doing
noun
do·ing ˈdü-iŋ 
1
: the act of performing or executing : action
that will take a great deal of doing
2
doings plural
a
: things that are done or that occur : goings-on
everyday doings
b
: social activities
Synonyms
- act
- action
- deed
- exploit
- feat
- thing
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Example Sentences
It's the doing of the good deed that is important, not the thanks you receive. is that mess in the kitchen your doing?
Recent Examples on the Web In a chain of events that are entirely not of his own doing, the Dutchman has had his name attached to one of the biggest transfer sagas of the summer which began to get underway before last season had reached its conclusion. 
Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022 The difference is the U.S. Open has been overshadowed by a development not of its own doing. Tim Bielik, cleveland, 16 June 2022 The difference is the U.S. Open has been overshadowed by a development not of its own doing. Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 15 June 2022 Either by purposeful evil-doing or by inadvertent oversight, the AI For Bad is and will continue to enter into the UN SDG pathway. Lance Eliot, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022 Phoenix Mercury pleaded guilty on Thursday, admitting wrong doing. Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 8 July 2022 For him, faith was a verb, something fulfilled in the daily doing of what needed to be done. Danny Heitman, WSJ, 17 June 2022 However, despite accusations, he was never convicted of any wrong-doing. Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 10 June 2022 Using these figures gives his book a certain symmetry: Quinn tried and failed to do what Barr finally succeeded in doing, which was to get Americans to accept and appreciate modern art. Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022 See More
Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022 The difference is the U.S. Open has been overshadowed by a development not of its own doing. Tim Bielik, cleveland, 16 June 2022 The difference is the U.S. Open has been overshadowed by a development not of its own doing. Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 15 June 2022 Either by purposeful evil-doing or by inadvertent oversight, the AI For Bad is and will continue to enter into the UN SDG pathway. Lance Eliot, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022 Phoenix Mercury pleaded guilty on Thursday, admitting wrong doing. Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 8 July 2022 For him, faith was a verb, something fulfilled in the daily doing of what needed to be done. Danny Heitman, WSJ, 17 June 2022 However, despite accusations, he was never convicted of any wrong-doing. Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 10 June 2022 Using these figures gives his book a certain symmetry: Quinn tried and failed to do what Barr finally succeeded in doing, which was to get Americans to accept and appreciate modern art. Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022 See More Word History
First Known Use
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Phrases Containing doing
Kids Definition
doing
noun
do·ing ˈdü-iŋ
1
: the act of performing : action
It will take some doing to beat us.
2
doings plural : things that are done or that go on
He asked about all the doings back home.
doing 1 of 2
noun
as in thing
something done by someone is that mess in the kitchen your doing? Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- thing
- act
- action
- feat
- deed
- achievement
- accomplishment
- experience
- exploit
- work
- undertaking
- activity
- performance
- dealing
- initiative
- proceeding
- adventure
- move
- procedure
- attainment
- trick
- enterprise
- operation
- handiwork
- stunt
- maneuver
- step
- tactic
- measure
- emprise
- coaction
doing
2 of 2verb
1
as in going
to be fitting or proper that outfit just won't do for the opera Synonyms & Similar Words
- going
- serving
- sufficing
- working
- fitting
- befitting
- suiting
- fitting the bill
- beseeming
- filling the bill
- satisfying
- functioning
2
as in sufficing
to be enough even half of that amount of sugar will do Synonyms & Similar Words
- sufficing
- serving
- answering
- satisfying
- contenting
- suiting
- quenching
- satiating
- assuaging
- sating
3
as in performing
to carry through (as a process) to completion do as much as you can and leave the rest Synonyms & Similar Words
- performing
- accomplishing
