COUNTING Synonyms: 66 Similar and Opposite Words

counting

verb

present participle of count

as in telling

to find the sum of (a collection of things) by noting each one as it is being added count the baseball gloves in the storage locker to see if there are enough to go around

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Relevance

as in weighing

to be of importance punctuality and a neat appearance count during a job interview

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as in relying

to place reliance or trust I'm counting on you to show up tomorrow to help me move

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as in considering

to think of in a particular way I'm not sure I'd count that as a serious effort

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Recent Examples of counting And that’s not counting the thousands who have been laid off, retired early, moved out of state or changed careers, just to survive. — Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2026 Refinancing debt and counting all the savings from it upfront is a common one-time fix tactic used by past mayors to close gaps large and small. — A.d. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026 Full World Cup match schedule announced There are 303 days until the World Cup in Brazil, but who’s counting? — Meg Linehan, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026 The congestion and Middle East unrest have both also impacted intra-Asia freight rates, with Drewry counting a third-straight week of container price increases. — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 24 Aug. 2026 After carefully entering the cave, the photographer watched as more turtles arrived with the rising tide, eventually counting 17 individuals sharing this quiet refuge. — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026 More recently, county voters approved Measure B, a controversial initiative requiring voter identification, hand-counting ballots and sharply limiting vote-by-mail options. — Drew Askeland, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2026 Under two-way contracts to the Heat are Tre Donaldson and Vlad Goldin, with teams allowed to carry up to three players under such contracts, those salaries not counting against the cap. — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2026 Iran is demanding a 5% or 7% service fee per barrel of oil that would generate close to $20 billion annually, and that’s not even counting fees on other cargoes, such as natural gas, petrochemicals, helium, fertilizer, and container cargoes. — Jordan Blum, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for counting

Verb

Those are police officers and people up high at CPD, literally calling me, meeting with us, telling us that morale’s at an all-time low.

— Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2026
Dawadi ordered those already there to leave and called bus drivers, telling them to only stop at safer places.

— ABC News, ABC News, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of telling

Verb

The 10-photo carousel included the first photos of their baby boy, who entered the world weighing 8 lbs.

— Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 31 Aug. 2026
But Karen Guzzo, an expert on family development and demographic trends at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said many American couples who are weighing parenthood need this kind of help.

— Brian Mann, NPR, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of weighing

Verb

That is meaningful for schools, considering that around 90% of the United States' 480,000 school buses run on diesel.

— Willa Rubin, NPR, 27 Aug. 2026
Manish Tibrewal, co-founder of family office Farro Capital, said his firm has seen a sharp pickup in inquiries from Chinese families considering to relocate to Singapore.

— Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of considering

Verb

While the company's revenue is set to expand, its customer base – which consists largely of the cloud computing giants that run enterprise workloads for businesses – appears to be growing more concentrated.

— Tobias Burns, CNBC, 26 Aug. 2026
Pachocki says confidence in alignment and safety has become as limiting to OpenAI’s progress as access to computing power.

— Alex Heath, Time, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of computing

Verb

For comparison, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world’s largest foundry, began mass-producing 7nm chips in 2018 and can achieve yields exceeding 90%, depending on factors including chip design and die size.

— Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 30 Aug. 2026
Amazon wouldn’t share how many autonomous drones are coming to Tracy, saying the number will increase depending on demand.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of depending

Verb

Finally, regarding Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey, his tone has skewed dovish in recent months, favoring a wait-and-see approach to the impact of the Middle East conflict.

— , CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
Communities from Lansing, Michigan, to Pflugerville, Texas, are ending their relationship with Flock, largely over concerns regarding out-of-control surveillance, unwanted data sharing, high expenses, and reports of police abusing the tool.

— Cyrus Farivar, ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2026