Synonyms for Direction:

• n.

  •
  • history,
  • objective,
  • momentum,
  • development,
  • a giant step/leap/stride,
  • progress,
  • region,
  • spot,
  • road,
  • area,
  • the march of something,
  • advance,
  • place.
  •
  • injunction,
  • line,
  • passage.
  •
  • in place.
  •
  • motivation,
  • ambition,
  • dynamism,
  • determination,
  • supervision,
  • energy,
  • drive,
  • resolve,
  • over,
  • superintendence,
  • perseverance,
  • aspiration.
  •
  • politics.
  •
  • force,
  • might,
  • oligopoly,
  • greatness,
  • monopoly,
  • affect,
  • lead.
  •
  • word,
  • instructions,
  • words,
  • dictate,
  • directions,
  • demonstration,
  • brief,
  • terms of reference,
  • bidding,
  • Guidelines.
  •address (noun)
  • box number,
  • living quarter,
  • place of residence,
  • head-quarters,
  • place business,
  • head quarters,
  • place of business,
  • place residence,
  • living quarters,
  • box numbers.
  •administration (noun)
  • administerings,
  • Overseeing,
  • directings,
  • pro visions,
  • governings,
  • pro-visions,
  • overseeings,
  • administration,
  • pro vision,
  • over-seeings,
  • organization,
  • over seeing,
  • over seeings,
  • conductings,
  • pro-vision,
  • conduct,
  • over-seeing.
  •advice, approval (noun)
  • recommendation.
  •aim (noun)
  • de sign,
  • de-sire,
  • in-tents,
  • de signs,
  • Desiderata,
  • de-sign,
  • wish,
  • where is heading,
  • in tents,
  • where one is headings,
  • intents,
  • where one is heading,
  • de sires,
  • de-signs,
  • in tent,
  • in-tent,
  • where is headings,
  • de-sires,
  • de sire.
  •arrangement, management of a situation (noun)
  • disposition.
  •aspect (noun)
  • re gards,
  • pro spects,
  • vista,
  • phase,
  • re-gard,
  • pro-spects,
  • pro-spect,
  • pro spect.
  •aspiration (noun)
  • fire belly,
  • pursuits,
  • fire in belly,
  • fire the belly,
  • fire in the belly.
  •bearing (noun)
  • orientation,
  • heading,
  • bearing,
  • aim,
  • position,
  • location,
  • vector,
  • fix.
  •bearing/bearings (noun)
  • track,
  • point compass,
  • point of compass.
  •behest (noun)
  • promptings,
  • in junction,
  • expressed desire,
  • expressed desires,
  • re-quests,
  • in junctions,
  • re-quest,
  • re quests,
  • re quest,
  • be-hests,
  • in-junctions,
  • solicitations,
  • be hests,
  • be-hest,
  • be hest,
  • in-junction,
  • solicitation,
  • request.
  •care (noun)
  • dis-crimination,
  • gingerliness,
  • wardships,
  • exactness,
  • dis criminations,
  • mindfulness,
  • fore thoughts,
  • dis-criminations,
  • pre-cautions,
  • Wardship,
  • fore-thoughts,
  • prudence,
  • ministration,
  • meticulousness,
  • pre-caution,
  • fore-thought,
  • ministrations,
  • pre cautions,
  • dis crimination,
  • guardianship,
  • pre caution,
  • fore thought,
  • thought.
  •care, supervision (noun)
  • oversight.
  •carefulness, attention to detail (noun)
  • care.
  •centering (noun)
  • centering.
  •charge (noun)
  • charge.
  •close observation, following (noun)
  • surveillance.
  •cognition (noun)
  • direction.
  •command (noun)
  • grasp,
  • coordination,
  • law,
  • sovereignty,
  • mandate,
  • sway,
  • reign,
  • grip,
  • rule,
  • will,
  • commission,
  • mastery,
  • power,
  • hold,
  • supremacy,
  • authority,
  • prowess.
  •command, mastery (noun)
  • control.
  •conduct (noun)
  • carrying ons,
  • in tendances,
  • in tendance,
  • intendance,
  • trans-actions,
  • in-tendances,
  • trans action,
  • trans-action,
  • trans actions,
  • intendances,
  • wieldings,
  • Wielding,
  • in-tendance.
  •counsel (noun)
  • de liberation,
  • in-formation,
  • word wise,
  • de liberations,
  • kibitz,
  • in formation,
  • counsel,
  • two cents' worth,
  • tipoff,
  • word to wise,
  • tip off,
  • word the wise,
  • de-liberations,
  • in formations,
  • kibitzes,
  • tipoffs,
  • two cents' worths,
  • in-formations,
  • de-liberation.
  •counseling (noun)
  • guidance,
  • counseling.
  •counselling (noun)
  • counselling.
  •course (noun)
  • byway,
  • streams,
  • Movements,
  • byways,
  • by-way,
  • by way.
  •course, route (noun)
  • way,
  • tide,
  • outlook,
  • beeline,
  • bias,
  • inclination,
  • current,
  • proclivity,
  • range,
  • viewpoint,
  • bent,
  • stream,
  • standpoint,
  • tendency,
  • path,
  • set,
  • trend,
  • side,
  • end,
  • that-a-way,
  • slant.
  •course of movement (noun)
  • tack.
  •decree (noun)
  • the word,
  • de cree,
  • promulgation,
  • the words,
  • chargings,
  • the riot act,
  • ukases,
  • decretums,
  • de-crees,
  • riot acts,
  • riot act,
