Antonyms for standing
ˈstæn dɪŋstand·ing

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. standingadjective

   Stagnant; not moving or flowing.

   Antonyms:
   moving, working

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. standingnoun

   Antonyms:
   baselessness, evanescence, insecurity, precariousness

   Synonyms:
   status, position, ground, duration, continuance, footing, standpoint, foundation

2. standingadjective

   Synonyms:
   established, lasting, be

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Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. standingnoun

   social or financial or professional status or reputation

   "of equal standing"; "a member in good standing"

   Antonyms:
   temporary, sitting, impermanent, unerect, seated, irregular

2. standingnoun

   an ordered listing of scores or results showing the relative positions of competitors (individuals or teams) in a sporting event

   Antonyms:
   temporary, seated, impermanent, sitting, irregular, unerect

3. standingadjective

   the act of assuming or maintaining an erect upright position

   Antonyms:
   unerect, impermanent, sitting, seated, temporary, irregular

4. standing(a)adjective

   having a supporting base

   "a standing lamp"

   Antonyms:
   seated, irregular, unerect, temporary, sitting, impermanent

5. standing(a)adjective

   not created for a particular occasion

   "a standing committee"

   Antonyms:
   temporary, sitting, impermanent, unerect, seated, irregular

6. standing(a)adjective

   (of fluids) not moving or flowing

   "mosquitoes breed in standing water"

   Antonyms:
   temporary, impermanent, irregular, unerect, seated, sitting

7. standing(a)adjective

   executed in or initiated from a standing position

   "race from a standing start"; "a standing jump"; "a standing ovation"

   Antonyms:
   unerect, irregular, sitting, impermanent, seated, temporary

8. standingadjective

   (of persons) on the feet; having the torso in an erect position supported by straight legs

   "standing room only"

   Antonyms:
   temporary, irregular, unerect, seated, sitting, impermanent

   Synonyms:
   standing(a)

9. standingadjective

   permanent

   "a standing army"

   Antonyms:
   sitting, temporary, irregular, unerect, impermanent, seated

   Synonyms:
   standing(a)

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1. standingadjective

   Synonyms:
   erect, stagnant, lasting, permanent, persistent

2. standingnoun

   Synonyms:
   status

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1. fall

   Submitted by anonymous on April 2, 2020  

How to use standing in a sentence?

1. Jill Biden:

   As many of you have already seen we were forced to halt operations on the collapse in the early hours of the morning due to structural concerns about the standing structure, we are doing everything we can to ensure that the safety of the first responders is paramount and to continue our search and rescue operation as soon as it is safe to do so.

2. Marcie Curry:

   They don’t know us, have never attended a West Branch sporting event or even stepped foot in our community. Yet they believe they can tell us to stop one of our cherished, long standing community traditions, that just doesn’t seem right.

3. Spokesman Seth Stein:

   This grand-standing shows how out of touch the Trump administration is with reality, contrary to their alternative facts, New York is the safest big city in the country, with crime at record lows in large part because we have policies in place to encourage cooperation between NYPD and immigrant communities.

4. Chuck Grassley:

   The relevant agencies ought to rapidly implement the OIG’s recommendations, congress should not even begin to considerproposals related tosweepingimmigrationstatus changes for evacuees,such as an Afghan Adjustment Act,until theBiden administration, at the very least,guarantees the integrity ofand fully responds to long-standing congressional oversight requests regardingthe vettingand evacuee resettlementprocess.

5. Steve Hilton:

   This is one of the worst national humiliations we've seen since we went cap in hand to the IMF in the 1970s, the truth is that China is a rogue state just as bad as Russia or Iran, and I just don't understand why we're sucking up to them rather than standing up to them as we should be.

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