act

The word “act” has 1 syllable: act

It's pronounced as /ækt/

What is synonym and antonym for act?

In the thesaurus, “act” has 306 synonyms and 59 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for act along with examples of usage in sentences.

Synonyms for act

accomplish
accomplishment
achieve
achievement
act out
action
activity
administer
adventure
affect
affectation
airs
amendment
announcement
ape
appear
appearance
assume
attainment
attitude
be on
begin
behave
betrayal
bill
bit
blue law
bluff
bring down the house
burlesque
bylaw
camouflage
canon
capitulary
carry
carry on
carry oneself
carry out
characterize
charade
chaser
clause
cloak
clown
coact
coaction
code
color
command
commandment
commitment
common law
comport
conceal
conduct
constitution
consummate
control
cook
copy
costar
counterfeit
curtain
dealing
deceit
deception
decree
deed
depict
develop
dictate
direct
directive
disguise
dissemble
dissembling
dissimilation
dissimulate
dissimulation
do
do a number
do a turn
doing
double cross
double-dealing
dramatize
duplicity
edict
emote
emprise
enact
enactment
encyclical
enforce
enterprise
epilogue
excuse
execute
execution
exert
experience
exploit
facade
faithlessness
fake
fakery
false front
falseness
falsity
feat
feel
feign
feigning
feint
fiat
forge
fraud
front
function
gag
get in there
give the appearance
gloss
go about
go for broke
go for it
go in for
go on
go over
go that route
go to town
ground rule
guide
guile
guise
ham
ham it up
handiwork
handle
hint
image
imitate
impersonate
impersonation
imply
impress as
infidelity
influence
initiative
insinuate
interpret
introduction
intrude
judgment
knock off
labor
law
lay an egg
legislation
let on
look
make
make believe
make debut
make progress
malinger
manage
maneuver
martial law
mask
masquerade
measure
mime
mimic
mock
monkey
move
mug
number
officiate
operate
operation
order
ordinance
overact
overplay
oversee
pan out
pantomime
parody
percolate
perfidy
perform
performance
perk
perpetrate
persevere
persist
persona
personate
personify
phony
piece
play
play act
play gig
play part
play role
playact
playacting
portray
portrayal
pose
posture
practice
preside
pretence
pretend
pretense
pretext
procedure
proceeding
profess
prohibition
prologue
proscription
pursue
put it over
put on
put-on
react
recall
redound
regulate
regulation
rehearse
render
represent
represent oneself
resemble
resolution
respond
restriction
result
role-play
routine
rule
ruling
run
scene
schtick
seem
semblance
serve
sham
show
shtick
shtik
shuck and jive
signature
simulate
simulation
sketch
soft soap
sound
spot
stall
stance
star
statute
step
stooge
strike
strut
stunt
subpoena
suggest
summons
supervise
sway
sweet-talk
tactic
take
take effect
take hold
take on
take part
take steps
take up
thing
transort
travesty
treachery
tread the boards
treason
trick
turn
underplay
undertake
undertaking
unfaithfulness
verdict
warrant
work
work out
writ

Antonyms for act

abandon
abstain
artlessness
backfire
be real
bluntness
candidness
candor
cease
cessation
defeat
destroy
direct
directness
discontinue
disregard
end
fail
failure
fizzle
follow
forego
forget
forthrightness
frankness
genuineness
give up
halt
hesitate
higher law
idle
idleness
ignore
inaction
inactivity
inertia
leave
leave alone
lose
miss
naivete
neglect
openheartedness
outspokenness
plainspokenness
prevent
quiet
quit
reality
refrain
refuse
repose
rest
sincerity
stop
stoppage
straightforwardness
suspension
whole

Meanings of act

noun
1. Something done, a deed.
2. Actuality.
3. Something done once and for all, as distinguished from a work.
4. A product of a legislative body, a statute.
5. The process of doing something.
6. A formal or official record of something done.
7. A division of a theatrical performance.
8. A performer or performers in a show.
9. Any organized activity.
10. A display of behaviour.
11. A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student.
12. A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
verb
1. To do something.
2. To do (something); to perform.
3. To perform a theatrical role.
4. Of a play: to be acted out (well or badly).
5. To behave in a certain manner for an indefinite length of time.
6. To convey an appearance of being.
7. To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
8. (construed with on or upon) To have an effect (on).
9. To play (a role).
10. To feign.
11. (construed with on or upon, of a group) To map via a homomorphism to a group of automorphisms (of).
12. To move to action; to actuate; to animate.

Example Sentences

She decided to act in the school play after much encouragement.
The lawyer will act on behalf of her client in court.
He was asked to act quickly during the emergency.
The students are rehearsing their act for the talent show.
He plans to act as a mediator during the discussion.

On this page you'll find 365 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to act, such as: abandon, abstain, accomplish, accomplishment, achieve, achievement, act out.

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