  • de crees,
  • the riot acts,
  • decretum,
  • ukase,
  • de-cree.
  •direction (noun)
  • management,
  • itinerary,
  • quarter,
  • instruction,
  • steering,
  • focussing,
  • focusing,
  • undercurrent,
  • focus,
  • route.
  •directive, instruction (noun)
  • command.
  •dispensation (noun)
  • dispensation,
  • stewardship,
  • stewardships.
  •disposition (noun)
  • placement,
  • dis positions,
  • dis position,
  • dis-position,
  • orderings,
  • dis-positions.
  •economy (noun)
  • thriftiness,
  • stinginess,
  • Parcity,
  • rollback,
  • retrenchments,
  • retrenchment,
  • niggardliness,
  • rollbacks,
  • miserliness,
  • sparingness.
  •education (noun)
  • schooling,
  • apprenticeship,
  • pedagogy,
  • learnedness,
  • book learning,
  • proselytism,
  • literacy,
  • drillings,
  • Pedagogics,
  • apprenticeships,
  • Propagandism,
  • inculcation.
  •formula (noun)
  • maxim,
  • equation,
  • Formulary,
  • Formularies.
  •formula, medicine (noun)
  • prescription.
  •governance (noun)
  • predominanc.
  •government (noun)
  • FEDS,
  • powers-that-be,
  • powers that be,
  • powers that bes,
  • pre-dominances,
  • powers-that-bes,
  • washingtons,
  • the feds,
  • pre-dominance,
  • political practices,
  • pre dominances,
  • Presidencies,
  • the Fed,
  • political practice,
  • statecrafts,
  • pre dominance,
  • statecraft,
  • presidency.
  •grain (noun)
  • Tissues,
  • wefts,
  • staples,
  • make-ups,
  • tissue,
  • striations,
  • warp woof,
  • sur face,
  • sur-face,
  • sur faces,
  • make-up,
  • striation,
  • weft,
  • make ups.
  •guidance (noun)
  • conduction,
  • leadership,
  • conductions.
  •guide to future goals (noun)
  • roadmap.
  •hand (noun)
  • re-lief,
  • re lief.
  •handling (noun)
  • stylings.
  •heading (noun)
  • compass reading.
  •help, aid (noun)
  • hand.
  •inclination (noun)
  • bendings,
  • in clines,
  • in-clines,
  • bowings,
  • in-cline,
  • ramp,
  • in cline.
  •influence (noun)
  • Monopolies,
  • importance,
  • INS,
  • influences.
  •instruction (noun)
  • lesson,
  • chalk talk,
  • lessons,
  • groundings.
  •instruction, development of knowledge (noun)
  • education.
  •law, rule (noun)
  • ordinance.
  •law, rule of behavior, action (noun)
  • precept.
  •lead (noun)
  • title role,
  • priority,
  • top spots,
  • primacy,
  • OVERS,
  • protagonist,
  • ex ample,
  • front rank,
  • ex-ample,
  • aheads,
  • heavies,
  • front ranks,
  • title roles,
  • top spot,
  • protagonists.
  •leadership (noun)
  • Superintendency,
  • fore-sight,
  • superintendencies,
  • pilotages,
  • initiative,
  • fore sight,
  • directorship,
  • super intendencies,
  • pre eminences,
  • super-intendency,
  • pilotage,
  • super-intendencies,
  • directorships,
  • fore sights,
  • pre eminence,
  • pre-eminences,
  • super intendency,
  • fore-sights,
  • pre-eminence.
  •likelihood (noun)
  • fifty fifties,
  • coin flip,
  • even break,
  • strong possibilities,
  • fifty-fifties,
  • reasonableness,
  • tossup,
  • strong possibility,
  • fiftyfifties,
  • likelinesses,
  • toss up,
  • fifty fifty,
  • good chance,
  • fifty-fifty,
  • fiftyfifty,
  • coin flips,
  • reasonablenesses,
  • shot at,
  • likeliness,
  • shot ats,
  • outside chances,
  • even breaks,
  • likelihood,
  • outside chance.
  •line (noun)
  • scar,
  • queue.
  •management, administration (noun)
  • government.
  •mandate, legal order (noun)
  • decree.
  •manner, method (noun)
  • touch.
  •motion (noun)
  • stirrings,
  • motion,
  • changings,
  • motility,
  • motilities,
  • locomotion,
  • kinetics,
  • waverings,
  • dynamics,
  • full swing.
  •operating (noun)
  • managings,
  • operating.
  •order (noun)
  • say so,
  • say-so.
  •ordinance (noun)
  • REGS,
  • Reg.
  •orientation (noun)
  • co-ordination,
  • Familiarization,
  • settling ins,
  • sense of direction,
  • breaking ins,
  • familiarizations,
  • lay land,
  • co-ordinations,
  • lay of land,
  • coordinations,
  • co ordination,
  • lay the land,
  • sense direction,
  • settling in,
  • co ordinations.
  •outlook (noun)
  • frame mind,
  • head-set,
  • head sets,
  • out looks,
  • size of it,
  • head-sets,
  • head set,
  • out-look,
  • size it,
  • out-looks,
  • out look,
  • headset,
  • headsets,
  • mind set.
  •oversight (noun)
  • over sights,
  • over sight,
  • over-sight,
  • over-sights.
  •path (noun)
  • Cross-cut,
  • highway,
  • PATHWAYS,
  • shortcut,
  • cross-cuts,
  • walkways,
  • walkway,
  • cross cut,
  • beaten path,
  • cross cuts,
  • beaten paths,
  • pathway.
  •path, channel (noun)
  • course.
  •place of activity (noun)
