Definition for Sway:

• have as an inherent or characteristic feature or have as a consequence; " This new washer carries a two year guarantee"; " The loan carries a high interest rate"; " this undertaking carries many dangers"; " She carries her mother's genes"; " These bonds carry warrants"; " The restaurant carries an unusual name"

Synonyms for Sway:

• n.

  •
  • flutter.
  •
  • roll,
  • wiggle,
  • toing and froing,
  • quiver.
  •
  • convert.
  •authority (noun)
  • empowerment,
  • authority,
  • Prepotency,
  • primacy,
  • faculty,
  • domination,
  • punch,
  • potency,
  • enfranchisement,
  • rank,
  • commission,
  • mightiness,
  • strength,
  • force,
  • kingship,
  • sovereignty,
  • might,
  • mastery,
  • purview,
  • charge,
  • puissance,
  • title,
  • entitlement,
  • superiority,
  • precedence,
  • credential,
  • steam,
  • clout,
  • prestige,
  • mandate,
  • stature,
  • cogency,
  • office,
  • birthright,
  • powerfulness,
  • right,
  • privilege,
  • prerogative,
  • ascendancy,
  • license,
  • seniority,
  • jurisdiction.
  •command (noun)
  • reign,
  • law,
  • supremacy,
  • will,
  • grasp,
  • management,
  • discipline,
  • coordination,
  • rule,
  • grip,
  • prowess,
  • direction,
  • government.
  •energy (noun)
  • puissance.
  •fluctuation (noun)
  • undulation,
  • wave,
  • wavering,
  • swinging,
  • oscillation,
  • vibration.
  •importance (noun)
  • weight.
  •influence (noun)
  • motivation,
  • predominance,
  • pull,
  • importance.
  •motion (noun)
  • motion.
  •power (noun)
  • omnipotence,
  • clout,
  • Imperium.
  •room (noun)
  • room.
  •say-so (noun)
  • say-so.
  •strong influence (noun)
  • dominion,
  • sovereignty,
  • empire,
  • jurisdiction,
  • mastery,
  • regime,
  • power,
  • predominance,
  • rule,
  • command,
  • expanse,
  • scope,
  • spread,
  • range,
  • reign,
  • authority,
  • sweep,
  • run,
  • stretch,
  • might,
  • control,
  • clout,
  • government,
  • reach,
  • amplitude.
  •supremacy (noun)
  • dominance,
  • transcendence.
  •sway (noun)
  • persuade,
  • rock,
  • nod,
  • shift,
  • swing,
  • tilt,
  • wobble,
  • shake,
  • carry,
  • careen.

• v.

