Definition for Contain:

• To be able to hold, as a vessel; to comprehend, comprise, or include; to hold or restrain.

Synonyms for Contain:

• n.

  •
  • comprehend,
  • seat,
  • consist of.
  •
  • contents,
  • full,
  • house.
  •
  • embody,
  • engulf,
  • hem in,
  • kettle,
  • ring,
  • subsume.
  •
  • bottle up,
  • collect,
  • compose,
  • cool,
  • manage,
  • repress,
  • restraint,
  • simmer down,
  • deal with.
  •
  • cure,
  • keep down,
  • limit.
  •contain (noun)
  • arrest,
  • bear,
  • carry,
  • check,
  • comprise,
  • control,
  • curb,
  • hold,
  • hold back,
  • hold in,
  • incorporate,
  • moderate,
  • stop,
  • turn back.

• v.

  •contain (verb)
  • accommodate,
  • comprise,
  • enclose,
  • hold,
  • include,
  • receive,
  • stow.
  •enclose (verb)
  • cage,
  • confine,
  • corral,
  • cover,
  • embrace,
  • encircle,
  • encompass,
  • envelop,
  • fence,
  • impound,
  • imprison,
  • surround,
  • trap.
  •hold back, control (verb)
  • bottle up,
  • check,
  • collect,
  • compose,
  • cool,
  • cork,
  • curb,
  • harness,
  • hog-tie,
  • hold in,
  • keep back,
  • rein,
  • repress,
  • restrain,
  • restrict,
  • simmer down,
  • smother,
  • stifle,
  • stop,
  • keep lid on,
  • put half nelson on.
  •include, hold (verb)
  • accommodate,
  • comprehend,
  • comprise,
  • embody,
  • embrace,
  • enclose,
  • encompass,
  • have,
  • hold,
  • incorporate,
  • involve,
  • seat,
  • subsume,
  • consist of,
  • be composed of,
  • have capacity for.
  •stative (verb)
  • bear,
  • carry,
  • comprise,
  • hold,
  • incorporate,
  • take.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • circumscribe,
  • comprehend,
  • constrict,
  • delimit,
  • demarcate,
  • enfold,
  • fit in,
  • hem in,
  • kettle,
  • localize,
  • subsume,
  • wall in,
  • hedge in.
  •
  • content,
  • house,
  • mob,
  • personify,
  • rim.
  •
  • bound,
  • provide,
  • consist of.
  •
  • border,
  • embody,
  • keep down,
  • limit,
  • police,
  • seize.
  •
  • cure.
  •
  • frame,
  • stem.
  •
  • cool,
  • ring.
  •
  • collect,
  • compose.
  •
  • band.
  •
  • cap,
  • handle,
  • tie.
  •
  • place.
  •
  • line.
  •
  • set.
  •bottle up
  • coop up,
  • hold in,
  • keep back,
  • shut in.
  •compose
  • quell,
  • simmer down,
  • Re-collect.
  •control
  • rein in.
  •defend
  • fight back.
  •include
  • comprehend,
  • subsume.
  •restrain
  • hem in,
  • keep down,
  • keep in line.
  •retain
  • hold fast,
  • retain.
  •take
  • take.
  •Other relevant words:
  • abide,
  • absorb,
  • accept,
  • account for,
  • acquire,
  • acquit,
  • add up,
  • adjudge,
  • admit,
  • adopt,
  • affect,
  • aggregate,
  • agree,
  • aim,
  • amount,
  • anxious,
  • apply,
  • apprehend,
  • arrest,
  • ascertain,
  • ask,
  • assimilate,
  • assume,
  • assure,
  • backtrack,
  • balsamic,
  • band,
  • bang,
  • bar,
  • barricade,
  • bate,
  • bated,
  • batten,
  • batten down,
  • be,
  • bear,
  • behave,
  • beleaguer,
  • beset,
  • besiege,
  • bestow,
  • bind,
  • birth,
  • block,
  • blockade,
  • boast,
  • bolt,
  • book,
  • border,
  • bottle,
  • bottle up,
  • bound,
  • boundary,
  • bounds,
  • box in,
  • break,
  • break off,
  • bridle,
  • bring,
  • bring in,
  • broad,
  • brook,
  • bury,
  • button,
  • button up,
  • buy,
  • by,
  • call for,
  • calm,
  • cap,
  • capacious,
  • carry,
  • carry out,
  • catch,
  • catch on,
