commotion | (noun) the act of making a noisy disturbance | Synonyms: din, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, tumult |
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(noun) confused movement | Synonyms: whirl |
(noun) a disorderly outburst or tumult | Synonyms: disruption, disturbance, flutter, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, hurly burly, kerfuffle, to-do |
communalism | (noun) the practice of communal living and common ownership | - |
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(noun) loyalty and commitment to the interests of your own minority or ethnic group rather than to society as a whole | - |
commune | (noun) a body of people or families living together and sharing everything | - |
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(noun) the smallest administrative district of several European countries | - |
communicant | (noun) a person entitled to receive Communion | - |
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communicating | (noun) the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information | Synonyms: communication |
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communication | (noun) something that is communicated by or to or between people or groups | - |
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(noun) the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information | Synonyms: communicating |
(noun) a connection allowing access between persons or places | - |
communications | (noun) the discipline that studies the principles of transmitting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.) | Synonyms: communication theory |
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communicativeness | (noun) the trait of being communicative | - |
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communicator | (noun) a person who communicates with others | - |
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communion | (noun) sharing thoughts and feelings | Synonyms: sharing |
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(noun) (Christianity) a group of Christians with a common religious faith who practice the same rites | - |
communique | (noun) an official report (usually sent in haste) | Synonyms: despatch, dispatch |
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communisation | (noun) the organization of a nation of the basis of communism | Synonyms: communization |
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(noun) a change from private property to public property owned by the community | Synonyms: communization |
(noun) changing something from private to state ownership or control | Synonyms: communization, nationalisation, nationalization |
communism | (noun) a political theory favoring collectivism in a classless society | - |
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(noun) a form of socialism that abolishes private ownership | - |
communist | (noun) a socialist who advocates communism | Synonyms: commie |
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community | (noun) a group of people living in a particular local area | - |
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(noun) (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other | Synonyms: biotic community |
(noun) a group of people having a religion, ethnic, profession, or other particular characteristic in common | - |
(noun) a group of nations having common interests | - |
(noun) a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences | Synonyms: residential area, residential district |
(noun) common ownership | - |
(noun) agreement as to goals | Synonyms: community of interests |
communization | (noun) the organization of a nation of the basis of communism | Synonyms: communisation |
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(noun) a change from private property to public property owned by the community | Synonyms: communisation |
(noun) changing something from private to state ownership or control | Synonyms: communisation, nationalisation, nationalization |
commutability | (noun) the quality of being commutable | Synonyms: transmutability |
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(noun) exchangeability by virtue of being replaceable | Synonyms: replaceability, substitutability |
commutation | (noun) the travel of a commuter | Synonyms: commuting |
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(noun) (law) the reduction in severity of a punishment imposed by law | Synonyms: re-sentencing |
(noun) the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another: | Synonyms: exchange, substitution |
(noun) a warrant substituting a lesser punishment for a greater one | - |
commutator | (noun) switch for reversing the direction of an electric current | - |
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commute | (noun) a regular journey of some distance to and from your place of work | - |
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commuter | (noun) a passenger train that is ridden primarily by passengers who travel regularly from one place to another | Synonyms: commuter train |
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(noun) someone who travels regularly from home in a suburb to work in a city | - |
commuting | (noun) the travel of a commuter | Synonyms: commutation |
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comp | (noun) an intensive examination testing a student's proficiency in some special field of knowledge | Synonyms: comprehensive, comprehensive examination |
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compact | (noun) a small cosmetics case with a mirror; to be carried in a woman's purse | Synonyms: powder compact |
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(noun) a small and economical car | Synonyms: compact car |
(noun) a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action | Synonyms: concordat, covenant |
compaction | (noun) the act of crushing | Synonyms: crunch, crush |
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(noun) an increase in the density of something | Synonyms: compression, concretion, densification |
compactness | (noun) the spatial property of being crowded together | Synonyms: concentration, denseness, density, tightness |
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(noun) the consistency of a compact solid | - |
compander | (noun) a system for improving the signal-to-noise ratio of a signal at a transmitter or recorder by first compressing the volume range of the signal and then restoring it to its original amplitude level at the receiving or reproducing apparatus. | - |
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companion | (noun) a friend who is frequently in the company of another | Synonyms: associate, comrade, familiar, fellow |
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(noun) one paid to accompany or assist or live with another | - |
(noun) a traveler who accompanies you | Synonyms: fellow traveler, fellow traveller |
companionability | (noun) suitability to be a companion | Synonyms: companionableness |
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companionableness | (noun) suitability to be a companion | Synonyms: companionability |
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companionship | (noun) the state of being with someone | Synonyms: company, fellowship, society |
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companionway | (noun) a stairway or ladder that leads from one deck to another on a ship | - |
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company | (noun) a social gathering of guests or companions | - |
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(noun) an institution created to conduct business | - |
(noun) organization of performers and associated personnel (especially theatrical) | Synonyms: troupe |
(noun) small military unit; usually two or three platoons | - |
(noun) crew of a ship including the officers; the whole force or personnel of a ship | Synonyms: ship's company |
(noun) a unit of firefighters including their equipment | - |
