Synonyms for action
Another word for action is activity, activeness or military action. Below are 11 synonyms and 30 related words across 12 senses, with antonyms.
Also searched as: actions.
1. noun: something done (usually as opposed to something said)
2. noun: the state of being active
- activity synonyms
- activeness
Antonyms
- inaction
3. noun: a military engagement
- military action
4. noun: a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings)
- natural process
- natural action
- activity synonyms
5. noun: the series of events that form a plot
6. noun: the trait of being active and energetic and forceful
7. noun: the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism
- action mechanism
8. noun: a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong
- action at law
- legal action
9. noun: an act by a government body or supranational organization
10. noun: the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field
11. noun: In firearms terminology, the mechanism that handles the ammunition (loads, locks, fires, and extracts the cartridges).
12. verb: institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against
- process synonyms
- sue
- litigate
Related words
Broader, narrower and sibling terms from the same WordNet tree. They aren't interchangeable, but one of them is often the word you wanted.
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- group action
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- course of action
- human action
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- eruption synonyms
- overdrive
- busyness
- extravasation
- eructation
- war
- fight synonyms
- police action
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Questions people ask
What is another word for action?
You can say activity, activeness, military action, natural process or natural action instead of action. Which one fits depends on the sense; the first sense above means "something done (usually as opposed to something said)".
What is the opposite of action?
The opposite of action is inaction.
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