Synonyms for compact
ˈkɒm pæktcom·pact

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1. compact

   Alliance is in its most common use a connection formed by treaty between sovereign states as for mutual aid in war. Partnership is a mercantile word; alliance chiefly political or matrimonial. Coalition is oftenest used of political parties; fusion is now the more common word in this sense. In an alliance between nations there is no surrender of sovereignty, and no union except for a specified time and purpose. League and alliance are used with scarcely perceptible difference of meaning. In a confederacy or confederation there is an attempt to unite separate states in a general government without surrender of sovereignty. Union implies so much concession as to make the separate states substantially one. Federation is mainly a poetic and rhetorical word expressing something of the same thought, as in Tennyson's "federation of the world," Locksley Hall, l. 128. The United States is not a confederacy nor an alliance; the nation might be called a federation, but prefers to be styled a federal union.

   Synonyms:
   alliance, coalition, confederacy, confederation, federation, fusion, league, partnership, union

   Antonyms:
   antagonism, discord, disunion, divorce, enmity, hostility, schism, secession, separation, war

   Preposition:
   Alliance with a neighboring people; against the common enemy; for offense and defense; alliance of, between, or among nations.

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1. compact

   Synonyms:
   dense, close, hard, solid, firm, pithy, concise, condensed, contracted, compendious, convenient, concentrated, consolidated, concrete

   Antonyms:
   ductile, brittle, friable, diffuse, unshapely, straggling, sparse, broadcast, dispread

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1. compact, powder compactnoun

   a small cosmetics case with a mirror; to be carried in a woman's purse

   Synonyms:
   powder compact, covenant, concordat, compact car

   Antonyms:
   shifting, silty, tall, light, loose, unfirm, prolix, unconsolidated

2. covenant, compact, concordatnoun

   a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action

   Synonyms:
   powder compact, covenant, concordat, compact car

   Antonyms:
   silty, tall, unfirm, light, prolix, loose, unconsolidated, shifting

3. compact, compact caradjective

   a small and economical car

   Synonyms:
   powder compact, covenant, concordat, compact car

   Antonyms:
   unconsolidated, shifting, tall, unfirm, light, silty, loose, prolix

4. compactadjective

   closely and firmly united or packed together

   "compact soil"; "compact clusters of flowers"

   Synonyms:
   succinct, thickset, summary, heavyset, compendious, thick, stocky

   Antonyms:
   shifting, silty, unfirm, prolix, loose, light, unconsolidated, tall

5. compact, heavyset, stocky, thick, thicksetadjective

   having a short and solid form or stature

   "a wrestler of compact build"; "he was tall and heavyset"; "stocky legs"; "a thickset young man"

   Synonyms:
   dense, duncical, duncish, wooden-headed, thickheaded, boneheaded, loggerheaded, blockheaded, summary, chummy, thick-skulled, thickset, deep, stocky, succinct, compendious, heavyset, buddy-buddy, thick(p), fatheaded, thick, slurred

   Antonyms:
   unconsolidated, light, unfirm, silty, loose, shifting, tall, prolix

6. compendious, compact, succinct, summaryverb

   briefly giving the gist of something

   "a short and compendious book"; "a compact style is brief and pithy"; "succinct comparisons"; "a summary formulation of a wide-ranging subject"

   Synonyms:
   stocky, succinct, thickset, thick, summary, heavyset, drumhead, compendious

   Antonyms:
   silty, tall, shifting, unfirm, light, prolix, loose, unconsolidated

7. compact, packverb

   have the property of being packable or of compacting easily

   "This powder compacts easily"; "Such odd-shaped items do not pack well"

   Synonyms:
   mob, wad, pile, backpack, constrict, pack, press, carry, load down, tamp, tamp down, bundle, pack together, squeeze, compress, contract, take, throng, jam

   Antonyms:
   unfirm, prolix, loose, tall, silty, shifting, unconsolidated, light

8. pack, bundle, wad, compactverb

   compress into a wad

   "wad paper into the box"

