Definition for Performance:

• The act of performing; the carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action; as, the performance of an undertaking of a duty.

Synonyms for Performance:

• adj.

  •acting (adjective)
  • enactment.

• n.

  •
  • drama,
  • review,
  • representation,
  • burden,
  • necessity,
  • appearance,
  • headache,
  • chore,
  • a tall order,
  • special,
  • the elephant in the room,
  • offering,
  • the impossible,
  • struggle,
  • pageant,
  • mare,
  • rehearsal.
  •
  • bond,
  • blue-chip,
  • arbitrage,
  • debenture,
  • contrarian,
  • derivative,
  • capital,
  • capital-intensive,
  • DO,
  • capital gains tax,
  • annuity.
  •
  • cycle,
  • interpretation,
  • burn up,
  • grind,
  • go,
  • idle,
  • fire,
  • cut out,
  • performing arts,
  • flood,
  • backfire.
  •
  • standard,
  • level,
  • quality assurance,
  • quality,
  • rating,
  • gauge,
  • machine,
  • par,
  • baseline,
  • criterion.
  •accomplishment (noun)
  • attainment,
  • consummation,
  • completion,
  • carrying out,
  • enforcement,
  • conduct,
  • fruition,
  • fulfillment.
  •achievement (noun)
  • encompassments.
  •act (noun)
  • feigning,
  • chaser,
  • performance,
  • moves,
  • dissimilation,
  • step,
  • phonies,
  • pose,
  • shows,
  • shuck and jive,
  • sham,
  • chasers,
  • stance,
  • stall,
  • fake,
  • false front.
  •acting (noun)
  • pantomime,
  • Imitating,
  • seeming,
  • characterizations,
  • Enacting,
  • characterization,
  • hamming,
  • seemings,
  • posturings,
  • stagecraft,
  • Theatricals,
  • stooging,
  • playings,
  • pantomimes,
  • portraying.
  •acting, depiction (noun)
  • rite,
  • dance,
  • set,
  • revue,
  • rigmarole,
  • ceremony,
  • portrayal,
  • production,
  • ballet,
  • business.
  •action (noun)
  • activity,
  • motion,
  • labor,
  • practice,
  • endeavor,
  • effort.
  •activity (noun)
  • agility,
  • liveliness,
  • kinetics,
  • stirring,
  • energy,
  • animation.
  •administration (noun)
  • dis positions,
  • over-sight,
  • super vision,
  • over seeing,
  • directings,
  • dis position,
  • super visions,
  • over sights,
  • dis-position,
  • pro-vision,
  • conductings,
  • super-vision,
  • overseeings,
  • pro-visions,
  • over-seeings,
  • pro vision,
  • administerings,
  • over-seeing,
  • dis-positions,
  • over sight,
  • over seeings,
  • super-visions,
  • pro visions,
  • over-sights,
  • governings.
  •appearance (noun)
  • showing.
  •behavior (noun)
  • etiquette,
  • tenue,
  • Habits,
  • what's done,
  • Tenues,
  • way of life.
  •broadcast (noun)
  • tele-cast,
  • air times,
  • trans mission,
  • radio-cast,
  • trans-mission,
  • simulcasts,
  • tele cast,
  • trans-missions,
  • radiocasts,
  • trans missions,
  • radio cast,
  • radio-casts,
  • tele casts,
  • radio casts,
  • tele-casts.
  •carrying into action (noun)
  • carrying into action.
  •celebration (noun)
  • jubilation,
  • merriments,
  • memorialization,
  • Festivals,
  • Festivities,
  • jollifications,
  • wingding,
  • glorification,
  • jollification,
  • jubilees,
  • jubilee,
  • solemnization,
  • wingdings.
  •communication (noun)
  • public presentation.
  •custom (noun)
  • unwritten rules,
  • matter course,
  • de-signs,
  • pre-cept,
  • de sign,
  • de-sign,
  • de signs,
  • pre cept,
  • inheritences.
  •deed (noun)
  • happenin,
  • byplays,
  • by plays,
  • follow throughs,
  • ballgames,
  • by play,
  • big ideas,
  • do's,
  • by-plays.
  •doing (noun)
  • performings,
  • achievings.
  •effectiveness (noun)
  • validnesses.
  •efficacy (noun)
  • efficacy,
  • efficacies,
  • capableness.
  •efficiency (noun)
  • pursuit,
  • running,
  • effectiveness.
  •enactment (noun)
  • Re-presentation,
  • personations,