- executing
- fulfilling
- achieving
- making
- implementing
- committing
- prosecuting
- perpetrating
- negotiating
- completing
- carrying out
- realizing
- finishing
- practicing
- carrying off
- pulling off
- going through
- effecting
- compassing
- bringing off
- putting through
- attaining
- effectuating
- repeating
- bringing about
- following through (with)
- acing
- practising
- nailing
- reenacting
- actualizing
- ending
- working (at)
- engaging (in)
- reduplicating
- winding up
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- failing
- slighting
- skimping
- slurring
4
as in decorating
to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming did the living room in French provincial style Synonyms & Similar Words
- decorating
- adorning
- draping
- painting
- enriching
- trimming
- ornamenting
- beautifying
- embellishing
- garnishing
- dressing
- decking
- arraying
- gracing
- embossing
- gussying up
- festooning
- bedizening
- doing up
- bedecking
- emblazing
- fancifying
- caparisoning
- blazoning
- trapping
- dolling up
- fancying up
- accessorizing
- embroidering
- figuring
- chasing
- brightening
- glitzing (up)
- braiding
- smartening
- freshening
- filleting
- bossing
- redoing
- swagging
- prettying (up)
- hanging
- redecorating
- appliquéing
- frilling
- garlanding
- filigreeing
- ribboning
- flouncing
- dressing up
- feathering
- jeweling
- gilding
- tricking (out)
- fringing
- wreathing
- diamonding
- jewelling
- furbelowing
- impearling
- sprucing (up)
- gemming
- pearling
- lacing
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- displaying
- simplifying
- spoiling
- stripping
- defacing
- streamlining
- exposing
- marring
- revealing
- uncovering
- dismantling
- disfiguring
- scarring
- divesting
- denuding
- baring
- blemishing
- uglifying
5
as in coping
to meet one's day-to-day needs I'm doing just fine Synonyms & Similar Words
- coping
- managing
- surviving
- faring
- affording
- shifting
- getting along
- getting by
- getting on
- making do
- making out
- making shift
- making ends meet
- contriving
- scrounging
- fending for oneself
- carrying on
- squeezing
- eking out
- lasting
- wresting
- swinging
- wringing
- scraping (by or through)
- scraping (out)
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- failing
- floundering
- collapsing
- falling short
- declining
- slumping
- fizzling
- waning
- petering (out)
- giving up
6
as in creating
to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind) this neighborhood cleanup effort might just do some good Synonyms & Similar Words
- creating
- causing
- bringing
- generating
- working
- producing
- prompting
- spawning
- making
- effecting
- inducing
- invoking
- yielding
- catalyzing
- effectuating
- bringing about
- promoting
- breeding
- introducing
- begetting
- encouraging
- engendering
- bringing forth
- bringing on
- occasioning
- drawing on
- inaugurating
- initiating
- launching
- starting
- developing
- beginning
- deciding
- translating (into)
- innovating
- establishing
- giving rise to
- instituting
- determining
- pioneering
- enacting
- founding
- resulting (in)
- cultivating
- fostering
- furthering
- rendering
- advancing
- fathering
- conducing (to)
- contributing (to)
- nurturing
- forwarding
- setting
- nourishing
- setting up
- turning out
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- restricting
- limiting
- impeding
- checking
- controlling
- suppressing
- crushing
- repressing
- subduing
- squashing
- inhibiting
- squelching
- restraining
- killing
- smothering
- arresting
- quashing
- stifling
- quelling
- curbing
- dampening
- destroying
- retarding
- abolishing
- stilling
- demolishing
- reining (in)
- liquidating
- putting down
- canning
- extinguishing
- clamping down (on)
- cracking down (on)
- quenching
- snuffing (out)
7
as in parodying
to copy or exaggerate (someone or something) in order to make fun of the laughing partygoers begged their host to do Marlon Brando again Synonyms & Similar Words
- parodying
- imitating
- mocking
- mimicking
- caricaturing
- performing
- spoofing
- travestying
- simulating
- emulating
- sending up
- burlesquing
- playing
- pretending
- reproducing
- ridiculing
- satirizing
- replicating
- monkeying
- deriding
- lampooning
- duplicating
- aping
- gibing
- feigning
- elaborating
- parroting
- shamming
- enhancing
- jibing
- acting
- miming
- exaggerating
- embroidering
- pantomiming
- dissembling
- embellishing
- faking
- stretching
- personating
- padding
- expanding