  • cease,
  • chair,
  • chamber,
  • channel,
  • charter,
  • chase away,
  • chasten,
  • check,
  • check into,
  • check off,
  • check out,
  • check over,
  • check up on,
  • checker,
  • chequer,
  • chink,
  • choke,
  • choke off,
  • choose,
  • circumscribe,
  • claim,
  • clap,
  • close,
  • close in,
  • close up,
  • collar,
  • collect,
  • come to,
  • command,
  • compass,
  • complete,
  • comport,
  • compose,
  • comprehend,
  • comprehension,
  • comprehensive,
  • conceal,
  • concord,
  • concur,
  • condition,
  • conduct,
  • confines,
  • conformity,
  • conquer,
  • consider,
  • consist,
  • constitute,
  • constrain,
  • constrict,
  • consume,
  • containment,
  • content,
  • contents,
  • contract,
  • control,
  • convey,
  • cool,
  • cool it,
  • cool off,
  • coop,
  • coop in,
  • coop up,
  • cop,
  • copyright,
  • cordon,
  • cordon off,
  • cork,
  • correspond,
  • correspondence,
  • count,
  • crowd,
  • curb,
  • cure,
  • curtail,
  • cut back,
  • deal,
  • decelerate,
  • declare,
  • deem,
  • defend,
  • defy,
  • delay,
  • delimit,
  • deliver,
  • demand,
  • demarcate,
  • deport,
  • detain,
  • deter,
  • determine,
  • digest,
  • direct,
  • disallow,
  • discipline,
  • discontinue,
  • discourage,
  • dispel,
  • double back,
  • draw the line,
  • dribble,
  • drive,
  • drive away,
  • drive off,
  • drive out,
  • due to,
  • dull,
  • embed,
  • embody,
  • end,
  • endure,
  • enfold,
  • engage,
  • engulf,
  • enjoin,
  • enshrine,
  • enshroud,
  • ensure,
  • entail,
  • entertain,
  • environs,
  • envisage,
  • equal,
  • exact,
  • execute,
  • expand,
  • expect,
  • express,
  • extend,
  • fasten,
  • fence in,
  • fight back,
  • figure,
  • fill,
  • fill out,
  • film,
  • find out,
  • finish,
  • finite,
  • fit,
  • fit in,
  • flock,
  • flourishing,
  • fold,
  • fold up,
  • forbear,
  • frame,
  • frantic,
  • fraught,
  • frustrate,
  • full,
  • gain,
  • gaol,
  • gestate,
  • get,
  • get hold of,
  • gibe,
  • give,
  • give birth,
  • give up,
  • go for,
  • go over,
  • govern,
  • guard,
  • guide,
  • habitation,
  • halt,
  • hamper,
  • handle,
  • harbor,
  • harbour,
  • harness,
  • have,
  • have got,
  • hedge,
  • hem in,
  • hinder,
  • hire,
  • hog-tie,
  • hold back,
  • hold fast,
  • hold in,
  • hold off,
  • hold on,
  • hold up,
  • horde,
  • host,
  • house,
  • housing,
  • humiliating,
  • identical,
  • imbed,
  • immure,
  • impart,
  • implicate,
  • imply,
  • incarcerate,
  • inclining,
  • inclose,
  • inclusion,
  • inclusive,
  • incorporate,
  • ingest,
  • inhibit,
  • insert,
  • insure,
  • integrate,
  • intercept,
  • internalize,
  • invert,
  • involve,
  • jail,
  • jibe,
  • keep,
  • keep back,
  • keep down,
  • keep in,
  • keep in line,
  • kennel,
  • kettle,
  • key,
  • kibosh,
  • latch,
  • lay off,
  • lead,
  • learn,
  • lease,
  • legion,
  • limit,
  • limited,
  • line,
  • localize,
  • lock,
  • lock out,
  • lock up,
  • lodge,
  • look at,
  • look into,
  • maintain,
  • make,
  • make out,
  • manage,
  • manipulate,
  • many,
  • mark,
  • mark off,
  • master,
  • match,
  • measure,
  • mew,
  • mince,
  • mitigate,
  • mob,
  • moderate,
  • mortifying,
  • muffled,
  • multitude,
  • muster,
  • nab,
  • nail,
  • narrow,
  • necessitate,
  • need,
  • number,
  • numeral,
  • nurse,
  • obligate,
  • oblige,
  • obtain,
  • occlude,
  • occupy,