   Synonyms:
   mob, wad, pile, cluster, backpack, bunch up, jampack, pack together, pack, press, bunch, bundle up, ram, tamp, clump, roll up, load down, tamp down, bundle, chock up, throng, contract, take, carry, squeeze, cram, constrict, practice bundling, compress, jam

   Antonyms:
   prolix, tall, light, silty, unconsolidated, loose, shifting, unfirm

9. compress, compact, pack togetherverb

   make more compact by or as if by pressing

   "compress the data"

   Synonyms:
   bundle, press, squeeze, pack, contract, pack together, wad, compress, constrict

   Antonyms:
   silty, unfirm, unconsolidated, shifting, prolix, light, loose, tall

10. compress, constrict, squeeze, compact, contract, pressverb

    squeeze or press together

    "she compressed her lips"; "the spasm contracted the muscle"

    Synonyms:
    fight, adjure, weigh, pressure, crush, narrow, thrust, get, rack, cut, pack together, foreshorten, undertake, hale, press, twitch, pack, gouge, tweet, embrace, bundle, agitate, force, pinch, shove, weight-lift, sign up, sign on, twinge, compress, urge, hug, shrink, concentrate, campaign, sign, abridge, reduce, take, condense, contract, iron, crusade, extort, stuff, urge on, squeeze, beseech, squash, constringe, exhort, wring, mash, coerce, wad, bid, push, bosom, wedge, entreat, shorten, squelch, abbreviate, conjure, constrict, press out, weightlift, iron out

    Antonyms:
    prolix, silty, shifting, loose, tall, unconsolidated, unfirm, light

Matched Categories

1. • Arrange
   • Case
   • Tighten
   • Written Agreement

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1. space-efficient

   space-efficient = working inside a small amount of space.

   this warehouse is (space-efficient or compact)

   Submitted by rinat on September 4, 2019  

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1. compactnoun

   Synonyms:
   agreement, contract, covenant, stipulation, bargain, treaty, concordat, convention, pact, arrangement

2. compactverb

   Synonyms:
   consolidate, condense, compress, join closely, press together

3. compactadjective

   Synonyms:
   close, dense, solid, firm, compressed, pressed together, closely put together, of firm texture

4. compactadjective

   Synonyms:
   pithy, terse, concise, laconic, sententious, short, brief, compendious, succinct, pointed, full of meaning, not loose, not verbose, not prolix

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1. compactadjective

   Synonyms:
   close, solid, dense, crowded, impenetrable, serried

2. compactnoun

   Synonyms:
   covenant, agreement, pact, treaty, contract

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1. List of paraphrases for "compact":

   covenant, pact, slim, thin, slimline, small-footprint, space-saving, iccpr, compacted, icescr, agreement

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How to use compact in a sentence?

1. James K. Polk:

   The Constitution itself, plainly written as it is, the safeguard of our federative compact, the offspring of concession and compromise, binding together in the bonds of peace and union this great and increasing family of free and independent States, will be the chart by which I shall be directed.

2. Ali Agha:

   We have very limited information about the composition of the surface. Rocky terrain, methane lakes, cryovolcanoes - we potentially have all of these, but we don't know for certain, so we thought about how to create a system that is versatile and capable of traversing different types of terrain but also compact enough to launch on a rocket.

3. Red Star Belgrade:

   When you play a 4-4-2 in the shape or the formation that Sweden play, the strikers are going to be the ones that suffer the most when you go to attack, they are so compact, they work so hard to protect the midfielders - when you put so much work into it like Ola Toivonen and Marcus Berg do, you lose that little bit of energy when you get your chance.

4. Kevin Rein:

   In the 99-year history of the compact, we have complied with those provisions of the compact, they are getting what they agreed to.

5. Tinggui Wang:

   A white dwarf is a very compact star, as such, close to the star, the gradient of the gravitational field can be very large.