Antonyms for compass
ˈkʌm pəscom·pass

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1. compassverb

   Synonyms:
   encircle, cover, environ, achieve, gain, scheme, surround, attain, get, plot, traverse, conspire, reach, accomplish

2. compassverb

   To surround; to encircle; to environ; to stretch round.

   Synonyms:
   surround, achieve, gain, traverse, encircle, attain, cover, scheme, conspire, environ, accomplish, plot, get, reach

3. compassverb

   A pair of compasses (a device used to draw an arc or circle).

   Synonyms:
   plot, get, scheme, achieve, reach, gain, attain, accomplish, surround, traverse, environ, encircle, conspire, cover

4. compassverb

   The range of notes of a musical instrument or voice.

   Synonyms:
   scheme, conspire, achieve, get, plot, traverse, reach, gain, cover, encircle, environ, surround, attain, accomplish

5. compassnoun

   A space within limits; area.

   Synonyms:
   reach, traverse, conspire, get, surround, scheme, environ, plot, gain, achieve, attain, accomplish, encircle, cover

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 3 votes

1. compass

   A person may obtain a situation by the intercession of friends, he procures a dinner by paying for it. Attain is a lofty word, pointing to some high or desirable result; a man attains the mountain summit, he attains honor or learning as the result of strenuous and earnest labor. Even that usage of attain which has been thought to refer to mere progress of time carries the thought of a result desired; as, to attain to old age; the man desires to live to a good old age; we should not speak of his attaining his dotage. One may attain an object that will prove not worth his labor, but what he achieves is in itself great and splendid; as, the Greeks at Marathon achieved a glorious victory. Compare DO; GET; REACH.

   Antonyms:
   abandon, fail, forfeit, give up, let go, lose, miss

   Synonyms:
   accomplish, achieve, acquire, arrive at, attain, earn, gain, get, grasp, master, obtain, procure, reach, secure, win

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.0 / 2 votes

1. compassnoun

   Antonyms:
   common, space, tract, expanse, boundlessness, limitlessness, indefiniteness

   Synonyms:
   area, enclosure, circuit, circumference, horizon

2. compassverb

   Antonyms:
   expand, disband, unfold, amplify, display, dismiss, liberate, discard, fail, bungle, botch, misconceive, mismanage, misconstrue

   Synonyms:
   encompass, surround, enclose, environ, circumscribe, embrace, achieve, effect, effectuate, consummate, complete, circumvent

Matched Categories

1. • Achieve
   • Circle
   • Navigational Instrument
   • Understand

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.8 / 6 votes

1. compassnoun

   navigational instrument for finding directions

   Synonyms:
   range, reach, ambit, grasp, orbit, scope

2. scope, range, reach, orbit, compass, ambitnoun

   an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet"

   "a piano has a greater range than the human voice"; "the ambit of municipal legislation"; "within the compass of this article"; "within the scope of an investigation"; "outside the reach of the law"; "in the political orbit of a world power"

   Synonyms:
   oscilloscope, background, sphere, electron orbit, scope, ambit, range, stove, eye socket, kitchen range, setting, area, range of a function, orbital cavity, grasp, cooking stove, chain, mountain range, reaching, range of mountains, stretch, kitchen stove, chain of mountains, cathode-ray oscilloscope, mountain chain, image, telescope, reach, domain, cranial orbit, arena, field, orbit, celestial orbit

3. compass, range, reach, graspnoun

   the limit of capability

   "within the compass of education"

   Synonyms:
   clutch, chain, appreciation, clench, orbit, reach, range of mountains, ambit, clutches, hold, range of a function, range, image, kitchen range, stretch, chain of mountains, kitchen stove, scope, clasp, reaching, mountain chain, grip, grasp, cooking stove, stove, mountain range

4. compassverb

   drafting instrument used for drawing circles

   Synonyms:
   range, reach, ambit, grasp, orbit, scope

5. compassverb

   bring about; accomplish

   "This writer attempts more than his talents can compass"

   Synonyms:
   dig, circumnavigate, savvy, grok, apprehend, get the picture, comprehend, grasp

6. circumnavigate, compassverb

   travel around, either by plane or ship

   "We compassed the earth"

   Synonyms:
   dig, circumnavigate, savvy, apprehend, grok, get the picture, comprehend, grasp

7. grok, get the picture, comprehend, savvy, dig, grasp, compass, apprehendverb

   get the meaning of something

   "Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?"

   Synonyms:
   quail at, delve, embrace, toil, grind, dig, nail, drudge, moil, encompass, dig up, arrest, jab, poke, cut into, nab, collar, grasp, prod, travail, labour, get the picture, hollow, stab, apprehend, cop, hold on, comprehend, turn over, excavate, pick up, perceive, cover, savvy, labor, grok, circumnavigate, dig out

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. compassnoun

   Associated words:
   binnacle, gimbal

2. compassnoun

   Synonyms:
   extent, reach, sweep

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. COMPASS

   Synonyms:
   COMPArative trial of Saruplase vs Streptokinase

How to use compass in a sentence?

1. Sophocles:

   Death is not the worst rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

2. Lawrence Jones:

   I really want to serve them, but also, that is like my compass. If the people back home can’t understand the content I’m putting out, then I’m really not serving the audience.

3. Lanhee Chen:

   Utah Sen. Mitt Romney's got a pretty strong moral compass.

4. European Economic Commissioner Pierre Moscovici:

   The Commission has but one compass, that of the growth and stability pact, and rules should be implemented, concerning Greece, we have another compass, the adoption of the memorandum of understanding and the (reform) program. Nothing should make us loosen these reforms.

5. LaDawnna Burnett, (1975-), Letters on Ethics:

   Shame is that intrinsic meter of our own heart to tell us that we have failed to follow our own moral compass.

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