(noun) a band of people associated temporarily in some activity | Synonyms: party |
(noun) a social or business visitor | Synonyms: caller |
(noun) the state of being with someone | Synonyms: companionship, fellowship, society |
comparability | (noun) qualities that are comparable | Synonyms: compare, comparison, equivalence |
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comparative | (noun) the comparative form of an adjective or adverb | Synonyms: comparative degree |
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compare | (noun) qualities that are comparable | Synonyms: comparability, comparison, equivalence |
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comparing | (noun) the act of examining resemblances | Synonyms: comparison |
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comparison | (noun) the act of examining resemblances | Synonyms: comparing |
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(noun) qualities that are comparable | Synonyms: comparability, compare, equivalence |
(noun) relation based on similarities and differences | - |
compartment | (noun) a partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger enclosed area | - |
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(noun) a space into which an area is subdivided | - |
compartmentalisation | (noun) the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | Synonyms: assortment, categorisation, categorization, classification, compartmentalization |
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(noun) a mild state of dissociation | Synonyms: compartmentalization |
compartmentalization | (noun) the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | Synonyms: assortment, categorisation, categorization, classification, compartmentalisation |
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(noun) a mild state of dissociation | Synonyms: compartmentalisation |
compass | (noun) navigational instrument for finding directions | - |
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(noun) drafting instrument used for drawing circles | - |
(noun) an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: | Synonyms: ambit, orbit, range, reach, scope |
(noun) the limit of capability | Synonyms: grasp, range, reach |
compassion | (noun) the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it | Synonyms: pity |
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(noun) a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering | Synonyms: compassionateness |
compassionateness | (noun) a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering | Synonyms: compassion |
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compatibility | (noun) capability of existing or performing in harmonious or congenial combination | - |
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(noun) a feeling of sympathetic understanding | - |
compatriot | (noun) a person from your own country | - |
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compeer | (noun) a person who is of equal standing with another in a group | Synonyms: equal, match, peer |
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compendium | (noun) a concise but comprehensive summary of a larger work | - |
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(noun) a publication containing a variety of works | Synonyms: collection |
compensation | (noun) the act of compensating for service or loss or injury | Synonyms: recompense |
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(noun) something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury) | - |
(noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors | - |
compere | (noun) British term for someone who introduces television acts or cabarets etc | - |
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competence | (noun) the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually | Synonyms: competency |
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competency | (noun) the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually | Synonyms: competence |
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competition | (noun) the act of competing as for profit or a prize | Synonyms: contention, rivalry |
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(noun) an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants | Synonyms: contest |
(noun) the contestant you hope to defeat | Synonyms: challenger, competitor, contender, rival |
(noun) a business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers | - |
competitiveness | (noun) an aggressive willingness to compete | Synonyms: fight |
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competitor | (noun) the contestant you hope to defeat | Synonyms: challenger, competition, contender, rival |
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compilation | (noun) the act of compiling (as into a single book or file or list) | Synonyms: compiling |
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(noun) something that is compiled (as into a single book or file) | Synonyms: digest |
compiler | (noun) (computer science) a program that decodes instructions written in a higher order language and produces an assembly language program | Synonyms: compiling program |
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(noun) a person who compiles information (as for reference purposes) | - |
compiling | (noun) the act of compiling (as into a single book or file or list) | Synonyms: compilation |
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complacence | (noun) the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself | Synonyms: complacency, self-complacency, self-satisfaction |
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complacency | (noun) the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself | Synonyms: complacence, self-complacency, self-satisfaction |
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complainant | (noun) a person who brings an action in a court of law | Synonyms: plaintiff |
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complainer | (noun) a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining | Synonyms: bellyacher, crybaby, grumbler, moaner, sniveller, squawker, whiner |
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complaint | (noun) an expression of grievance or resentment | - |
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(noun) (formerly) a loud cry (or repeated cries) of pain or rage or sorrow | - |
(noun) (civil law) the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim for relief is based | - |
(noun) (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense | Synonyms: charge |
(noun) an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining | Synonyms: ailment, ill |
complaisance | (noun) a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others | Synonyms: compliance, compliancy, deference, obligingness |
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complement | (noun) something added to complete or embellish or make perfect | Synonyms: accompaniment |
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(noun) either of two parts that mutually complete each other | - |
(noun) a word or phrase used to complete a grammatical construction | - |
(noun) number needed to make up a whole force | Synonyms: full complement |
(noun) a complete number or quantity | - |
(noun) one of a series of enzymes in the blood serum that are part of the immune response | - |
complementarity | (noun) a relation between two opposite states or principles that together exhaust the possibilities | - |
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(noun) the interrelation of reciprocity whereby one thing supplements or depends on the other | - |
complementary | (noun) either one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together give white (in the case of lights) or grey (in the case of pigments) | Synonyms: complementary color |
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complementation | (noun) (linguistics) a distribution of related speech sounds or forms in such a way that they only appear in different contexts | Synonyms: complementary distribution |
