Synonyms of the word

leading

• v. present participle of lead.
• adj. Providing guidance or direction.
• adj. Ranking first.
• adj. Occurring in advance; preceding.
• n. An act by which one is led or guided.
• n. (typography) Vertical space added between lines; line spacing.

activity

• n. The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active…
• n. Something done as an action or a movement.
• n. Something done for pleasure or entertainment, especially one involving movement or an excursion.
• n. Use (of internet, Playstation, bank account etc.).

ahead

• adv. In or to the front; in advance; onward.
• adv. In the direction one is facing or moving.
• adv. In or for the future.
• adv. At an earlier time.
• adv. Having progressed more.

directing

• v. present participle of direct.

directional

• adj. Indicating direction.
• adj. Of or relating to guidance or help.
• n. Something that indicates direction, such as a vehicle's turn signal.

directive

• n. An instruction or guideline that indicates how to perform an action or reach a goal.
• n. An authoritative decision from an official body, which may or may not have binding force.
• n. (European Union law) A form of legislative act addressed to the Member States. The directive binds the…
• n. The directive case.
• adj. that directs.
• adj. serving to direct, indicate, or guide.
• adj. (grammar) relating to the directive case.

guiding

• v. present participle of guide.
• n. Guidance.
• n. Girl Guiding.

lead

• n. (uncountable) A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnishe…
• n. (countable) A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at seaor (dated) to estimate…
• n. A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
• n. (uncountable, typography) Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
• n. Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
• n. (plural leads) A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
• n. (countable) A thin cylinder of black lead or plumbago (graphite) used in pencils.
• n. (slang) Bullets; ammunition.
• v. (transitive) To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
• v. (transitive, printing, historical) To place leads between the lines of.
• v. (heading, transitive) To guide or conduct.
• v. (intransitive) To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing…
• v. (heading) To begin, to be ahead.
• v. (transitive) To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice;…
• v. (intransitive) To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place.
• v. To produce (with to).
• v. Misspelling of led.
• n. (uncountable) The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course.
• n. (uncountable) Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead…
• n. (countable) An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
• n. (baseball) The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
• n. (uncountable, card games, dominoes) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit,…
• n. (acting) The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
• n. (acting) The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
• n. (countable) A channel of open water in an ice field.
• n. (countable, mining) A lode.
• n. (nautical) The course of a rope from end to end.
• n. A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash.
• n. In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release…
• n. Charging lead.
• n. (civil engineering) The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
• n. (horology) The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
• n. Hypothesis that has not been pursued.
• n. Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details…
• n. (marketing) Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
• n. Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more…
• n. (curling) The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
• n. (newspapers) A teaser; a lead-in; the start of a newspaper column, telling who, what, when, where, why…
• n. An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast.
• n. (engineering) The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times…
• n. (music) In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor.
• n. (music) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
• n. (music) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance…
• n. (engineering) The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound…
• n. (electrical) The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter…
• n. (electrical) The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive…
• adj. (not comparable) Foremost.
• adj. (music) main, principal.
• v. Misspelling of led.

leadership

• n. the capacity of someone to lead others.
• n. a group of leaders.
• n. (dated) The office or status of a leader.

major

• n. a military rank between captain and lieutenant colonel.
• adj. Of great significance or importance.
• adj. Greater in number, quantity, or extent.
• adj. Of full legal age, having attained majority.
• adj. (music) Of a scale that follows the pattern: tone - tone - semitone - tone - tone - tone - semitone.
• adj. (music) Being the larger of two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number.
• adj. (music) Containing the note a major third (four half steps) above the tonic.
• n. (US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) The main area of study of a student working toward a degree at…
• n. (US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) A student at a college or university concentrating on a given…
• n. A person of legal age.
• n. (logic) The major premise.
• n. (Canadian football) An alternate term for touchdown; short for "major score".
• n. A large, commercially successful record label, as opposed to an indie.
• n. (British slang, dated) An elder brother (especially at a public school).
• n. (zoology) A large leaf-cutter ant that acts as a soldier, defending the nest.
• v. (intransitive) to concentrate on a particular area of study as a student in a college or university.

