access

The word “access” has 2 syllables: ac-cess

It's pronounced as /ˈæk.sɛs/


What is synonym and antonym for access?

In the thesaurus, “access” has 69 synonyms and 16 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for access along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for access

  • accession
  • admission
  • admittance
  • agitation
  • approach
  • approval
  • attack
  • authorization
  • avenue
  • bout
  • brainstorm
  • breakdown
  • case
  • certification
  • collapse
  • connection
  • contact
  • convulsion
  • course
  • crash
  • door
  • doorway
  • drop in
  • eclampsia
  • encroach
  • enter
  • entrance
  • entree
  • entry
  • fit
  • frenzy
  • gate-crash
  • gateway
  • in
  • infiltrate
  • infringe
  • ingress
  • introduction
  • intrude
  • invade
  • key
  • open arms
  • open door
  • pang
  • paroxysm
  • passage
  • passport
  • path
  • penetrate
  • permission
  • pierce
  • prostration
  • qualification
  • recurrence
  • relapse
  • road
  • route
  • seizure
  • set foot in
  • siege
  • spasm
  • spell
  • step into
  • throe
  • ticket
  • trespass
  • turn
  • way
  • welcome mat

Antonyms for access

  • arrest
  • conclusion
  • depart
  • discharge
  • dismissal
  • egress
  • ejection
  • exit
  • expulsion
  • leave
  • ouster
  • outlet
  • rejection
  • relief
  • remission
  • removal

Meanings of access

  • noun
    1. A way or means of approaching or entering; an entrance; a passage.
    2. The act of approaching or entering; an advance.
    3. The right or ability of approaching or entering; admittance; admission; accessibility.
    4. The quality of being easy to approach or enter.
    5. Admission to sexual intercourse.
    6. An increase by addition; accession.
    7. An onset, attack, or fit of disease; an ague fit.
    8. An outburst of an emotion; a paroxysm; a fit of passion.
    9. The right of a noncustodial parent to visit their child.
    10. The process of locating data in memory.
    11. Connection to or communication with a computer program or to the Internet.

Example Sentences

  • She needs to access the database to retrieve the information.
  • The library provides access to a variety of online resources.
  • He was granted access to the restricted area after showing his ID.
  • Our new software allows users to access their files from anywhere.
  • The organization works to improve access to education for underprivileged children.

On this page you'll find 85 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to access, such as: accession, admission, admittance, agitation, approach, approval, arrest.

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Related Words

backer

  • abetter
  • abettor
  • accessary
  • accessory
  • accomplice
  • adherent
  • adjunct
  • advocate
  • advocator
  • ally
  • angel
  • apostle
  • applauder
  • assistant
  • associate
  • bedfellow
  • benefactor
  • booster
  • buddy
  • champion
  • chaperon
  • chaperone
  • cheerleader
  • chum
  • coach
  • coadjutor
  • coalitionist
  • cohort
  • collaborationist
  • collaborator
  • colleague
  • companion
  • comrade
  • confederate
  • confidant
  • cosignatory
  • cosigner
  • cosponsor
  • crony
  • disciple
  • empathizer
  • encourager
  • endorser
  • espouser
  • exponent
  • expounder
  • familiar
  • fellow
  • fellow traveler
  • follower
  • friend
  • gospeler
  • gospeller
  • grubstaker
  • guarantor
  • helper
  • herald
  • hierophant
  • high priest
  • interpreter
  • intimate
  • loyalist
  • mate
  • meal ticket
  • mentor
  • money
  • pal
  • paladin
  • partisan
  • partizan
  • partner
  • patron
  • promoter
  • proponent
  • protagonist
  • sponsor
  • staker
  • stalwart
  • supporter
  • surety
  • sympathizer
  • teacher
  • true believer
  • tub-thumper
  • underwriter
  • well-wisher
  • white knight

ultrapractical

  • accessible
  • actionable
  • active
  • alive
  • all-around
  • all-round
  • applicable
  • applicative
  • applied
  • available
  • banausic
  • busy
  • down-to-earth
  • employed
  • functional
  • functioning
  • handy
  • mundane
  • obtainable
  • operating
  • operative
  • practicable
  • practical
  • pragmatic
  • pragmatical
  • reachable
  • serviceable
  • usable
  • useable
  • useful
  • utilitarian
  • workable
  • working

