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Achieving - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | achieve |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bring to successful conclusion; reach a goal |
| Synonyms: | accomplish, acquire, actualize, attain, bring about, bring off*, bring to pass, cap, carry out, close, complete, conclude, consummate, deliver, discharge, dispatch, do, earn, effect, enact, end, execute, finish, follow through, fulfill, gain, get, manage, negotiate, obtain, perfect, perform, procure, produce, rack up*, reach, realize, resolve, score, seal, settle, sign, solve, win, wind up, work out, carry through, earn wings, effectuate, get done, see through |
| Notes: | achieve means 'to bring to a successful conclusion' (literally French 'to bring to a head') and accomplish means 'to perform fully'; the completion of achievement is more comprehensive |
| Antonyms: | fail, lose, miss |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | doing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | achievement |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, act, action, deed, execution, exploit, handiwork, performance, performing, thing, accomplishing, achieving, carrying out, implementation |
| Main Entry: | effectual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | influential; authoritative |
| Synonyms: | adequate, binding, capable, conclusive, decisive, effective, efficacious, efficient, forcible, lawful, legal, licit, potent, powerful, practicable, productive, qualified, serviceable, sound, strong, successful, telling, useful, valid, virtuous, workable, accomplishing, achieving, determinative, effecting, fulfilling, in force |
| Antonyms: | impotent, incapable, ineffectual, unproductive, unsuccessful, useless, weak |
| Main Entry: | perfection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | achievement, completeness |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, acme, arete, completion, consummation, crown, ending, evolution, exactness, excellence, finish, fulfillment, ideal, integrity, maturity, merit, paragon, precision, purity, quality, realization, superiority, supremacy, virtue, wholeness, achieving, entireness, excellency, exquisiteness, faultlessness, finishing, idealism, impeccability, perfectness, phoenix, ripeness, sublimity, transcendence |
| Antonyms: | damage, deficiency, flaw, imperfection, worthlessness, incompleteness, uselessness |
| Main Entry: | performing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective1 |
| Definition: | fulfilling a function |
| Synonyms: | acting, doing, operating, achieving, carrying out, effecting, fulfilling |
| Main Entry: | accomplish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | succeed in doing |
| Synonyms: | achieve, arrive, attain, bring about, bring off, carry out, conclude, consummate, do, effect, finish, fulfill, gain, hit*, manage, perform, produce, pull off*, rack up*, reach, realize, score*, win, do a bang-up job, do justice, do one proud, do the trick, get someplace, get there, make hay, make it, nail it, put it over, sew up, take care of |
| Antonyms: | abandon, fail, nullify, relinquish, give up, not finish |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | acquire |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | obtain or receive |
| Synonyms: | access, achieve, amass, annex, attain, bring in, buy, catch, collect, cop*, corral*, earn, gain, gather, get, grab, have, hustle, land, pick up, procure, promote, rack up*, secure, snag*, take, wangle*, win, get hands on, get hold of, latch onto, lock up, scare up, take possession of |
| Antonyms: | fail, forfeit, forgo, lose, relinquish, surrender, yield |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | act |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | do something |
| Synonyms: | accomplish, achieve, begin, carry on, carry out, consummate, cook, create, develop, do, do a number, do one's thing, enforce, execute, function, get in there, go about, go for broke, go for it*, go in for, go that route, go to town, intrude, knock off*, labor, make progress, maneuver, move, officiate, operate, percolate*, perk*, perpetrate, persevere, persist, practice, preside, pursue, respond, serve, take effect, take part, take steps, take up, transort, undertake, work out |
| Antonyms: | abstain, cease, discontinue, give up, halt, hesitate, idle, refrain, stop |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | advance |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move something forward, often quickly |
| Synonyms: | accelerate, achieve, come forward, conquer, dispatch, drive, elevate, gain ground, get ahead, go ahead, hasten, launch, march, proceed, progress, promote, propel, quicken, skyrocket*, speed, storm, bring forward, continue ahead, continue on, forge ahead, get green light, get there, get with it, go forth, go forward, go great guns, go places, go to town, make headway, make the scene, move on, move onward, move up, press on, push ahead, push on, send forward, step forward |
| Antonyms: | back down, halt, hesitate, recede, retreat, retrogress, stop, turn, withdraw, yield |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bring about |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause success |
| Synonyms: | accomplish, achieve, beget, bring to pass, compass, create, do, draw on, effect, engender, generate, manage, occasion, produce, realize, secure, succeed, effectuate, give rise to, make happen |
| Antonyms: | halt, kill, stop |
| Main Entry: | bring off |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | accomplish |
| Synonyms: | achieve, bring home the bacon*, bring to pass, carry out, discharge, effect, execute, perform, pull off, realize, succeed, carry off, effectuate |
| Antonyms: | fail, lose |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | carry on |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | continue activity |
| Synonyms: | achieve, endure, hang on, last, maintain, perpetuate, persevere, persist, proceed, keep going |
| Antonyms: | discontinue, stop |
| Main Entry: | carry out |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | complete activity |
| Synonyms: | accomplish, achieve, consummate, discharge, effect, execute, finalize, fulfill, implement, meet, perform, realize, carry through, effectuate |
| Antonyms: | leave, stop, not finish |
| Main Entry: | climax |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | come to top; culminate |
| Synonyms: | accomplish, achieve, cap, come, come to a head, conclude, content, crown, end, finish, fulfill, orgasm, peak, please, satisfy, succeed, terminate, top, tower, break the record, hit high spot, reach a peak, reach the zenith, rise to crescendo |
| Antonyms: | delve, dip, drop, fall off |
| Main Entry: | come at |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | reach, attain |
| Synonyms: | accomplish, achieve, discover, find, grasp, succeed, touch, win, feel for |
| Main Entry: | come through |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | accomplish goal |
| Synonyms: | achieve, carry out, chip in, contribute, kick in, pitch in, prevail, score, succeed, triumph, win, be successful, be victorious |
| Antonyms: | fail |
| Main Entry: | commit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | perform an action |
| Synonyms: | accomplish, achieve, act, carry out, complete, contravene, do, enact, execute, offend, perpetrate, pull, pull off*, scandalize, sin, transgress, trespass, violate, wreak, effectuate, go for broke, go in for, go out for |
| Antonyms: | cease, desist, end, idle, loaf, rest, stop, wait |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | complement |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | complete |
| Synonyms: | accomplish, achieve, cap, clinch, conclude, consummate, crown, finish, fulfill, integrate, perfect, round off, top off |
| Antonyms: | take away |
| Main Entry: | complete |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | carry out action |
| Synonyms: | accomplish, achieve, actualize, cap, close, conclude, consummate, crown, determine, develop, discharge, do, effect, elaborate, end, equip, execute, fill, finalize, finish, fulfill, furnish, halt, make up, perfect, perform, realize, refine, round off, settle, supplement, terminate, ultimate, wind up*, wrap up*, bring to fruition, bring to maturity, call it a day, carry off, do thoroughly, effectuate, get through, go the limit, go through with, go whole hog, make good, put to bed, round out, sew up |
| Antonyms: | forget, halt, ignore, neglect, stop, give up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | conclude |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | finish, come to an end |
| Synonyms: | achieve, cease, cinch, clinch, close, close out, complete, consummate, crown, desist, end, halt, knock off, round off, stop, terminate, ultimate, wind up, wrap up, bring down curtain, call it a day, draw to close, put the lid on, put to bed, top off |
| Antonyms: | begin, commence, introduce, preface, start |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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