Synonyms of the word

equal

• adj. (not comparable) The same in all respects.
• adj. (mathematics, not comparable) Exactly identical, having the same value.
• adj. (obsolete) Fair, impartial.
• adj. (comparable) Adequate; sufficiently capable or qualified.
• adj. (obsolete) Not variable; equable; uniform; even.
• adj. (music) Intended for voices of one kind only, either all male or all female; not mixed.
• v. (mathematics) To be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to.
• v. To be equivalent to; to match.
• v. (informal) To have as its consequence.
• n. A person or thing of equal status to others.
• n. (obsolete) State of being equal; equality.

alter

• v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
• v. (intransitive) To become different.
• v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
• v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

balanced

• v. simple past tense and past participle of balance.
• adj. Containing elements in appropriate proportion; proportionately weighted on all dimensions and therefore…

be

• v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.
• v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
• v. (intransitive) To occupy a place.
• v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place.
• v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from"…
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
• v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are…
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun…
• v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
• v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.
• v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate…
• v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
• v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
• v. (with a dummy subject it) Used to indicate the time of day.
• v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
• v. (often impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
• v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense,…
• v. (African American Vernacular, Caribbean, auxiliary, not conjugated) To tend to do, often do; marks the…

change

• v. (intransitive) To become something different.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
• v. (transitive) To replace.
• v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
• v. (archaic) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
• n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
• n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
• n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
• n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
• n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
• n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
• n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
• n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
• n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
• n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

close

• v. (physical) To remove a gap.
• v. (social) To finish, to terminate.
• v. To come or gather around; to enclose; to encompass; to confine.
• v. (surveying) To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
• n. An end or conclusion.
• n. The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
• n. A grapple in wrestling.
• n. (music) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
• n. (music) A double bar marking the end.
• adj. (now rare) Closed, shut.
• adj. Narrow; confined.
• adj. At a little distance; near.
• adj. Intimate; well-loved.
• adj. Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
• adj. (Ireland, England, Scotland, weather) Hot, humid, with no wind.
• adj. (linguistics, phonetics, of a vowel) Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
• adj. Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
• adj. (obsolete) Out of the way of observation; secluded; secret; hidden.
• adj. Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced.
• adj. Short.
• adj. (archaic) Dense; solid; compact.
• adj. (archaic) Concise; to the point.
• adj. (dated) Difficult to obtain.
• adj. (dated) Parsimonious; stingy.
• adj. Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact.
• adj. Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict.
• adj. Marked, evident.
• n. (now rare) An enclosed field.
• n. (Britain) A street that ends in a dead end.
• n. (Scotland) A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the…
• n. (Scotland) The common staircase in a tenement.
• n. A cathedral close.
• n. (law) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed.

coequal

• adj. equal to each other in size, rank or position.
• n. An equal person or thing.

commensurate

• adj. Of a proportionate or similar measurable standard.
• adj. (physics) Describing a crystal in which every atom or molecule is placed in the same relative position.
• v. To reduce to a common measure.
• v. To proportionate; to adjust.

comparable

• adj. (often with to) Able to be compared (to).
• adj. (often with to) Similar (to); like.
• adj. (mathematics) Constituting a pair in a particular partial order.
• adj. (grammar) Said of an adjective that has a comparative and superlative form.
• n. Something suitable for comparison.

compeer

• n. (obsolete) the equal or peer of someone else; someone who is a close companion or associate of someone…
• v. To be equal with; to match.

compete

• v. To be in battle or in a rivalry with another for the same thing, position, or reward; to contend.
• v. To be in a position in which it is possible to win or triumph.
• v. To take part in a contest, game or similar event.

contend

• v. To strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.
• v. To struggle or exert oneself to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend.
• v. To strive in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue.

coordinate

• adj. Of the same rank; equal.
• n. (mathematics, cartography) A number representing the position of a point along a line, arc, or similar…
• n. Something that is equal to another thing.
• n. (humorous, in the plural) Coordinated clothes.
• v. (transitive) To synchronize (activities).
• v. (transitive) To match (objects, especially clothes).

equalise

• v. Non-Oxford British English standard form of equalize.

equalised

• v. simple past tense and past participle of equalise.

