Synonyms for process
Another word for process is procedure, operation or mental process. Below are 23 synonyms and 30 related words across 12 senses.
Also searched as: processes.
1. noun: a particular course of action intended to achieve a result
- procedure synonyms
2. noun: (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents
- operation synonyms
- mental process
- cognitive process
- cognitive operation
3. noun: a writ issued by authority of law; usually compels the defendant's attendance in a civil suit; failure to appear results in a default judgment against the defendant
- summons synonyms
4. noun: a mental process that you are not directly aware of
- unconscious process
5. noun: a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant
- appendage
- outgrowth
6. noun: a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states
- physical process
7. verb: subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition
- treat synonyms
8. verb: deal with in a routine way
9. verb: perform mathematical and logical operations on (data) according to programmed instructions in order to obtain the required information
10. verb: institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against
- action synonyms
- sue
- litigate
11. verb: shape, form, or improve a material
- work synonyms
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12. verb: deliver a warrant or summons to someone
- serve synonyms
- swear out
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.
- rule synonyms
- activity synonyms
- condition synonyms
- formula synonyms
- routine synonyms
- medical procedure
- operating procedure
- emergency procedure
- experimental condition
- computing synonyms
- experimental procedure
- mapping synonyms
- calculation synonyms
- diagnostic technique
- diagnostic procedure
- knowledge
- higher cognitive process
- basic cognitive process
- cognition
- invalidation
- noesis
- ticket synonyms
- citation synonyms
- writ
- judicial writ
- monition
- process of monition
- defense synonyms
- sleep talking
- defense reaction
Process in word games
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Questions people ask
What is another word for process?
You can say procedure, operation, mental process, cognitive process or cognitive operation instead of process. Which one fits depends on the sense; the first sense above means "a particular course of action intended to achieve a result".
What is the opposite of process?
WordNet lists no direct antonym for process; the nearest opposites depend on which sense you mean.
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