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. 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. Both King and Ryan:

   Paul Ryan said that was not the issue, paul Ryan said it was solely because Paul Ryan want giving good service to the members. Again, I had never heard that before.

2. Gordon Hanson:

   I would think that on the Mexican side they're thinking' this is going to be so hard to implement that we're not giving that much up,'.

3. Ash Barty:

   I think it probably started with the serve for me, i mean, giving Svetlana that many looks at second serves I know I'm not going to get free points off my first serve off Sveta. She's an incredible returner and retrieves a long way so is able to make a lot of returns.

4. West Virginia:

   Today we lost a WV superstar and I lost a very close friend. Our families go back to the beginning of the Cline empire - Pioneer Fuel. Chris Cline built an empire and on every occasion was always there to give. What a wonderful, loving, and giving man, cathy and I are praying for his family and all those involved in this tragedy.

5. Susan Heffron:

   Youre kind of living in a nightmare, we tried giving the nurses a list of phone numbers, but they were so busy helping other patients.