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Definition/Meaning

(noun)

the essential ingredients of qualities/characteristics of something;

e.g. Her technique has the makings of great artistic skill.

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Similar Words

Acting

Arm-twisting

Bagging

Bearing

Breeding

Building

Calculating

Calling

Catching

Compelling

Discerning

Doing

Drawing

Driving

Feeling

Framing

Fulfilling

Grasping

Heading

Landing

Material

Metal

Obliging

Onto

Passing

Pressing

Racketeering

Reckoning

Seeming

Seizing

Sounding

Speed-reading

Stuff

Substance

Timber

Timbre

Toto

Understanding

Winning

Working

Yielding

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Opposite Words

Arresting

Controlling

Convincing

Curbing

Devastating

Dropping

Failing

Killing

Limiting

Missing

Misunderstanding

Moving

Satisfying

Slighting

Smashing

Wasting

Yielding

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Related Words

Absorbing

Approving

Backing

Barring

Beating

Beginning

Building

Casting

Catching

Clearing

Closing

Coming

Cutting

Deciding

Designing

Detailing

Developing

Drawing

Encouraging

Ending

Facing

Fastening

Filling

Fitting

Forging

Framing

Fulfilling

Gathering

Insinuating

Keeping

Landing

Matching

Matter

Meeting

Menacing

Metal

Molding

Netting

Penetrating

Piercing

Possibility

Potential

Potentiality

Reading

Reasoning

Satisfying

Striking

Surpassing

Tailoring

Threatening

Topping

Touching

Turning

Tying

Understanding

Wheeling

Winning

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