Thesaurus / goings-on
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synonyms for goings-on
- interest
- issue
- problem
- affair
- assignment
- beeswax
- duty
- function
- happening
- lookout
- matter
- palaver
- point
- question
- responsibility
- subject
- task
- topic
- carrying-on
- hanky-panky
- chapter
- event
- experience
- incident
- installment
- matter
- thing
- affair
- business
- circumstance
- doings
- happening
- interlude
- occasion
- occurrence
- part
- passage
- section
- what's going down
- aftereffect
- contingency
- probability
- aftermath
- case
- chance
- consequence
- effect
- event
- happening
- issue
- likelihood
- outcome
- possibility
- result
- sequel
- toss-up
- upshot
- any case
- affair
- business
- circumstance
- event
- incident
- job
- proceeding
- question
- situation
- subject
- thing
- topic
- transaction
- bag
- episode
- lookout
- nub
- occurrence
- undertaking
- shooting match
- affair
- celebration
- circumstance
- episode
- experience
- incident
- milestone
- moment
- scene
- thing
- time
- go
- happening
- instant
- milepost
- occurrence
- while
- course of action
- action
- exercise
- experiment
- incident
- measure
- operation
- procedure
- process
- transaction
- act
- adventure
- casualty
- circumstance
- deed
- happening
- maneuver
- move
- movement
- occurrence
- performance
- step
- undertaking
- venture
- action
- activity
- affair
- agreement
- bond
- business
- buying
- contract
- deal
- enterprise
- matter
- negotiation
- purchase
- sale
- selling
- act
- bargain
- compact
- convention
- coup
- covenant
- deed
- disposal
- doings
- event
- execution
- happening
- intercourse
- occurrence
- pact
- performance
- play
- proceeding
- purchasing
- step
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- disagreement
- idleness
- inactivity
- indolence
- inertia
- misunderstanding
- unemployment
- failure
- denial
- refusal
- rejection
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How to use goings-on in a sentence
One of the first out-goings of admiration towards form is the child's praise of "tiny" things.
CHILDREN'S WAYSJAMES SULLYHere are pretty goings on—a pinch of your snuff, Perker, my boy—never were such times, eh?
THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB, V. 2(OF 2)CHARLES DICKENSI drew back from the rim of Writing-On-the-Stone, that set of whispered phrases echoing in my ears.
RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIRKingston-on-Thames is still provincial in appearance, though now the centre of a great growth of modern suburbs.
THE PORTSMOUTH ROAD AND ITS TRIBUTARIESCHARLES G. HARPERBesides the districts mentioned, tobacco is grown largely in that of Frankfort-on-the Oder.
TOBACCO; ITS HISTORY, VARIETIES, CULTURE, MANUFACTURE AND COMMERCEE. R. BILLINGS.Scattergood had watched the young man's comings and goings, and had listened to his conversation.
SCATTERGOOD BAINESCLARENCE BUDINGTON KELLANDNaturally enough it did not occur to anyone to take notes of the comings and goings of a very ordinary young man.
THE LIFE & LETTERS OF PETER ILICH TCHAIKOVSKYMODESTE TCHAIKOVSKYMadame Malmaison had always been a little proud of the beauty and grace and sweetness of her fitter-on.
THE WEIGHT OF THE CROWNFRED M. WHITEBerwick-on-Tweed lies partly in England and partly in Scotland, the river which runs through it forming the boundary line.
BRITISH HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS FROM A MOTOR CARTHOMAS D. MURPHYAnd these are the goings out of the city: on the north side thou shalt measure four thousand and five hundred.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO GOINGS-ON
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.