Mary had been knitting for an hour when I called.
Source: tatoeba (32010)
Knitting
//ˈnɪtɪŋ//
Synonyms for "knitting" (86 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (18)
Strong matches (25)
Related words (43)
Related word relations
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More general
3 entriesSynonyms
1 entriescauses
25 entriesShowing 16 of 25 words.
derived
21 entries'tend to one's knittingattend to one's knittingattend to one's own knittingcable knittingcircular knittingdouble knittinggraffiti knittingguerrilla knittingkeep to one's knittingkeep to one's own knittingknit yoghurtknitting chartknitting machineknitting needleknitting patternstick to one's knitting
Showing 16 of 21 words.
derived from
1 entriesdistinct from
1 entriesform of
1 entrieshas context
2 entrieshas prerequisite
4 entrieshas property
1 entrieshas subevent
21 entriesShowing 16 of 21 words.
is a
6 entriesreceives action
2 entriesrelated to
47 entriesShowing 16 of 47 words.
used for
18 entriesShowing 16 of 18 words.
Translations
55 translations across 26 languages.
Afrikaans
2 entries- brei noun (activity and process of knitting)
- breiwerk noun (knitted fabric)
Bulgarian
2 entries- плетене noun (activity and process of knitting)
- плетиво noun (knitted fabric)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 針織 /针织 noun (activity and process of knitting)
- 針織 /针织 noun (knitted fabric)
Czech
2 entries- pletenina noun (knitted fabric)
- pletení noun (activity and process of knitting)
Danish
1 entries- strikketøj noun (knitted fabric)
Esperanto
2 entries- trikado noun (activity and process of knitting)
- trikaĵo noun (knitted fabric)
Finnish
4 entries- neule noun (knitted fabric)
- neuletyö noun (knitted fabric)
- neulominen noun (activity and process of knitting)
- neulonta noun (activity and process of knitting)
French
3 entries- tricot noun (activity and process of knitting)
- tricot noun (knitted fabric)
- tricotage noun (activity and process of knitting)
Georgian
2 entries- მოქსოვილი noun (knitted fabric)
- ქსოვა noun (activity and process of knitting)
German
1 entries- Stricken noun (activity and process of knitting)
Greek
2 entries- πλέξιμο noun (activity and process of knitting)
- πλεκτό noun (knitted fabric)
Hindi
1 entries- बुनाई noun (activity and process of knitting)
Hungarian
1 entries- kötés noun (activity and process of knitting)
Irish
1 entries- cniotáil noun (activity and process of knitting)
Italian
3 entries- lavorazione a maglia noun (activity and process of knitting)
- lavoro a maglia noun (activity and process of knitting)
- maglieria noun (knitted fabric)
Japanese
2 entries- 編み物 noun (knitted fabric)
- 編むこと noun (activity and process of knitting)
Korean
1 entries- 뜨개질 noun (activity and process of knitting)
Middle English
1 entries- knyttynge noun (activity and process of knitting)
Māori
2 entries- nitiniti noun (activity and process of knitting)
- whatuwhatu noun (activity and process of knitting)
Norwegian
2 entries- strikkeplagg noun (knitted fabric)
- strikking noun (activity and process of knitting)
Portuguese
3 entries- tricotagem noun (activity and process of knitting)
- tricô noun (activity and process of knitting)
- tricô noun (knitted fabric)
Romanian
4 entries- croșetat noun (activity and process of knitting)
- tricotare noun (activity and process of knitting)
- împletire noun (activity and process of knitting)
- împletit noun (activity and process of knitting)
Russian
4 entries- вяза́ние noun (activity and process of knitting)
- вяза́ние noun (knitted fabric)
- трико́ noun (knitted fabric)
- трикота́ж noun (knitted fabric)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- cneatas noun (activity and process of knitting)
- fighe noun (activity and process of knitting)
Spanish
2 entries- labor de punto noun (knitted fabric)
- punto noun (activity and process of knitting)
Swedish
2 entries- stickning noun (activity and process of knitting)
- stickning noun (knitted fabric)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
The girl is skillful at knitting.
Source: tatoeba (46427)
Many a day did she spend knitting a sweater for him.
Source: tatoeba (66507)
Anne is patiently knitting.
Source: tatoeba (66846)
Showing 4 of 16 available sentences.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.