Definition for Act:

• That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.

Synonyms for Act:

• n.

  •
  • treat,
  • conform,
  • accord,
  • compensate.
  •
  • proposal,
  • judgment,
  • subpoena,
  • document,
  • commitment,
  • order,
  • bull,
  • summons,
  • code,
  • ordinance,
  • writ,
  • clown,
  • verdict.
  •
  • finale,
  • curtain,
  • interlude,
  • epilogue,
  • introduction.
  •
  • monologue.
  •
  • affectation.
  •
  • denouement.
  •
  • deceit,
  • corruption,
  • deception,
  • duplicity,
  • guile,
  • dishonesty,
  • misconduct.
  •
  • honest,
  • true.
  •
  • replace,
  • swap,
  • change,
  • relieve,
  • succeed,
  • substitute,
  • renew,
  • supersede.
  •
  • understudy,
  • COSTAR,
  • portray.
  •
  • interact,
  • get,
  • put,
  • impact,
  • take effect.
  •act (noun)
  • dissemble,
  • bit,
  • enactment,
  • play,
  • represent,
  • number,
  • DO.
  •act up (noun)
  • front,
  • gig,
  • resolution,
  • pretence,
  • execution,
  • exploit,
  • undertaking,
  • misbehave,
  • accomplishment,
  • make-believe,
  • ruling,
  • stroke,
  • manoeuvre,
  • put on an act.
  •behavior (noun)
  • way of life.
  •legislative document (noun)
  • announcement,
  • warrant.
  •motion (noun)
  • motion.
  •move (noun)
  • moves.

• v.

