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Compliment. Flattery, praise, homage, commendation, encomium.

Ant. Insult, contempt, discourtesy.

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Complimentary. Commendatory, flattering, laudatory.

Ant. Disparaging, abusive, defamatory, denunciatory.

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Component. Constituent, factor, element, ingredient.

Ant. Compound, entirety, sum, aggregate.

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Comport. Conduct, behave, demean; accord, agree, harmonize.

Ant. Contrast, militate, differ; misdemean, misconduct.

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Compose. Compile, construct, constitute; soothe, allay, calm; write.

Ant. Analyze, dissect; irritate, excite; criticize.

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Composition. Formation, making; compound, mixture; arrangement, union, combination; writing, invention; agreement, compromise.

Ant. Examination, analysis, criticism; disturbance; segregation.

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Composure. Tranquillity, calm, repose, self-possession, serenity.

Ant. Restlessness, perturbation.

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Compound, n. Mixture, combination, amalgamation, coalescence, synthesis.

Ant. Analysis, dissolution, resolution.

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Comprehend. Understand, conceive, grasp; include, enclose, embrace.

Ant. Misunderstand, misconstrue; except, exclude.

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Comprehension. Conception, understanding, perception, apprehension, capacity, intellect, reason, mind, intelligence.

Ant. Idiocy, nescience, misunderstanding, misconception.

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Comprehensive. Ample, wide, inclusive, extensive, capacious, compendious.

Ant. Narrow, shallow, restricted.

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Compress. Condense, squeeze, contract, epitomize, abridge.

Ant. Expand, diffuse, dilate.

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Comprise. Include, involve, contain, comprehend, embrace, imply.

Ant. Except, bar out, omit, reject.

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Compromise. Adjust, arbitrate, settle; engage, pledge, commit; implicate, involve, endanger.

Ant. Contend, fight; repudiate, disallow; exonerate, extricate.

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Compulsion. Force, coercion, constraint, control.

Ant. Coaxing, persuasion, inducement.

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Compunction. Regret, remorse, contrition, penitence.

Ant. Assurance, self-complacency, satisfaction.

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Compute. Number, calculate, reckon, count; value, estimate, appraise.

Ant. Guess, conjecture, surmise.

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Comrade. Companion, compeer, colleague, associate, partner, friend.

Ant. Opponent; stranger, alien.

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Concatenation. Connection, continuity; series, chain, succession.

Ant. Intermission, severing, disconnection.

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Concave. Hollow, depressed, excavated.

Ant. Convex, protuberant, tumular.

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Conceal. Hide, suppress, secrete, disguise.

Ant. Reveal, expose, make manifest, lay bare, confess, publish, divulge.

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Concede. Surrender, admit, resign, yield, allow.

Ant. Refuse, claim, contend, contradict, deny, contest.

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Conceit. Notion, whim, vagary, idea, abstraction, affectation, imagination.

Ant. Reality, fact, substance; simplicity, humility.

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Conceited. Egoistical, opinionated, vain.

Ant. Simple, unassuming, unaffected.

Conceive. Imagine, apprehend, believe, design, think, understand.

Ant. Express, produce, execute.

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Concentrate. Convene, assemble, congregate, muster, centralize.

Ant. Scatter, disperse, dispense, dismiss.

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Concern. Interest, anxiety, solicitude; affair, matter, institution.

Ant. Indifference, carelessness, disregard.

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Concerning. About, regarding, in relation to, respecting, in respect to, relative to, of.

Ant. Disregarding, omitting.

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Concert. Agreement, harmony, concord, concordance, combination, union, association.

Ant. Opposition, disagreement, discord.

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Concession. Surrender, grant, boon, acknowledgment, admission.

Ant. Refusal, denial, withdrawal.

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Conciliate. Win, gain, pacify, reconcile, propitiate.

Ant. Alienate, irritate, estrange, lose, antagonize.

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Concise. Succinct, condensed, terse, pregnant, pointed, brief, short, laconic.