Thesaurus / playing
FEEDBACKsynonyms for playing
synonyms for playing
- assuming
- characterization
- depiction
- dramatics
- enacting
- enactment
- feigning
- hamming
- histrionics
- imitating
- imitation
- impersonation
- improvisation
- mime
- mimicry
- pantomime
- performance
- portrayal
- portraying
- posing
- posturing
- pretending
- pretense
- putting
- rendition
- seeming
- stagecraft
- stooging
- theatre
- theatricals
- showing off
- delay
- idling
- loafing
- poking
- procrastination
- toying
- trifling
- dabbling
- delaying
- dilly-dallying
- frittering
- frivoling
- loitering
- procrastinating
- achievement
- acting
- depiction
- execution
- impersonation
- performance
- personation
- personification
- portrayal
- representation
- monologue
- narration
- oration
- recital
- recounting
- rendering
- address
- appeal
- delivery
- discourse
- discussion
- exercise
- lecture
- passage
- performance
- piece
- proclamation
- rehearsal
- report
- selection
- speaking
- talk
- telling
- holding forth
- narrating
- soliloquizing
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How to use playing in a sentence
He was tall and of familiar figure, and the firelight was playing in the tossed curls of his short, fair hair.
THE BONDBOYGEORGE W. (GEORGE WASHINGTON) OGDENI could have sworn I heard a cry, and one of my men spoke in a tone that assured me my imagination had not been playing a trick.
RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIRHe really seems to care almost nothing for his piano-playing or for his piano compositions.
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAYBut I always suspected it was a stratagem on his part to avoid playing, and that nothing really ailed him.
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAYYou speak with about as little reflection as we might expect from one of those children down there playing in the sand.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINBut we must not class in this unclean category Lord Spunyarn and his friend Haggard, who were both playing at the big table.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSThere was a band playing down at Klein's hotel, and the strains reached them faintly, tempered by the distance.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINPlease understand that nobody here had the least intention of playing a trick upon you!
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOLUME 107, NOVEMBER 3, 1894VARIOUSI wonder if I shall ever be stirred again as Mademoiselle Reisz's playing moved me to-night.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINSince the end of 1847, not a penny has come into his own pocket either through piano-playing and conducting, or through teaching.
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAYWORDS RELATED TO PLAYING
- assuming
- characterization
- depiction
- dramatics
- enacting
- enactment
- feigning
- hamming
- histrionics
- imitating
- imitation
- impersonation
- improvisation
- mime
- mimicry
- pantomime
- performance
- playing
- portrayal
- portraying
- posing
- posturing
- pretending
- pretense
- putting
- rendition
- seeming
- showing off
- stagecraft
- stooging
- theatre
- theatricals
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.