equalize

• v. (transitive) To make equal; to cause to correspond in amount or degree.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To be equal to; to equal, to rival.
• v. (intransitive, sports) To make the scoreline equal by scoring points.
• v. (underwater diving) To clear the ears to balance the pressure in the middle ear with the outside pressure…
• v. (category theory) Said of a morphism: to pre-compose with each of a parallel pair of morphisms so as to…

equalized

• v. simple past tense and past participle of equalize.

equate

• v. To consider equal, to state as being equivalent.
• v. (mathematics) To set as equal.
• n. (programming) A statement in assembly language that defines a symbol having a particular value.

equidistant

• adj. occupying a position midway between two ends or sides.
• adj. occupying a position that is an equal distance between several points. Note that in a one-dimensional…
• adj. (cartography) Describing a map projection that preserves scale. No map can show scale correctly throughout…

equilateral

• adj. (geometry) Referring to a polygon all of whose sides are of equal length. Not necessarily a regular polygon…
• n. An equilateral triangle.

equivalent

• adj. Similar or identical in value, meaning or effect; virtually equal.
• adj. (mathematics) Of two sets, having a one-to-one correspondence; equinumerous.
• adj. (mathematics) Relating to the corresponding elements of an equivalence relation.
• adj. (chemistry) Having the equal ability to combine.
• adj. (cartography) Of a map, equal-area.
• adj. (geometry) Equal in measure but not admitting of superposition; applied to magnitudes.
• n. Anything that is virtually equal to something else, or has the same value, force, etc.
• n. (chemistry) An equivalent weight.
• v. (transitive) To make equivalent to; to equal.

even

• adj. Flat and level.
• adj. Without great variation.
• adj. Equal in proportion, quantity, size, etc.
• adj. (not comparable, of an integer) Divisible by two.
• adj. (of a number) Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
• adj. On equal monetary terms; neither owing or being owed.
• adj. (colloquial) On equal terms of a moral sort; quits.
• adj. parallel; on a level; reaching the same limit.
• adj. (obsolete) Without an irregularity, flaw, or blemish; pure.
• adj. (obsolete) Associate; fellow; of the same condition.
• v. (transitive) To make flat and level.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To equal.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be equal.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To place in an equal state, as to obligation, or in a state in which nothing is…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To set right; to complete.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To act up to; to keep pace with.
• adv. (archaic) Exactly, just, fully.
• adv. In reality; implying an extreme example in the case mentioned, as compared to the implied reality.
• adv. Emphasizing a comparative.
• adv. (ironic) Signalling a correction of one's previous utterance. Rather.
• n. (mathematics, diminutive) An even number.
• n. (archaic or poetic) Evening.

fifty-fifty

• adv. in half; so that both parts of the whole are equal.
• adj. half and half.
• n. (sports) A challenge between two opposing players, where both have an equal chance of taking possession.

half-and-half

• adj. Alternative spelling of half and half.
• adv. Alternative spelling of half and half.
• n. Alternative spelling of half and half.

individual

• n. A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.
• n. (law) A single physical human being as a legal subject, as opposed to a legal person such as a corporation.
• n. An object, be it a thing or an agent, as contrasted to a class.
• n. (statistics) An element belonging to a population.
• adj. Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one.
• adj. Intended for a single person as opposed to more than one person.

isochronal

• adj. Having the same duration.
• adj. Happening at regular periods; isochronous, periodic.
• adj. (computing, of data) Time-dependent.

isochronous

• adj. happening at regular intervals.
• adj. happening at the same time; isochronal.
• adj. (computing) of or pertaining to the use of clocks derived from the same clock reference.
• adj. (computing) of or pertaining to data associated with time sensitive application.

isoclinal

• adj. Having equal inclination or dip.
• n. A line connecting places of equal inclination or dip.

isoclinic

• adj. Having the same, or a constant, slope.
• n. A line of equal slope.

isometric

• adj. Of, or exhibiting equality in dimensions.
• adj. Of, or being a geometric system of three equal axes lying at right angles to each other (especially in…
• adj. (physiology) Of or involving muscular contraction against resistance in which the length of the muscle…
• adj. (physics, of a thermodynamic process) Taking place at constant volume because of being confined by rigid…
• n. A line connecting isometric points.

isometrical

• adj. Dated form of isometric.

isothermal

• adj. Of or pertaining to a process that takes place at constant temperature.
• adj. Of or pertaining to an isotherm.
• n. (geography) An isotherm.

