accomplishment

accomplishment

noun

Definition of ACCOMPLISHMENT

1

a successful result brought about by hard work <our biggest accomplishment this week was finishing the living room makeover>

Synonyms achievement, acquirement, attainment, baby, coup, success, triumph

Related Words blockbuster, hit, jackpot, megahit, miracle, smash, winner; conquest, gain, victory, win; skill; deed, feat, performance; arrival, completion, consummation, culmination, execution, fruition, fulfillment (or fulfilment), implementation, realization

Phrases a feather in one's cap

Near Antonyms botch, cock-up [British], mess, muddle, shambles; bummer, bust, catastrophe, debacle (also d{eacute}b{acirc}cle), disaster, dud, failure, fiasco, fizzle, flop, washout; disappointment, letdown, loss, setback

Antonyms nonachievement

2

the doing of an action <your prompt accomplishment of this urgent project is much appreciated>

Synonyms accomplishment, achievement, discharge, enactment, execution, fulfillment (or fulfilment), implementation, performance, perpetration, prosecution, pursuance

Related Words dispatch, expedition; administration, direction, handling, management; application, operation, practice (also practise)

Antonyms nonfulfillment, nonperformance

3

the state of being actual or complete <a long, difficult project whose accomplishment we wondered if we would ever see>

Synonyms accomplishment, achievement, actuality, actualization, attainment, consummation, fulfillment (or fulfilment), pass, realization

Related Words success, triumph

Near Antonyms defeat, failure, fizzle, nonsuccess

Antonyms naught (also nought), nonfulfillment

4

a high level of taste and enlightenment as a result of extensive intellectual training and exposure to the arts <what his wife lacked in traditional accomplishment she made up for with a great generosity of spirit>

Synonyms accomplishment, civilization, couth, cultivation, polish, refinement

Related Words education, erudition, intellectualism, intellectuality, knowledge, learning, literacy, scholarship; cosmopolitanism, sophistication, urbanity; breeding, genteelness, gentility, manners; class, elegance, grace, taste; civility, courteousness, courtesy, politeness

Near Antonyms ignorance, illiteracy; parochialism, provincialism, rusticity, unsophistication; boorishness, churlishness, clownishness, coarseness, crudeness, vulgarity

Antonyms barbarianism, barbarism, philistinism