  •coax (verb)
  • implore,
  • cajole,
  • charm,
  • urge,
  • seduce.
  •command (verb)
  • dominate,
  • coordinate,
  • direct,
  • manage,
  • govern.
  •hang (verb)
  • hang,
  • loll,
  • droop,
  • sag,
  • swing,
  • trail,
  • Draggle,
  • nod,
  • drape,
  • dangle.
  •influence (verb)
  • bias,
  • empower,
  • command,
  • lead,
  • influence,
  • authorize,
  • affect,
  • motivate,
  • master,
  • predominate,
  • prejudice,
  • control,
  • power,
  • pressure.
  •influence, affect (verb)
  • get,
  • impress,
  • soften up,
  • hook,
  • dominate,
  • inspire,
  • conduct,
  • guide,
  • overrule,
  • brainwash,
  • persuade,
  • manage,
  • work on,
  • predispose,
  • govern,
  • put across,
  • lead by the nose,
  • win over,
  • sell,
  • strike,
  • prevail on,
  • touch,
  • twist one's arm,
  • hold sway over,
  • crack,
  • turn one's head,
  • whitewash,
  • move,
  • induce,
  • bias,
  • rule over,
  • carry,
  • dispose,
  • impact on,
  • direct.
  •motion (verb)
  • swing.
  •move back and forth (verb)
  • swagger,
  • careen,
  • swing,
  • yo-yo,
  • bend,
  • weave,
  • blow hot and cold,
  • roll,
  • rock,
  • waver,
  • wobble,
  • stagger,
  • undulate,
  • fluctuate,
  • lean,
  • lurch,
  • pulsate,
  • vibrate,
  • Pendulate,
  • hem and haw,
  • wave,
  • incline,
  • oscillate.
  •oscillate (verb)
  • librate,
  • teeter-totter,
  • tremble,
  • beat,
  • wobble,
  • vibrate,
  • bob,
  • undulate,
  • throb,
  • vacillate,
  • totter,
  • alternate,
  • wag,
  • pulsate,
  • radiate,
  • rock,
  • stagger,
  • oscillate,
  • fluctuate,
  • seesaw,
  • tick,
  • pulse.
  •persuade (verb)
  • persuade,
  • enlist,
  • talk into,
  • coax,
  • sell,
  • win over,
  • entice,
  • tempt,
  • allure,
  • indoctrinate,
  • convince,
  • induce.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • say-so,
  • jiggle,
  • vibration,
  • wiggle,
  • heave,
  • kingdom,
  • encourage,
  • dandle,
  • teeter,
  • impress,
  • proselytize,
  • dominion,
  • evangelize.
  •
  • leverage,
  • oscillation,
  • fluff,
  • toss,
  • waver,
  • weave,
  • toing and froing,
  • to and fro,
  • dominance,
  • advantage.
  •
  • impose,
  • predispose,
  • roll,
  • convert,
  • bump,
  • preach.
  •
  • incline.
  •
  • flourish.
  •
  • move.
  •bring
  • prompt.
  •careen
  • lean.
  •command
  • preside over.
  •convince
  • prevail upon.
  •dominate
  • preponderate,
  • lead by the nose,
  • hold sway over.
  •drink down
  • swig.
  •empire
  • imperialism.
  •fluctuation
  • undulation.
  •influence
  • impress,
  • pull strings,
  • impact on,
  • act upon.
  •lurch
  • lurch.
  •move
  • work on.
  •oscillate
  • teeter-totter,
  • wiggle,
  • Pendulate,
  • librate.
  •persuade
  • prevail on.
  •splendor
  • grandeur.
  •stagger
  • lurch.
  •swaying
  • vacillation.
  •touch
  • touching,
  • get through to.
  •wag
  • waggle.
  •Other relevant words:
  • embolden,
  • genuinely,
  • come and go,
  • procure,
  • collapse,
  • lull,
  • change over,
  • lobby,
  • inclination,
  • flip-flop,
  • flip,
  • preach,
  • effectiveness,
  • incite,
  • whip hand,
  • transport,
  • preeminence,
  • purchase,
  • flapping,
  • leadership,
  • vellication,
  • assumption,
  • championship,
  • acme,
  • autarchy,
  • pass,
  • eminence,
  • trip,
  • domineering,
  • edge,
  • superintendence,
  • be agitated,
  • manipulate,
  • angle,
  • intensely,
  • seigniory,
  • severity,
  • resonate,
  • break down,
  • order,
  • bright,
  • sidle,
  • Disceptation,
  • shake up,
  • promote,
  • prance,
  • wriggle,
  • suzerainty,
  • oblique,
  • deviate,
  • insinuation,
  • impose,
  • predispose,
  • dictate to,
  • effect,
  • grab,
  • first prize,
  • absolutism,
  • heave,
  • undulation,
  • shaky,
  • dodder,
  • regime,
  • pound,
  • cram in,
  • rule over,
  • empire,
  • brute force,
  • lilt,
  • judder,
  • compel,
  • shake,
  • irregular,
  • prod,
  • coil,
  • impression,
  • wamble,
  • turn the scale,
  • alter,
  • charisma,
  • esteem,
