Synonyms of containing

containing

verb

present participle of contain

1

as in holding

to have within

the top drawer of the cabinet contains my stamp collection

Synonyms & Similar Words

• holding
• boasting
• encompassing
• bearing
• enclosing
• housing
• taking
• fitting
• accommodating
• harboring
• casing
• encasing
• sheltering
• lodging

2

as in including

to have as part of a whole

the contract contains several new clauses

Synonyms & Similar Words

• including
• involving
• encompassing
• carrying
• entailing
• comprising
• numbering
• embracing
• receiving
• taking in
• comprehending
• incorporating
• subsuming
• possessing
• having
• consisting (of)
• constituting
• holding
• owning
• forming
• embodying
• integrating
• composing
• admitting
• bracketing
• making
• assimilating

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• excluding
• leaving (out)
• preventing
• omitting
• prohibiting
• precluding
• banning
• denying
• barring
• eliminating
• refusing
• rejecting
• missing out
• excepting
• losing
• debarring
• ruling out
• misplacing
• mislaying

3

as in comprising

to be made up of

the recipe contains several parts

Synonyms & Similar Words

• comprising
• including
• consisting (of)
• involving
• encompassing
• incorporating
• entailing
• mustering
• embodying
• taking in
• embracing
• comprehending
• assimilating

4

as in composing

to gain emotional or mental control of

could hardly contain herself when she heard that she had won the scholarship

Synonyms & Similar Words

• composing
• calming
• restraining
• controlling
• collecting
• re-collecting
• settling
• holding back
• recovering
• soothing
• rallying
• lulling
• quieting
• tranquilizing
• stilling

5

as in controlling

to keep from exceeding a desirable degree or level (as of expression)

frantic efforts to contain the spread of the disease

Synonyms & Similar Words

• controlling
• regulating
• keeping
• curbing
• restraining
• measuring
• holding
• suppressing
• checking
• governing
• stifling
• taming
• inhibiting
• constraining
• stopping
• ruling
• pulling in
• swallowing
• interrupting
• reining (in)
• blocking
• holding back
• bridling
• choking (back)
• smothering
• repressing
• arresting
• strangling
• impeding
• obstructing
• bottling (up)
• hampering
• silencing
• hindering
• sinking
• pocketing
• squelching
• mincing
• muffling
• handcuffing
• gagging
• muzzling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• losing
• expressing
• liberating
• loosening
• taking out
• unleashing
• airing
• venting
• loosing

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of containing

The agenda packet containing the agreement was made public shortly before the meeting. — Chaewon Chung updated October 2, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2026

With data always containing some uncertainty, the rules an AI model learns are only approximated. — Chanh Kieu, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2026

The researchers demonstrated tasks containing as many as 12 steps without providing additional demonstrations for those longer sequences. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2026

Just minutes later, Meyer transferred $10,000 from a fund account containing only investor money to the Meyer Global Partners account. — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026

Inside Reilly there’s a Cage enclosing Malus, and inside him, a Cage containing Troy. — Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026

Hardy Californians is selling a seed mix designed to help control erosion, containing seeds from 10 plants that have long grown natively here, none of which are mentioned below. — Pedro Moura, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026

Rifkin also open a bag containing Machado’s black bra and purple T-shirt, both of which were cut up by scissors. — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 1 Oct. 2026

While images often contain millions of pixels, proteins containing 500 amino acids are fairly large. — ArsTechnica, 30 Sep. 2026