  • personation.
  •endeavor (noun)
  • assay,
  • adventure,
  • attempt,
  • job,
  • aim,
  • gambit,
  • project,
  • commitment,
  • maneuver,
  • venture,
  • contract,
  • undertaking,
  • essay,
  • engagement,
  • approach,
  • purpose.
  •enterprise (noun)
  • pro-positions,
  • pet projects,
  • out-fit,
  • pro positions,
  • biggies,
  • out fits,
  • out fit,
  • pro position,
  • out-fits.
  •execution (noun)
  • nuts bolts,
  • fulfillings.
  •exercise (noun)
  • warmups,
  • exercisings,
  • ex aminations,
  • warmup,
  • schoolworks,
  • ex amination,
  • calisthenicses,
  • warm ups,
  • ex-aminations.
  •exhibit (noun)
  • dis play,
  • ex-position,
  • dis-plays,
  • ex-positions,
  • dis-play,
  • dis plays.
  •exhibition (noun)
  • an acts,
  • a scenes.
  •fact (noun)
  • in-formation,
  • in-formations,
  • in formations.
  •hearing (noun)
  • tryout.
  •play (noun)
  • stage shows,
  • oneact,
  • one acts,
  • smash hits,
  • curtainraiser,
  • one act,
  • curtainraisers,
  • oneacts,
  • one-acts.
  •procedure (noun)
  • the books,
  • the number,
  • agendums.
  •proceeding (noun)
  • goings on,
  • goings ons,
  • go downs,
  • come offs,
  • goings-ons,
  • go-downs,
  • goingson,
  • goingsons.
  •prosecution (noun)
  • pursuances.
  •recital (noun)
  • de-tailings,
  • re-capitulations,
  • re-capitulation,
  • de tailings,
  • re capitulations,
  • de tailing,
  • detailings,
  • de-tailing,
  • re-petitions,
  • re-counting,
  • recountals,
  • re counting,
  • recountings,
  • re-petition,
  • re petition,
  • re capitulation,
  • re petitions.
  •recitation (noun)
  • dis course,
  • dis coursing,
  • dis coursings,
  • de claiming,
  • dis-coursing,
  • declaimings,
  • narratings,
  • re-citation,
  • de-claiming,
  • dis-course,
  • discoursings,
  • dis-courses,
  • re citations,
  • re-citations,
  • holding forths,
  • re citation,
  • dis courses,
  • soliloquizings,
  • dis-coursings.
  •record (noun)
  • past behavior,
  • curriculum vitae.
  •rendering (noun)
  • ex planation,
  • in-sight,
  • in sights,
  • in-sights,
  • ex-planations,
  • ex planations.
  •rescue (noun)
  • extrication,
  • extrications,
  • heroics,
  • disembarrassment,
  • disentanglement.
  •role (noun)
  • walk-ons,
  • walkons,
  • walkon,
  • walk on,
  • walk ons.
  •round (noun)
  • rotation.
  •running (noun)
  • intendance,
  • coordinations,
  • co-ordination,
  • coordination,
  • Superintendency.
  •scene (noun)
  • carryings on,
  • up-set,
  • carryingson,
  • temper tantrums,
  • up-sets,
  • carryingon,
  • up sets.
  •technique (noun)
  • MODU.
  •to-do (noun)
  • hooha,
  • to do,
  • TODO.
  •tour de force (noun)
  • Chef-doeuvre,
  • stroke genius,
  • chefd'oeuvre,
  • chef doeuvre,
  • feat strength,
  • chefdoeuvre,
  • grand achievements,
  • great achievements.
  •track record (noun)
  • STATS,
  • performance history,
  • STAT.
  •transaction (noun)
  • inter course,
  • trans action,
  • inter-course,
  • inter courses,
  • trans actions,
  • inter-courses,
  • trans-action,
  • trans-actions.
  •venture (noun)
  • initiative,
  • task,
  • scheme,
  • affair,
  • campaign.
  •work (noun)
  • salt mine,
  • salt mines,
  • grindstones,
  • grindstone.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • jam session,
  • production number,
  • hula,
  • use,
  • rendering,
  • administration (of an estate),
  • opera,
  • the Proms,
  • promenade concert,
  • party,
  • commission.
  •
  • attraction,
  • entertainment,
  • burlesque,
  • concert,
  • phrasing,
  • art,
  • end.
  •
  • presentation,
  • reading,
  • event.
  •
  • reaction,
  • working,
  • realization,
  • delivery.
  •
  • jam.
  •debut
  • premiere.
  •exhibition
  • puppetry.
  •revel
  • mummery.

