Synonyms and Antonyms for action
1. action (n.)
something done (usually as opposed to something said)
- benignity
- res gestae
- selection
- saving
- carrying out
- reference
- human action
- resistance
- destabilization
- emphasizing
- vampirism
- reverence
- deed
- employment
- aggression
- execution
- civility
- jump-start
- engagement
- human activity
- pickings
- application
- destabilisation
- bruxism
- achievement
- politeness
- performance
- playing
- economy
- arrival
- play
- forbiddance
- option
- transfusion
- hostility
- pick
- consultation
- prohibition
- choice
- inhibition
- carrying into action
- opposition
- jumpstart
- swordplay
- kindness
- change
- interaction
- course
- beatification
- taking
- accomplishment
- accenting
- thing
- accentuation
- transgression
- stupefaction
- alienation
- act
- fetch
- course of action
3. action (n.)
a military engagement
4. action (n.)
a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings)
- magnetization
- oxygenation
- feedback
- softening
- aeration
- dissolution
- selection
- disintegration
- demagnetization
- leaching
- decay
- absorption
- electrophoresis
- source
- concretion
- natural process
- desorption
- chromatography
- survival
- chemical process
- materialization
- antiredeposition
- establishment
- coagulation
- activity
- release
- scattering
- set
- oscillation
- transpiration
- materialisation
- fossilisation
- synergy
- stiffening
- geologic process
- synergism
- clotting
- chemical action
- rigidifying
- pair formation
- chemical change
- centrifugation
- filtration
- phase transition
- phase change
- rigidification
- ecesis
- sorption
- natural selection
- curdling
- state change
- ionisation
- precession of the equinoxes
- succession
- ionization
- formation
- sink
- magnetisation
- physical change
- ecological succession
- soakage
- soaking
- survival of the fittest
- pair production
- flocculation
- hardening
- saltation
- extinction
- physical process
- cataphoresis
- distillment
- ion exchange
- stimulation
- extraction
- sericulture
- dielectrolysis
- leach
- magnetic induction
- temperature change
- adiabatic process
- pair creation
- diffusion
- solidification
- process
- distillation
- geological process
- convection
- demagnetisation
- vitrification
- transduction
- effervescence
- soak
- inactivation
- radiation
- solidifying
- acidification
- opacification
- fossilization
- capture
- drift
- nuclear reaction
- curing
- condensation
- flow
- ionophoresis
- natural action
5. action (n.)
the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism
6. action (n.)
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
8. action (n.)
the trait of being active and energetic and forceful
9. action (n.)
an act by a government body or supranational organization
10. action (v.)
put in effect