level

• adj. The same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground.
• adj. At the same height as some reference; constructed as level with.
• adj. Unvaried in frequency.
• adj. Unvaried in volume.
• adj. Calm.
• adj. In the same position or rank.
• adj. Straightforward; direct; clear.
• adj. Well balanced; even; just; steady; impartial.
• adj. (phonetics) Of even tone; without rising or falling inflection ; monotonic.
• n. A tool for finding whether a surface is level, or for creating a horizontal or vertical line of reference.
• n. A distance relative to a given reference elevation.
• n. Degree or amount.
• n. (computer science) Distance from the root node of a tree structure.
• n. (video games) One of several discrete segments of a game generally increasing in difficulty. Often numbered…
• n. (role-playing games, video games) A numeric value that quantifies a character's experience and power.
• n. A floor of a multi-storey building.
• n. (Britain) An area of almost perfectly flat land.
• n. (Singapore, education) A school grade or year.
• v. To adjust so as to make as flat or perpendicular to the ground as possible.
• v. To destroy by reducing to ground level; to raze.
• v. (role-playing games, video games) To progress to the next level.
• v. To aim or direct (a weapon, a stare, an accusation, etc).
• v. (sports) To make the score of a game equal.
• v. (nonstandard, rare) To levy.
• v. (figuratively) To bring to a common level or plane, in respect of rank, condition, character, privilege,…
• v. To adjust or adapt to a certain level.
• v. (usually with "with") To speak honestly and openly with.

like

• v. (transitive, archaic) To please.
• v. To enjoy, be pleased by; favor; be in favor of.
• v. (obsolete) To derive pleasure of, by or with someone or something.
• v. To prefer and maintain (an action) as a regular habit or activity.
• v. (obsolete) To have an appearance or expression; to look; to seem to be (in a specified condition).
• v. (archaic) To come near; to avoid with difficulty; to escape narrowly.
• v. To find attractive; to prefer the company of; to have mild romantic feelings for.
• v. (obsolete) To liken; to compare.
• v. (Internet, transitive) To show support for, or approval of, something posted on the Internet by marking…
• n. (usually in the plural) Something that a person likes (prefers).
• n. (Internet) An individual vote showing support for, or approval of, something posted on the Internet.
• adj. Similar.
• adj. (obsolete) likely; probable.
• adv. (informal) For example, such as: to introduce an example or list of examples.
• adv. (archaic, colloquial) Likely.
• adv. (obsolete) In a like or similar manner.
• n. (sometimes as the likes of) Someone similar to a given person, or something similar to a given object;…
• n. (golf) The stroke that equalizes the number of strokes played by the opposing player or side.
• conj. (colloquial) As, the way.
• conj. As if; as though.
• prep. Similar to, reminiscent of.
• part. (colloquial, Scotland, Geordie, Teesside, Liverpudlian) A delayed filler.
• part. (colloquial) A mild intensifier.
• part. (colloquial) indicating approximation or uncertainty.
• part. (colloquial, slang) When preceded by any form of the verb to be, used to mean “to say” or “to think”;…
• interj. (Liverpudlian, Geordie) Used to place emphasis upon a statement.

match

• n. (sports) A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet, a baseball game, or a cricket match.
• n. Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.
• n. Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.
• n. A marriage.
• n. A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
• n. Suitability.
• n. Equivalence; a state of correspondence.
• n. Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
• n. A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.
• n. An agreement or compact.
• n. (metalworking) A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly…
• v. (intransitive) To agree, to be equal, to correspond to.
• v. (transitive) To agree, to be equal, to correspond to.
• v. (transitive) To make a successful match or pairing.
• v. (transitive) To equal or exceed in achievement.
• v. (obsolete) To unite in marriage, to mate.
• v. To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and groove…
• n. A device made of wood or paper, at the tip coated with chemicals that ignite with the friction of being…

modify

• v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

mortal

• adj. Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
• adj. Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
• adj. Fatally vulnerable; vital.
• adj. Of or relating to the time of death.
• adj. Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.
• adj. Human; belonging to man, who is mortal.
• adj. Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
• adj. (Britain, slang) Very drunk; wasted; smashed.
• n. A human; someone susceptible to death.

peer

• v. (intransitive) To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
• v. To come in sight; to appear.
• n. Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level equal (to that of something else).
• n. Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else).
• n. A noble with a hereditary title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges…
• n. A comrade; a companion; an associate.
• v. To make equal in rank.
• v. (Internet) To carry communications traffic terminating on one's own network on an equivalency basis to…
• n. Someone who pees, someone who urinates.

