Synonyms 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

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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.

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

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

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1. compassnoun

   Synonyms:
   area, enclosure, circuit, circumference, horizon

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

2. compassverb

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

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

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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

Matched Categories

1. • Achieve
   • Circle
   • Navigational Instrument
   • Understand

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1. compassverb

   Synonyms:
   encompass, environ, surround, encircle, enclose, engird, compass about

2. compassverb

   Synonyms:
   besiege, invest, beset, hem in, hedge in, wall in, lay siege to

3. compassverb

   Synonyms:
   attain, obtain, procure, accomplish, effect, perform, achieve, consummate, realize, carry, bring about, bring to pass

4. compassverb

   Synonyms:
   (Law.) meditate, contrive, plot, purpose, intend, devise

5. compassnoun

   Synonyms:
   stretch, reach, extent, range

6. compassnoun

   Synonyms:
   circuit, round, circular course

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1. compassnoun

   Associated words:
   binnacle, gimbal

2. compassnoun

   Synonyms:
   extent, reach, sweep

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1. List of paraphrases for "compass":

   compas, boussole, kompas

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1. COMPASS

   Synonyms:
   COMPArative trial of Saruplase vs Streptokinase

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How to use compass in a sentence?

1. RJ Intindola:

   Intuition is like a compass that guides your decision-making process when answers are not readily available.

2. Aloo Denish Obiero:

   Vision without a purposeful mission is a ship without a compass, drifting aimlessly in the sea of aspirations.

3. Suzy Kassem:

   Humanity is lost because people have abandoned using their conscience as their compass.

4. Peter Maurer:

   It failed as a humanitarian organization because it had lost its moral compass, it failed... by responding to the outrageous with standard procedures, it looked on helplessly and silently...

5. William J. H. Boetcker:

   A man without religion or spiritual vision is like a captain who finds himself in the midst of an uncharted sea, without compass, rudder and steering wheel. He never knows where he is, which way he is going and where he is going to land.