  • situation.
  •place of residence or business where one can be contacted (noun)
  • address.
  •power (noun)
  • omnipotence,
  • Imperia,
  • Imperium.
  •power, authority (noun)
  • influence.
  •precept (noun)
  • by word,
  • by-words,
  • pre-cept,
  • by words,
  • pre cept,
  • guideline,
  • by-word.
  •prescription (noun)
  • Recipes.
  •production (noun)
  • extention,
  • formulations,
  • formulation,
  • elongation,
  • fructifications,
  • authoring,
  • stagings,
  • fructification.
  •purpose (noun)
  • big ideas,
  • why wherefore,
  • pre meditations,
  • bourn,
  • where one headed,
  • re solves,
  • Intendment,
  • where one's headeds,
  • re-solve,
  • ulterior motives,
  • where one headeds,
  • re solve,
  • pro-positions,
  • whyfor,
  • intendments,
  • big idea,
  • pro position,
  • pro positions,
  • re-solves,
  • whatfors,
  • why and wherefore,
  • pre-meditation,
  • where one's headed,
  • whyfors,
  • where headeds,
  • pre meditation,
  • where ones headeds,
  • why and wherefores,
  • whole ideas,
  • whatfor,
  • where ones headed,
  • ulterior motive,
  • whole idea,
  • why wherefores,
  • pre-meditations,
  • bourns,
  • where headed.
  •quarter (noun)
  • Barrios,
  • neck of woods,
  • stomping grounds,
  • sectors,
  • old town,
  • barrio,
  • stomping ground.
  •recommendation (noun)
  • re commendation,
  • letter support,
  • re commendations,
  • letter of support,
  • re-commendations,
  • good words,
  • favorable mention,
  • favorable mentions,
  • good word,
  • re-commendation.
  •regulation (noun)
  • codification,
  • tunings,
  • numbers,
  • no-no,
  • no-nos,
  • codifications.
  •revolution, curving (noun)
  • turn.
  •road (noun)
  • pike,
  • throughway,
  • back street,
  • dragways,
  • roadway,
  • cobblestone,
  • parkways,
  • Cross-road,
  • cobblestones,
  • back streets,
  • cross roads,
  • concretes,
  • cross-roads,
  • throughways,
  • sub-way,
  • sub way,
  • superhighway,
  • cross road,
  • dragway,
  • parkway.
  •route (noun)
  • ramblings,
  • de tours,
  • de-tour,
  • de-tours,
  • de tour,
  • short cut,
  • meanderings,
  • short cuts,
  • wanderings.
  •rule (noun)
  • keynotes,
  • Decretion,
  • the number,
  • Brocard,
  • keystones,
  • Regnancy,
  • nono's,
  • no no's,
  • regnancies,
  • no-no's,
  • brocards,
  • the book,
  • the numbers,
  • the books,
  • decretions.
  •running (noun)
  • workings,
  • running.
  •saving, frugality (noun)
  • economy.
  •side (noun)
  • lee,
  • hillside,
  • loin,
  • hillsides,
  • loins.
  •situation (noun)
  • longitude,
  • situations,
  • longitudes.
  •slant (noun)
  • one sidedness,
  • pre dispositions,
  • pre disposition,
  • pre possessions,
  • pre-possessions,
  • pre-disposition.
  •superhighway (noun)
  • super highway.
  •surveillance (noun)
  • stakeouts,
  • body mike,
  • stakeout,
  • peeled eyes,
  • wiretaps,
  • surveyances,
  • peeled eyne,
  • ex-aminations,
  • ex amination,
  • peeled eye,
  • wiretap,
  • body mikes,
  • peeled eyen,
  • ex aminations,
  • Surveyance,
  • buggings.
  •tack (noun)
  • tangents,
  • de flections,
  • de flection,
  • zigzags,
  • point sail,
  • de-flections,
  • oblique course,
  • point of sail,
  • oblique courses,
  • deflections,
  • sidlings,
  • deflection,
  • de-flection.
  •tendency (noun)
  • predilection,
  • affinity,
  • penchant,
  • grain,
  • tenor,
  • polarity,
  • leaning,
  • propensity,
  • predisposition,
  • temperament,
  • proneness,
  • aptness.
  •tenor (noun)
  • course of thought,
  • sub stance,
  • course thought,
  • sub stances,
  • sub-stances,
  • sub-stance.
  •thruway (noun)
  • thruway.
  •tide (noun)
  • whirlpool.
  •touch (noun)
  • virtuosity.
  •turn (noun)
  • pirouettes,
  • rightabout,
  • changeabout,
  • windings,
  • re verse,
  • retroversions,
  • re version,
  • pirouette,
  • retro-version,
  • twistings,
  • retro versions,
  • rotation,
  • re-versal,
  • re-versions,
  • turnings,
  • flexure,
  • right about,
  • flection,
  • right abouts,
  • retro version,
  • retroversion,
  • flexures,
  • flections,
  • changeabouts,
  • re-version,
  • right-abouts,
  • rightabouts,
  • re-verse,
  • about face,
  • retro-versions,
  • re versions,
  • Right-about,
  • re versal.
  •undercurrent (noun)
  • riptide,
  • vibe,
  • underflows,
  • underflow,
  • vibes,
  • crosscurrents,
  • cross-current,
  • riptides,
  • crosscurrent.
  •viewpoint (noun)
  • re spects,
  • re spect,
  • re-spect,
  • frame reference,
  • long views,
  • long view,
  • point of observation,
  • point observation,
  • frame of reference,
  • re-spects.