  •act (verb)
  • endeavor,
  • labor,
  • appear,
  • transact,
  • enterprise,
  • comport.
  •appear (verb)
  • carry oneself.
  •behave (verb)
  • practice,
  • proceed,
  • deport.
  •behave in a certain way (verb)
  • strike,
  • represent oneself,
  • carry,
  • exert,
  • give the appearance,
  • take on,
  • seem,
  • impress as.
  •cause (verb)
  • effect,
  • force,
  • evoke,
  • engender,
  • cause,
  • inspire,
  • elicit,
  • originate,
  • bring about,
  • motivate,
  • induce,
  • enforce,
  • engineer,
  • give rise to,
  • provoke,
  • generate,
  • drive.
  •do something (verb)
  • create,
  • respond,
  • work out,
  • persist,
  • develop,
  • take steps,
  • begin,
  • preside,
  • make progress,
  • transort,
  • persevere,
  • maneuver,
  • consummate,
  • take part,
  • carry on,
  • serve,
  • accomplish,
  • undertake,
  • percolate,
  • cook,
  • intrude,
  • get in there,
  • pursue,
  • perk.
  •dramatize (verb)
  • choreograph,
  • mime,
  • burlesque,
  • present,
  • improvise,
  • characterize.
  •endeavor (verb)
  • attempt,
  • volunteer,
  • aim,
  • approach,
  • engage,
  • contract,
  • assay,
  • venture.
  •entertain by playing a role (verb)
  • go over,
  • play gig,
  • parody,
  • say one's piece,
  • emote,
  • put it over,
  • feign,
  • make debut,
  • bring down the house,
  • personify,
  • strut,
  • ham,
  • be on,
  • mug,
  • ham it up.
  •venture (verb)
  • initiate,
  • scheme,
  • campaign.
  •work (verb)
  • toil.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • contortionist,
  • impersonator,
  • stooge,
  • stripper,
  • commune,
  • jurisdiction,
  • demean,
  • cast,
  • longueur,
  • revival,
  • subtext,
  • comedian,
  • costa,
  • canton,
  • staging,
  • soliloquy,
  • prohibition,
  • comic,
  • flyover,
  • demonstration,
  • obey,
  • quotation,
  • east,
  • loophole,
  • pageant,
  • parish,
  • dame,
  • production,
  • matinee,
  • booking,
  • conjurer,
  • postscript,
  • shire,
  • headliner,
  • curfew,
  • backstory,
  • tradition,
  • troubadour,
  • play-act,
  • pyrotechnics,
  • commonwealth,
  • showman,
  • star,
  • assize,
  • appearance,
  • showstopper,
  • highlands,
  • artiste,
  • Lex,
  • subtitle,
  • carry out,
  • comedienne,
  • colonia,
  • doings,
  • spoiler,
  • troupe,
  • leaven,
  • Dissemblance,
  • formality,
  • Theatricals,
  • northwest,
  • acrobat,
  • filler,
  • debut,
  • marches,
  • reservation,
  • go about.
  •
  • clause,
  • handiwork,
  • art,
  • stand,
  • course,
  • setting,
  • division,
  • impressionist,
  • oppose,
  • contrivance,
  • justice,
  • simulation,
  • aside,
  • prologue,
  • draw,
  • technicality,
  • artist,
  • amendment,
  • department,
  • happening,
  • ending.
  •
  • interest,
  • discharge,
  • lead,
  • part,
  • plot,
  • masquerade,
  • proposition.
  •
  • counterfeit,
  • claim,
  • disguise,
  • content,
  • sketch.
  •
  • acting.
  •
  • support.
  •
  • have.
  •
  • take.
  •
  • thing.
  •
  • give.
  •exist
  • be.
  •Other relevant words:
  • bidding,
  • fight,
  • bearing,
  • epistle,
  • dealings,
  • strut one's stuff,
  • imitate,
  • determination,
  • impersonation,
  • fare,
  • manufacture,
  • indulge in,
  • arrogant,
  • rubric,
  • have effect,
  • afterpiece,
  • interpret,
  • institution,
  • poise,
  • walk,
  • mischievously,
  • bring,
  • appendage,
  • feature,
  • By-law,
  • call,
  • rant,
  • curtain call,
  • corpus juris,
  • instantly,
  • facade,
  • dictation,
  • cloak,
  • send-up,
  • mo,
  • formula,
  • modus operandi,
  • stanza,
  • double,
  • working,
  • put on,
  • act up,
  • fill the bill,
  • suddenly,
  • caricature,
  • gammon,
  • flirt,
  • let,
  • play the game,
  • good turn,
  • manners,
  • mental process,
  • tactics,
  • exode,
  • reciprocate,
  • proclamation,
  • custom,
  • cognitive process,
  • wager,
  • portrayal,
  • handle,
  • spot,
  • unnatural,
  • be sufficient,
  • certainly,
  • play possum,
  • decision,
  • sharply,
  • mask,
  • fleet,
  • do something,
  • incident,
  • clearly,
  • mathematical process,
  • set,
  • operations,
  • satisfy,
  • endeavour,
  • mock,
  • charade,
  • theatrics,
  • engagement,
  • influence,
  • cavalier,
  • all right,
  • sustain,
  • false,
  • disport,
  • bite,
  • bear,
  • industrialize,
  • imposture,
  • displace,
  • attitude,
  • canon,
  • take off,
  • occurrence,
  • card,
  • figure out,
  • effectuate,
  • overproduce,
  • do work,
  • standing order,
  • manage,
  • glacial,
  • methods,
  • experience,
  • retaliate,
  • spell,
  • turn of events,
  • injunction,
  • title,
  • trick,
  • blow,
  • flake,
  • occupation,
  • fait accompli,
  • regulation,
  • let on like,
  • maintien,
  • ferment,
  • comport oneself,
  • playacting,
  • frigid,
  • take charge,
  • dramatise,
  • posture,
  • stratagem,
  • behest,
  • let on,
  • rule,
  • surgical process,
  • exertion,
  • cover,
