acts

The word “acts” has 1 syllable: acts

It's pronounced as /ækts/


What is synonym and antonym for acts?

In the thesaurus, “acts” has 208 synonyms and 6 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for acts

  • accomplishments
  • achievements
  • actions
  • activities
  • acts out
  • administers
  • adventures
  • affairs
  • affectations
  • affects
  • airs
  • amendments
  • apes
  • appearances
  • appears
  • assumes
  • attainments
  • behaves
  • betrayals
  • bills
  • bits
  • blue laws
  • bluffs
  • bylaws
  • camouflages
  • canons
  • capitularies
  • carries on
  • charades
  • cloaks
  • clowns
  • co-actions
  • coactions
  • coacts
  • colors
  • commandments
  • commands
  • common law
  • conceals
  • constitutions
  • controls
  • copies
  • costars
  • counterfeits
  • deal
  • dealings
  • deceits
  • deceptions
  • decrees
  • deed
  • deeds
  • depicts
  • dictates
  • directives
  • directs
  • disguises
  • dissembles
  • dissimulates
  • dissimulations
  • does
  • doings
  • double crosses
  • double-dealings
  • dramatizes
  • duplicities
  • edicts
  • emprises
  • enactments
  • enacts
  • encyclicals
  • enterprises
  • events
  • excuses
  • experiences
  • exploits
  • facades
  • fakeries
  • fakes
  • falsities
  • feats
  • feels
  • feigns
  • feints
  • fiats
  • forges
  • frauds
  • fronts
  • functions
  • glosses
  • goings-on
  • ground rules
  • guides
  • guiles
  • guises
  • hams
  • handiworks
  • handles
  • happenings
  • hints
  • images
  • imitates
  • impersonates
  • impersonations
  • implies
  • infidelities
  • influences
  • initiatives
  • insinuates
  • interprets
  • laws
  • legislations
  • lets on
  • looks
  • makes
  • makes believe
  • malingers
  • manages
  • maneuvers
  • masks
  • masquerades
  • matters
  • measures
  • mimes
  • mimics
  • mocks
  • monkeys
  • moves
  • numbers
  • operates
  • operations
  • ordinances
  • overacts
  • overplays
  • oversees
  • pans out
  • pantomimes
  • parodies
  • perfidies
  • performances
  • performs
  • personae
  • personas
  • personates
  • playacts
  • plays
  • portrayals
  • portrays
  • poses
  • pretences
  • pretends
  • pretenses
  • pretexts
  • procedures
  • proceeding
  • proceedings
  • professes
  • prohibitions
  • proscriptions
  • put-ons
  • puts on
  • reacts
  • recalls
  • redounds
  • regulates
  • regulations
  • renders
  • represents
  • resembles
  • responds
  • restrictions
  • results
  • role-plays
  • roleplays
  • routines
  • rules
  • rulings
  • runs
  • schticks
  • seems
  • semblances
  • serves
  • shams
  • shows
  • shticks
  • shtiks
  • signatures
  • simulates
  • sounds
  • statutes
  • steps
  • stunts
  • suggests
  • supervises
  • sways
  • tactics
  • takes
  • takes effect
  • takes hold
  • takes on
  • things
  • travesties
  • treacheries
  • treasons
  • tricks
  • turns
  • underplays
  • undertakings
  • works

Antonyms for acts

  • backfires
  • candors
  • fizzles
  • higher laws
  • naivetes
  • sincerities

Meanings of acts

  • 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

  • The play consists of three acts, each exploring a different theme.
  • He performed several acts of kindness throughout the day.
  • The government acts quickly in times of national emergencies.
  • She carefully studied the acts of the characters before the performance.
  • His charity organization acts to help those in need.

On this page you'll find 214 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to acts, such as: accomplishments, achievements, actions, activities, acts out, administers, adventures.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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  • pack
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  • yield
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imitates

  • Xerox
  • act like
  • acts
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  • travesties
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makes

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  • extrapolates
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  • fashion
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  • fastens
  • fathers
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  • feels
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  • finishes
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  • gauges
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  • get ready
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  • gives rise to
  • go
  • goes through
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  • grosses
  • guesses
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  • harvest
  • hatch
  • head
  • heads
  • hectors
  • hews
  • high-pressures
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  • hustle
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  • implements
  • implies
  • impress
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  • initiate
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  • innovates
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  • interfere
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  • invent
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  • invest
  • invokes
  • jerry-builds
  • judge
  • judges
  • knock off
  • knocks down
  • knocks out
  • knows
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  • latches
  • launches
  • lays down
  • lead to
  • legislate
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  • light out
  • lights out
  • locks
  • logs
  • looks
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  • makes out
  • makes up
  • manufacture
  • manufactures
  • matches
  • meddle
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  • meets
  • menaces
  • mints
  • mix
  • mold
  • molds
  • move
  • muscles
  • nails
  • name
  • negotiates
  • net
  • nets
  • nominate
  • nourishes
  • nurtures
  • obligates
  • oblige
  • obliges
  • obtain
  • obtains
  • occasion
  • occasions
  • occupies
  • ordain
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