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(noun) the grammatical relation of a word or phrase to a predicate | - |
completeness | (noun) (logic) an attribute of a logical system that is so constituted that a contradiction arises if any proposition is introduced that cannot be derived from the axioms of the system | - |
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(noun) the state of being complete and entire; having everything that is needed | - |
completion | (noun) a concluding action | Synonyms: closing, culmination, mop up, windup |
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(noun) (American football) a successful forward pass in football | Synonyms: pass completion |
complex | (noun) a whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures | Synonyms: building complex |
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(noun) a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts | Synonyms: composite |
(noun) (psychoanalysis) a combination of emotions and impulses that have been rejected from awareness but still influence a person's behavior | - |
(noun) a compound described in terms of the central atom to which other atoms are bound or coordinated | Synonyms: coordination compound |
complexifier | (noun) someone makes things complex | - |
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complexion | (noun) the coloring of a person's face | Synonyms: skin color, skin colour |
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(noun) (obsolete) a combination of elements (of dryness and warmth or of the four humors) that was once believed to determine a person's health and temperament | - |
(noun) texture and appearance of the skin of the face | - |
(noun) a point of view or general attitude or inclination | - |
(noun) a combination that results from coupling or interlinking | - |
complexity | (noun) the quality of being intricate and compounded | Synonyms: complexness |
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complexness | (noun) the quality of being intricate and compounded | Synonyms: complexity |
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compliance | (noun) the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another | Synonyms: submission |
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(noun) acting according to certain accepted standards | Synonyms: abidance, conformation, conformity |
(noun) a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others | Synonyms: complaisance, compliancy, deference, obligingness |
compliancy | (noun) a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others | Synonyms: complaisance, compliance, deference, obligingness |
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complicatedness | (noun) puzzling complexity | Synonyms: complication, knottiness, tortuousness |
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complication | (noun) the act or process of complicating | - |
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(noun) puzzling complexity | Synonyms: complicatedness, knottiness, tortuousness |
(noun) a development that complicates a situation | Synonyms: ramification |
(noun) a situation or condition that is complex or confused | - |
(noun) any disease or disorder that occurs during the course of (or because of) another disease | - |
complicity | (noun) guilt as an accomplice in a crime or offense | - |
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compliment | (noun) a remark (or act) expressing praise and admiration | - |
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complimentariness | (noun) The state or quality of being in the nature of an expression of praise, congratulation, encouragement, or respect. | - |
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compliments | (noun) (usually plural) a polite expression of desire for someone's welfare | Synonyms: regard, wish |
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complin | (noun) last of the seven canonical hours just before retiring | Synonyms: compline |
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compline | (noun) last of the seven canonical hours just before retiring | Synonyms: complin |
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component | (noun) an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system | Synonyms: constituent, element |
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(noun) an abstract part of something | Synonyms: constituent, element, factor, ingredient |
(noun) something determined in relation to something that includes it | Synonyms: component part, constituent, part, portion |
comportment | (noun) dignified manner or conduct | Synonyms: bearing, mien, presence |
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composedness | (noun) The state or quality of showing composure. | - |
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composer | (noun) someone who composes music, usually as a profession | - |
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composing | (noun) musical creation | Synonyms: composition |
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(noun) the spatial property resulting from the arrangement of parts in relation to each other and to the whole | Synonyms: composition |
composite | (noun) a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts | Synonyms: complex |
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(noun) considered the most highly evolved dicotyledonous plants, characterized by florets arranged in dense heads that resemble single flowers | Synonyms: composite plant |
compositeness | (noun) the property of being a composite number | - |
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composition | (noun) the act of creating written works | Synonyms: authorship, penning, writing |
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(noun) musical creation | Synonyms: composing |
(noun) something that is created by arranging several things to form a unified whole | - |
(noun) the way in which someone or something is composed | Synonyms: constitution, make-up, makeup, physical composition |
(noun) the spatial property resulting from the arrangement of parts in relation to each other and to the whole | Synonyms: composing |
(noun) an essay (especially one written as an assignment) | Synonyms: paper, report, theme |
(noun) a musical work that has been created | Synonyms: musical composition, opus, piece, piece of music |
(noun) art and technique of printing with movable type | Synonyms: typography |
(noun) a mixture of ingredients | - |
compositor | (noun) one who sets written material into type | Synonyms: setter, typesetter, typographer |
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compost | (noun) a mixture of decaying vegetation and manure; used as a fertilizer | - |
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composure | (noun) steadiness of mind under stress | Synonyms: calm, calmness, equanimity |
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compote | (noun) dessert of stewed or baked fruit | Synonyms: fruit compote |
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compound | (noun) an enclosure of residences and other building (especially in the Orient) | - |
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(noun) a whole formed by a union of two or more elements or parts | - |
(noun) a word (as anthropology, kilocycle, builder) consisting of any of various combinations of words, combining forms, or affixes. | Synonyms: compound word |
(noun) (chemistry) a substance formed by chemical union of two or more elements or ingredients in definite proportion by weight | Synonyms: chemical compound |
compounding | (noun) the act of combining things to form a new whole | Synonyms: combination, combining |
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comprehensibility | (noun) the quality of comprehensible language or thought | Synonyms: understandability |
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