preeminent

• adj. Exceeding others in quality or rank; of outstanding excellence, extremely notable or important.

prima

• adj. most important.

slip

• n. (obsolete) Mud, slime.
• n. (ceramics) A thin, slippery mix of clay and water.
• n. A twig or shoot; a cutting.
• n. (obsolete) A descendant, a scion.
• n. A young person (now usually with of introducing descriptive qualifier).
• n. A long, thin piece of something.
• n. A small piece of paper, especially one longer than it is wide.
• n. (marine insurance) A memorandum of the particulars of a risk for which a policy is to be executed. It…
• v. (intransitive) To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
• v. (intransitive) To err.
• v. (intransitive) To accidentally reveal a secret or otherwise say something unintentional.
• v. (intransitive) To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; often with out, off, etc.
• v. (transitive) To pass (a note, money, etc.), often covertly.
• v. (transitive) To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.
• v. (intransitive) To move quickly and often secretively; to depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or…
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To move down; to slide.
• v. (transitive, falconry) To release (a dog, a bird of prey, etc.) to go after a quarry.
• v. (transitive, cooking) To remove the skin of a soft fruit, such as a tomato or peach, by blanching briefly…
• v. (obsolete) To omit; to lose by negligence.
• v. To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of.
• v. To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place.
• v. To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.
• n. An act or instance of slipping.
• n. A woman's undergarment worn under a skirt or dress to conceal unwanted nudity that may otherwise be revealed…
• n. A slipdress.
• n. A mistake or error.
• n. (nautical) A berth; a space for a ship to moor.
• n. (nautical) A difference between the theoretical distance traveled per revolution of the propeller and…
• n. (medicine) A one-time return to previous maladaptive behaviour after cure.
• n. (cricket) Any of several fielding positions to the off side of the wicket keeper, designed to catch the…
• n. A number between 0 and 1 that is the difference between the angular speed of a rotating magnetic field…
• n. A leash or string by which a dog is held; so called from its being made in such a manner as to slip, or…
• n. An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion.
• n. (printing, dated) A portion of the columns of a newspaper etc. struck off by itself; a proof from a column…
• n. (dated) A child's pinafore.
• n. An outside covering or case.
• n. (obsolete) A counterfeit piece of money, made from brass covered with silver.
• n. Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.
• n. (ceramics) An aqueous suspension of minerals, usually clay, used, among other things, to stick workpieces…
• n. A particular quantity of yarn.
• n. (Britain, dated) A narrow passage between buildings.
• n. (US) A long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door.
• n. (mining) A dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity.
• n. (engineering) The motion of the centre of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an…
• n. (electrical) The difference between the actual and synchronous speeds of an induction motor.
• n. A fish, the sole.

star

• n. Any small luminous dot appearing in the cloudless portion of the night sky, especially with a fixed location…
• n. (astronomy) A luminous celestial body, made up of plasma (particularly hydrogen and helium) and having…
• n. (geometry) A concave polygon with regular, pointy protrusions and indentations, generally with five or…
• n. (acting) An actor in a leading role.
• n. An exceptionally talented or famous person, often in a specific field; a celebrity.
• n. (printing) An asterisk (*).
• n. A symbol used to rate hotels, films, etc. with a higher number of stars denoting better quality.
• n. A simple dance, or part of a dance, where a group of four dancers each put their right or left hand in…
• n. (astrology) A planet supposed to influence one's destiny.
• n. A star-shaped ornament worn on the breast to indicate rank or honour.
• n. A composition of combustible matter used in the heading of rockets, in mines, etc., which, exploding in…
• v. (intransitive) To appear as a featured performer or headliner, especially in an entertainment program.
• v. (transitive) To feature a performer or a headliner, especially in a movie or an entertainment program.
• v. (transitive) To mark with a star or asterisk.
• v. (transitive) To set or adorn with stars, or bright, radiating bodies; to bespangle.

