CARING (FOR) Synonyms: 172 Similar and Opposite Words

caring (for)

verb

Definition of caring (for)

present participle of care (for)

as in watching

to take charge of especially on behalf of another will you care for the lawn while we're gone?

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as in administering (to)

to attend to the needs and comforts of he is caring for his mother while she's sick

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as in accepting

to have a favorable opinion of I don't really care for what you're doing with that dog

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as in wanting

to wish to have I don't particularly care for rice cereal, but I'll eat it

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as in preferring

to show partiality toward she generally doesn't care for war movies

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This album was his 3-1 comeback after watching his career nearly flatline.

— Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 14 Oct. 2026
Sitting at 2-3 and watching their defense get pushed around on a weekly basis, the entire unit gathered behind closed doors on Monday morning to air out their issues.

— Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of watching

Verb

In 2023, 32-year old Lauren Norris felt pain while nursing her youngest of three children.

— Roni Robbins, AJC.com, 12 Oct. 2026
Jonathan Allen, a 10-year veteran who has contributed 12 tackles and two sacks in the season’s first four games, is nursing a knee injury that has kept him from participating in Cincinnati’s past two practices.

— Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of nursing

Verb

After arriving at the hospital and spending nearly an hour with hospital staff filling out paperwork, I was handed another form accepting financial responsibility.

— Scott Levenson, New York Daily News, 18 Oct. 2026
So the witches must find the son to stop him from accepting the role.

— Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of accepting

Verb

Voters wanting to avoid long lines can use the site to find wait times and the nearest polling place.

— Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Oct. 2026
Engelbert was proud of all she's accomplished in her seven-year plus tenure as commissioner, but stopped short of wanting to discuss her own mark on the league.

— ABC News, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of wanting

Verb

Acura is also calling time on its GTP program in IMSA, preferring to focus its motorsports efforts on IndyCar.

— Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 14 Oct. 2026
Gen Xers are also least likely to eat out or go shopping for groceries online, preferring instead to cook for themselves.

— Jintao Zhang, The Conversation, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of preferring

Verb

For ShadowMachine, Alex Bulkley and Corey Campodonico serve as executive producers, and Musa Brooker serves as supervising director.

— Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2026
The surge in profits has been driven by robust trading in stocks, bonds and currencies, fees from supervising and advising clients’ investments, underwriting initial public offerings and a pickup in mergers and acquisitions.

— John Towfighi, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of supervising

Verb

Rodriguez explains that, in many ways, the aftermath of the hurricane sparked arguments on both sides that were necessary to begin healing the tension.

— Johanna Ferreira, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026
Her path crosses with that of Inocência, an enslaved Black woman who possesses healing knowledge, knows the land, and devises her own strategies of resistance.

— Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of healing

Verb

Simply liking someone, feeling close to them or spending hours together isn’t enough to create an attachment relationship.

— Pascal Vrticka, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2026
Their incoming new owner inspired huge enthusiasm among fans by ‘liking’ the club’s Instagram post celebrating the victory.

— Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of liking

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