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| Main Entry: | meet |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fitting |
| Synonyms: | applicable, appropriate, apt, equitable, expedient, fair, felicitous, fit, good, happy, just, proper, reconciled, right, suitable, timely, accommodated, conformed |
| Antonyms: | improper, inappropriate, unseemly, unfitting |
| Main Entry: | meet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sporting event involving several participants |
| Synonyms: | competition, conflict, contest, event, match, meeting, tournament, athletic event, tourney |
| Main Entry: | meet |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | happen on |
| Synonyms: | accost, affront, bump into, clash, collide, come across, confront, contact, cross, encounter, engage, experience, face, find, front, get together, grapple, greet, hit, light, luck*, salute, see, strike, stumble, tumble, tussle, wrestle, brush against, chance on, come up against, dig up, fall in with, make a meet, meet face to face, rendezvous with, rub eyeballs, run across, run into, run up against, touch shoulders |
| Antonyms: | miss |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | meet |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | connect, join |
| Synonyms: | abut, adhere, adjoin, border, coincide, connect, converge, cross, intersect, link, reach, touch, unite, link up |
| Antonyms: | disconnect, disjoin, divide, separate |
| Main Entry: | meet |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | perform, carry out |
| Synonyms: | answer, approach, come up to, comply, discharge, equal, execute, fit, fulfill, gratify, handle, match, rival, satisfy, suffice, tie, touch, cope with, measure up |
| Antonyms: | avoid, dodge |
| Main Entry: | meet |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | come together, convene |
| Synonyms: | appear, assemble, collect, congregate, converge, flock, gather, get together, join, muster, open, rally, rendezvous, show, sit, be introduced, be present, be presented, enter in, foregather, get to know, make acquaintance |
| Antonyms: | cancel |
| Main Entry: | affront |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | insult or involve in entanglement |
| Synonyms: | abuse, anger, annoy, confront, criticize, displease, encounter, face, give the cold shoulder*, meet, offend, outrage, pique, provoke, put down*, slander, slight, taunt, vex, dispraise, dump on, give a zinger, hit where one lives |
| Notes: | effrontery means shameless boldness or insulting presumptuousness while an affront is a deliberately offensive act or open insult |
| Antonyms: | appease, assuage, compliment, gratify, mollify, placate, please, satisfy, soothe |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | avail |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be of use; use |
| Synonyms: | account, advantage, answer, benefit, fill, fulfill, meet, profit, satisfy, serve, suffice, work, be adequate |
| Main Entry: | bump into |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | happen upon |
| Synonyms: | come across, encounter, hit, light, luck, meet, stumble, tumble, chance upon, light upon, meet up with, run across, run into |
| Main Entry: | bunt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hit half-heartedly |
| Synonyms: | butt, meet, sacrifice, throw, toss, lay it down |
| 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: | center |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | concentrate, draw together |
| Synonyms: | attract, centralize, collect, consolidate, focus, gather, intensify, join, meet, unify, bring to a focus, bring together, close on, concenter, converge upon, focalize, medialize |
| Antonyms: | disperse, dissipate |
| Main Entry: | come across |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | encounter, find |
| Synonyms: | bump into, discover, meet, notice, uncover, unearth, chance upon, happen upon, hit upon, light upon, stumble upon |
| Main Entry: | come upon |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | happen upon |
| Synonyms: | bump into*, chance, come across, encounter, meet |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | compatible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | agreeable, in harmony |
| Synonyms: | accordant, adaptable, appropriate, congenial, congruent, congruous, consistent, consonant, cooperative, fit, fitting, harmonious, like-minded, meet, proper, suitable, sympathetic, together, cotton to, getting along with, having good vibes, hitting it off, in keeping, in sync with, in the groove, on the same wavelength, reconcilable, simpatico |
| Antonyms: | antagonistic, antipathetic, disagreeable, incompatible, inharmonious, unsuitable, unsuited |
| Main Entry: | compensation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | repayment; rectification |
| Synonyms: | advantage, allowance, amends, atonement, benefit, bonus, bread*, consideration, coverage, deserts*, earnings, fee*, gain, honorarium, indemnity, meet, pay, payment, payoff, premium, profit, reciprocity, reckoning, recompense, redress, reimbursement, remuneration, reparation, reprisal, requital, restitution, reward, salary, salt, satisfaction, scale, settlement, shake, stipend, take*, wage, counterclaim, damages, defrayal, indemnification, quittance, recoupment, remittal, remittance, take-home |
| Antonyms: | damage, deprivation, fine, forfeiture, loss, penalty |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | conclave |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | secret meeting |
| Synonyms: | assembly, cabinet*, conference, council, encounter, gathering, get-together, huddle, meet, parley, powwow*, session, buzz session, confab, private meeting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | concur |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | agree, approve |
| Synonyms: | accede, accord, acquiesce, assent, band, coincide, collaborate, combine, consent, cooperate, cut a deal*, equal, harmonize, jibe*, join, league*, meet, okay*, unite, be consonant with, be in harmony, coadjute, come together, pass on, shake on |
| Antonyms: | argue, differ, disagree, disapprove, dispute, object, oppose, reject |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | confront |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | challenge |
| Synonyms: | accost, affront, beard, brave, call one's bluff, come up against, dare, defy, encounter, face down, face up to, face with, flout, front, go one-on-one, go up against, make my day, meet, meet eyeball-to-eyeball, oppose, repel, resist, scorn, stand up to, tell off, withstand |
| Antonyms: | back down |
| Main Entry: | congregate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | assemble, come together |
| Synonyms: | besiege, collect, concentrate, congress, convene, converge, convoke, corral, flock*, gather, mass, meet, muster, pack, raise, rally, rendezvous, round up, swarm, teem, throng, bunch up, forgather, gang around, gang up, hang out*, make the scene, meet up |
| Antonyms: | divide, scatter, separate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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