Synonyms for giving
giv·ing

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1. giving, giftnoun

   the act of giving

   Synonyms:
   talent, natural endowment, endowment, gift

   Antonyms:
   stingy, ungenerous

2. givingnoun

   the imparting of news or promises etc.

   "he gave us the news and made a great show of the giving"; "giving his word of honor seemed to come too easily"

   Synonyms:
   gift

   Antonyms:
   stingy, ungenerous

3. givingadjective

   disposing of property by voluntary transfer without receiving value in return

   "the alumni followed a program of annual giving"

   Synonyms:
   gift

   Antonyms:
   stingy, ungenerous

4. big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, handsome, giving, liberal, openhandedadjective

   given or giving freely

   "was a big tipper"; "the bounteous goodness of God"; "bountiful compliments"; "a freehanded host"; "a handsome allowance"; "Saturday's child is loving and giving"; "a liberal backer of the arts"; "a munificent gift"; "her fond and openhanded grandfather"

   Synonyms:
   plentiful, magnanimous, bountiful, prominent, big, vainglorious, cock-a-hoop, free, braggy, good-looking, with child(p), fine-looking, large-minded, grownup, grown, large(p), enceinte, well-favoured, bounteous, liberal, self-aggrandizing, broad, swelled, handsome, fully grown, braggart(a), bighearted, expectant, freehand, tolerant, heavy(a), great(p), large, bragging(a), bad, freehanded, heavy(p), well-favored, big(a), better-looking, self-aggrandising, boastful, full-grown, openhanded, adult, gravid, big(p), crowing, loose

   Antonyms:
   ungenerous, stingy

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1. • Conveyance
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Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. givingnoun

   Synonyms:
   conferring, bestowal, granting, benefaction

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1. List of paraphrases for "giving":

   give, providing, granting, provide, offering, dar, don, grant, paying, conferring

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1. Steve Daines:

   Giving out potentially billions of dollars of taxpayers’ money to people who broke federal law to enter the country is outrageous and an insult to the American people, I am proud to support this amendment to ensure the Biden Administration doesn’t do this.

2. Bentzi Gopstein:

   Instead of giving me a prize for the important work I do to rescue the daughters of Israel, the state of Israel handcuffs me.

3. Devin Vassell:

   As a team, we just tried to get after them, my teammates were finding me for 3s and they were giving me a lot of confidence.

4. Tom Fitton:

   State Department allowed Hillary Clinton to remove and destroy government email records, and now we’ve figured out the State Department is improperly giving government documents to the Hillary Clinton operation -- documents that should have been turned over to us years ago.

5. Lawrence Blatt:

   With the Novira acquisition we have the lead direct antiviral in the world for HBV, if we can in the same time we're giving direct antivirals and blocking( virus) replication, activate the immune system and wake it up, maybe we can cause patients to clear HBV.