action - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

something done (usually as opposed to something said)

Synonyms

• action

More generic

• act
• deed
• human action
• human activity

More specific

• accenting
• accentuation
• accomplishment
• achievement
• aggression
• alienation
• application
• arrival
• beatification
• benignity
• bruxism
• carrying into action
• carrying out
• change
• choice
• civility
• consultation
• course
• course of action
• destabilisation
• destabilization
• economy
• emphasizing
• employment
• engagement
• execution
• exercise
• fetch
• forbiddance
• hostility
• inhibition
• interaction
• jump-start
• jumpstart
• kindness
• opposition
• option
• performance
• pick
• pickings
• play
• playing
• politeness
• prohibition
• reference
• res gestae
• resistance
• reverence
• saving
• selection
• stupefaction
• swordplay
• taking
• thing
• transfusion
• transgression
• vampirism

Noun

the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field

Synonyms

• action

More generic

• work

Noun

a military engagement

Synonyms

• action
• military action

More generic

• group action

More specific

• EW
• amphibious landing
• battle
• blockade
• conflict
• defence
• defense
• defensive measure
• electronic warfare
• encirclement
• engagement
• fight
• police action
• resistance
• saber rattling
• sabre rattling
• sally
• sortie
• war
• warfare

Noun

a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong

Synonyms

• action
• action at law
• legal action

More generic

• legal proceeding
• proceeding
• proceedings

More specific

• antitrust case
• civil action
• counterclaim
• criminal prosecution
• custody case
• lis pendens
• prosecution
• test case
• test suit

Noun

an act by a government body or supranational organization

Synonyms

• action

More generic

• group action

Noun

the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism

Synonyms

• action
• action mechanism

More generic

• mechanism

More specific

• firing mechanism
• gunlock
• movement
• piano action
• pump action
• slide action

Related

• key

Related

• gun
• keyboard

Noun

the trait of being active and energetic and forceful

Synonyms

• action

More generic

• drive

Noun

the series of events that form a plot

Synonyms

• action

More generic

• plot

Noun

a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings)

Synonyms

• action
• activity
• natural action
• natural process

More generic

• physical process
• process

More specific

• absorption
• acidification
• adiabatic process
• aeration
• antiredeposition
• capture
• cataphoresis
• centrifugation
• chemical action
• chemical change
• chemical process
• chromatography
• clotting
• coagulation
• concretion
• condensation
• convection
• curdling
• curing
• decay
• demagnetisation
• demagnetization
• desorption
• dielectrolysis
• diffusion
• disintegration
• dissolution
• distillation
• distillment
• drift
• ecesis
• ecological succession
• effervescence
• electrophoresis
• establishment
• extinction
• extraction
• feedback
• filtration
• flocculation
• flow
• formation
• fossilisation
• fossilization
• geologic process
• geological process
• hardening
• inactivation
• ion exchange
• ionisation
• ionization
• ionophoresis
• leach
• leaching
• magnetic induction
• magnetisation
• magnetization
• materialisation
• materialization
• natural selection
• nuclear reaction
• opacification
• oscillation
• oxygenation
• pair creation
• pair formation
• pair production
• phase change
• phase transition
• physical change
• precession of the equinoxes
• radiation
• release
• rigidification
• rigidifying
• saltation
• scattering
• selection
• sericulture

Noun

the state of being active

Synonyms

• action
• activeness
• activity

More generic

• state

Opposite / Antonyms

• inaction

More specific

• agency
• behavior
• behaviour
• busyness
• eructation
• eruption
• extravasation
• hum
• operation
• overdrive
• play
• swing

Verb

put in effect

Synonyms

• accomplish
• action
• carry out
• carry through
• execute
• fulfil
• fulfill

More generic

• complete
• effect
• effectuate
• finish
• set up

More specific

• complete
• consummate
• discharge
• dispatch
• do
• get over
• perform
• run

Related

• carry out
• follow out
• follow through
• follow up
• go through with
• implement
• put through

Verb

institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against

Synonyms

• action
• litigate
• process
• sue

More generic

• challenge

More specific

• expedite

Related

• litigate

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