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organism - 11 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | organism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | living thing |
| Synonyms: | animal, being, body, creature, entity, person, plant, structure, morphon |
| Antonyms: | concept, inanimate |
| Main Entry: | synthesis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | combining; combination |
| Synonyms: | amalgam, blend, composite, compound, construction, entirety, fusion, integration, organism, organization, structure, unification, union, unit, whole, amalgamation, building a whole, coalescence, constructing, forming, integrating, making one, welding |
| Notes: | analysis is breaking down or taking apart; synthesis is bringing together |
| Antonyms: | division, separation |
| Main Entry: | whole |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | total made up of parts |
| Synonyms: | aggregate, aggregation, all, amount, assemblage, assembly, being, big picture, body, bulk, coherence, combination, complex, ensemble, entirety, entity, everything, fullness, gross, integral, jackpot*, lot, lump, oneness, organism, organization, piece, quantity, quantum, result, sum, summation, supply, system, totality, unit, unity, collectivity, hook line and sinker, linkage, lock stock and barrel, sum total, the works, whole ball of wax, whole enchilada, whole nine yards, whole shebang |
| Antonyms: | part |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | embryo |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fetus |
| Synonyms: | egg, incipient, nucleus, organism |
| Main Entry: | flesh and blood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | offspring or relatives |
| Synonyms: | clay, family, kin, kith and kin, offspring, organism, blood relative, children, consanguinean, kids, relatives, uterine kin |
| Main Entry: | entity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | object that exists |
| Synonyms: | article, being, body, creature, existence, individual, item, material, matter, organism, presence, quantity, single, something, stuff, subsistence, substance, thing, singleton |
| Antonyms: | abstract, concept, idea |
| Main Entry: | organization |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | arrangement, arranging |
| Synonyms: | alignment, assembly, composition, configuration, conformation, constitution, construction, design, disposal, format, formation, framework, harmony, institution, making, management, method, methodology, organism, pattern, plan, planning, regulation, running, situation, standard, standardization, structure, symmetry, system, unity, whole, assembling, chemistry, coordination, forming, formulation, grouping, make-up, organizing, structuring |
| Antonyms: | disorganization |
| Main Entry: | fact |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | event; detail of action |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, act, action, actuality, adventure, affair, being, case, circumstance, conception, consideration, construction, creation, data, deed, entity, episode, evidence, experience, factor, fait accompli, feature, happening, incident, information, item, manifestation, occurrence, organism, particular, performance, phenomenon, point, proceeding, specific, transaction, truism, datum, statistic |
| Antonyms: | lie |
| Main Entry: | being |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | animate object |
| Synonyms: | animal, beast, body, creature, entity, human, human being, individual, mortal, organism, person, personage, soul, thing, conscious thing, living thing |
| Antonyms: | abstract, inanimate |
| Main Entry: | life |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | being |
| Synonyms: | animal, animation, body, breath, consciousness, continuance, creature, endurance, entity, essence, existence, flesh, flesh and blood*, growth, human, human being, individual, living, man, mortal, organism, person, personage, presence, soul, subsistence, survival, vitality, woman, animateness, living being, living thing, metabolism, mortal being, substantiality, symbiosis, viability, vital spark, wildlife |
| Antonyms: | death, inanimacy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bacteria |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | microorganisms |
| Synonyms: | bacilli, germs, microbes, organisms, pathogens |
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