Word Meanings - COMPRISE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To comprehend; to include. Comprise much matter in few words. Hocker. Friendship does two souls in one comprise. Roscommon. Syn. -- To embrace; include; comprehend; contain; encircle; inclose; involve; imply.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COMPRISE)

• Comprehend
• Comprise
• embody
• grasp
• understand
• conceive
• apprehend
• enclose
• include
• involve
• embrace
• Contain
• Hold
• comprise
• comprehend
• inclose
• Embrace
• Clasp
• hug
• contain
• close
• incorporate
• Enfold
• Wrap
• envelop

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of COMPRISE)

• Open
• initiate
• conduct
• protract
• Exclude
• except
• discard
• bar
• omit
• reject

Related words: (words related to COMPRISE)

• EXCEPT
  1. To take or leave out from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit. Who never touched The excepted tree. Milton. Wherein all other things concurred. Bp. Stillingfleet. 2. To object to; to protest against. Shak.
• ENCLOSE
  To inclose. See Inclose.
• INVOLVEDNESS
  The state of being involved.
• CLASPER
  1. One who, or that which, clasps, as a tendril. "The claspers of vines." Derham. One of a pair of organs used by the male for grasping the female among many of the Crustacea. One of a pair of male copulatory organs, developed on the anterior side
• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• CLOSEHANDED
  Covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted. -- Close"hand`ed*ness, n.
• EXCEPTIONER
  One who takes exceptions or makes objections. Milton.
• GRASP
  1. To seize and hold by clasping or embracing with the fingers or arms; to catch to take possession of. Thy hand is made to grasp a palmer's staff. Shak. 2. To lay hold of with the mind; to become thoroughly acquainted or conversant with;
• UNDERSTANDINGLY
  In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly. The gospel may be neglected, but in can not be understandingly disbelieved.
• APPREHEND
  of, seize; prae before + -hendere ; akin to Gr. 1. To take or seize; to take hold of. We have two hands to apprehended it. Jer. Taylor. 2. Hence: To take or seize by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal. 3. To take hold of with
• INCLOSER
  One who, or that which, incloses; one who fences off land from common grounds.
• PROTRACTIVE
  Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying. He suffered their protractive arts. Dryden.
• REJECTER
  One who rejects.
• CLOSEFISTED
  Covetous; niggardly. Bp. Berkeley. "Closefisted contractors." Hawthorne.
• REJECT
  re- + jacere to throw: cf. F. rejeter, formerly also spelt rejecter. 1. To cast from one; to throw away; to discard. Therefore all this exercise of hunting . . . the Utopians have rejected to their butchers. Robynson . Reject me not from among
• EXCEPTIONAL
  Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare; hence, better than the average; superior. Lyell. This particular spot had exceptional advantages. Jowett -- Ex*cep"tion*al*ly , adv.
• CLASPERED
  Furnished with tendrils.
• CONDUCTIVITY
  The quality or power of conducting, or of receiving and transmitting, as, the conductivity of a nerve. Thermal conductivity , the quantity of heat that passes in unit time through unit area of plate whose thickness is unity, when its opposite faces
• EXCEPTANT
  Making exception.
• CONCEIVER
  One who conceives.
• SAFE-CONDUCT
  That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
• UNCLOSE
  1. To open; to separate the parts of; as, to unclose a letter; to unclose one's eyes. 2. To disclose; to lay open; to reveal.
• PARCLOSE
  A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church. Hook.
• UNCOMPREHEND
  To fail to comprehend. Daniel.
• RECLASP
  To clasp or unite again.
• DISINCORPORATE
  1. To deprive of corporate powers, rights, or privileges; to divest of the condition of a corporate body. 2. To detach or separate from a corporation. Bacon.