Definition for Taking:

• Apt to take; alluring; attracting.

Synonyms for Taking:

• adj.

  •attractive (adjective)
  • handsome,
  • Beckoning,
  • interesting,
  • agreeable,
  • teasing,
  • captivating,
  • Hunky,
  • pleasing,
  • magnetic,
  • charming,
  • provocative,
  • adorable,
  • good-looking,
  • alluring,
  • looker,
  • mesmeric,
  • enthralling,
  • winning,
  • stunning,
  • fair,
  • goodlooking,
  • tantalizing,
  • pleasant,
  • inviting,
  • gorgeous,
  • seductive,
  • comely.
  •beautiful (adjective)
  • grandest,
  • graceful,
  • shapely,
  • foxy,
  • pulchritudinous,
  • sightly,
  • well-formed,
  • radiant.
  •catching (adjective)
  • more infective,
  • infective,
  • more epizootic,
  • more transmittable,
  • most infective,
  • most epizootic,
  • most miasmatic,
  • more miasmatic,
  • most transmittable.
  •communicable (adjective)
  • pandemic,
  • communicative,
  • transferable,
  • expansive.
  •contagious (adjective)
  • more inoculable,
  • more impartible,
  • most inoculable,
  • most impartible,
  • more transmissible,
  • most transmissible.
  •pulchritudinous (adjective)
  • easy on the eyes.
  •retaining (adjective)
  • Having,
  • Suppressing.
  •sweet (adjective)
  • sweet-tempered,
  • sweeter,
  • sweetest.
  •winning/winsome (adjective)
  • dis-arming,
  • dis arming,
  • most winning,
  • end-earing,
  • end earing,
  • most winsome.

• n.

  •
  • lovely,
  • engaging,
  • pretty,
  • like.
  •
  • contagious,
  • move.
  •apprehension (noun)
  • collarings.
  •appropriation (noun)
  • mis appropriations,
  • pilferings,
  • mis-appropriations,
  • mis-appropriation,
  • mis appropriation.
  •assumption (noun)
  • shoulderings,
  • acceptings,
  • assumings,
  • taking ups,
  • under takings,
  • under taking,
  • under-taking,
  • taking ons,
  • under-takings.
  •capture (noun)
  • obtainings,
  • winnings,
  • laying hold of,
  • falls,
  • run in,
  • snatchings,
  • taking captive,
  • gainings.
  •engaging (noun)
  • gracious,
  • refreshing.
  •getting (noun)
  • catchings,
  • capturings,
  • pursuings,
  • masterings,
  • confiscatings,
  • assimilatings,
  • clutchings.
  •receipt (noun)
  • Recipience,
  • intaking.
  •receipts (noun)
  • revenue stream.

• v.