person

• n. An individual; usually a human being.
• n. The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc.
• n. (law) Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts.
• n. (law) The human genitalia; specifically, the penis.
• n. (grammar) A linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to whom…
• n. (biology) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa, Anthozoa, etc.; also,…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
• v. (transitive, gender-neutral) To man.

quits

• adj. (colloquial, Britain) On equal monetary terms; neither owing or being owed.
• v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quit.

rival

• n. A competitor (person, team, company, etc.) with the same goal as another, or striving to attain the same…
• n. Someone or something with similar claims of quality or distinction as another.
• n. (obsolete) One having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.
• adj. Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority.
• v. (transitive) To oppose or compete with.
• v. To be equal to or to surpass another.
• v. To strive to equal or excel; to emulate.

same

• adj. Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; identical.
• adj. Similar, alike.
• adj. Used to express the unity of an object or person which has various different descriptions or qualities.
• adj. A reply of confirmation of identity.
• pron. The identical thing, ditto.
• pron. Something similar, something of the identical type.
• pron. (formal, often law) It or them, without a connotation of similarity.
• pron. (India, common) It or them, as above, meaning the last object mentioned, mainly as complement: on the…
• adv. (obsolete or Britain dialectal) Together.

somebody

• pron. Some unspecified person.
• n. A recognised person, a celebrity.

someone

• pron. Some person.
• n. A partially specified but unnamed person.

soul

• n. (religion, folklore) The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and…
• n. The spirit or essence of anything.
• n. Life, energy, vigor.
• n. (music) Soul music.
• n. A person, especially as one among many.
• n. An individual life.
• n. (mathematics) A kind of submanifold involved in the soul theorem of Riemannian geometry.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To endow with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.
• v. (obsolete) To afford suitable sustenance.

tantamount

• v. (obsolete) To amount to as much; to be equivalent.
• n. (obsolete) Something which has the same value or amount (as something else). (attributive use passing…
• adj. Equivalent in meaning or effect.

tied

• adj. Closely connected or associated.
• adj. Restricted.
• adj. Conditional on other agreements being upheld.
• adj. (sports or games) That resulted in a tie.
• adj. Provided for use by an employer for as long as one is employed, often with restrictions on the conditions…
• adj. (archeology) Having walls that are connected in a few places by a single stone overlapping from one wall…
• v. simple past tense and past participle of tie.

tight

• adj. Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open.
• adj. (of a space, design or arrangement) Narrow, such that it is difficult for something or someone to pass…
• adj. Well-rehearsed and accurate in execution.
• adj. (slang) Intoxicated; drunk or acting like being drunk.
• adj. (slang) Extraordinarily great or special.
• adj. (slang, British (regional)) Mean; unfair; unkind.
• adj. (obsolete) Not ragged; whole; neat; tidy.
• adj. (obsolete) Handy; adroit; brisk.
• adj. (poker) Of a player, who plays very few hands.
• adj. (poker) Using a strategy which involves playing very few hands.
• adv. Firmly, so as not to come loose easily.
• adv. Soundly.
• v. (obsolete) To tighten.

touch

• v. Primarily physical senses.
• v. Primarily non-physical senses.
• v. To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
• v. To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
• v. (obsolete) To infect; to affect slightly.
• v. To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
• v. To perform, as a tune; to play.
• v. To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
• n. An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
• n. The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
• n. The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
• n. A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
• n. A little bit; a small amount.
• n. The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
• n. A relationship of close communication or understanding.
• n. The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
• n. (obsolete) Act or power of exciting emotion.
• n. (obsolete) An emotion or affection.
• n. (obsolete) Personal reference or application.
• n. A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
• n. (obsolete) A brief essay.
• n. (obsolete) A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.
• n. (obsolete) Examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.
• n. (music) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument…
• n. (shipbuilding) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, or of one worked anchor-stock fashion…
• n. The children's game of tag.
• n. (bell-ringing) A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
• n. (slang) An act of borrowing or stealing something.
• n. (Britain, plumbing, dated) tallow.

vie

• v. (intransitive) To rival; to struggle for superiority; to contend; to compete eagerly so as to gain something.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To rival (something), etc.
• v. (transitive) To do or produce in emulation, competition, or rivalry; to put in competition; to bandy.
• v. To stake; to wager.
• v. To stake a sum of money upon a hand of cards, as in the old game of gleek. See revie.