Synonyms for compose
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Create
make, form, forme US, create, draw up, formulate, frame, construct, draw, manufacture, organize, organise UK, invent, evolve, fabricate
3. Settle
settle, constitute, comprise, adjust, reconcile, still, lull, allay, accommodate, calm, soothe, pacify, quiet, soften, mollify, quell, appease, simmer down, abate, mitigate, subdue, lessen
Other
compile dated
Definitions
- v. 1
To make something by merging parts.
The editor composed a historical journal from many individual letters.
- v. 2
To make up the whole; to constitute.
A church is composed of its members.
- v. 3
To comprise.
Related words
- Word family
- composer composite composition compositor composure
Forms
- Past participle
- composed
e.g. composed → formed, created, formulated, framed…
Choose the right word
We allay excitement, appease a tumult, calm agitation, compose our feelings or countenance, pacify the quarrelsome, quiet the boisterous or clamorous, soothe grief or distress.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- create New GATT resolutions could create a real shake-up.
- construct We're going to construct livestock farms in Spain.
- formulate We have to formulate a plan if we are to save her!
- comprise That didn't comprise any malicious intent.
By length
- 3 letters
- pen1
- 4 letters
- make1, form1, draw1, calm1, lull1
- 5 letters
- still1, write1, quiet2, frame1, quell1, allay2, abate2, forme
- 6 letters
- create2, settle2, adjust2, evolve2, invent2, soften2, lessen2, soothe1, subdue2, pacify3, indite2
- 7 letters
- compile2, appease2, mollify3
- 8 letters
- organize3, comprise2, organise, mitigate3
- 9 letters
- construct2, reconcile3, formulate3, fabricate3
- 10 letters
- constitute3
- 11 letters
- manufacture4, accommodate4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (quiet2 = 2 syllables).