  • enchantment,
  • dizzy,
  • tamper with,
  • run,
  • encourage,
  • weightiness,
  • shivering,
  • administer,
  • greatly,
  • advantage,
  • balance,
  • system of government,
  • ironic,
  • demand,
  • fascinate,
  • predetermine,
  • dominance,
  • struggle,
  • actuate,
  • good feeling,
  • prevail,
  • indecisive,
  • toss,
  • bring,
  • incline,
  • directorship,
  • supervision,
  • gyration,
  • contestation,
  • vacillation,
  • bump,
  • brilliant,
  • bank,
  • topple over,
  • rake,
  • favor,
  • stimulate,
  • waggle,
  • wear down,
  • prompt,
  • fall,
  • martial law,
  • persuasion,
  • fluff,
  • keel over,
  • practically,
  • joggle,
  • waver,
  • decline,
  • egg on,
  • swingeing,
  • cavort,
  • precarious,
  • Regnancy,
  • wigwag,
  • quake,
  • rock music,
  • roll,
  • prepossess,
  • swerve,
  • tinge,
  • skew,
  • change,
  • prevalence,
  • hand,
  • falter,
  • Almightiness,
  • fall away,
  • slant,
  • jiggle,
  • determine,
  • advise,
  • flit,
  • flicker,
  • nigh,
  • often,
  • talk,
  • blunder,
  • personality,
  • slope,
  • wield,
  • strings,
  • bring over,
  • awfully,
  • swagger,
  • brandish,
  • fluctuating,
  • thoroughly,
  • inspire,
  • swig,
  • suggest,
  • fangs,
  • moment,
  • maximum,
  • presidency,
  • get through to,
  • stumble,
  • coerce,
  • stroke,
  • splendid,
  • retreat,
  • coggle,
  • upper hand,
  • tergiversate,
  • acquit,
  • twist arm,
  • palms,
  • pack,
  • Whiffle,
  • cause,
  • Twire,
  • turn one's head,
  • oscillation,
  • angularity,
  • almost,
  • guide,
  • pre-eminence,
  • reel,
  • lure,
  • flounce,
  • iron hand,
  • shuddering,
  • touch,
  • make,
  • imperialism,
  • reach,
  • occupy the throne,
  • agitate,
  • lean on,
  • bear,
  • consequence,
  • quaking,
  • heel over,
  • carry,
  • ne plus ultra,
  • Pendulate,
  • truly,
  • really,
  • ripple,
  • shelve,
  • toing and froing,
  • evangelize,
  • gestate,
  • convey,
  • mastership,
  • motion,
  • iron heel,
  • mark,
  • impact on,
  • dribble,
  • wear the crown,
  • capability,
  • post,
  • express,
  • oppression,
  • channel,
  • act on,
  • whip,
  • authorisation,
  • raj,
  • strong hand,
  • weave,
  • get around,
  • overrule,
  • twitter,
  • dislodge,
  • crack,
  • drop,
  • highly,
  • bobble,
  • goad,
  • play upon,
  • disposition,
  • teeter,
  • lean,
  • twist one's arm,
  • excessively,
  • swinging,
  • take,
  • coercion,
  • wallow,
  • unsound,
  • kingdom,
  • Importune,
  • talk into,
  • stockpile,
  • depend,
  • amplitude,
  • controversy,
  • founder,
  • reposition,
  • intimidation,
  • very,
  • shift,
  • expect,
  • swaying,
  • spread,
  • dynasty,
  • move around,
  • communicate with,
  • deflect,
  • climb,
  • swing out,
  • uneven,
  • magnetize,
  • oscillating,
  • quicken,
  • ascendancy,
  • stretch,
  • leaning,
  • put across,
  • impress,
  • regimen,
  • nutate,
  • wax and wane,
  • descend,
  • decide,
  • vacillating,
  • CLAWS,
  • engage,
  • go round,
  • wallop,
  • zenith,
  • waving,
  • superintend,
  • deport,
  • upper,
  • swing over,
  • coming and going,
  • curve,
  • counsel,
  • room,
  • impact,
  • win,
  • head start,
  • uprise,
  • jaundice,
  • quaver,
  • dominion,
  • insistence,
  • constrain,
  • disputation,
  • flounder,
  • shuffle,
  • preside over,
  • contain,
  • shake off,
  • top spot,
  • shaking,
  • billow,
  • Empery,
  • distort,
  • act upon,
  • blow hot and cold,
  • weight,
  • dip,
  • capacity,
  • work,
  • wangle,
  • Leaning Tower,
  • transcendence,
  • blinding,
  • crook,
  • undecided,
  • hegemony,
  • campaign,
  • preponderance,
  • tilt,
  • curvet,
  • suggestion,
  • urging,
  • highest,
  • comport,
  • ascendency,
  • gyrate,
  • iron rule,
  • DO,
  • unbalanced,
  • inspirit,
  • topple,
  • authorization,
  • modify,
  • heel,
  • shiver,
  • expanse,
  • seethe,
  • pull strings,
  • wiggle,
  • careen,
  • insist on,
  • arm-twisting,
  • change gears,
  • dandle,
  • flourishing,
