Word Type

Noun

Adjective

Verb

Adjective

The word "bearing" can be used as noun, adjective, verb and adjective.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

nonbearing

Derived Terms

air bearing apple-bearing armorial bearing armsbearing back bearing bearing rein bearingless bearinglike casebearing child-bearing childbearing coal-bearing cupbearing cutlass bearing death-bearing everbearing find one's bearings flower-bearing fruit-bearing fur-bearing trout furbearing get one's bearings gold-bearing horn-bearing interest-bearing jewel bearing journal bearing leafbearing life-bearing light-bearing livebearing load-bearing lose one's bearings metalbearing muffler bearing neck bearing needle bearing nonbearing omnibearing pallbearing plain bearing plain bearing radial bearing relative bearing grease rushbearing seedbearing sidebearing sporebearing swordbearing talebearing thought-bearing tone-bearing unit torchbearing unbearing wonder-bearing

Derived From

bear

Inflected/Variant Forms

bear

Context

architecture heraldry nautical navigation proscribed

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

bodily property component direction heraldry manner part personal manner relatedness support way

Type Of (IsA)

direction manner relatedness support

Part Of

rotating mechanism

Related Terms

ABEC field

Related Terms

abec angle beam bear building charge coat of arms column demeanor device direction emblem escutcheon find one's bearings friction get one's bearings heading horizontal load lose one's bearings manner mechanical member position posture relevance supports true north weight

Similar Terms

load bearing load-bearing supporting

Synonym Network

carriage charge

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.