Synonyms of performing

performing 1 of 2

adjective

as in producing

Synonyms & Similar Words

• producing
• serving
• yielding
• useful
• productive
• viable
• useable
• operating
• employable
• usable
• operable
• humming
• dynamic
• workable
• busy
• functioning
• bustling
• effective
• thriving
• flourishing
• working
• operational
• live
• running
• on
• effectual
• active
• operative
• astir
• roaring
• going
• living
• functional
• alive

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• dead
• broken
• inactive
• inoperative
• nonoperative
• nonfunctioning
• nonfunctional
• useless
• ineffective
• nonactivated
• nonoperating
• arrested
• nonoperational
• ineffectual
• deactivated
• decommissioned
• idle
• kaput
• kaputt
• unusable
• inert
• inoperable
• unworkable
• dormant
• quiescent
• fallow
• asleep
• latent
• unproductive
• lifeless
• sleepy
• nonproductive
• stagnating
• vegetating

performing

2 of 2

verb

present participle of perform

1

as in executing

to carry through (as a process) to completion

she performed the task quickly and expertly

Synonyms & Similar Words

• executing
• fulfilling
• accomplishing
• achieving
• doing
• making
• implementing
• committing
• carrying out
• negotiating
• prosecuting
• completing
• carrying off
• perpetrating
• finishing
• going through
• realizing
• practicing
• pulling off
• effecting
• putting through
• bringing off
• following through (with)
• practising
• attaining
• effectuating
• compassing
• bringing about
• working (at)
• repeating
• nailing
• engaging (in)
• acing
• ending
• reenacting
• actualizing
• winding up
• reduplicating

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• failing
• slurring
• slighting
• skimping

2

as in acting

to have a certain purpose

the kidneys perform as a filtering system for the blood

Synonyms & Similar Words

• acting
• serving
• functioning
• working
• operating
• managing
• administering
• controlling
• handling
• running
• supervising
• regulating
• guiding
• directing
• carrying on
• overseeing

3

as in playing

to present a portrayal or performance of

has always dreamed of performing Hamlet on stage

Synonyms & Similar Words

• playing
• portraying
• doing
• interpreting
• depicting
• acting
• representing
• impersonating
• enacting
• rendering
• dramatizing
• pantomiming
• acting out
• mimicking
• imitating
• miming
• playacting
• role-playing
• masquerading
• taking on
• clowning
• aping
• underplaying
• overplaying
• hamming
• overacting
• posing (as)
• coacting
• roleplaying
• starring (in)
• costarring
• co-acting
• co-starring

4

as in working

to produce a desired effect

the new medication performed surprisingly well

Synonyms & Similar Words

• working
• operating
• taking
• acting
• reacting
• responding
• resulting
• taking effect
• taking hold
• behaving
• affecting
• influencing
• swaying
• panning out
• redounding

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• backfiring
• fizzling

Examples of performing in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Adjective

Three of the six D.C. Circulator routes would be eliminated under Bowser’s plan, including the second-best performing route, which connects Woodley Park to downtown and serves low-income workers in Latino neighborhoods in Ward 1. —Luz Lazo, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2023

Stein was himself inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2005 as a non-performing Lifetime Achievement honoree. —George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2023

Nobody wants to fall out of the Stakhanovite society of hyper-performing top talents. —Bogdan Costea, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2023

The specifics of the rule changes are expected to be posted on grammy.com later in the day, but sources tell Variety that the Songwriter category is limited to non-performing and non-producing songwriters, i.e. those who are credited solely as a writer or co-writer. —Jem Aswad, Variety, 9 June 2022