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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something done |
| Synonyms: | activity, agility, alacrity, alertness, animation, bag*, ballgame, big idea, bit*, business, bustle, commotion, dash, deal, energy, enterprise, flurry, force, functioning, game, going, happening, haste, hoopla*, hopper, in the works, industry, life, liveliness, motion, movement, occupation, operation, plan, power, process, proposition, racket, reaction, response, rush, scene, spirit, stir, stunt, trip, turmoil, vigor, vim, vitality, vivacity |
| Antonyms: | cessation, idleness, inaction, inactivity, inertia, repose, rest, stoppage |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | action |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a legal process |
| Synonyms: | case, cause, claim, lawsuit, litigation, proceeding, prosecution, suit |
| Main Entry: | action |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | an aggressive military deed |
| Synonyms: | battle, combat, conflict, contest, encounter, engagement, fight, fighting, fray, skirmish, warfare |
| Main Entry: | actions |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conduct |
| Synonyms: | behavior |
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| Concept: | Action. |
| Category: | 1. Simple voluntary action |
| Synonyms: |
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action, performance; doing; perpetration; exercise, excitation; movement, operation, evolution, work; labor (exertion); praxis, execution; procedure (conduct); handicraft; business; agency (power at work)., deed, act, overt act, stitch, touch, gest transaction, job, doings, dealings, proceeding, measure, step, maneuver, bout, passage, move, stroke, blow; coup, coup de main, coup d'etat; tour de force (display); feat, exploit; achievement (completion); handiwork, workmanship; manufacture; stroke of policy (plan)., actor (doer).
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| Antonyms: | inaction |
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| Main Entry: | act |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something done |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, achievement, action, deed, doing, execution, exploit, feat, move, operation, performance, step, thing, undertaking |
| Notes: | an act is the main dramatic unit and a scene is a division within an act |
| Antonyms: | cessation, idleness, inactivity, inertia, quiet, quiet, repose, rest, stoppage, suspension |
| Main Entry: | activity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of being active |
| Synonyms: | action, activeness, animation, bustle, enterprise, exercise, exertion, hustle, labor, life, liveliness, motion, movement |
| Antonyms: | idleness, immobility, inactivity, indolence, inertia, laziness, sluggishness |
| Main Entry: | agency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | power, instrumentality |
| Synonyms: | action, activity, auspices, channel, efficiency, force, influence, instrument, instrumentality, intercession, intervention, means, mechanism, mediation, medium, operation, organ, vehicle, work |
| Main Entry: | amusement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | entertaining, making someone laugh |
| Synonyms: | action, ball*, beguilement, cheer, delight, diversion, enjoyment, entertainment, field day, fun, fun and games, gladdening, gratification, grins, high time, hilarity, hoopla*, laughs, laughter, merriment, merry go round, mirth, picnic, play, pleasing, pleasure, regalement, whoopee |
| Antonyms: | boredom |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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