
- unsure ,
- unsystematic ,
- untrustworthy ,
- upset ,
- vacillate ,
- vacillation ,
- vagrant ,
- variance ,
- variation ,
- vary ,
- veer ,
- veering ,
- vending ,
- vexing ,
- vicissitude ,
- vicissitudes ,
- wafture ,
- wanton ,
- warp ,
- wavery ,
- wavy ,
- wayward ,
- weathercock ,
- whimsical ,
- winding ,
- wishy-washy ,
- wobbling ,
- work shift ,
- yaw ,
- zigzag .
- Fluctuant ,
- Iterant ,
- Out of keeping ,
- Unequable ,
- Vagarious ,
- Wabbly ,
- YOYO ,
- band aid ,
- bits and pieces ,
- by bits and pieces ,
- changeable ,
- directionless ,
- disconsonant ,
- down and out ,
- every other ,
- fluid ,
- for the time being ,
- gone in flash ,
- here and there ,
- herky-jerky ,
- in wink of an eye ,
- inapropos ,
- itinerate ,
- make do ,
- make-do ,
- migrative ,
- migratorial ,
- mismatched ,
- momentary ,
- normalizing ,
- now then ,
- on the move ,
- on-again, off-again ,
- on-again-off-again ,
- over night ,
- overnight ,
- passing through ,
- perambulatory ,
- regularizing ,
- regulative ,
- rootless ,
- seasonal ,
- short-term ,
- spastic ,
- stop-and-go ,
- supplier ,
- temporary ,
- tippy ,
- tramper ,
- unpeaceful ,
- unrestful ,
- unsettled ,
- variable ,
- varying ,
- wiggly ,
- yo-yo ,
- Pasturing ,
- epochal ,
- flashing ,
- iffy ,
- illogical ,
- like lightning ,
- occasional ,
- perambulant ,
- propelling ,
- provisory ,
- recurrent ,
- temp ,
- unnerved .
- Movements ,
- Translocations ,
- Voyaging ,
- changings ,
- deflection ,
- deflections ,
- dynamism ,
- earthquake ,
- evolution ,
- journeyings ,
- locomotion ,
- motilities ,
- motility ,
- movableness ,
- move ,
- movings ,
- operativeness ,
- re-formation ,
- realignment ,
- realignments ,
- reworkings ,
- shiftings ,
- stirrings ,
- thing ,
- transferences ,
- transformations ,
- translocation ,
- variety ,
- voyagings ,
- wanderings .
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How to use "Shifting" in context?
When you think about it, the world is constantly shifting around us. Whether we're walking, running, or driving, the ground under our feet is always moving, and the walls and buildings we pass by are constantly changing. Even the atmosphere is constantly shifting, with different weather patterns appearing and disappearing without warning.
Given the constantly shifting nature of the world, it's not surprising that our perception of reality also shifts frequently. At any moment, we may be in a comfortable and familiar environment, only to suddenly find ourselves in a new and unfamiliar one.
Paraphrases for Shifting:
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Equivalence
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Proper noun, singular
shift.
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Noun, plural
shifts.
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Noun, singular or mass
shift.
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Proper noun, singular
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Reverse Entailment
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Verb, gerund or present participle
transition, transitioning.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
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Independent
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Proper noun, singular
Transferring.
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Noun, singular or mass
reversal, travelling, Displacing, Transferring.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
advancing, agreeing, altering, amend, amendment, apportioning, assigning, averting, becoming, being, bring, bringing, broadening, circulating, communicating, commuting, constant, continuing, controlling, conveying, crossing, crowding, declining, decreasing, diminishing, directing, dismantling, disturbing, diverting, dragging, drawing, drifting, driving, eating, editing, embracing, emerging, entering, expanding, falling, ferrying, flapping, floating, flowing, fluctuating, flying, focusing, gathering, gearing, getting, gliding, going, guiding, happening, imposing, investing, jumping, laying, leaving, letting, looking, lowering, making, mobile, ongoing, orienting, oscillating, ottawa, overriding, posing, pretending, proceeding, processing, pulling, pushing, putting, raising, ranging, refocusing, replacing, report, retraining, reverse, reverting, review, revising, revolving, rising, rolling, rotating, roving, running, sending, shading, shaping, shirking, shooting, shuffling, shutting, sliding, slipping, sneaking, sorting, spend, spending, spreading, stealing, steering, step, substituting, swinging, ticking, toppling, train, transmitting, traveling, travelling, trying, turn, unbecoming, unfolding, upsetting, vary, varying, voting, walking, wearing, widening, will, Adjusting, Adopting, Amending, Appointing, Arousing, Attaching, Bridging, Carrying, Channelling, Deferring, Deflecting, Delaying, Delivering, Deploying, Devolving, Disallowing, Dismissing, Displacing, Disposing, Disrupting, Distorting, Distracting, Electing, Embodying, Enacting, Endorsing, Enlarging, Evacuating, Experiencing, Expressing, Extending, Faring, Filtering, Flocking, Harnessing, Influencing, L, Les, Lifting, Maturing, Migrating, Mobilizing, Modifying, Nudging, Overthrowing, Overturning, Pertaining, Placing, Quoting, Referring, Rejecting, Relating, Remitting, Removing, Resorting, Reversing, Slumping, Tilting, Tipping, Towards, Toward, Transferring, Translating, Transposing, Undergoing, Conferring, Cornering, Correcting, Postponing, Presiding, Progressing, Staying, Swapping, bypassing, entrusting, upgrading, transiting, relocating, mutating, reviewing, restructuring, renaming, toggling, reshaping, realigning, revisiting, reallocating, reorienting, redirecting, reassigning, uploading, interfacing, redistributing, repurposing, redeploying, transfering, reorientating, reprofiling.
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Proper noun, singular
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Other Related
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Noun, singular or mass
displacement, transfer.
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Noun, singular or mass
Hyponym for Shifting:
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- Synonyms:
- Slugs, wanders, dawdles, waddles.
