Thesaurus
set
Synonyms and Antonyms of set
- We're all set to go!
- That rock is really set in the hillside.
- set on being the first in her family to graduate from college
certain, cocksure, confident, positive, sure
steady, unfaltering, unhesitating, unswerving, unwavering
adamant, adamantine, dogged, hard, hardened, hardheaded, headstrong, immovable, implacable, inflexible, mulish, obdurate, persistent, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, rigid, self-willed, stubborn, tenacious, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding, willful (or wilful)
on one's mettle
distrustful, doubtful, dubious, mistrustful, skeptical, suspicious, uncertain, unconvinced, undecided, unsettled, unsure
disinclined, indisposed, loath (also loth), reluctant
- The library is only open during set hours.
certain, determinate, final, firm, fixed, flat, frozen, hard, hard-and-fast, inexpugnable, settled, stable
- International law has set rules for the treatment of prisoners of war.
- It was not my set purpose to cause trouble for anyone.
conscious, deliberate, intended, intentional, knowing, purposeful, purposive, voluntary, willed, willful (or wilful), witting
set
Synonyms and Antonyms of set
- They rarely associate with anyone outside their social set.
charmed circle, elite, in-group
club, college, fellowship, guild (also gild), league, organization, society
camp, faction, sect, side, tribe
brotherhood, fraternity, order, sisterhood, sodality, sorority
alliance, bloc, coalition, confederation, congress, council, federation, union
- a set of tools
the whole kit and caboodle
- The next set of job applicants had far more education and practical experience.
description, feather, ilk, kidney, like, manner, nature, sort
branch, section, speciality, specialty, subclass, subdivision, subgroup, subspecies, variety
set
Synonyms and Antonyms of set
- Let's set a date for the wedding.
- Fire losses were set at a million dollars.
- Determined to see the West, she set her car towards the sun and drove off.
- finally set some plans for the luncheon
agree (on), arrange, decide, fix, settle
blueprint, calculate, chart, concert, design, draft, frame, hammer out, intrigue, lay out, maneuver, map (out), plan, program (also programme), schematize, scheme, shape, square away, work out
choose, conclude, determine, figure, opt, resolve
affirm, approve, authorize, clear, confirm, OK (or okay), sanction, warrant
close, complete, end, finalize, finish, round (off or out), wind up, wrap up
dispose of
- had the jeweler set the diamond again
extract, prize, pry, pull, root (out), tear (out), uproot, wrest, yank
- The gelatin is just starting to set now.
- set a book on the table
- The concrete must set completely before anyone can walk on it.
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