Synonyms for selection
sɪˈlɛk ʃənse·lec·tion

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. selection

   Synonyms:
   choice, option, election, excerption, gathering, preoption, segregation, adoption, preference

   Antonyms:
   rejection, repudiation, refusal, exclusion, postponement

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1. choice, selection, option, picknoun

   the act of choosing or selecting

   "your choice of colors was unfortunate"; "you can take your pick"

   Synonyms:
   selection, extract, cream, survival, filling, alternative, excerption, picking, choice, plectrum, option, woof, pick, plectron, excerpt, survival of the fittest, natural selection, weft, pickax, pickaxe

2. selectionnoun

   an assortment of things from which a choice can be made

   "the store carried a large selection of shoes"

   Synonyms:
   pick, survival, choice, extract, excerpt, excerption, survival of the fittest, option, natural selection

3. choice, pick, selectionnoun

   the person or thing chosen or selected

   "he was my pick for mayor"

   Synonyms:
   selection, pickax, pick, filling, alternative, survival, excerption, picking, choice, plectrum, option, woof, plectron, excerpt, survival of the fittest, natural selection, cream, weft, extract, pickaxe

4. survival, survival of the fittest, natural selection, selectionnoun

   a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment

   Synonyms:
   survival, selection, pick, endurance, choice, extract, excerpt, excerption, survival of the fittest, option, natural selection

5. excerpt, excerption, extract, selectionnoun

   a passage selected from a larger work

   "he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings"

   Synonyms:
   survival, selection, pick, excerpt, choice, extract, excerption, survival of the fittest, option, natural selection, infusion

Matched Categories

1. • Assortment
   • Decision Making
   • Natural Process
   • Passage

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1. selectionnoun

   Synonyms:
   choice, pick

2. selectionnoun

   Synonyms:
   democracy

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1. selectionnoun

   Synonyms:
   choice, election, preference, pick, collection, assortment

   Antonyms:
   promiscuity, indiscrimination

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1. List of paraphrases for "selection":

   selecting, shift, choice, select, screening, sélection, selected, choices, adjudication, choosing, breeding, selector, choose, selections, election, sel, selectivity, option, pick

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1. De Beers:

   An immutable and secure digital trail was created for a selection of rough diamonds mined by De Beers as they moved from the mine to cutter and polisher, then through to a jeweler.

2. Christopher Wyke:

   Individual selection in agriculture helped. Most of our competitors would have been closer to the index.

3. Yi Zhu of Team China:

   I'm upset and a little embarrassed, i guess I felt a lot of pressure because I know everybody in China was pretty surprised with the selection for ladies' singles and I just really wanted to show them what I was able to do, but unfortunately I didn’t.

4. Peter Roskam:

   This report exposes a new and more egregious frontier of potential targeting in the agency's audit selection process.

5. Brendan Foht:

   Sex selection kind of undermines the concept of unconditional love and obligation by making the love conditional upon the child being a certain thing, in this case, a boy or a girl.