Adjectives Ending With NING
Here's the list of all the 115 Adjectives Ending With NING in the English Language.
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| running | 1. continually repeated over a period of time 2. measured lengthwise More Definitions → |
| warning | 1. serving to warn More Definitions → |
| beginning | 1. serving to begin More Definitions → |
| opening | 1. first or beginning More Definitions → |
| winning | 1. having won 2. very attractive; capturing interest More Definitions → |
| meaning | 1. rich in significance or implication More Definitions → |
| remaining | 1. not used up More Definitions → |
| burning | 1. of immediate import More Definitions → |
| determining | 1. having the power or quality of deciding More Definitions → |
| returning | 1. tending to return to an earlier state 2. tending to be turned back More Definitions → |
| governing | 1. responsible for making and enforcing rules and laws More Definitions → |
| designing | 1. concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest More Definitions → |
| stunning | 1. commanding attention 2. causing great astonishment and consternation More Definitions → |
| zoning | More Definitions → |
| entertaining | 1. agreeably diverting More Definitions → |
| reasoning | 1. endowed with the capacity to reason More Definitions → |
| functioning | 1. performing or able to perform its regular function More Definitions → |
| positioning | 1. causing to fall into line or into position More Definitions → |
| threatening | 1. threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments 2. darkened by clouds More Definitions → |
| shining | 1. marked by exceptional merit 2. made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow More Definitions → |
| questioning | 1. perplexed (as if being expected to know something that you do not know) 2. marked by or given to doubt More Definitions → |
| complaining | 1. expressing pain or dissatisfaction of resentment More Definitions → |
| leaning | 1. departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal More Definitions → |
| awakening | More Definitions → |
| mourning | 1. sorrowful through loss or deprivation More Definitions → |
| frightening | 1. causing fear or dread or terror More Definitions → |
| aligning | 1. causing to fall into line or into position More Definitions → |
| raining | 1. falling in drops or as if falling like rain More Definitions → |
| discerning | 1. unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic 2. quick to understand More Definitions → |
| intervening | 1. occurring or falling between events or points in time More Definitions → |
| draining | 1. having a debilitating effect More Definitions → |
| cunning | 1. attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness 2. marked by skill in deception More Definitions → |
| weakening | 1. causing debilitation 2. moderating by making pain or sorrow weaker More Definitions → |
| waning | 1. (of the Moon) pertaining to the period during which the visible surface of the moon decreases More Definitions → |
| deepening | 1. accumulating and becoming more intense More Definitions → |
| enlightening | 1. tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance 2. enlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement More Definitions → |
| softening | 1. having a softening or soothing effect especially to the skin More Definitions → |
| worsening | 1. changing for the worse More Definitions → |
| condemning | 1. containing or imposing condemnation or censure More Definitions → |
| straining | 1. taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance More Definitions → |
| reigning | 1. exercising power or authority More Definitions → |
| thickening | 1. accumulating and becoming more intense 2. becoming more intricate or complex More Definitions → |
| churning | 1. moving with or producing or produced by vigorous agitation 2. (of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence More Definitions → |
| crowning | 1. representing a level of the highest possible achievement or attainment 2. forming or providing a crown or summit More Definitions → |
| glistening | 1. reflecting light More Definitions → |
| sickening | 1. causing or able to cause nausea More Definitions → |
| constraining | 1. restricting the scope or freedom of action More Definitions → |
| twinning | 1. producing two offspring at a time More Definitions → |
| darkening | 1. becoming dark or darker as from waning light or clouding over More Definitions → |
| damning | 1. threatening with damnation More Definitions → |
| confining | 1. restricting the scope or freedom of action 2. crowded More Definitions → |
| yawning | 1. gaping open as if threatening to engulf someone or something 2. with the mouth wide open indicating boredom or sleepiness More Definitions → |
| malfunctioning | 1. not performing or able to perform its regular function More Definitions → |
| deafening | 1. loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss More Definitions → |
| sanctioning | 1. implying sanction or serving to sanction More Definitions → |
| demeaning | 1. causing awareness of your shortcomings More Definitions → |
| maddening | 1. extremely annoying or displeasing More Definitions → |
| fattening | 1. subject to or used in the process of finishing or fattening up for slaughter More Definitions → |
| frowning | 1. showing displeasure or anger More Definitions → |
| dimensioning | 1. indicating or determining size and position in space More Definitions → |
| heartening | 1. cheerfully encouraging More Definitions → |
| sinning | 1. transgressing a moral or divine law More Definitions → |
| disheartening | 1. destructive of morale and self-reliance More Definitions → |
| fawning | 1. attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery 2. attempting to win favor by flattery More Definitions → |
| heightening | 1. reaching a higher intensity More Definitions → |
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