  • inoculate,
  • go uphill,
  • inveigle,
  • chop and change,
  • rock candy,
  • wield the scepter,
  • Wabble,
  • arguing,
  • usurpation,
  • toss and turn,
  • stewardship,
  • wave,
  • bend,
  • flitter,
  • cave in,
  • bear off,
  • quiver,
  • stir,
  • tip,
  • ebb and flow,
  • grade,
  • gripe,
  • gain over,
  • shimmy,
  • spur,
  • unsteady,
  • accept,
  • shudder,
  • sweep,
  • pressing,
  • hem and haw,
  • regulate,
  • yaw,
  • turn,
  • rise,
  • tight hand,
  • touching,
  • libration,
  • wavering,
  • sheer,
  • irresolute,
  • rock'n'roll,
  • too,
  • rock 'n' roll,
  • trembling,
  • paramountcy,
  • slue,
  • polity,
  • list,
  • intimidate,
  • joust,
  • dispensation,
  • unsettled,
  • grandeur,
  • headship,
  • captivate,
  • exhort,
  • twitch,
  • voice,
  • squirm,
  • dance,
  • administration,
  • wry,
  • tight grasp,
  • zigzag,
  • warp,
  • dazzling,
  • argue into,
  • Prepollence,
  • waddle,
  • virtually,
  • convert,
  • preside,
  • wheedle,
  • impel,
  • pull wires,
  • form of government,
  • swag,
  • labor,
  • twist,
  • welter,
  • transform,
  • interest,
  • fluctuation,
  • diverge,
  • regulation,
  • flutter,
  • juice,
  • omnipotence,
  • scope,
  • extend,
  • taint,
  • talk over,
  • vibrating,
  • flourish,
  • palm,
  • handle,
  • curl,
  • rear,
  • tumble,
  • color,
  • get,
  • whitewash,
  • Imperium,
  • angle off,
  • flop,
  • fall off,
  • fall in,
  • jurisdiction,
  • execute,
  • back and fill,
  • See-saw,
  • first place,
  • insist upon,
  • despotism,
  • jolt,
  • suasion,
  • political organization,
  • waffle,
  • float,
  • keel,
  • plunge,
  • career,
  • Shilly-shally,
  • tone,
  • range,
  • strike,
  • brainwash,
  • grind,
  • Wigwagging,
  • walk unsteadily,
  • inquisition,
  • supervise,
  • vibration,
  • lock,
  • gain,
  • drag,
  • Predominancy,
  • talons,
  • string,
  • move,
  • wobbling,
  • conduct,
  • cant over,
  • Waggling,
  • heft,
  • bring round,
  • pitch,
  • push,
  • clutches,
  • Preponderancy,
  • excite,
  • divagate,
  • lead by the nose,
  • chiefdom,
  • Libratory,
  • transcendency,
  • oversee,
  • favour,
  • bring to reason,
  • governance,
  • repute,
  • insecure,
  • scend,
  • prevail upon,
  • divert,
  • colour,
  • tyranny,
  • vary,
  • say,
  • labour,
  • transmit,
  • dictatorship,
  • oscillatory,
  • vastly,
  • budge,
  • thrill,
  • hands,
  • press,
  • Outtalk,
  • shamble,
  • scepter,
  • hook,
  • leverage,
  • behave,
  • flap,
  • veer,
  • proselytize,
  • prevail on,
  • stock,
  • soften up,
  • Reenter,
  • have influence over,
  • magnetism,
  • say-so,
  • ascend,
  • require,
  • lordship,
  • changeable,
  • to and fro,
  • instigate,
  • nearly,
  • stone,
  • jar,
  • hook in,
  • nudge,
  • hobbyhorse,
  • hold sway over,
  • ARBITRARY POWER,
  • credit,
  • lurch,
  • vivid,
  • tend,
  • rickety,
  • sell one on,
  • go downhill,
  • reign of terror,
  • pressurize,
  • constraint,
  • Zigzagging,
  • thrash about,
  • quivering,
  • preponderate,
  • contention,
  • argument,
  • record,
  • expand,
  • curb,
  • cant,
  • Volutation,
  • work on,
  • height,
  • con,
  • overripe,
  • most,
  • yo-yo,
  • dispose,
  • equivocate,
  • escape from,
  • inducement,
  • exceedingly,
  • autocracy,
  • oversight,
  • guidance.

Antonyms for Sway:

• n.

  • strong influence
    inefficiency, powerlessness, weakness, inability.
  • Other antonyms:
    impotence, impotency, helplessness, powerlessness, submit, weakness, yield, obey, deter, comply.

• v.

  • influence, affect
    fix, fail, surrender, yield, lose, leave, let go, neglect, mismanage, submit, discourage, serve, misunderstand, abandon, dissuade, mislead, misguide, miss.
  • move back and forth
    stay, stabilize, remain, steady, leave alone, hold, straighten.

Hypernym for Sway:

• v.

  • motion
    oscillate, waver, weave, lash, brachiate, vibrate.

Hyponym for Sway:

• n.

  • attribute
    power, powerfulness.

• v.

  • motion
    move back and forth.