• Other synonyms:

  •NW
  • northwest.
  •Ne
  • northeast.
  •Se
  • southeast.
  •
  • pan,
  • situated,
  • odyssey,
  • directive,
  • bidirectional,
  • dub in,
  • located,
  • distance,
  • imprint,
  • animation,
  • Storyboard,
  • post-production,
  • commandment,
  • filming,
  • furtherance,
  • dub out,
  • destination,
  • directional,
  • soft focus,
  • cutting room,
  • intercut,
  • trajectory,
  • progression,
  • pre-production,
  • stage-manage,
  • maturation,
  • detour,
  • governance,
  • cutaway,
  • approachable,
  • dub over,
  • formation,
  • freeze-frame,
  • drift,
  • regulation,
  • formula,
  • diversion,
  • advancement.
  •
  • disposal,
  • approach,
  • scenario,
  • notch,
  • film,
  • aspect,
  • exposure,
  • behest,
  • prop,
  • going,
  • produce.
  •
  • dub,
  • lot,
  • stage,
  • far,
  • production,
  • alignment,
  • flight.
  •
  • freeze,
  • edit,
  • ground,
  • shoot.
  •
  • north,
  • direct.
  •
  • voice,
  • pass.
  •
  • cut.
  •aim
  • purpose.
  •guidance
  • manipulation.
  •management
  • trusteeship.
  •occident
  • west.
  •orientation
  • bearings.

