Definition for Contain:

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

Synonyms for Contain:

• n.

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

• v.

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

• Other synonyms:

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

Antonyms for Contain:

• v.

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

Homophones for Contain:

• centime, contadino, canton, canteen, cismontane, coumadin, camden, canadian, cachinnation, cynodon, comedown, condone, continuum, comedian, common time, commutation, conidium, condom, continue, count down, cymatium, committeeman, cognation, common thyme, commendation, countdown, condominium, commotion, connotation, count on, contemn, continuo, come down, centimo, commination, comedienne, condition, count noun, cimetidine, Canada Anemone, cementum, condemn, cognition, committeewoman, county town.

Hypernym for Contain:

• v.

  • stative
    confine, hold in, retain, enclose.

Hyponym for Contain:

• v.

  • stative
    be, include.