Synonyms for compact
ˈkɒm pæktcom·pact

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1. compact

   Alliance is in its most common use a connection formed by treaty between sovereign states as for mutual aid in war. Partnership is a mercantile word; alliance chiefly political or matrimonial. Coalition is oftenest used of political parties; fusion is now the more common word in this sense. In an alliance between nations there is no surrender of sovereignty, and no union except for a specified time and purpose. League and alliance are used with scarcely perceptible difference of meaning. In a confederacy or confederation there is an attempt to unite separate states in a general government without surrender of sovereignty. Union implies so much concession as to make the separate states substantially one. Federation is mainly a poetic and rhetorical word expressing something of the same thought, as in Tennyson's "federation of the world," Locksley Hall, l. 128. The United States is not a confederacy nor an alliance; the nation might be called a federation, but prefers to be styled a federal union.

   Synonyms:
   alliance, coalition, confederacy, confederation, federation, fusion, league, partnership, union

   Antonyms:
   antagonism, discord, disunion, divorce, enmity, hostility, schism, secession, separation, war

   Preposition:
   Alliance with a neighboring people; against the common enemy; for offense and defense; alliance of, between, or among nations.

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1. compact

   Synonyms:
   dense, close, hard, solid, firm, pithy, concise, condensed, contracted, compendious, convenient, concentrated, consolidated, concrete

   Antonyms:
   ductile, brittle, friable, diffuse, unshapely, straggling, sparse, broadcast, dispread

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1. compact, powder compactnoun

   a small cosmetics case with a mirror; to be carried in a woman's purse

   Synonyms:
   powder compact, covenant, concordat, compact car

   Antonyms:
   shifting, silty, tall, light, loose, unfirm, prolix, unconsolidated

2. covenant, compact, concordatnoun

   a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action

   Synonyms:
   powder compact, covenant, concordat, compact car

   Antonyms:
   silty, tall, unfirm, light, prolix, loose, unconsolidated, shifting

3. compact, compact caradjective

   a small and economical car

   Synonyms:
   powder compact, covenant, concordat, compact car

   Antonyms:
   unconsolidated, shifting, tall, unfirm, light, silty, loose, prolix

4. compactadjective

   closely and firmly united or packed together

   "compact soil"; "compact clusters of flowers"

   Synonyms:
   succinct, thickset, summary, heavyset, compendious, thick, stocky

   Antonyms:
   shifting, silty, unfirm, prolix, loose, light, unconsolidated, tall

5. compact, heavyset, stocky, thick, thicksetadjective

   having a short and solid form or stature

   "a wrestler of compact build"; "he was tall and heavyset"; "stocky legs"; "a thickset young man"

   Synonyms:
   dense, duncical, duncish, wooden-headed, thickheaded, boneheaded, loggerheaded, blockheaded, summary, chummy, thick-skulled, thickset, deep, stocky, succinct, compendious, heavyset, buddy-buddy, thick(p), fatheaded, thick, slurred

   Antonyms:
   unconsolidated, light, unfirm, silty, loose, shifting, tall, prolix

6. compendious, compact, succinct, summaryverb

   briefly giving the gist of something

   "a short and compendious book"; "a compact style is brief and pithy"; "succinct comparisons"; "a summary formulation of a wide-ranging subject"

   Synonyms:
   stocky, succinct, thickset, thick, summary, heavyset, drumhead, compendious

   Antonyms:
   silty, tall, shifting, unfirm, light, prolix, loose, unconsolidated

7. compact, packverb

   have the property of being packable or of compacting easily

   "This powder compacts easily"; "Such odd-shaped items do not pack well"

   Synonyms:
   mob, wad, pile, backpack, constrict, pack, press, carry, load down, tamp, tamp down, bundle, pack together, squeeze, compress, contract, take, throng, jam

   Antonyms:
   unfirm, prolix, loose, tall, silty, shifting, unconsolidated, light

8. pack, bundle, wad, compactverb

   compress into a wad

   "wad paper into the box"

   Synonyms:
   mob, wad, pile, cluster, backpack, bunch up, jampack, pack together, pack, press, bunch, bundle up, ram, tamp, clump, roll up, load down, tamp down, bundle, chock up, throng, contract, take, carry, squeeze, cram, constrict, practice bundling, compress, jam

   Antonyms:
   prolix, tall, light, silty, unconsolidated, loose, shifting, unfirm

9. compress, compact, pack togetherverb

   make more compact by or as if by pressing

   "compress the data"

   Synonyms:
   bundle, press, squeeze, pack, contract, pack together, wad, compress, constrict

   Antonyms:
   silty, unfirm, unconsolidated, shifting, prolix, light, loose, tall

10. compress, constrict, squeeze, compact, contract, pressverb

    squeeze or press together

    "she compressed her lips"; "the spasm contracted the muscle"

    Synonyms:
    fight, adjure, weigh, pressure, crush, narrow, thrust, get, rack, cut, pack together, foreshorten, undertake, hale, press, twitch, pack, gouge, tweet, embrace, bundle, agitate, force, pinch, shove, weight-lift, sign up, sign on, twinge, compress, urge, hug, shrink, concentrate, campaign, sign, abridge, reduce, take, condense, contract, iron, crusade, extort, stuff, urge on, squeeze, beseech, squash, constringe, exhort, wring, mash, coerce, wad, bid, push, bosom, wedge, entreat, shorten, squelch, abbreviate, conjure, constrict, press out, weightlift, iron out

    Antonyms:
    prolix, silty, shifting, loose, tall, unconsolidated, unfirm, light

Matched Categories

1. • Arrange
   • Case
   • Tighten
   • Written Agreement

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1. space-efficient

   space-efficient = working inside a small amount of space.

   this warehouse is (space-efficient or compact)

   Submitted by rinat on September 4, 2019  

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1. compactnoun

   Synonyms:
   agreement, contract, covenant, stipulation, bargain, treaty, concordat, convention, pact, arrangement

2. compactverb

   Synonyms:
   consolidate, condense, compress, join closely, press together

3. compactadjective

   Synonyms:
   close, dense, solid, firm, compressed, pressed together, closely put together, of firm texture

4. compactadjective

   Synonyms:
   pithy, terse, concise, laconic, sententious, short, brief, compendious, succinct, pointed, full of meaning, not loose, not verbose, not prolix

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1. compactadjective

   Synonyms:
   close, solid, dense, crowded, impenetrable, serried

2. compactnoun

   Synonyms:
   covenant, agreement, pact, treaty, contract

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1. List of paraphrases for "compact":

   covenant, pact, slim, thin, slimline, small-footprint, space-saving, iccpr, compacted, icescr, agreement

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1. Shree Nayar:

   What we have done is a calculation that shows that you can take the same design and make a compact image sensor chip with it. Of course that chip would be able to capture less light and therefore harvest less energy, because it is smaller. But it turns out when you make it a chip it also consumes less power.

2. Sally Hyesoon Jeong:

   The amazing thing with the foldable technology is that it can also become more compact like this, incredible, right?

3. Spencer Little:

   That gap is closing quite quickly, and we're expecting that trend to continue to be driven by the smaller, compact SUVs, they're more versatile - families love them. Their price is lower, they're smaller than the larger SUV models but still roomy.

4. Van Eck:

   We targeted genes that we knew from our experience could make the plant more compact and manageable, farmers have been saying,' if you can just get them to behave, we'd be growing acres of these.'.

5. Kevin Rein:

   In the 99-year history of the compact, we have complied with those provisions of the compact, they are getting what they agreed to.