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Synonyms for cracking

  • adjective
  • noun

Most common

keen smashing swell corking crack-a-jack

All synonyms

Adjective

1. Smashing — great; excellent

smashing, good, great, gurt UK, not bad, slap-up informal, swell, corking, old, bang-up informal, keen, bully, neat, groovy, peachy, dandy, nifty informal dated

Other

crack-a-jack, crackerjack US

Noun

fracture, snap, joning slang, sigging slang

Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Great; excellent.

    Near-synonym: crackerjack

  2. n. 1

    The thermal decomposition of a substance, especially that of crude petroleum in order to produce petrol / gasoline.

Related words

Phrases
get cracking what's cracking

Forms

Plural
crackings → fractures, snaps…

Example sentences

  • keen He is keen on rock music, but she is even more so.
  • smashing Sami was smashing multiple girls at the same time.
  • swell I didn't know what made my leg swell up like that.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
crackingfalling
keenrising
smashingrising
swellsteady
corkingsteady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
old1
4 letters
good1, snap1, keen1, neat1, gurt
5 letters
great1, bully2, swell1, dandy2, nifty2
6 letters
groovy2, peachy2, joning
7 letters
corking2, sigging
8 letters
smashing2, fracture2
11 letters
crackerjack3

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (bully2 = 2 syllables).