Word Meanings - PERFORMANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of performing; the carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action; as, the performance of an undertaking of a duty. Promises are not binding where the performance is impossible. Paley.

Additional info about word: PERFORMANCE

The act of performing; the carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action; as, the performance of an undertaking of a duty. Promises are not binding where the performance is impossible. Paley. 2. That which is performed or accomplished; a thing done or carried through; an achievement; a deed; an act; a feat; esp., an action of an elaborate or public character. "Her walking and other actual performances." Shak. "His musical performances." Macaulay. Syn. -- Completion; consummation; execution; accomplishment; achievement; production; work; act; action; deed; exploit; feat.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PERFORMANCE)

• Observance
• Attention
• fulfilment
• respect
• celebration
• performance
• ceremony
• custom
• form
• rule
• practice
• Operation
• Agency
• action
• exercise
• production
• influence
• Practice
• Usage
• habit
• experience
• exercitation
• manner
• Proceeding
• Step
• measure
• transaction
• procedure
• conduct
• behavior
• process
• Transaction
• Business
• affair
• negotiation
• occurrence
• proceeding

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PERFORMANCE)

• Rest
• ease
• disuse
• respite
• relax
• recreate
• Evade
• escape
• miss
• lose
• Misfit
• misconform
• mismeasure
• misdeal
• misapportion
• Overlook
• disregard
• dishonor
• despise
• contemn

Related words: (words related to PERFORMANCE)

• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• EXPERIENCED
  Taught by practice or by repeated observations; skillful or wise by means of trials, use, or observation; as, an experienced physician, workman, soldier; an experienced eye. The ablest and most experienced statesmen. Bancroft.
• HABITURE
  Habitude.
• RELAXANT
  A medicine that relaxes; a laxative.
• BUSINESS
  The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
• PROCESSIVE
  Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.
• HABITED
  1. Clothed; arrayed; dressed; as, he was habited like a shepherd. 2. Fixed by habit; accustomed. So habited he was in sobriety. Fuller. 3. Inhabited. Another world, which is habited by the ghosts of men and women. Addison.
• PROCESSIONALIST
  One who goes or marches in a procession.
• PROCEED
  To begin and carry on a legal process. Syn. -- To advance; go on; continue; progress; issue; arise; emanate. (more info) 1. To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun; as, to proceed on a journey. If thou
• PROCEEDER
  One who proceeds.
• EXERCISE
  exercitum, to drive on, keep, busy, prob. orig., to thrust or drive 1. The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habitual activity; occupation, in
• ACTION
  Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun. (more info) 1. A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of
• RELAXATIVE
  Having the quality of relaxing; laxative. -- n.
• RESPECTER
  One who respects. A respecter of persons, one who regards or judges with partiality. Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts x.
• CUSTOM
  Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and Prescription. Note: Usage is a fact. Custom is a law. There can be no custom without usage, though there may be usage without
• CONTEMNER
  One who contemns; a despiser; a scorner. "Contemners of the gods." South.
• PRACTICER
  1. One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts. South. 2. One who exercises a profession; a practitioner. 3. One who uses art or stratagem. B. Jonson.
• PROCEEDING
  The course of procedure in the prosecution of an action at law. Blackstone. Proceedings of a society, the published record of its action, or of things done at its meetings. Syn. -- Procedure; measure; step, See Transaction. (more info) 1. The act
• NEGOTIATION
  1. The act or process of negotiating; a treating with another respecting sale or purchase. etc. 2. Hence, mercantile business; trading. Who had lost, with these prizes, forty thousand pounds, after twenty years' negotiation in the East Indies.
• MEASURER
  One who measures; one whose occupation or duty is to measure commondities in market.
• SAFE-CONDUCT
  That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
• INHABITATE
  To inhabit.
• ACCUSTOMARILY
  Customarily.
• COHABITER
  A cohabitant. Hobbes.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• INHABITATIVENESS
  A tendency or propensity to permanent residence in a place or abode; love of home and country.
• REACTIONIST
  A reactionary. C. Kingsley.
• ACCUSTOMEDNESS
  Habituation. Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart. Bp. Pearce.
• MADEFACTION; MADEFICATION
  The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. Bacon.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• REDACTION
  The act of redacting; work produced by redacting; a digest.
• CHYLIFACTION
  The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.
• IMMEASURED
  Immeasurable. Spenser.