  •acquiring (verb)
  • netting,
  • landing,
  • scoring,
  • Heaping,
  • wrangling,
  • Claiming,
  • Luring,
  • Cornering,
  • purchasing,
  • Adding,
  • fetching,
  • Palming,
  • buying,
  • Accumulating,
  • assuming,
  • incurring,
  • Garnering,
  • Retrieving.
  •capture (verb)
  • seizure.
  •capturing (verb)
  • Achieving,
  • Capturing,
  • arresting,
  • Snaring,
  • Apprehending,
  • Gaining,
  • Occupying,
  • Securing,
  • Collaring,
  • Snatching,
  • Obtaining,
  • seizing,
  • abducting.
  •receiving (verb)
  • inspiring,
  • Gobbling,
  • Receiving,
  • assimilating,
  • eating,
  • inhaling,
  • accessing,
  • Admitting,
  • Engorging,
  • accepting,
  • gulping,
  • Swallowing,
  • absorbing,
  • ingesting,
  • Pocketing,
  • devouring.
  •taking (verb)
  • gathering,
  • bagging,
  • Commandeering,
  • Nabbing,
  • Depriving,
  • Amassing,
  • collecting,
  • impounding,
  • Grabbing,
  • acquiring,
  • Levying,
  • Appropriating,
  • Procuring,
  • Usurping,
  • Confiscating,
  • Annexing,
  • Monopolizing,
  • Reaping,
  • harvesting.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • bewitching,
  • enticing,
  • enchanting,
  • recipient,
  • acceptance.
  •
  • tempting,
  • fascinating,
  • winsome,
  • glamorous.
  •
  • infectious.
  •renting
  • borrowing.
  •Other relevant words:
  • choler,
  • enter,
  • receive,
  • dissatisfaction,
  • pet,
  • uneasiness,
  • mocking,
  • pastiche,
  • pestilential,
  • taken,
  • witching,
  • sustain,
  • exquisite,
  • tizzy,
  • ferment,
  • malaise,
  • pinch,
  • collect,
  • Devirgination,
  • suppress,
  • Titillative,
  • unobjectionable,
  • passion,
  • siren,
  • plagiarism,
  • proceed,
  • Acharnement,
  • titillating,
  • mouth-watering,
  • sale,
  • conquest,
  • epiphytotic,
  • admittance,
  • sniff,
  • endemic,
  • flutter,
  • collar,
  • using,
  • snatch,
  • hypnotic,
  • pother,
  • cute,
  • surrender,
  • receival,
  • sequestration,
  • prevail,
  • Robbing,
  • acceptable,
  • discomposure,
  • incur,
  • realize,
  • victorious,
  • triumphant,
  • Confiscatory,
  • lay hold of,
  • inquietude,
  • flirtatious,
  • usurpation,
  • tantrums,
  • take out,
  • drawing,
  • provide,
  • overthrow,
  • compelling,
  • amiable,
  • rape,
  • coaxing,
  • likable,
  • epidemic,
  • fall,
  • mean,
  • sirenic,
  • return,
  • derivation,
  • exciting,
  • enviable,
  • come-hither,
  • mouthwatering,
  • irresistible,
  • annexation,
  • deriving,
  • coquettish,
  • larceny,
  • loot,
  • wage,
  • Spellful,
  • dither,
  • preemption,
  • thievish,
  • assert,
  • deprive,
  • determine,
  • ravishing,
  • pucker,
  • thrilling,
  • grab,
  • discomfort,
  • Heart-robbing,
  • fit,
  • take off,
  • ire,
  • entrancing,
  • affectionate,
  • favourable,
  • goodly,
  • adopt,
  • lovable,
  • pulling,
  • enravishing,
  • fluster,
  • reception,
  • desirable,
  • avow,
  • suffer,
  • assume,
  • Flustration,
  • Filching,
  • sporadic,
  • violation,
  • discontent,
  • obtain,
  • picking,
  • stew,
  • capitulation,
  • steal,
  • spreading,
  • submit,
  • pique,
  • beauteous,
  • Removing,
  • Privative,
  • tender,
  • agitation,
  • catch,
  • appetising,
  • twitter,
  • robbery,
  • voluptuous,
  • utilize,
  • luxurious,
  • bile,
  • carry away,
  • Swiping,
  • acquisition,
  • tiff,
  • intriguing,
  • dear,
  • appetizing,
  • Pinching,
  • downfall,
  • shoplifting,
  • endearing,
  • admission,
  • killing,
  • Blandishing,
  • Lifting,
  • pestiferous,
  • irritation,
  • loveable,
  • Cajoling,
  • imitation,
  • deliver,
  • darling,
  • revenue,
  • Ebullition,
  • flap,
  • bonny,
  • possession,
  • Seducing,
  • expend,
  • gain,
  • apply,
  • arrest,
  • infringement,
  • occupy,
  • miff,
  • sensuous,
  • stealing,
  • appealing,
  • Pirating,
  • beguiling,
  • Pasticcio,
  • seemly,
  • well-favored,
  • clear out,
  • accept,
  • toothsome,
  • appropriation,
  • Plagiary,
  • taking away,
  • Earning,
  • become,
  • copying,
  • subscribe,
  • borrowed plumes,
  • zymotic,
  • decide,
  • Flusteration,
  • submission,
  • exotic,
  • Purloining,
  • acquire,
  • get,
  • bear a grudge,
  • huff,
  • possess oneself of,
  • displeasure,
  • rip off,
  • fuss,
  • Nicking,
  • booty,
  • adoption,
  • get hold of,
  • delightful,
  • contain,
  • ask,
  • piquant,
  • pilferage,
  • to be desired,
  • dander,
  • gripping,
  • cuddly,
  • endure,
  • annexational,
  • theft,
  • interpret,
  • ravishment,
  • warmth,
  • attraction,
  • tickling,
  • Pilfering,
  • renting,
  • follow,
  • profit,
  • carry out,
  • likeable,
  • admit,
  • fume,
  • abide,
  • take,
  • defeat,
  • spellbinding,
  • Delightsome,
  • Epidemical,
  • friendly,
  • cheering,
  • pickings,
  • Attracting,
  • catch on,
  • bother,
  • ingratiating,
  • confiscation,
  • catchy,
  • simulation,
  • taking possession,
  • defloration,
  • drop dead,
  • disquiet,
  • Boosting,
  • access,
  • successful,
  • excitement,
  • cherished,
  • charismatic,
  • remove.

Paraphrases for Taking:

