swinging(s = adj.all) lilting, swingy, tripping - characterized by a buoyant rhythm; "an easy lilting stride"; "the flute broke into a light lilting air"; "a swinging pace"; "a graceful swingy walk"; "a tripping singing measure"

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

swinging, adj.
1 (of gait, melody, etc.) vigorously rhythmical.
2 colloq. a lively; up to date; excellent. b promiscuous.

Derivative

swingingly adv.

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THESAURUS

swinging

aberrancy, aberration, angular momentum, angular motion, angular velocity, axial motion, bend, bias, bowling, branching off, careen, careening, cascading, centrifugation, chambering, chic, circuitousness, circulation, circumgyration, circumrotation, corner, crook, curve, dangling, declination, departure, dependent, depending, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviation, deviousness, digression, discursion, divagation, divarication, divergence, diversion, dogleg, double, drift, drifting, easy virtue, errantry, excursion, excursus, exorbitation, falling, falling loosely, fashionable, flowing, full circle, groovy, gyration, hairpin, hanging, hip, hung, indirection, laxity, lightness, loose morals, looseness, lurch, lurching, modern, obliquity, pendent, pending, pendulant, pendular, penduline, pendulous, pensile, pererration, pitching, pivoting, promiscuity, rambling, reel, reeling, revolution, rock, rocking, roll, rolling, rotation, rotational motion, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, skew, slant, sleeping around, spin, spinning, straying, suspended, swag, sway, swaying, sweep, swerve, swerving, swing, swirling, swiveling, tack, tossing, trendy, trolling, trundling, turbination, turn, turning, twist, variation, veer, volutation, volution, wag, waggle, wandering, wantonness, warp, wave, waver, waywardness, weeping, wheeling, whir, whirling, whorishness, with it, yaw, zigzag

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ROGET THESAURUS

swinging

Greatness

N greatness, magnitude, size, multitude, immensity, enormity, infinity, might, strength, intensity, fullness, importance, great quantity, quantity, deal, power, sight, pot, volume, world, mass, heap, stock, peck, bushel, load, cargo, cartload, wagonload, shipload, flood, spring tide, abundance, principal part, chief part, main part, greater part, major part, best part, essential part, bulk, mass, great, greater, large, considerable, fair, above par, big, huge, Herculean, cyclopean, ample, abundant, full, intense, strong, sound, passing, heavy, plenary, deep, high, signal, at its height, in the zenith, world-wide, widespread, far-famed, extensive, wholesale, many, goodly, noble, precious, mighty, sad, grave, heavy, serious, far gone, arrant, downright, utter, uttermost, crass, gross, arch, profound, intense, consummate, rank, uninitiated, red-hot, desperate, glaring, flagrant, stark staring, thorough-paced, thoroughgoing, roaring, thumping, extraordinary, important, unsurpassed, complete, august, grand, dignified, sublime, majestic, vast, immense, enormous, extreme, inordinate, excessive, extravagant, exorbitant, outrageous, preposterous, unconscionable, swinging, monstrous, overgrown, towering, stupendous, prodigious, astonishing, incredible, marvelous, unlimited, unapproachable, unutterable, indescribable, ineffable, unspeakable, inexpressible, beyond expression, fabulous, undiminished, unabated, unreduced, unrestricted, absolute, positive, stark, decided, unequivocal, essential, perfect, finished, remarkable, of mark, marked, pointed, veriest, noteworthy, renowned, truly, decidedly, unequivocally, purely, absolutely, seriously, essentially, fundamentally, radically, downright, in all conscience, for the most part, in the main, entirely, abundantly, widely, far and wide, greatly, much, muckle, well, indeed, very, very much, a deal, no end of, most, not a little, pretty, pretty well, enough, in a great measure, richly, to a large extent, to a great extent, to a gigantic extent, on a large scale, so, never so, ever so, ever so dole, scrap, shred, tag, splinter, rag, much, by wholesale, mighty, powerfully, with a witness, ultra, in the extreme, extremely, exceedingly, intensely, exquisitely, acutely, indefinitely, immeasurably, beyond compare, beyond comparison, beyond measure, beyond all bounds, incalculably, infinitely, preeminently, superlatively, immoderately, monstrously, preposterously, inordinately, exorbitantly, excessively, enormously, out of all proportion, with a vengeance, particularly, remarkably, singularly, curiously, uncommonly, unusually, peculiarly, notably, signally, strikingly, pointedly, mainly, chiefly, famously, egregiously, prominently, glaringly, emphatically, kat exochin, strangely, wonderfully, amazingly, surprisingly, astonishingly, incredibly, marvelously, awfully, stupendously, peculiarly, furiously, severely, desperately, tremendously, extravagantly, confoundedly, deucedly, devilishly, with a vengeance, a outrance, a toute outrance, painfully, sadly, grossly, sorely, bitterly, piteously, grievously, miserably, cruelly, woefully, lamentably, shockingly, frightfully, dreadfully, fearfully, terribly, horribly, a maximis ad minima, greatness knows itself, mightiest powers by deepest calms are fed, minimum decet libere cui multum licet, some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

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