Antonyms for compose
kəmˈpoʊzcom·pose

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1. compose

   Allay and alleviate are closely kindred in signification, and have been often interchanged in usage. But, in strictness, to allay is to lay to rest, quiet or soothe that which is excited; to alleviate, on the other hand, is to lighten a burden. We allay suffering by using means to soothe and tranquilize the sufferer; we alleviate suffering by doing something toward removal of the cause, so that there is less to suffer; where the trouble is wholly or chiefly in the excitement, to allay the excitement is virtually to remove the trouble; as, to allay rage or panic; we alleviate poverty, but do not allay it. Pacify, directly from the Latin, and appease, from the Latin through the French, signify to bring to peace; to mollify is to soften; to calm, quiet, or tranquilize is to make still; compose, to place together, unite, adjust to a calm and settled condition; to soothe (originally to assent to, humor) is to bring to pleased quietude. We allay excitement, appease a tumult, calm agitation, compose our feelings or countenance, pacify the quarrelsome, quiet the boisterous or clamorous, soothe grief or distress. Compare ALLEVIATE.

   Antonyms:
   agitate, arouse, excite, fan, kindle, provoke, rouse, stir, stir up

   Synonyms:
   allay, alleviate, appease, calm, mollify, pacify, quiet, soothe, still, tranquilize

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1. compose

   Antonyms:
   analyze, awaken, stir, dissect, criticise, irritate, excite

   Synonyms:
   construct, compile, soothe, allay, calm, put together, constitute, draw up, frame, form, pacify, mitigate, settle, adjust, write

Matched Categories

1. • Calm
   • Make
   • Make Up
   • Plan

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. composeverb

   form the substance of

   "Greed and ambition composed his personality"

   Synonyms:
   compile, frame, draw up, write, indite, pen

2. compose, writeverb

   write music

   "Beethoven composed nine symphonies"

   Synonyms:
   spell, save, draw up, pen, publish, indite, compile, frame, drop a line, write

3. write, compose, pen, inditeverb

   produce a literary work

   "She composed a poem"; "He wrote four novels"

   Synonyms:
   spell, draw up, pen, compile, save, indite, publish, frame, drop a line, write

4. compose, compileverb

   put together out of existing material

   "compile a list"

   Synonyms:
   accumulate, pile up, draw up, pen, hoard, indite, collect, compile, amass, frame, write, roll up

5. composeverb

   calm (someone, especially oneself); make quiet

   "She had to compose herself before she could reply to this terrible insult"

   Synonyms:
   compile, frame, draw up, write, indite, pen

6. frame, compose, draw upverb

   make up plans or basic details for

   "frame a policy"

   Synonyms:
   put, cast, haul up, frame in, ensnare, frame, set up, frame up, write, redact, border, draw up, couch, indite, pen, entrap, compile, pull up, straighten up

How to use compose in a sentence?

1. Tamara Simmons:

   I am a pianist, i compose some of my own original music. One of my most known compositions is called' Dreams Are Forever.'.

2. Cat Ellington:

   If God ever commands the spirit of wisdom to depart from me, well, I reckon that I'll never be able to compose the written word again. Not in music, and not in literature. If there is a blank page before me, it wouldn't matter if my right hand held a thousand dollar ink pen from the House of Montblanc, or an ink pen branded Paper Mate, not one word would be jotted from the ink of either or, and the page would remain blank.

3. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova:

   A new situation for me, semifinals of a Grand Slam, so, yeah, I was nervous. But who isn’t at this point? I was just trying to compose my nerves as well as I could.

4. Moris kk:

   Use online tutoring services if you don't find anything to compose your academic paper or homework.

5. Joaquin Quinonero Candela:

   It’s somewhere in some photo [collection] a friend of mine took but in a few years I will have forgotten who took it, we’re doing research on cracking the image open and understanding it at the individual pixel level. This is called image segmentation. We’re building the ability to understand the individual objects that compose an image.

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