starring

• adj. of, relating to, or in the manner of a star.
• v. present participle of star.
• v. (with a film as its subject) That which has the specified actor or actors, especially those in lead roles,…
• n. The action of the verb to star.

stellar

• adj. (astronomy, not comparable) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of stars.
• adj. Heavenly.
• adj. Exceptional; wonderful.

strip

• n. (countable, uncountable) Long, thin piece of land, or of any material.
• n. A comic strip.
• n. A landing strip.
• n. A strip steak.
• n. A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
• n. (fencing) The fencing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
• n. (UK football) the uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
• n. Striptease.
• n. (mining) A trough for washing ore.
• n. The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
• v. (transitive) To remove or take away.
• v. (usually intransitive) To take off clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To perform a striptease.
• v. (transitive) To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
• v. (transitive) To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear.
• v. (intransitive) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
• v. (transitive) To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
• v. (transitive, bridge) To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also, strip-squeeze…
• v. (transitive) To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure…
• v. (transitive) To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the…
• v. (television, transitive) To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to…
• v. (transitive, agriculture) To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
• v. To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
• v. To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
• v. To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".
• v. To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).

superior

• adj. Higher in quality.
• adj. Higher in rank.
• adj. More comprehensive, as a term in classification.
• adj. Located above.
• adj. Greater or better than average; extraordinary.
• adj. Beyond the power or influence of; too great or firm to be subdued or affected by; with to.
• n. A person of higher rank or quality.
• n. The senior person in a monastic community.

up

• adv. Away from the surface of the Earth or other planet; in opposite direction to the downward pull of gravity.
• adv. (intensifier) Used as an aspect marker to indicate a completed action or state Thoroughly, completely.
• adv. To or from one's possession or consideration.
• adv. North.
• adv. To a higher level of some quantity or notional quantity, such as price, volume, pitch, happiness, etc.
• adv. (rail transport) Traditional term for the direction leading to the principal terminus, towards milepost…
• adv. (sailing) Against the wind or current.
• adv. (Cartesian graph) In a positive vertical direction.
• adv. (cricket) Relatively close to the batsman.
• adv. (hospitality, US) Without additional ice.
• adv. (Britain, academia) Towards Cambridge or Oxford.
• adv. To or in a position of equal advance or equality; not short of, back of, less advanced than, away from,…
• adv. To or in a state of completion; completely; wholly; quite.
• adv. Aside, so as not to be in use.
• prep. Toward the top of.
• prep. Toward the center, source, or main point of reference; toward the end at which something is attached.
• prep. Further along (in any direction).
• prep. From south to north of.
• prep. From the mouth towards the source (of a river or waterway).
• prep. (vulgar slang) Of a man: having sex with.
• prep. (colloquial) At (a given place, especially one imagined to be higher or more remote from a central location).
• adj. Awake.
• adj. Finished, to an end.
• adj. In a good mood.
• adj. Willing; ready.
• adj. Next in a sequence.
• adj. Happening; new.
• adj. Facing upwards; facing toward the top.
• adj. Larger, greater in quantity.
• adj. Standing.
• adj. On a higher level.
• adj. Available; made public.
• adj. (poker, postnominal) Said of the higher-ranking pair in a two pair.
• adj. Well-informed; current.
• adj. (computing) Functional; working.
• adj. (of a railway line or train) Traveling towards a major terminus.
• adj. Headed, or designated to go, upward, as an escalator, stairway, elevator etc.
• adj. (bar tending) Chilled and strained into a stemmed glass.
• adj. (slang) Erect.
• adj. (of the Sun or Moon) Above the horizon, in the sky (i.e. during daytime or night-time).
• adj. (slang, graffiti) well-known; renowned.
• n. (uncountable) The direction opposed to the pull of gravity.
• n. (countable) A positive thing.
• n. An upstairs room of a two story house.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To increase or raise.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To promote.
• v. (intransitive) To act suddenly, usually with another verb.
• v. (intransitive) To ascend; to climb up.