Synonyms for position
Another word for position is place, military position or view. Below are 18 synonyms and 30 related words across 12 senses.
Also searched as: positioned, positions.
1. noun: the particular portion of space occupied by something
2. noun: a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons
- military position
3. noun: a way of regarding situations or topics etc.
- view synonyms
- perspective synonyms
4. noun: the arrangement of the body and its limbs
- attitude synonyms
- posture synonyms
5. noun: the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society
- status
6. noun: a job in an organization
- place synonyms
- post synonyms
- office synonyms
- situation synonyms
- berth synonyms
7. noun: the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated
- spatial relation
8. noun: the appropriate or customary location
9. noun: (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player
10. noun: the act of putting something in a certain place
- location synonyms
- placement synonyms
- positioning synonyms
- locating synonyms
- emplacement
11. noun: a condition or position in which you find yourself
- situation synonyms
12. noun: a rationalized mental attitude
- stance
- posture 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.
- right synonyms
- left synonyms
- point synonyms
- front synonyms
- site synonyms
- lead synonyms
- stand synonyms
- station synonyms
- half-staff
- lie synonyms
- setting synonyms
- wing synonyms
- pride of place
- line synonyms
- ground synonyms
- light synonyms
- world view
- sight synonyms
- cutting edge synonyms
- orientation synonyms
- paradigm synonyms
- vanguard synonyms
- forefront synonyms
- panoramic view
- straddle
- futurism
- order arms
- guard synonyms
- presentation synonyms
- pose synonyms
Position in word games
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Questions people ask
What is another word for position?
You can say place, military position, view, perspective or attitude instead of position. Which one fits depends on the sense; the first sense above means "the particular portion of space occupied by something".
What is the opposite of position?
WordNet lists no direct antonym for position; the nearest opposites depend on which sense you mean.
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