- playing up
- overstating
- pasquinading
- counterfeiting
- amplifying
- impersonating
- overdrawing
- copycatting
- putting on
- magnifying
- enlarging (on or upon)
- fleshing (out)
8
as in progressing
to move forward along a course how are you doing with the house restoration? Synonyms & Similar Words
- progressing
- going
- proceeding
- coming
- marching
- forging
- advancing
- faring
- pacing
- gaining ground
- getting along
- coming along
- going along
- going off
- getting on
- speeding
- pushing
- traveling
- approaching
- driving
- accelerating
- running
- repairing
- travelling
- journeying
- nearing
- passing
- propelling
- wending
- fast-forwarding
- actuating
- taking out
- impelling
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- standing
- stopping
- staying
- remaining
- checking
- blocking
- hindering
- impeding
- obstructing
- stemming
- interrupting
- arresting
- halting
- holding back
- delaying
- suppressing
- detaining
- stalling
- retarding
- repressing
- slowing (down or up)
- inhibiting
- pausing
- hampering
- waiting
- balking
- ceasing
- stunting
- nipping
- cramping
- regressing
- letting up
9
as in playing
to present a portrayal or performance of she's done Eliza Doolittle on the stage so many times that she can probably play the flower girl in her sleep Synonyms & Similar Words
- performing
- playing
- portraying
- interpreting
- depicting
- acting
- representing
- impersonating
- enacting
- dramatizing
- rendering
- pantomiming
- acting out
- mimicking
- imitating
- playacting
- miming
- aping
- masquerading
- underplaying
- hamming
- clowning
- overacting
- overplaying
- taking on
- role-playing
- coacting
- costarring
- posing (as)
- co-acting
- co-starring
- starring (in)
10
as in squeezing
to rob by the use of trickery or threats did them out of their savings with surprising ease Synonyms & Similar Words
- squeezing
- cheating
- sticking
- hustling
- plucking
- screwing
- beating
- stinging
- exploiting
- tricking
- conning
- deceiving
- bleeding
- defrauding
- shortchanging
- victimizing
- fiddling
- diddling
- fleecing
- fooling
- shorting
- reaming
- suckering
- swindling
- stiffing
- chiseling
- skinning
- hosing
- rooking
- bilking
- gaffing
- doing in
- betraying
- mulcting
- shaking down
- cozening
- thimblerigging
- ripping off
- euchring
- chousing
- chiselling
- extorting
- nobbling
- clipping
- flimflamming
- taking for a ride
- wrenching
- milking
- taking to the cleaners
- soaking
- selling a bill of goods to
- overcharging
- nicking
- gouging
- wresting
- duping
- skunking
- wringing
- gulling
- bitching
- bamboozling
- double-crossing
- roping (in)
- fast-talking
11
as in hiding
to strike repeatedly no one is sure who did them in that alley Synonyms & Similar Words
- hiding
- licking
- pounding
- beating
- attacking
- whipping
- hitting
- lashing
- knocking
- slapping
- smashing
- punching
- battering
- switching
- chopping
- slamming
- bashing
- pelting
- batting
- spanking
- assaulting
- hammering
- raiding
- slating
- flogging
- thumping
- paddling
- pummeling
- lambasting
- slogging
- whacking
- tanning
- mauling
- currying
- storming
- working over
- clubbing
- fibbing
- smacking
- boxing
- lathering
- thrashing
- punching out
- tromping
- swiping
- basting
- rushing
- pommelling
- belting
- pommeling
- bludgeoning
- whaling
- cracking
- threshing
- whupping
- buffeting
- belaboring
- whapping
- beating up on
- pummelling
- walloping
- birching
- whopping
- drubbing
- lamming
- pasting
- lacing
- wounding
- clobbering
- bunging up
- socking
- strapping
- assailing
- busting
- cuffing
- flagellating
- swatting
- thwacking
- clouting
- laying on
- cudgeling
- mutilating
- scourging
- besetting
- whamming
- caning
- mangling
- messing (up)
- leathering
- fustigating
- whomping
- roughing (up)
- descending (on or upon)
- maiming
- blackjacking
- rawhiding
- horsewhipping
- cudgelling
- cowhiding
- goring
- pouncing (on or upon)
- lacerating
- jumping (on)
- pistol-whipping
12
as in happening
to take place nothing's ever doing in this boring little town Synonyms & Similar Words
- happening
- being
- coming
- occurring
- cooking
- chancing
- happing
- transpiring
- passing
- coming down
- developing
- coming off
- going down
- coming about
- going on
- betiding
- befalling
- proceeding
- coming to pass
- intervening
- rising
- materializing
- following
- breaking
- coming up
- resulting
- arising
- turning out
- falling out
- going off
- shaping (up)
- cropping (up)
- springing (up)