opening | Definition of opening

Synonyms and Antonyms of opening

1 a favorable combination of circumstances, time, and place

the talk show host's usual modus operandi is to talk over his guests, thereby denying them an opening to articulate their positions

Synonyms of opening

break, chance, occasion, opportunity, room, shot

Words Related to opening

2 a place in a surface allowing passage into or through a thing

an opening in the roof is letting rain drip inside

Synonyms of opening

aperture, hole, orifice, perforation

Words Related to opening

breach, break, chink, cleft, crack, cranny, crevice, cut, fissure, gash, notch, rent, rift, rupture, slash, slit, split, tear

exit, mouth, outlet, pore, vent

entrance, inlet, intake

pinhole, pinprick, punch, puncture

airhole, armhole, buttonhole, keyhole, knothole, peephole, pothole, wormhole

Near Antonyms of opening

fill, filler, filling, patch, plug, seal, stopper

barrier, blockage, obstacle, obstruction

3 an open space in a barrier (as a wall or hedge)

the rabbit found a little opening in the bushes and darted through

Synonyms of opening

breach, break, discontinuity, gap, gulf, hiatus, hole, interstice, interval, rent, rift, separation, void

Words Related to opening

chink, cleft, crack, cranny, crevice, fissure

notch, slit, slot, split

interspace, pore

abyss, aperture, cavity, chasm, gape, orifice

fracture, rupture, severance, sundering