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movement - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | movement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | motion, activity |
| Synonyms: | act, action, advance, agitation, alteration, change, changing, deed, development, evolution, exercise, flight, flow, flux, gesture, journey, locomotion, maneuver, migration, mobility, move, moving, operation, passage, progress, progression, roaming, shift, stir, stirring, transit, undertaking, velocity, wandering, displacement, dynamism, evolving, journeying, motility, movableness, operativeness, regression, shifting, steps, transferal, translating, transplanting, voyaging |
| Antonyms: | cessation, halt, inaction, pause, stoppage, inactivity |
| Main Entry: | movement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | drive, campaign |
| Synonyms: | change, crusade, current, demonstration, drift, evolution, faction, flight, flow, front, group, march, organization, party, patrol, shift, sweep, swing, tendency, transfer, transition, trend, unrest, withdrawal, displacement, grouping, mobilization |
| Antonyms: | indifference |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | movement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
brachiating, catabatic, circumambient, coxinutant, cursorial, dextrosinistral, digitigrade, drawing, erratic, feirie, formicating, gestic, glad, in motion, irpe, irreptitious, laterigrade, left, mercurial, mobile, motile, motive, motory, movable, moving, murgeoning, nomadic, paradromic, pedestrious, pinnigrade, proal, projectile, pronograde, propelled, propelling, propulsive, recoiling, rectigrade, reptant, restless, shanks', sinistrodextral, subsultive, sure, transitional, unquiet, vermigrade, viaggiatory, wandle
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| Main Entry: | campaign |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | attempt to win; attack |
| Synonyms: | crusade, drive, expedition, fight, movement, offensive, operation, push, warfare |
| Main Entry: | conveyance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | transport |
| Synonyms: | car, carriage, communication, machine, movement, transfer, transmission, transportation, vehicle, carrying, transference |
| Antonyms: | hold, possession |
| Main Entry: | crusade |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | campaign for cause |
| Synonyms: | cause, demonstration, drive, evangelism, expedition, holy war, march, movement, push, jihad |
| Main Entry: | earthquake |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tremor from inside the earth |
| Synonyms: | convulsion, fault, movement, quake, seism, shake, shock, slip, undulation, upheaval, macroseism, microseism, quaker, seimicity, seismism, temblor, trembler* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | excitement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enthusiasm; incitement |
| Synonyms: | action, activity, ado, adventure, agitation, animation, bother, buzz*, commotion, confusion, disturbance, dither*, drama, elation, emotion, feeling, ferment, fever, flurry, frenzy, furor, fuss, heat*, hubbub*, hullabaloo*, hurry, hysteria, impulse, instigation, intoxication, motivation, motive, movement, passion, perturbation, provocation, rage, stimulation, stimulus, stir, thrill, titillation, to-do*, trepidation, tumult, turmoil, urge, warmth, discomposure, excitation, kicks, melodrama, wildness |
| Antonyms: | apathy, boredom, calm, calmness, dullness, lull, peace |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | flow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | issue, abundance |
| Synonyms: | breeze, continuance, continuation, continuity, course, current, deluge, discharge, draft, draw, dribble, drift, ebb, effusion, electricity, emanation, flood, flux, gush, juice, movement, outflow, outpouring, plenty, plethora, progress, progression, river, run, sequence, series, spate, spout, spurt, stream, succession, tide, train, wind, leakage, oozing |
| Antonyms: | trickle |
| Main Entry: | gait |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | way an animal or person moves, walks |
| Synonyms: | amble, bearing, canter, carriage, clip, gallop, get along, lick, march, motion, movement, pace, run, speed, step, stride, tread, trot, walk |
| Notes: | a gait is a person's manner of walking or a horse's manner of moving; a gate is a door-like movable barrier in a fence or wall, or the total admission receipts at a sports or entertainment event |
| Main Entry: | move |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | progress, deed |
| Synonyms: | act, action, alteration, change, maneuver, measure, modification, motion, movement, ploy, procedure, proceeding, shift, step, stir, stirring, stratagem, stroke, turn, variation |
| Antonyms: | idleness, inaction, stagnation, inactivity, regression |
| Main Entry: | proceeding |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | undertaking, course of action |
| Synonyms: | act, action, adventure, casualty, circumstance, come off, deed, exercise, experiment, happening, incident, maneuver, measure, move, movement, occurrence, operation, performance, procedure, process, step, transaction, venture, go-down, goings-on |
| Main Entry: | process |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | method; series of actions to achieve result |
| Synonyms: | action, advance, case, course, development, evolution, fashion, formation, growth, manner, means, measure, mechanism, mode, modus operandi, movement, operation, outgrowth, performance, practice, procedure, proceeding, progress, progression, red tape*, routine, rule, stage, step, suit, system, technique, transaction, trial, way, wise, working, channels, course of action, unfolding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | procession |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | parade, sequence |
| Synonyms: | advance, cavalcade, column, cortege, course, cycle, file, march, motorcade, movement, order, process, run, series, string, succession, train, autocade, consecution |
| Main Entry: | progress |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | advancement, gain |
| Synonyms: | advance, betterment, boost, break, breakthrough, buildup, course, dash, development, evolution, expedition, flowering, growth, headway, hike, impetus, improvement, increase, journey, lunge, march, momentum, motion, movement, ongoing, pace, passage, process, procession, proficiency, progression, promotion, rate, rise, stride, tour, voyage, way, amelioration, anabasis, evolvement, step forward, unfolding |
| Antonyms: | decline, decrease, deterioration, retreat, retrogression |
| Main Entry: | restlessness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | constant motion; discontent |
| Synonyms: | activity, agitation, ailment, anxiety, bustle, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, ferment, hurry, insomnia, instability, jitters, movement, nervousness, turbulence, turmoil, uneasiness, unrest, ants, antsiness, edginess, excitability, fitfulness, fretfulness, inconstancy, inquietude, jumpiness, restiveness, transience, unsettledness, worriedness |
| Antonyms: | calm, relaxation, contentedness, restfulness |
| Main Entry: | rhythm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beat, accent of sound, music |
| Synonyms: | bounce, cadence, downbeat, flow, lilt, measure, meter, movement, pattern, pulse, regularity, rhyme, swing, tempo, time, uniformity, cadency, metre, periodicity, rise and fall |
| Main Entry: | signal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indication; authorization |
| Synonyms: | alarm, alert, beacon, cue, flag, flare, gesture, go-ahead*, green light*, high sign*, indicator, mark, movement, nod, okay*, omen, sign, tocsin, token, wink, Mayday, SOS, bleep, blinker |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | stir |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | commotion, excitement |
| Synonyms: | activity, ado, agitation, backwash*, bustle, din, disorder, disquiet, disturbance, ferment, flap*, flurry, furor, fuss, movement, pandemonium, pother, racket, row, scene, to-do*, tumult, turmoil, uproar, whirl, whirlwind |
| Antonyms: | calm, calmness, moderation, peace |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tide |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flow, current |
| Synonyms: | course, direction, drag, drift, ebb, eddy, flood, flux, movement, race, run, rush, sluice, spate, stream, tendency, torrent, trend, undercurrent, undertow, vortex, wave, whirlpool |
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