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Antonyms for compact
ˈkɒm pæktcom·pact

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English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. compact

    Alliance is in its most common use a connection formed by treaty between sovereign states as for mutual aid in war. Partnership is a mercantile word; alliance chiefly political or matrimonial. Coalition is oftenest used of political parties; fusion is now the more common word in this sense. In an alliance between nations there is no surrender of sovereignty, and no union except for a specified time and purpose. League and alliance are used with scarcely perceptible difference of meaning. In a confederacy or confederation there is an attempt to unite separate states in a general government without surrender of sovereignty. Union implies so much concession as to make the separate states substantially one. Federation is mainly a poetic and rhetorical word expressing something of the same thought, as in Tennyson's "federation of the world," Locksley Hall, l. 128. The United States is not a confederacy nor an alliance; the nation might be called a federation, but prefers to be styled a federal union.

    Antonyms:
    antagonism, discord, disunion, divorce, enmity, hostility, schism, secession, separation, war

    Synonyms:
    alliance, coalition, confederacy, confederation, federation, fusion, league, partnership, union

    Preposition:
    Alliance with a neighboring people; against the common enemy; for offense and defense; alliance of, between, or among nations.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. compact

    Antonyms:
    ductile, brittle, friable, diffuse, unshapely, straggling, sparse, broadcast, dispread

    Synonyms:
    dense, close, hard, solid, firm, pithy, concise, condensed, contracted, compendious, convenient, concentrated, consolidated, concrete

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. compact, powder compactnoun

    a small cosmetics case with a mirror; to be carried in a woman's purse

    Antonyms:
    shifting, silty, tall, light, loose, unfirm, prolix, unconsolidated

    Synonyms:
    powder compact, covenant, concordat, compact car

  2. covenant, compact, concordatnoun

    a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action

    Antonyms:
    silty, tall, unfirm, light, prolix, loose, unconsolidated, shifting

    Synonyms:
    powder compact, covenant, concordat, compact car

  3. compact, compact caradjective

    a small and economical car

    Antonyms:
    unconsolidated, shifting, tall, unfirm, light, silty, loose, prolix

    Synonyms:
    powder compact, covenant, concordat, compact car

  4. compactadjective

    closely and firmly united or packed together

    "compact soil"; "compact clusters of flowers"

    Antonyms:
    shifting, silty, unfirm, prolix, loose, light, unconsolidated, tall

    Synonyms:
    succinct, thickset, summary, heavyset, compendious, thick, stocky

  5. compact, heavyset, stocky, thick, thicksetadjective

    having a short and solid form or stature

    "a wrestler of compact build"; "he was tall and heavyset"; "stocky legs"; "a thickset young man"

    Antonyms:
    unconsolidated, light, unfirm, silty, loose, shifting, tall, prolix

    Synonyms:
    dense, duncical, duncish, wooden-headed, thickheaded, boneheaded, loggerheaded, blockheaded, summary, chummy, thick-skulled, thickset, deep, stocky, succinct, compendious, heavyset, buddy-buddy, thick(p), fatheaded, thick, slurred

  6. compendious, compact, succinct, summaryverb

    briefly giving the gist of something

    "a short and compendious book"; "a compact style is brief and pithy"; "succinct comparisons"; "a summary formulation of a wide-ranging subject"

    Antonyms:
    silty, tall, shifting, unfirm, light, prolix, loose, unconsolidated

    Synonyms:
    stocky, succinct, thickset, thick, summary, heavyset, drumhead, compendious

  7. compact, packverb

    have the property of being packable or of compacting easily

    "This powder compacts easily"; "Such odd-shaped items do not pack well"

    Antonyms:
    unfirm, prolix, loose, tall, silty, shifting, unconsolidated, light

    Synonyms:
    mob, wad, pile, backpack, constrict, pack, press, carry, load down, tamp, tamp down, bundle, pack together, squeeze, compress, contract, take, throng, jam

  8. pack, bundle, wad, compactverb

    compress into a wad

    "wad paper into the box"

    Antonyms:
    prolix, tall, light, silty, unconsolidated, loose, shifting, unfirm

    Synonyms:
    mob, wad, pile, cluster, backpack, bunch up, jampack, pack together, pack, press, bunch, bundle up, ram, tamp, clump, roll up, load down, tamp down, bundle, chock up, throng, contract, take, carry, squeeze, cram, constrict, practice bundling, compress, jam

  9. compress, compact, pack togetherverb

    make more compact by or as if by pressing

    "compress the data"

    Antonyms:
    silty, unfirm, unconsolidated, shifting, prolix, light, loose, tall

    Synonyms:
    bundle, press, squeeze, pack, contract, pack together, wad, compress, constrict

  10. compress, constrict, squeeze, compact, contract, pressverb

    squeeze or press together

    "she compressed her lips"; "the spasm contracted the muscle"

    Antonyms:
    prolix, silty, shifting, loose, tall, unconsolidated, unfirm, light

    Synonyms:
    fight, adjure, weigh, pressure, crush, narrow, thrust, get, rack, cut, pack together, foreshorten, undertake, hale, press, twitch, pack, gouge, tweet, embrace, bundle, agitate, force, pinch, shove, weight-lift, sign up, sign on, twinge, compress, urge, hug, shrink, concentrate, campaign, sign, abridge, reduce, take, condense, contract, iron, crusade, extort, stuff, urge on, squeeze, beseech, squash, constringe, exhort, wring, mash, coerce, wad, bid, push, bosom, wedge, entreat, shorten, squelch, abbreviate, conjure, constrict, press out, weightlift, iron out

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. compactadjective

    Synonyms:
    close, solid, dense, crowded, impenetrable, serried

  2. compactnoun

    Synonyms:
    covenant, agreement, pact, treaty, contract

Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. burst, expand

    to press together, to force into less space

    "the hull compressed from the pressure" "the child compacted the foil into a ball with it fist and threw it."

    Submitted by minithygesen on June 12, 2021  

How to use compact in a sentence?

  1. Zachary Lippman:

    When you mutate the gene, it basically shrinks the plant like an accordion so you can make it much more compact.

  2. Red Star Belgrade:

    When you play a 4-4-2 in the shape or the formation that Sweden play, the strikers are going to be the ones that suffer the most when you go to attack, they are so compact, they work so hard to protect the midfielders - when you put so much work into it like Ola Toivonen and Marcus Berg do, you lose that little bit of energy when you get your chance.

  3. Sukrit Vijayakar:

    In the wake of the coordinated attack on Syria, oil prices are significantly lower ... (but) the impact appears to be compact and over.

  4. The Post:

    Tom Brokaw index finger to my lips and said, ‘ This is our compact, ’ my insides shook.

  5. James Madison:

    [In the case of] dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right, and are duty bound, to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil.

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