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. Susan Rose-Ackerman:

   It is reflective of his own moral compass. It is showing the way in which he thinks about his role as president, it isn't tied so much to a million dollars here or a million dollars there. It's tied to his perspective about what it means to be president -- that he sees it as giving him free range to do things.

2. Leonardo da Vinci, The Wisdom of Leonardo da Vinci:

   Those who become enamored of practices without science are like sailors who go aboard ship without a rudder and compass, for they are never certain where they will land.

3. Robert Southey:

   I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, that they might look bigger and more attempting. In like manner I made the most of my enjoyment s: and through I do not cast my cares away, I pack them in as little compass as I can, and carry them as conveniently as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.

4. Agata Ludwiczak:

   Think about hiking, when you're setting out on an adventure, you need your backpack, supplies and equipment, but you also need a compass to tell you where you're heading. Without one or the other it is not likely to be a very successful trip.

5. Cormac McCarthy:

   The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any other part. Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man's mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others.

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