communication

The word “communication” has 5 syllables: com-mu-ni-ca-tion

It's pronounced as /kəˌmjuː.nɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/


What is synonym and antonym for communication?

In the thesaurus, “communication” has 88 synonyms and 11 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for communication

  • account
  • advice
  • advisement
  • announcement
  • announcing
  • articulation
  • assertion
  • briefing
  • bulletin
  • command
  • commerce
  • communion
  • connection
  • contact
  • conversation
  • converse
  • correspondence
  • corresponding
  • declaration
  • delivery
  • directive
  • disclosing
  • disclosure
  • dispatch
  • dissemination
  • e-mail
  • electronic mail
  • elucidation
  • epistle
  • excerpt
  • express
  • expression
  • goods
  • hold
  • hot story
  • ideas
  • info
  • information
  • inside story
  • instruction
  • intelligence
  • interchange
  • intercommunication
  • intercourse
  • language
  • letter
  • link
  • lowdown
  • making known
  • memo
  • memorandum
  • mention
  • message
  • missive
  • news
  • note
  • notice
  • notifying
  • order
  • pipeline
  • prophecy
  • publication
  • publicity
  • reading
  • reception
  • report
  • revelation
  • scoop
  • skinny
  • speech
  • statement
  • summary
  • talk
  • talking
  • telling
  • the poop
  • tidings
  • touch
  • transfer
  • translating
  • translation
  • transmission
  • utterance
  • voice mail
  • warning
  • word
  • work
  • writing

Antonyms for communication

Meanings of communication

  • noun
    1. The act or fact of communicating anything; transmission.
    2. The concept or state of exchanging data or information between entities.
    3. A message; the essential data transferred in an act of communication.
    4. The body of all data transferred to one or both parties during an act of communication.
    5. An instance of information transfer; a conversation or discourse.
    6. A passageway or opening between two locations; connection.
    7. A connection between two tissues, organs, or cavities.
    8. Association; company.
    9. Participation in Holy Communion.
    10. A trope by which a speaker assumes that his hearer is a partner in his sentiments, and says "we" instead of "I" or "you".

Example Sentences

  • Good communication is essential in any relationship.
  • The manager emphasized the importance of clear communication during meetings.
  • Advances in technology have transformed global communication.
  • Misunderstandings often happen due to poor communication.
  • The course focuses on improving verbal and written communication skills.

On this page you'll find 99 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to communication, such as: account, advice, advisement, announcement, announcing, articulation, assertion.

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Related Words

ABCs

  • ABCs
  • Bible
  • abecedarian
  • accessory
  • accidence
  • account
  • acknowledgment
  • affidavit
  • affirmation
  • allegation
  • alphabet
  • amount
  • annal
  • announcement
  • article
  • articulation
  • aside
  • asseveration
  • assurance
  • authority
  • averment
  • avowal
  • axiom
  • background
  • bare bones
  • basal
  • base
  • basic
  • basics
  • basis
  • beacon
  • bed
  • bedrock
  • beginning
  • beginnings
  • belief
  • bellwether
  • blow-by-blow
  • body
  • bottom
  • bottom line
  • brass tacks
  • brief
  • bulletin
  • burden
  • canon
  • cap
  • capital
  • case
  • catalog
  • center
  • chapter and verse
  • character
  • characterization
  • characters
  • charge
  • chronicle
  • circumstance
  • circumstantiality
  • clear
  • clue
  • coal-and-ice
  • comment
  • communication
  • compendium
  • component
  • condition
  • confession
  • constituent
  • core
  • cornerstone
  • corpus
  • count
  • crux
  • cue
  • declaration
  • definition
  • delineation
  • depiction
  • description
  • design
  • detail
  • dictum
  • directory
  • doctrine
  • dogma
  • dope
  • drift
  • duck soup
  • easy
  • effect
  • ejaculation
  • element
  • elemental
  • elements
  • enchiridion
  • essence
  • essential
  • essentiality
  • essentials
  • explanation
  • explication
  • facile
  • fact
  • factor
  • facts of life
  • faith
  • feature
  • fine point
  • fingerprint
  • fire and ice
  • first principles
  • first steps
  • focus
  • foot
  • footing
  • foundation
  • foundational
  • fraction
  • fundamental
  • fundamentals
  • fundaments
  • general meaning
  • gist
  • gospel
  • grammar
  • graphic representation
  • gravamen
  • groceries
  • ground
  • groundwork
  • guidebook
  • guiding light
  • guts
  • handbook
  • heart
  • hieroglyphs
  • history
  • hot lead
  • ideograph
  • import
  • information
  • infrastructure
  • initial
  • innards
  • introductory
  • item
  • justification
  • kernel
  • key
  • keystone
  • know
  • landmark
  • law
  • linguistics
  • lodestar
  • lowdown
  • majuscule
  • make
  • manifesto
  • manual
  • mark
  • marker
  • marrow
  • mass
  • matter
  • meat
  • meat and potatoes
  • mention
  • minor point
  • minuscule
  • minutia
  • monograph
  • morphemes
  • morphology
  • must
  • name of the game
  • narration
  • narrative
  • nicety
  • nitty-gritty
  • nub
  • nuts and bolts
  • observation
  • origin
  • original
  • part
  • part and parcel
  • particular
  • peculiarity
  • philosophy
  • phonemes
  • pictograph
  • picture
  • pith
  • plain
  • plan
  • play by play
  • point
  • pointer
  • portion
  • portraiture
  • portrayal
  • precept
  • precondition
  • prefatory
  • preliminaries
  • preliminary
  • preparation
  • prerequisite
  • presentation
  • presentment
  • primary
  • primitive
  • primo
  • principium
  • principle
  • principles
  • print
  • proclamation
  • profession
  • prop
  • protestation
  • purport
  • quintessence
  • rationale
  • reason
  • recital
  • recitation
  • record
  • recountal
  • rehearsal
  • relation
  • remark
  • report
  • representation
  • requirement
  • requisite
  • respect
  • rock bottom
  • root
  • rudiment
  • rudimentary
  • rudiments
  • rule
  • run down
  • rundown
  • rune
  • schedule
  • scoop
  • score
  • sense
  • sentence structure
  • setup
  • sign
  • signal
  • significance
  • signpost
  • signs
  • simplest
  • simplex
  • simplified
  • sine qua non
  • singularity
  • sketch
  • small letter
  • soul
  • speciality
  • specialty
  • specific
  • specification
  • standard
  • staple
  • statement
  • stay
  • story
  • straightforward
  • stratification
  • strength
  • structure
  • stuff
  • subject
  • substance
  • substratal
  • substratum
  • substructure
  • sum total
  • summarization
  • summary
  • support
  • syllabary
  • symbols
  • syntax
  • tab
  • tagmemics
  • take
  • tale
  • technicality
  • telltale
  • tenet
  • tenor
  • testimony
  • the book
  • the numbers
  • the picture
  • the whole picture
  • theme
  • theorem
  • thing
  • thrust
  • tip-off
  • trait
  • trivia
  • triviality
  • type
  • uncial
  • uncomplex
  • uncomplicated
  • underlying
  • underpinning
  • understructure
  • upshot
  • utterance
  • vade mecum
  • ventilation
  • verbalization
  • version
  • vignette
  • virtuality
  • vital part
  • vocalization
  • voice
  • way of it
  • whole story
  • word
  • writeup
  • yarn