  • chaser,
  • act on,
  • change location,
  • icy,
  • award,
  • fun,
  • dissimilation,
  • mass-produce,
  • twist,
  • be good,
  • make out,
  • realize,
  • patter,
  • airs,
  • get even,
  • legislature,
  • snatch,
  • bend,
  • modus vivendi,
  • serve as,
  • gallery,
  • stand for,
  • answer,
  • ENACTION,
  • spoof,
  • cold,
  • depict,
  • praxis,
  • fleck,
  • process,
  • presume to,
  • canon law,
  • confidently,
  • mandate,
  • frosty,
  • histrionics,
  • awkward,
  • correspond,
  • numeral,
  • phone number,
  • outgrowth,
  • gag,
  • Gestures,
  • revelation,
  • surgical procedure,
  • hand,
  • be of use,
  • lick,
  • touch,
  • Motions,
  • stall,
  • military operation,
  • bungling,
  • plan,
  • suit,
  • bungled,
  • dictum,
  • abruptly,
  • surely,
  • flatulence,
  • issue,
  • be involved in,
  • bombast,
  • adventure,
  • gasconade,
  • dissimulate,
  • stint,
  • coiffure,
  • locomote,
  • prescript,
  • overt act,
  • manner,
  • securely,
  • minute,
  • attainment,
  • practise,
  • actuate,
  • social science,
  • tour de force,
  • solve,
  • be of advantage,
  • symbolize,
  • repress,
  • attitudinizing,
  • false front,
  • twine,
  • carriage,
  • lampoon,
  • assuredly,
  • actions,
  • exhibit,
  • comportment,
  • realise,
  • norm,
  • knead,
  • wintry,
  • rodomontade,
  • prescription,
  • passage,
  • barnstorm,
  • profess,
  • suffice,
  • travel,
  • pass,
  • drama,
  • intermission,
  • air,
  • directive,
  • make for,
  • concurrent resolution,
  • bout,
  • get along,
  • pattern,
  • method,
  • res gestae,
  • hoax,
  • practises,
  • actually,
  • footling,
  • maintain,
  • ACTA,
  • positively,
  • bring into being,
  • wreak,
  • dictate,
  • subterfuge,
  • cultivate,
  • register,
  • tick,
  • device,
  • HUKM,
  • make as if,
  • work on,
  • well,
  • acts,
  • ruse,
  • deportment,
  • intermezzo,
  • charge,
  • coup,
  • participate,
  • moment,
  • make up,
  • employment,
  • satire,
  • encounter,
  • trifle,
  • come,
  • sue,
  • make a motion,
  • joint resolution,
  • presence,
  • LEX SCRIPTA,
  • perform on stage,
  • activism,
  • Emotionalize,
  • beck,
  • coup de main,
  • unexpectedly,
  • hazard,
  • ape,
  • passing,
  • have an effect,
  • methodology,
  • style,
  • functioning,
  • shape,
  • morsel,
  • Geste,
  • strain,
  • Worked,
  • quicken,
  • identification number,
  • frozen,
  • Behavioral Science,
  • symbolise,
  • precipitously,
  • playing,
  • example,
  • swing,
  • Formulary,
  • roleplay,
  • typify,
  • shuck and jive,
  • telephone number,
  • discourse,
  • be effective,
  • piece,
  • works,
  • undoubtedly,
  • map,
  • cover up,
  • prompt,
  • completion,
  • folkway,
  • camouflage,
  • puzzle out,
  • play-acting,
  • put to work,
  • judgement,
  • artificial,
  • way,
  • Hest,
  • snobbish,
  • dummy,
  • act the part of,
  • diddle,
  • presupposition,
  • artifice,
  • unconscious process,
  • personation,
  • Divertissement,
  • be productive,
  • form,
  • application,
  • do one's part,
  • mouthful,
  • stage,
  • tour,
  • tread the boards,
  • necessarily,
  • upstage,
  • attitudinize,
  • run things,
  • stitch,
  • constitution,
  • guise,
  • hastily,
  • second,
  • procedure,
  • take action,
  • etc,
  • have a place,
  • exodus,
  • make uniform,
  • bluff,
  • coiffe,
  • coif,
  • act as,
  • dish up,
  • playfully,
  • semblance,
  • incite,
  • spiel,
  • gimmick,
  • crop,
  • dress,
  • demeanor,
  • port,
  • cognitive operation,
  • pomposity,
  • subprogram,
  • shtick,
  • exemplify,
  • mathematical operation,
  • phony,
  • bow,
  • badly,
  • clumsy,
  • JUS,
  • re-create,
  • dido,
  • condescending,
  • assume,
  • Ordonnance,
  • stage direction,
  • divertimento,
  • comprise,
  • banal,
  • feigned,
  • precisely,
  • dally,
  • recreate,
  • be employed,
  • appear as,
  • copy,
  • travesty,
  • arrange,
  • prosecute,
  • pass for,
  • Firman,
  • ploy,
  • surgery,
  • take over,
  • be adequate,
  • tone,
  • deport oneself,
  • defend,
  • evangelist,
  • nod,
  • be suitable,
  • address,
  • dodge,
  • affectedness,
  • rescript,
  • mould,
  • scrap,
  • militate,
  • put into practice,
  • fiddle,
  • lay an egg,
  • round,
  • fiat,
  • sour,
  • fulfil,
  • act upon,
  • philippic,
  • consummation,
  • bluster,
  • subroutine,
  • crook,
  • impress,
  • fictitious,
  • definitely,
  • turgidity,
  • workings,
  • tirade,
  • propel,
  • be advantageous,
  • accuse,
  • surgical operation,
  • pretend to be,
  • commandment,
  • accomplished fact,
  • come out,
  • absolutely,
  • episode,
  • ad-lib,
  • reproduce,
  • bet,
  • turning,
  • arctic,
  • rhetoric,
  • summon,
  • guess,
  • figure,
  • sanction,
  • mold,
  • striptease,
  • constitute,
  • forge,
  • caper,
  • stupid,
  • maladroit,
  • song and dance,
  • toy,
  • meet,
  • characterization,
  • make a show of,
  • ways,
  • chip.

