Synonyms for control
Another word for control is control condition, dominance or ascendancy. Below are 10 synonyms and 30 related words across 12 senses.
Also searched as: controls.
1. noun: power to direct or determine
2. noun: a relation of constraint of one entity (thing or person or group) by another
3. noun: (physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc
4. noun: a standard against which other conditions can be compared in a scientific experiment
- control condition
5. noun: the activity of managing or exerting control over something
6. noun: the state that exists when one person or group has power over another
- dominance synonyms
- ascendancy
- ascendance
- ascendency
- ascendence
7. noun: discipline in personal and social activities
- restraint synonyms
8. noun: great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity
- command synonyms
- mastery synonyms
9. noun: a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine
- controller synonyms
10. noun: a spiritual agency that is assumed to assist the medium during a seance
11. noun: the economic policy of controlling or limiting or curbing prices or wages etc.
12. verb: exercise authoritative control or power over
- command synonyms
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.
- say-so synonyms
- power synonyms
- hold synonyms
- authority synonyms
- iron fist
- authorization synonyms
- rein synonyms
- potency synonyms
- authorisation
- corporatism
- powerfulness
- relation synonyms
- body process
- activity synonyms
- motor control
- bodily process
- bodily function
- standard synonyms
- criterion synonyms
- self-control synonyms
- taking hold
- direction synonyms
- power trip
- damage control
- flight control
- traffic control
- crowd control
- internal control
- ownership
- possession synonyms
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Questions people ask
What is another word for control?
You can say control condition, dominance, ascendancy, ascendance or ascendency instead of control. Which one fits depends on the sense; the first sense above means "power to direct or determine".
What is the opposite of control?
WordNet lists no direct antonym for control; the nearest opposites depend on which sense you mean.
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