cablecast

  • ad
  • advert
  • advertisement
  • advertising
  • announcement
  • annunciation
  • ballyhoo
  • bill
  • billboard
  • billing
  • blurb
  • boost
  • broadcast
  • broadside
  • brochure
  • buildup
  • bulletin
  • campaign
  • circular
  • come-on
  • commercial
  • communication
  • declaration
  • dispatch
  • edict
  • flier
  • fly sheet
  • flyer
  • gazette
  • handbill
  • handout
  • message
  • newscast
  • notice
  • notification
  • pitch
  • placard
  • playbill
  • plug
  • plugola
  • poster
  • posting
  • proclamation
  • promo
  • promotion
  • promulgation
  • pronouncement
  • pronunciamento
  • propaganda
  • publicity
  • release
  • report
  • rescript
  • show bill
  • sign
  • signification
  • spot
  • telecast
  • word

earful

  • account
  • admonishment
  • admonition
  • adumbration
  • advice
  • affliction
  • ammo
  • announcement
  • apocalypse
  • argument
  • avalanche
  • babble
  • back-fence talk
  • barrage
  • bawling-out
  • berating
  • betrayal
  • blame
  • blather
  • blether
  • blitz
  • blitzkrieg
  • blow-by-blow
  • bombardment
  • break
  • breeze
  • broadcasting
  • broadside
  • bruit
  • bulletin
  • burst
  • buzz
  • calumny
  • canard
  • cannonade
  • cannonball
  • castigation
  • cataclysm
  • cataract
  • censure
  • chapter and verse
  • chat
  • chatter
  • chewing-out
  • chiding
  • chitchat
  • chronicle
  • clothesline
  • clue
  • colloquy
  • comeuppance
  • comment
  • communication
  • conclave
  • condemnation
  • confabulation
  • conference
  • confidence
  • consultation
  • conversation
  • correction
  • counsel
  • cry
  • cue
  • current
  • data
  • defamation
  • deliberation
  • deluge
  • dialogue
  • directive
  • dirt
  • dirty laundry
  • dirty linen
  • dirty wash
  • disapproval
  • discharge
  • discovery
  • dispatch
  • display
  • divination
  • divulgement
  • dope
  • dossier
  • dressing-down
  • drumbeat
  • drumfire
  • encounter
  • engulfment
  • enlightenment
  • epiphany
  • epistle
  • erudition
  • excess
  • exhibition
  • exposition
  • expostulation
  • exposure
  • eye-opener
  • eyeball-to-eyeball
  • fabrication
  • falsehood
  • fame
  • fiction
  • flash
  • flood
  • flood tide
  • flurry
  • flush
  • foreshadowing
  • fusillade
  • glut
  • going-over
  • gossip
  • gossipry
  • grapevine
  • gush
  • hail
  • hard time
  • hash
  • hearsay
  • hoax
  • huddle
  • idle talk
  • illumination
  • info
  • information
  • injury
  • innuendo
  • inside story
  • inspiration
  • instruction
  • intelligence
  • interlocution
  • interview
  • intimation
  • inundation
  • invention
  • kick in the teeth
  • knowledge
  • leak
  • learning
  • lecture
  • lesson
  • letter
  • lie
  • lightning bolt
  • lore
  • lowdown
  • malicious talk
  • manifestation
  • material
  • meddling
  • meeting
  • memo
  • memorandum
  • message
  • missive
  • murmur
  • negotiation
  • network
  • news
  • note
  • notice
  • notification
  • notoriety
  • objurgation
  • oracle
  • orientation
  • ostracism
  • outburst
  • outflow
  • outpouring
  • overabundance
  • overage
  • overflow
  • overkill
  • overmuch
  • oversupply
  • palaver
  • paper
  • parlance
  • parley
  • prate
  • prating
  • prattle
  • proclamation
  • propaganda
