compounds

Meaning of compounds

plural noun
  1. a thing that is composed of two or more separate elements; a mixture.
    the air smelled like a compound of diesel and petrol fumes
verb, 3rd person present
  1. make up (a composite whole); constitute.
    a dialect compounded of Spanish and Dutch
  2. make (something bad) worse; intensify the negative aspects of.
    prisoners' lack of contact with the outside world compounds their problems
  3. forbear from prosecuting (a felony) in exchange for money or other consideration.

late Middle English compoune (verb), from Old French compoun-, present tense stem of compondre, from Latin componere ‘put together’. The final -d was added in the 16th century on the pattern of expound and propound . compound1 (sense 2 of the verb) arose through a misinterpretation of the legal phrase compound a felony, which means ‘refrain from prosecuting a felony in exchange for money or other consideration’. This led to the use of compound in legal contexts to mean ‘make something bad worse’, which then became accepted in general usage.

plural noun

an open area enclosed by a fence, for example around a factory or large house or within a prison.

late 17th century (referring to such an area in SE Asia): from Portuguese campon or Dutch kampoeng, from Malay kampong ‘enclosure, hamlet’; compare with kampong.

Information about compounds

  • The singular form of compounds is: compound.
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Hyphenation of compounds

com-pounds

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
  • compounds is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

compounds synonyms

Meaning a mixture or blend:

amalgam

Meaning the action, process, or result of combining or uniting:

amalgamation

Meaning a joining or merging of different parts or qualities in which the component elements are individually distinct:

combination

Meaning a thing made up of several parts or elements:

composite

Meaning a mixture of different substances or other things:

blend

Meaning a substance made by mixing other substances together:

mixture

Meaning two or more different qualities, things, or people placed, combined, or considered together:

mix

Meaning a mixture:

admixture

Meaning a thing formed by melding; a combination:

meld

Meaning the process or result of joining two or more things together to form a single entity:

fusion

Meaning the combination of components or elements to form a connected whole:

synthesis

Meaning the action or process of making something stronger or more solid:

consolidation

Meaning a metal made by combining two or more metallic elements, especially to give greater strength or resistance to corrosion:

alloy

Meaning the offspring of two plants or animals of different species or varieties, such as a mule:

hybrid

Meaning make (a problem, injury, or offence) worse or more serious:

aggravate

Meaning make or become worse:

worsen

Meaning make (something) greater by adding to it; increase:

augment

Meaning make (a problem, bad situation, or negative feeling) worse:

exacerbate

Meaning become or make more intense:

intensify

Meaning make or become more intense:

heighten

Meaning become or make greater in size, amount, or degree:

increase

Meaning make (something) appear larger than it is, especially with a lens or microscope:

magnify

Meaning make (something) more complicated:

complicate

compounds antonyms

Meaning make (suffering, deficiency, or a problem) less severe:

alleviate

Meaning make or become better:

improve

Words that rhyme with compounds

launds, maunds, Bunds, bunds, cumberbunds, cummerbunds, defunds, funds, overfunds, prefunds, refunds, reinfunds, superfunds, underfunds, dachshunds, osmunds, Bounds, Grounds, Mounds, Undergrounds, abounds, astounds, backgrounds, battlegrounds, bloodhounds, boarhounds, boozehounds, bounds, buckhounds, campgrounds, chowhounds, cofounds, confounds, coonhounds, decompounds, deerhounds, draghounds, dumbfounds, dumfounds, elkhounds, embounds, enrounds, expounds, eyegrounds, fairgrounds, footpounds, foregrounds, founds, foxhounds, gazehounds

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