• Equivalence

  • Verb, past tense
    Picked.
  • Verb, base form
    pick.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, plural
    actions.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    mistaking.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    supports, items, needs, holds, Was, taken, making.
  • Noun, plural
    catches, adoptions, decisions, checks, courses, Measures, grabs, Efforts, teeth, processes, makes, items, needs.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    holding, Obtaining, takeover, making, conducting, gathering, collecting, speaking, sampling, decisionmaking, acceptance, kidnapping.
  • Verb, past tense
    assumed, issuing, needed, designed, Got, making.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    recallingtaking, participating, characteristics, existing, Administering, accepting, Generating, actively, tackling, demonstrating, Eliminating, comprehensively, intervening, assuming, attending, best, marketing, withdrawing, talking, Acknowledging, strengthening, Everything, Evacuating, Indicating, stealing, yes, Invoking, specific, tapping, integrating, beneath, Addressing, Alleviating, Acceding, Creating, operating, targeting, contributing, waiting, reaffirming, Tabling, calculating, increasing, Treating, Establishing, Originating, Assisting, Presenting, Dedicating, Embarking, Revoking, Debating, sets, Amongst, Enacting, encouraging, Translating, benefiting, breathing, follow, following, Deleting, activating, authorising, writing, Exempting, Transposing, Congratulating, Assessing, retaining, Selecting, Extracting, Articulating, internalizing, Promulgating, accompanying, smoking, statistical, enabling, Admitting, practicing, arranging, thanks, Involving, pending, representing, complete, completing, replacing, Providing, encompassing, Managing, Transferring, Restoring, leading, procedure, streamlining, corresponding, Examining, prevailing, seeking, Navigating, reflecting, Introducing, outweighing, sitting, executing, Promoting, Defeating, endeavouring, supporting, attacking, special, Attracting, Photographing, determining, exporting, Commencing, Organizing, Registering, performing, tracking, -, improving, emphasizing, revising, Excluding, Responding, Reaping, Relating, observing, Stepping, Exploring, Containing, inviting, Enjoying, watching, Attempting, purchasing, Utilizing, approving, Submitting, Adhering, protecting, Deducting, costing, measuring, Recruiting, Pasting, learning, monitor, monitoring, Straddling, happening, Witnessing, advancing, concluding, Treading, Noting, arriving, Resorting, leaving, reducing, starting, wearing, demanding, Electing, Detaining, Refugees, Arising, sending, Requiring, deriving, Staying, beginning, issuing, Instituting, e, Depriving, Progressing, regarding, Capturing, confronting, Shouldering, stopping, Had, Has, analysing, computing, embracing, Extending, exercising, comprehensive, Interviewing, framework, remaining, pursuant, Owning, lending, withholding, Displaying, Occupying, recalling, Were, Transporting, opening, diverting, saving, rendering, Depending, offering, Citing, Abusing, importing, Realizing, Repairing, reading, Exchanging, Respecting, defending, answering, Applying, absorbing, seeing, continuing, Prescribing, Expressing, entering, agreeing, Employing, Harnessing, suffering, conquering, precisely, asking, resolving, resulting, 58, Preventing, traveling, travelling, dealing, Amending, stressing, pursuing, emerging, Undergoing, Including, detecting, concerning, Embodying, abducting, Residing, ensuring, developing, Affirming, Subjecting, feeding, descending, insisting, changing, imposing, reviewing, welcoming, casting, us, processing, becoming, Carrying, deciding, Quoting, Stemming, K, Choosing, Referring, opting, losing, playing, Attaching, sharing, Avoiding, Endorsing, Lifting, returning, Measures, conveying, Forcing, Analyzing, Grabbing, grabs, mobilising, Discussing, Clutching, marking, falling, Proving, matching, filing, Encountering, conforming, Allowing, Occurring, yielding, Relying, Requesting, dragging, enrolled, arresting, walking, Hosting, incurring, picking, laying, approaching, balancing, upholding, should, namely, pressing, Resuming, owing, heading, designing, training, flying, living, believing, rising, working, planting, striving, challenging, Experiencing, Discharging, paving, Waging, loading, saying, looking, boarding, functioning, focusing, offending, hitting, Producing, merging, sting, driving, filling, marching, surrounding, according, guiding, _, v., aids, devising, washing, causing, sporting, joining, lagging, meeting, remembering, listing, reaching, knowing, grasping, putting, using, getting, facing, standing, posing, Levied, pushing, buying, i, covering, letting, me, controlling, caring, Throwing, showing, pitting, canon, whole, ordering, studying, Storming, Claiming, urging, Robbing, \, Handing, paying, Towing, signing, mounting, Evolving, growing, finding, firing, sounding, cutting, running, visiting, Forming, die, pulling, crossing, trying, Pumping, going, S, calling, vi, bearing, holding, Obtaining, making, collecting, speaking, sampling, decisionmaking, kidnapping.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    Establishing, becomes, Comes, processes, makes, needs, making.
  • Verb, base form
    assume, ttake, takin.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    bearing.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Incorporating, accommodating, Devoting, adopts, exploiting, Fulfilling, riding, conducting, gathering.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    adopts.

Antonyms for Taking:

• adj.

  • attractive
    homely, disenchanting, unattractive, ugly, repulsive, boring, repellent.
  • Other antonyms:
    hideous, frightful, Haggish, loathsome, horrible, nauseating, unaesthetic, offensive, disagreeable, objectionable, foul, witchy, abominable, shocking, plain, disgusting, vile, frumpish, unshapely, sickening, ghastly, nasty, frumpy, unbecoming, unappetizing, bad, unprepossessing, terrible, dreadful, abhorrent, gorgonian, repugnant, unpleasant, unimposing, revolting.

Taking Sentence Examples:

• But what is she taking hold of now?

• Never think of taking a book with you.