  • prophecy
  • publication
  • punishment
  • put down
  • rap
  • rash
  • rating
  • rebuff
  • refusal
  • remonstrance
  • report
  • reprehension
  • reproach
  • reproof
  • reproval
  • repulse
  • repute
  • river
  • row
  • rumble
  • rumor
  • salvo
  • scandal
  • science
  • scolding
  • scoop
  • score
  • scuttlebutt
  • seminar
  • shower
  • showing
  • sign
  • slander
  • slap in the face
  • small talk
  • snub
  • spate
  • speech
  • spiel
  • storm
  • story
  • straight talk
  • stream
  • suggestion
  • superabundance
  • superfluity
  • supposition
  • surfeit
  • surge
  • surplus
  • symposium
  • tale
  • talk
  • talking-to
  • tattle
  • telling-off
  • the latest
  • tide
  • tidings
  • tip
  • tittle-tattle
  • tongue-lashing
  • torrent
  • uncovering
  • unearthing
  • unveiling
  • upbraiding
  • ventilation
  • vision
  • visit
  • volley
  • whisper
  • whispering
  • whispering campaign
  • whole story
  • wire
  • wisdom
  • word

gabfest

  • address
  • appointment
  • argument
  • article
  • backchat
  • cackle
  • causerie
  • chat
  • chatter
  • chin fest
  • chin music
  • chin-wag
  • chinwag
  • chitchat
  • colloquium
  • colloquy
  • communication
  • confab
  • confabulation
  • conference
  • conferring
  • congress
  • consultation
  • convention
  • conversation
  • converse
  • convocation
  • crosstalk
  • debate
  • deliberation
  • descant
  • dialog
  • dialogue
  • discourse
  • discussion
  • discussion group
  • disquisition
  • essay
  • exchange
  • forum
  • gab
  • give-and-take
  • gossip
  • groupthink
  • happy talk
  • homily
  • huddle
  • interchange
  • interview
  • jangle
  • jaw
  • lecture
  • meeting
  • memoir
  • monograph
  • monologue
  • natter
  • oration
  • palaver
  • panel discussion
  • paper
  • parley
  • patter
  • rap
  • rap session
  • rhetoric
  • round robin
  • round table
  • schmooze
  • seminar
  • sermon
  • small talk
  • speaking
  • speech
  • symposium
  • table talk
  • talk
  • talk fest
  • thesis
  • think-in
  • tractate
  • treatise
  • utterance
  • ventilation
  • verbalization
  • yack
  • yak
  • yammer
  • yap

ukase

  • act
  • adjudication
  • advertisement
  • announcement
  • authorization
  • behest
  • bidding
  • broadcast
  • bull
  • call
  • canon
  • charge
  • charging
  • code
  • command
  • commandment
  • communication
  • conclusion
  • decision
  • declaration
  • decree
  • decretum
  • deliverance
  • determination
  • diagnosis
  • dictate
  • dictum
  • diktat
  • direction
  • directive
  • edict
  • enactment
  • encyclical
  • endorsement
  • fiat
  • finding
  • go ahead
  • green light
  • injunction
  • instruction
  • instrument
  • judgement
  • judgment
  • law
  • mandate
  • manifesto
  • memo
  • memorandum
  • message
  • notice
  • notification
  • opinion
  • order
  • ordinance
  • permission
  • precept
  • prescript
  • proclamation
  • promulgation
  • pronouncement
  • pronunciamento
  • publication
  • rap
  • reg
  • regulation
  • report
  • rescript
  • resolution
  • rule
  • ruling
  • sanction
  • say
  • say-so
  • signal
  • statute
  • stipulation
  • the riot act
  • the word
  • verdict
  • warrant
  • will
  • word
  • writ

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