Paraphrases for Direction:

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    inclination.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Proper noun, singular
    guideline, Guidelines.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    directionality, tack, redirection, guideline, Guidelines.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    direction-indicator, steering, executive-level, directorate-general.
  • Proper noun, singular
    positions, Organizations, indicators, lessons, Resources, drivers, hints, councils, Trustees, Goals, tips, governors, flows, Duties, causes, instructions, deals, steering, directing, tendency, directorate-general.
  • Noun, plural
    managers, Faces, rulers, auspices.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    prompts, tips, connection, regard, vein, destination, Focuses, Foci, respect, 'orientation, context, end, steering, side, attitude, orienting, vocation, orienteering, matter, directing, position, perspective, point, Channelling, carriageway, dimension, aim, helm, tone, spirit, goal, recommendation, aegis, persuasion, mind, tendency, move, accordance, intention, angle, directorate-general, aspect.
  • Verb, past tense
    defined, perceived, Envisaged, understood, headed, felt, Referred, Believed, Went, Smelled, fell, Meant.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    guidance.
  • Proper noun, singular
    orientation, Orientations, directorates, guidance, instruction, trend, trends, directive, directives.
  • Noun, plural
    leaderships, directorates.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    orientation, directorship, guidance, trajectory, instruction, trend, directive, directives.

Antonyms for Direction:

• n.

  • management
    misdirection, deviation.
  • Other antonyms:
    entreaty, indifference, appeal, urging, heedlessness, carelessness, recommendation, omission, negligence, oversight, proposal, petition, recklessness, neglect, slight, remissness, inattention, plea, suggestion, disregard.

Homophones for Direction:

• derequisition, detraction, derogation, drag down, dress down, dresden.

Hypernym for Direction:

• n.

  • cognition
    tenor.
  • linkdef
    frontage, orientation, northwest, opposition, windward, point, west, southwest, southeast, northeast, south, east, magnetic north, north, leeward, seaward, compass point, compass north.
  • location
    bearing, heading, tendency, trend, course, east-west direction, Qibla, north-south direction, aim.

Hyponym for Direction:

• n.

  • cognition
    disposition, inclination, tendency.
  • linkdef
    spatial relation, position.
  • location
    itinerary, path, route.