Synonyms for choosing
noun selecting- culling
- deciding
- electing
- picking
- separating
- choice
- election
- exercising judgment
- making a choice
- making up one's mind
- option
- selection
appointments
choices
pick
selecting
- choosing
- electing
- nominating
- recruiting
Word Origin & History
Old English ceosan "choose, seek out, select; decide, test, taste, try; accept, approve" (class II strong verb; past tense ceas, past participle coren), from Proto-Germanic *keus- (cf. Old Frisian kiasa, Old Saxon kiosan, Dutch kiezen, Old High German kiosan, German kiesen, Old Norse kjosa, Gothic kiusan "choose," Gothic kausjan "to taste, test"), from PIE root *geus- "to taste, relish" (see gusto). Only remotely related to choice. Variant spelling chuse is Middle English, very frequent 16c.-18c. The irregular past participle leveled out to chosen by 1200.
Example Sentences forchoosing
Beauty must be the first law of life to the sex that has not the privilege of choosing.
He was a gentle soul, and she had always been able to guide him in paths of her own choosing.
She gave him no answer; it, was as if she were choosing words.
Choosing among them, he presently found a sapling to his liking.
God says, 'Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil, and choosing the good.'
For a messenger some of them thought of choosing one Old Good Deed.
Of course it must be understood that she was choosing the subject.
I must say, Godmother, that you have strange taste in choosing friends.
We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.
So that sometimes it is a case of choosing the lesser of two evils, and choosing immediately.