Synonyms for order
Another word for order is order of magnitude, ordering or ordination. Below are 19 synonyms and 30 related words across 12 senses, with antonyms.
Also searched as: orderer, orders.
1. noun: (often plural) a command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed
2. noun: a degree in a continuum of size or quantity
- order of magnitude
3. noun: established customary state (especially of society)
Antonyms
- disorder synonyms
4. noun: logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements
- ordering
- ordination synonyms
5. noun: a condition of regular or proper arrangement
- orderliness
Antonyms
- disorder synonyms
6. noun: a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge)
- decree synonyms
- fiat
- edict synonyms
- rescript
7. noun: a commercial document used to request someone to supply something in return for payment and providing specifications and quantities
- purchase order
8. noun: a formal association of people with similar interests
- club synonyms
- society synonyms
- social club synonyms
- lodge synonyms
- guild synonyms
- gild
9. noun: a body of rules followed by an assembly
- rules of order
- parliamentary law
- parliamentary procedure
10. noun: a group of person living under a religious rule
- monastic order
11. noun: (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families
12. noun: a request for something to be made, supplied, or served
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.
- word synonyms
- daily order
- command synonyms
- bid synonyms
- bidding synonyms
- marching orders
- summons synonyms
- dictation
- magnitude
- state synonyms
- peace synonyms
- civil order
- rule of law
- quiet synonyms
- stability
- harmony synonyms
- concord synonyms
- tranquility synonyms
- polity
- tranquillity
- concordance
- series
- word order
- genetic code
- arrangement synonyms
- bacteria order
- genome
- status
- condition synonyms
- spit and polish
Order in word games
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- 5
- Scrabble
- 6
- Words With Friends
- 6
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- Everyday word
- Unscramble ORDER
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Questions people ask
What is another word for order?
You can say order of magnitude, ordering, ordination, orderliness or decree instead of order. Which one fits depends on the sense; the first sense above means "(often plural) a command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed".
What is the opposite of order?
The opposite of order is disorder.
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