Paraphrases for Act:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    acts.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Cardinal number
    action.
  • Adjective
    acting.
  • Proper noun, singular
    acting, actions, action.
  • Noun, plural
    enactments, ordinances, edicts, acts, actions, action, legislations.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    acting, gesture, action.
  • Verb, base form
    action.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    proposals, accidents, reservations, thousands, handles, Negotiations, decorations, accounts, Motorcycles, Physicians, restrictions, Capita, additions, retailers, obstacles, victims, pollutants, Addenda, allowances, Guidelines, centres, Adjustments, Veterans, Foundations, therapies, directions, oceans, solutions, importers, Trustees, barriers, regions, regards, airports, offenders, reasons, demands, annexes, cheques, disputes, Students, aims, Subsidies, weapons, women, prisoners, covers, owners, IGS, lei, holders, bonds, expenses, models, ACTA.
  • Noun, plural
    Recommendations, consequences, Capabilities, incidents, Publications, sections, commissions, endeavours, strategies, estimates, products, Opportunities, Abilities, issues, chances, bylaws, immigrants, individuals, pieces, Efforts, authors, Plays, senators, serves, Charges, results, Grants, exemptions, electors, Pleadings, principes, citizens, courts, dossiers, claims, states, residents, examples, processes, Lawyers, Parents, limits, members, types, Shots, Lives, Bases, Capita, Guidelines, centres, offenders, reasons, women, prisoners, owners, lei.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    speakers, GIS, conducts, Capita, lei, ACTA, piece.
  • Verb, past tense
    acknowledged, Intervened, Created, engaged, Became, noted, laid, involved, formed, Gave, Did.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    reacting, Behaving, existing, according, Establishing, Influencing, concluding, Receiving, striking, Including, feeling, bringing, going.
  • Verb, past participle
    Enacted, criminalized, Operated, decreed, guaranteed, Undertaken, Attributed, Created, Construed, integrated, Generated, addressed, moved, Exercised, engaged, Performed, Influenced, announced, described, handled, Deployed, Served, called, Introduced, intended, left, registered, removed, disqualified, concerned, noted, Dealt, permitted, laid, placed, defined, Been, needed, involved, Viewed, found, Met, based.
  • Verb, non-3rd person singular present
    react.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    takes, places, Does, regards, legislations.
  • Verb, base form
    according, behave, react.

