ARRAYS Synonyms: 291 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

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plural of array

as in clusters

a number of things considered as a unit an array of baseball gloves in the corner of his room

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as in groups

a usually small number of persons considered as a unit a motley array of travelers waiting for the bus

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as in sequences

the way objects in space or events in time are arranged or follow one another a marching band's carefully choreographed array

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as in armies

a large body of men and women organized for land warfare feudal lords depended upon their array for defense

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verb

present tense third-person singular of array

as in decorates

to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming a door arrayed for the holidays with a beautiful evergreen wreath

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as in clothes

to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes arrayed in a wedding dress that has been handed down in the family for generations

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as in arranges

to put into a particular arrangement arrayed his baseball cards in order of their rarity and consequent monetary value

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Recent Examples of arrays

Noun

The community solar project, where small-scale arrays would allow low-income residents to subscribe to get monthly credits on their utility bill, offers a new source of steady revenue for Covert, a former dairy farmer who was treated for cancer in the last year and struggled to work as a result. —

Ayurella Horn-Muller, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2026 The community solar project, where small-scale arrays would allow low-income residents to subscribe to get monthly credits on their utility bill, offers a new source of steady revenue for Covert, a former dairy farmer who was treated for cancer in the last year and struggled to work as a result. —

ABC News, 17 Apr. 2026 While the idea is still in its early stages, with more powerful solar arrays in the future, space data centers would have the advantage of harnessing cleaner solar energy, Jeff Thornburg, a SpaceX veteran and CEO of Portal Space Systems, previously told Fortune. —

Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2026 Anbernic makes a wide range of portable gaming consoles whose designs leave nothing to the imagination, with the usual arrays of controller buttons alongside or below a display. —

New Atlas, 14 Apr. 2026 The service module carries all the propellant, water, air and solar arrays used to power Orion during its trip to the moon. —

Tariq Malik, Space.com, 10 Apr. 2026 The Israeli military said its strikes targeted more than 100 sites, including Hezbollah headquarters, military arrays and command-and-control centers in Beirut, Beqaa and southern Lebanon. —

Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2026 The Israeli military said its airstrikes hit 100 targets within 10 minutes, striking Hezbollah headquarters, military arrays and command-and-control centers. —

Matt Bradley, NBC news, 8 Apr. 2026 After reaching orbit, Orion deployed its four solar arrays–angled away from the spacecraft in a way that evokes an X-Wing from Star Wars–while flight controllers worked through a brief communications glitch. —

Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 6 Apr. 2026

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That’s more than fifty times the capability of previous technology, such as micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) micromirror arrays. —

IEEE Spectrum, 9 Apr. 2026 The satellites stand out for their exceptionally large solar arrays. —

Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 23 Mar. 2026 At a cost that Payload Research estimates at $35 million each, that’s $350 billion in cash for the like of krypton-gas burners, solar arrays, and stainless steel alloy. —

Shawn Tully, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2026 But the censor does prohibit us from putting out live broadcasts of intercepts that could reveal the accuracy of Iranian ballistic missiles or the location of interceptor missile arrays. —

Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 6 Mar. 2026 However, new constellations like Amazon Leo and AST SpaceMobile’s BlueBird satellite arrays only deepen the problem. —

Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 26 Jan. 2026 This is enabled by collecting data using telescope arrays like CHARA, which is made up of dozens of antennas spread across a large area that, when all trained on the same point in the sky, act as one massive telescope. —

Frank Landymore, Futurism, 21 Jan. 2026 The company's recent shift to support external storage arrays directly addresses this limitation. —

Steve McDowell, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026 Since then, researchers around the world have aimed their telescopes and sensitive equipment arrays at it as the comet continues its 130,000 mile-per-hour journey through our stellar neighborhood. —

Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 3 Dec. 2025

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There are still active farms, nursery clusters, equestrian properties and agricultural businesses throughout the Agricultural Reserve.

— Mike Atchison, Sun Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2026
Sweet Viburnum Sweet viburnum is a fast-growing and low-maintenance hedge pick that closely resembles a hydrangea bush—thanks to its large clusters of round blooms.

— Ashley Chalmers, The Spruce, 18 Apr. 2026