Synonyms of devoting

devoting

verb

present participle of devote

1

as in dedicating

to keep or intend for a special purpose

I conscientiously devote several hours every weekend to playing with my dog

Synonyms & Similar Words

• dedicating
• saving
• allocating
• reserving
• earmarking
• consecrating
• giving up (to)
• setting apart
• using
• setting aside
• setting by
• entrusting
• sanctifying
• committing
• employing
• blessing
• confiding
• applying
• consigning
• intrusting
• hallowing
• bestowing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• ignoring
• neglecting
• misusing
• misapplying

2

as in applying

to occupy (oneself) diligently or with close attention

planning a diplomatic career, she's been intensely devoting herself to the study of foreign languages in college

Synonyms & Similar Words

• applying
• giving
• committing
• addressing
• spending
• buckling
• working
• bending
• turning a hand
• getting cracking
• exerting
• busying
• concerning
• getting with it
• involving
• getting one's act together
• taxing
• turning one's hand
• reapplying
• stressing
• engaging
• setting (to)
• readdressing
• settling (down)
• exhausting
• hustling
• plowing
• troubling
• wearing out
• straining
• knuckling down
• grinding
• carrying on
• plunging (in)
• pitching in
• humping
• plugging (away)
• putting out
• pegging (away)
• plodding

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• playing
• trifling
• idling
• dawdling
• fiddling (around)
• dallying
• fooling around
• messing around
• puttering (around)
• pottering (around)
• monkeying (around)
• dillydallying

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of devoting

Season Two didn’t always help itself in that regard, devoting entire installments to Cold Harbor and to the origin of the severance process itself. —Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2025

But was that context enough to justify devoting an entire episode — even a relatively compact 38-minute one — to it, this late in a season where the characters the audience is most invested in have now been in limbo for multiple chapters in a row? —Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 7 Mar. 2025

Imagine how much the pacing problems on Jessica Jones or Luke Cage (or, for that matter, Daredevil) would have been eased simply by devoting a few episodes at the start of each season to our heroes working cases that had nothing to do with the latest big bads. —Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 4 Mar. 2025

The sheriffs said then that devoting deputies for immigration roundups was both unworkable from a practical standpoint given staffing and other responsibilities, and would erode public trust in their agencies among some communities. —Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 2 Mar. 2025

Silicon Valley De-Bug, a South Bay civil rights group that has supported Dominguez’s family through years of litigation — and added his aunt to its organizing ranks — criticized the city for devoting resources to fighting the judgment instead of addressing police violence. —Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2025

Never let it be said that MLS is alone in devoting attention to its reigning MVP. —Phil Hay, The Athletic, 24 Feb. 2025

Meta's contributions to the translation and transcription space might not be as universally well-known as Google's omnipresent Google Translate, but the company is devoting a lot of attention to it at the moment. —Will McCurdy, PCMAG, 8 Feb. 2025

With wildfires becoming more common and destructive, utilities, engineers and cities are increasingly devoting more resources to finding tech solutions to harden the grid against such fires. —IEEE Spectrum, 5 Feb. 2025