Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun singing

2 senses of singing

Sense 1
singing, vocalizing -- (the act of singing vocal music)
       => vocal music -- (music that is vocalized (as contrasted with instrumental music))
       => musical performance -- (the act of performing music)

Sense 2
tattle, singing, telling -- (disclosing information or giving evidence about another)
       => disclosure, revelation, revealing -- (the speech act of making something evident)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb sing

5 senses of sing

Sense 1
sing -- (deliver by singing; "Sing Christmas carols")
       => sing -- (produce tones with the voice; "She was singing while she was cooking"; "My brother sings very well")
       => interpret, render -- (give an interpretation or rendition of; "The pianist rendered the Beethoven sonata beautifully")

Sense 2
sing -- (produce tones with the voice; "She was singing while she was cooking"; "My brother sings very well")
       => talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise -- (express in speech; "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize")

Sense 3
sing -- (to make melodious sounds; "The nightingale was singing")
       => utter, emit, let out, let loose -- (express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words); "She let out a big heavy sigh"; "He uttered strange sounds that nobody could understand")

Sense 4
whistle, sing -- (make a whining, ringing, or whistling sound; "the kettle was singing"; "the bullet sang past his ear")
       => sound, go -- (make a certain noise or sound; "She went `Mmmmm'"; "The gun went `bang'")

Sense 5
spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, talk, tattle, blab, peach, babble, sing, babble out, blab out -- (divulge confidential information or secrets; "Be careful--his secretary talks")
       => unwrap, disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, expose, divulge, break, give away, let out -- (make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret; "The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold"; "The actress won't reveal how old she is"; "bring out the truth"; "he broke the news to her"; "unwrap the evidence in the murder case")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb singe

2 senses of singe

Sense 1
singe, swinge -- (burn superficially or lightly; "I singed my eyebrows")
       => char, blacken, sear, scorch -- (burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color; "The cook blackened the chicken breast"; "The fire charred the ceiling above the mantelpiece"; "the flames scorched the ceiling")

Sense 2
scorch, sear, singe -- (become superficially burned; "my eyebrows singed when I bent over the flames")
       => burn, combust -- (undergo combustion; "Maple wood burns well")

Antonyms of adj singing

1 sense of singing

Sense 1
cantabile, singing -- (smooth and flowing)

INDIRECT (VIA melodious) -> unmelodious, unmelodic, unmusical -- (lacking melody)

Similarity of adj singing

1 sense of singing

Sense 1
cantabile, singing -- (smooth and flowing)
       => melodious (vs. unmelodious), melodic, musical -- (containing or constituting or characterized by pleasing melody; "the melodious song of a meadowlark")

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