  • operate,
  • overcome,
  • pack,
  • padlock,
  • patent,
  • pay,
  • pen,
  • personify,
  • persuade,
  • pick out,
  • place,
  • plenary,
  • plumb,
  • pocket,
  • police,
  • possess,
  • post,
  • postulate,
  • pregnant,
  • preserve,
  • presume,
  • presuppose,
  • prevail,
  • prohibit,
  • prosperous,
  • provide,
  • provide for,
  • pull,
  • put in,
  • qualified,
  • qualify,
  • quantity,
  • quarantine,
  • quarter,
  • quash,
  • quell,
  • quiet,
  • quit,
  • rail in,
  • read,
  • record,
  • register,
  • regress,
  • regulate,
  • rein,
  • rein in,
  • remove,
  • rent,
  • represent,
  • repress,
  • require,
  • reserve,
  • restrain,
  • restraint,
  • restrict,
  • retain,
  • retrench,
  • retrovert,
  • return,
  • reverse,
  • revert,
  • rim,
  • ring,
  • rule,
  • run,
  • run into,
  • run off,
  • scant,
  • seal,
  • seal off,
  • seat,
  • seating,
  • secure,
  • see,
  • see to it,
  • seize,
  • select,
  • set,
  • settle,
  • shoot,
  • shrine,
  • shut,
  • shut up,
  • simmer down,
  • sit,
  • slam,
  • slow down,
  • smother,
  • snap,
  • snub,
  • soak up,
  • soft,
  • soften,
  • specialize,
  • squelch,
  • stable,
  • stamp down,
  • stand,
  • stay,
  • stem,
  • stifle,
  • stint,
  • stock,
  • stockpile,
  • stomach,
  • stop,
  • straiten,
  • strangle,
  • strike,
  • study,
  • subdue,
  • subdued,
  • submit,
  • subscribe,
  • subscribe to,
  • subsume,
  • suffer,
  • sum,
  • support,
  • suppress,
  • surrender,
  • Suss Out,
  • sustain,
  • sway,
  • take,
  • take aim,
  • take for,
  • take hold,
  • take into account,
  • take on,
  • take over,
  • tally,
  • tame,
  • temper,
  • terminate,
  • thriving,
  • throng,
  • throw,
  • tick,
  • tick off,
  • tie,
  • tolerate,
  • tone down,
  • total,
  • tote up,
  • train,
  • transmit,
  • transport,
  • treat,
  • turn back,
  • undergo,
  • understand,
  • unitize,
  • use up,
  • verify,
  • view as,
  • wait,
  • wall in,
  • watch,
  • wear,
  • withdraw,
  • withhold,
  • withstand,
  • worried,
  • wrap,
  • yard,
  • yield,
  • zip up,
  • zipper,
  • Leaguer,
  • Re-collect,
  • make up,
  • shut in,
  • hedge in,
  • owing to,
  • deal with,
  • DO,
  • add up to,
  • amount to,
  • consist of,
  • keep from,
  • lead to,
  • count in,
  • drag into,
  • number among,
  • pen in,
  • preside over,
  • reckon with,
  • run to,
  • crack,
  • retard,
  • suck,
  • kill,
  • numerical value,
  • take into consideration,
  • be composed of,
  • mount up to,
  • be born with,
  • be endowed with,
  • be full of,
  • set back,
  • extend over,
  • have capacity for,
  • hold at bay,
  • keep in check,
  • keep lid on,
  • put half nelson on,
  • take-in,
  • be included,
  • pass inspection,
  • pull-in.

Antonyms for Contain:

• Other antonyms:

  • n. t.
    air, allow, ban, bar, debar, deny, disbelieve, eliminate, encourage, except, exclude, express, leave, leave out, let go, liberate, loose, loosen, lose, mislay, misplace, permit, preclude, prevent, prohibit, refuse, reject, release, rule out, miss out.

• v.

  • hold back, control
    allow, continue, encourage, help, liberate, permit.
  • include, hold
    disbelieve, exclude, free, let go, release.
  • Other antonyms:
    air, ban, bar, debar, deny, eliminate, except, exclude, express, leave, liberate, loose, loosen, lose, mislay, misplace, omit, preclude, prevent, prohibit, refuse, reject, rule out, take out, unleash, vent.