Word Meanings - COUNTERACT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To act in opposition to; to hinder, defeat, or frustrate, by contrary agency or influence; as, to counteract the effect of medicines; to counteract good advice.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COUNTERACT)

• Bailie
• Frustrate
• counteract
• disconcert
• elude
• mock
• thwart
• confound
• defeat
• perplex
• restrain
• upset
• foil
• mar
• balk
• neutralize
• dodge
• counterfoil
• Balance
• Weigh
• poise
• pit
• counterpoise
• equalize
• estimate
• redress
• adjust
• Balk
• Estop
• bar
• frustrate
• stop
• prevent
• hinder
• nullify
• disappoint
• baffle
• Coerce
• Restrain
• inhibit
• impel
• compel
• drive
• check
• constrain
• force
• confine
• intimidate
• Countervail
• Counteract
• pose
• withstand

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of COUNTERACT)

• Loose
• liberate
• instigate
• accelerate
• license
• indulge
• allow
• abet
• Over-balance
• aggravate
• Secure
• promote
• insure
• speed
• advance
• establish
• aid

Related words: (words related to COUNTERACT)

• SPECTACLE
  An optical instrument consisting of two lenses set in a light frame, and worn to assist sight, to obviate some defect in the organs of vision, or to shield the eyes from bright light. 4. pl. (more info) 1. Something exhibited to view; usually,
• SPERMATOCYTE
  See SPERMOBLAST
• FORCE
  To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
• CHECKWORK
  Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard.
• SPECIFICNESS
  The quality or state of being specific.
• SPERMATIC
  Of or pertaining to semen; as, the spermatic fluid, the spermatic vessels, etc. Spermatic cord , the cord which suspends the testicle within the scrotum. It is made up of a connective tissue sheath inclosing the spermatic duct and accompanying
• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• INHIBITORY
  Of or pertaining to, or producing, inhibition; consisting in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit; as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center. I would not have you consider these criticisms as inhibitory. Lamb.
• SPERMATICAL
  Spermatic.
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• SPECTROGRAPH
  An apparatus for photographing or mapping a spectrum. A photograph or picture of a spectrum. -- Spec`tro*graph"ic , a. --Spec`tro*graph"ic*al*ly , adv. --Spec*trog"ra*phy , n.
• NEUTRALIZE
  To render inert or imperceptible the peculiar affinities of, as a chemical substance; to destroy the effect of; as, to neutralize an acid with a base. 3. To destroy the peculiar or opposite dispositions of; to reduce to a state of indifference
• SPECK
  The blubber of whales or other marine mammals; also, the fat of the hippopotamus. Speck falls , falls or ropes rove through blocks for hoisting the blubber and bone of whales on board a whaling vessel.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• SPECTATORSHIP
  1. The office or quality of a spectator. Addison. 2. The act of beholding. Shak.
• SPECE
  Species; kind. Chaucer.
• UPSETTING
  Conceited; assuming; as, an upsetting fellow. Jamieson.
• SPEECHLESS
  1. Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech. 2. Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent. Speechless with wonder, and half dead with fear. Addison. -- Speech"less*ly, adv. -- Speech"less*ness, n.
• ASPER
  Rough; rugged; harsh; bitter; stern; fierce. "An asper sound." Bacon.
• ANGIOMONOSPERMOUS
  Producing one seed only in a seed pod.
• PRELUDE
  An introductory performance, preceding and preparing for the principal matter; a preliminary part, movement, strain, etc.; especially , a strain introducing the theme or chief subject; a movement introductory to a fugue, yet independent; -- with
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• HALLOW
  To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• OOSPERM; OOESPERM
  The ovum, after fusion with the spermatozoön in impregnation. Balfour.
• MISPENSE
  See HALL
• DISPENSE
  1. To deal out in portions; to distribute; to give; as, the steward dispenses provisions according directions; Nature dispenses her bounties; to dispense medicines. He is delighted to dispense a share of it to all the company. Sir W. Scott. 2.