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noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of project

a method worked out in advance for achieving some objective

  • an ambitious project to develop the cityʼs waterfront
Synonyms of project

arrangement, blueprint, design, game, game plan, ground plan, master plan, plan, program, road map, scheme, strategy, system
Words Related to project

collusion, conspiracy, plot

contrivance, device, gambit, maneuver, ruse, stratagem, subterfuge, trick

counterplan, counterstrategy

means, tactic, technique, way

procedure, protocol

conception, idea, projet, proposal, specific(s), specification(s)

aim, intent, intention, purpose

diagram, formula, layout, map, pattern, platform, policy, recipe, setup

Synonym Discussion of project

plan, design, plot, scheme, project mean a method devised for making or doing something or achieving an end. plan always implies mental formulation and sometimes graphic representation.
    • plans for a house
design often suggests a particular pattern and some degree of achieved order or harmony.
    • a design for a new dress
plot implies a laying out in clearly distinguished sections with attention to their relations and proportions.
    • the plot of the play
scheme stresses calculation of the end in view and may apply to a plan motivated by craftiness and self-interest.
    • a scheme to defraud the government
project often stresses imaginative scope and vision.
    • a project to develop the waterfront

project

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of project

1 to extend outward beyond a usual point

  • some boulders projected dangerously out above the trail
Synonyms of project

bag, balloon, beetle, belly, billow, bulge, bunch, jut, overhang, poke, pooch [chiefly dialect], pouch, pout, protrude, stand out, start, stick out, swell
Words Related to project

dome

blow up, inflate

dilate, distend, expand

mushroom, snowball

elongate, extend, lengthen, stretch
Near Antonyms of project

compress, condense, constrict, contract, shrink

2 to work out the details of (something) in advance

  • we must project next yearʼs budget now
Synonyms of project

arrange, blueprint, budget, calculate, chart, choreograph, design, frame, lay out, map (out), organize, plan, prepare, scheme (out), shape, strategize (about)
Words Related to project

conspire, contrive, devise, intrigue, machinate, plot, put up

concert, get up

draft, outline, sketch

aim, figure, have on, intend, mean

contemplate, meditate, premeditate

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