• Other Related

  • Verb, non-3rd person singular present
    proceed.
  • Verb, base form
    proceed.

Antonyms for Act:

• n.

  • part of a performance
    whole.
  • pretended behavior
    reality.
  • something done
    idleness, defeat, neglect, failure, stoppage.
  • Other antonyms:
    cessation, bluntness, artlessness, higher law, directness, endurance, immobility, inertia, deliberation, outspokenness, sincerity, repose, suffering, quiet, passion, frankness, inactivity, plainspokenness, candidness, quiescence, inaction, suspension, forthrightness, straightforwardness, naivete, rest, openheartedness, genuineness, candor.

• v.

  • behave in a certain way
    prevent, refuse, lose.
  • do something
    discontinue, destroy, refrain, leave alone, quit, ignore, idle, forego, disregard, leave, follow, give up, miss, end, halt, cease, forget, abandon, abstain, fail, stop, hesitate.
  • entertain by playing a role
    direct.

Homophones for Act:

• actuated, aesthete, as yet, ascot, acute, acadia, ague weed, august 6, azido, acaudate, act out, acedia, acth, acid, 15 August 1945, agueweed, accost, acquit, acquitted, axseed, azide, acuity, august 1, Agua Toad, agouti, aside, associate, axe head, ask out, accused, actuate, actaea, assisted, august 15, astute, asat, acid dye, aghast, aikido, azote, associated, Asadha, augite, Azo Dye, augusta, azt, assist, accede, acidity, agitated, aught, acid head, agitate, aguacate, assiduity, ax head, access code, august, aged, asset, acheta, acetate, agate, acuate.

Holonyms for Act:

• n.

  • communication
    drama, play, ballet, dramatic play, opera, concert dance.

Hypernym for Act:

• n.

  • communication
    legislative act, statute, decree, edict, order, nullity, fiat, rescript.

• v.

  • competition
    criticise, criticize, bank.
  • creation
    enact, impersonate, reenact, act out, make believe, pretend, support, portray, make, parody, emote.
  • social
    court, interrupt, make bold, begin, repay, oppose, flirt, go along, come close, go off half-cocked, play it by ear, bear, seek, set about, alternate, satisfice, lord it over, move, festinate, sneak, react, anticipate, grapple, get around to, finish up, satisfise, drive around, reward, descend, forestall, go about, repeat, antagonize, dare, participate, step forward, take time by the forelock, start, go on, hurry, take part, exert, comport, use, stoop, take turns, keep, offer, act on, carry, antagonise, finish, essay, pursue, come forward, behave, act superior, attempt, partner, assay, make a point, coact, dally, take, create, guard, make do, deign, pull, maneuver, cope, approach, fetch up, surprise, volunteer, engage, force, disturb, counteract, make sure, take care, persist in, hold back, take over, go off at half-cock, solicit, commit, respond, do well, egotrip, perform, romance, make out, wind up, step up, foresee, land up, come out, acquit, effect, hasten, manage, get by, look sharp, rampage, toy, race, perpetrate, queen it over, manoeuvre, wait, interact, pay back, counter, woo, put on airs, play, dispatch, stampede, deal, attack, walk around, proceed, prosecute, go ahead, deport, try, go, manoeuver, rush, end up, lower oneself, step to the fore, conduct, evade, hold off, come to the fore, continue, misdemean, plow ahead, contend, had best, presume, misconduct, misbehave, aggress, reciprocate, condescend.

Hyponym for Act:

• n.

  • communication
    expression, dramatic work, official document, instrument, reflexion, manifestation, legal instrument, reflection, dramatic composition, legal document.

• v.

  • competition
    serve.
  • creation
    re-create.
  • stative
    be.

Meronym for Act:

• n.

  • communication
    scene.