Paraphrases for Performance:

• Reverse Entailment

  • Adjective
    high-performance.
  • Proper noun, singular
    high-performance.
  • Noun, plural
    renditions.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    underperformance, Non-performance, high-performance.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    yielding.
  • Proper noun, singular
    factors, Recalls, regions, features, facts, Duties, proposals, data, Scales, entitlements, lessons, tables, assess, tools, products, Its, yields.
  • Noun, plural
    managers, Prices, inputs, Gains, reviews, Rewards, Killings, graduates, signals, yields.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    data, yield, pursuance, observance.
  • Verb, past tense
    increased, noted, received, Carried, observing, Met.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    issuing, complying, Carrying.
  • Verb, past participle
    measured, Operated, increased, Delivered, assigned, developed, included, executed, Carried, established, Provided, identified, associated, required, Met, done, made.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    improves, discharges, sets, hits.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    performance-based, efficiency, performing.
  • Proper noun, singular
    manifestations, efficiency, efficiencies, perform, yield, performing.
  • Noun, plural
    executions, Varieties, LINEs, efficiencies.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    manifestation, efficiency, perform, profitability, feat, performing, expression, competence, appearance, ensemble, prowess.
  • Verb, past tense
    executed.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    performing, yielding.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    implements, yields.
  • Verb, base form
    perform, yield.

Antonyms for Performance:

• n.

  • accomplishment
    disregard, neglect, failure, ineffectualness, unfulfillment, direction, inefficiency.
  • acting, depiction
    reality, hiding.
  • efficiency
    inaction, uselessness, idleness.
  • Other antonyms:
    endurance, suffering, quiescence, inactivity, inertia, rest, deliberation, quiet, cessation, suspension, nonperformance, Nonfulfillment, immobility, passion.

Performance Sentence Examples:

• The circus manager took the whole performance in with wide eyes.

• And then, let's gie a thought to just the matter of my performance.

Hypernym for Performance:

• n.

  • act
    encore, extemporisation, last hurrah, illusion, programme, magic, trick, conjuration, program, legerdemain, musical performance, rendering, juggling, interpretation, swan song, dramatic performance, overachievement, magic trick, deception, Thaumaturgy, rendition, improvisation, underachievement, one-night stand, conjuring trick, juggle, dramatic production, extemporization.
  • communication
    rendition, bit, pianism, song and dance, act, spectacular, rendering, representation, premiere, world premiere, benefit, concert, recital, routine, theatrical performance, turn, number, theatrical, histrionics, play reading.

Hyponym for Performance:

• n.

  • act
    demonstration, presentment, presentation, accomplishment, achievement.
  • communication
    show.

Meronym for Performance:

• n.

  • act
    performing, playing, playacting, acting.
  • communication
    finale, coda.