raises

  • abets
  • accelerates
  • accessions
  • acclaims
  • accretions
  • accruals
  • accumulates
  • accumulations
  • activates
  • addenda
  • addendums
  • additions
  • advances
  • advertises
  • aggrandizes
  • airs
  • amasses
  • amplifies
  • announces
  • appendices
  • appendixes
  • applauds
  • ascends
  • assemblages
  • assembles
  • attends
  • augmentations
  • augments
  • bares
  • begins
  • blows up
  • booms
  • boosts
  • braces
  • breeds
  • brews
  • brings up
  • broaches
  • broadcasts
  • builds
  • builds up
  • buttresses
  • calls forth
  • carpenters
  • celebrates
  • chimes in
  • circulates
  • cites
  • coins
  • collections
  • collects
  • combines
  • commends
  • commissions
  • communicates
  • complements
  • compliments
  • compounds
  • conceives
  • concocts
  • confects
  • congratulates
  • constitutes
  • constructs
  • continuations
  • contrives
  • conveys
  • cradles
  • cranes
  • creates
  • crops
  • cultivates
  • cultures
  • debates
  • declares
  • decorates
  • describes
  • designs
  • detonates
  • develops
  • devises
  • dilates
  • directs
  • disciplines
  • discloses
  • discovers
  • discusses
  • disseminates
  • distends
  • divulges
  • drags
  • draws out
  • dresses
  • edifies
  • educates
  • educes
  • elevates
  • elicits
  • elongates
  • encourages
  • energizes
  • enflames
  • enhances
  • enlarges
  • enlightens
  • enlivens
  • ennobles
  • enounces
  • enunciates
  • erects
  • escalates
  • establishes
  • eulogizes
  • evinces
  • evokes
  • exalts
  • excites
  • expands
  • expansions
  • exposes
  • expounds
  • expresses
  • extends
  • extensions
  • extolls
  • extols
  • extorts
  • extracts
  • fabricates
  • fashions
  • fathers
  • feeds
  • ferments
  • fires
  • follows up
  • foments
  • forges
  • forwards
  • fosters
  • founds
  • frames
  • furthers
  • gains
  • galvanizes
  • gatherings
  • gathers
  • generates
  • germinates
  • gets
  • gives
  • gives air to
  • gleans
  • glorifies
  • grows
  • guides
  • hails
  • hammers
  • handcrafts
  • harvests
  • heaves
  • hefts
  • heightens
  • hikes
  • hoists
  • honors
  • hypes
  • imagines
  • improves
  • inaugurates
  • incites
  • increases
  • increments
  • indoctrinates
  • inflames
  • inflates
  • initiates
  • innovates
  • inspires
  • instigates
  • institutes
  • instructs
  • intensifies
  • interjects
  • interrupts
  • introduces
  • invents
  • invigorates
  • jerry-builds
  • jumps
  • kicks upstairs
  • knights
  • lauds
  • leads
  • lengthens
  • lifts
  • looks
  • magnifies
  • makes
  • makes up
  • manufactures
  • maximizes
  • mentions
  • mentors
  • minds
  • molds
  • moots
  • more
  • mothers
  • motivates
  • mounts
  • multiplies
  • names
  • nourishes
  • nurses
  • nurtures
  • obtains
  • offers
  • organizes
  • originates
  • parlays
  • picks
  • picks up
  • pieces
  • pitches
  • places
  • plants
  • pluses
  • plusses
  • praises
  • prefabricates
  • prepares
  • proclaims
  • procures
  • produces
  • proliferations
  • prolongs
  • promotes
  • propagates
  • proposes
  • protracts
  • provokes
  • publishes
  • pulls
  • pumps up
  • puts across
  • puts forth
  • puts over
  • puts together
  • puts up
  • quickens
  • reaps
  • rears
  • reassembles
  • rebuilds
  • reconstructs
  • redevelops
  • reedifies
  • reenforces
  • reinforces
  • retrofits
  • reveals
  • ripens
  • rises
  • roots
  • rouses
  • run-ups
  • salutes
  • says
  • schools
  • secures
  • sets
  • sets in motion
  • sets off
  • sets up
  • shapes
  • shepherds
  • shows
  • skyrockets
  • sounds
  • sounds off
  • sows
  • speaks out
  • speaks up
  • spikes
  • sprouts
  • states
  • step ups
  • step-ups
  • stimulates
  • stokes
  • strengthens
  • stretches
  • submits
  • suggests
  • supersizes
  • supplements
  • supplies
  • supports
  • swells
  • takes up
  • teaches
  • tends
  • throws up
  • trains
  • triggers
  • tutors
  • uncloaks
  • uncovers
  • unites
  • unmasks
  • unveils
  • upends
  • upgrades
  • upholds
  • uplifts
  • upraises
  • ups
  • upticks
  • uptrends
  • upturns
  • ventilates
  • vents
  • vitalizes
  • voices
  • wangles
  • watches
  • wrests
  • wrings
  • writes
  • writes up

obbligatos

  • accessaries
  • accessories
  • accompaniments
  • adjuncts
  • appendages
  • attendants
  • companions
  • complements
  • concomitants
  • consequences
  • corollaries
  • counterparts
  • fellows
  • fixings
  • follow-ups
  • incidents
  • mates
  • supplements
  • trimmings

valuables

  • abundance
  • accession
  • accumulation
  • ace in the hole
  • ace up sleeve
  • acquisition
  • affluence
  • assemblage
  • assets
  • backing
  • bankroll
  • belongings
  • budget
  • cache
  • capital
  • chattels
  • coffers
  • collection
  • credit
  • cushion
  • deep pockets
  • deposit
  • effects
  • equity
  • estate
  • finances
  • fortune
  • funds
  • gathering
  • goods
  • harvest
  • hoard
  • holdings
  • means
  • money
  • nest egg
  • opulence
  • paraphernalia
  • personal property
  • personalty
  • petty cash
  • pin money
  • pocket money
  • pocketbook
  • possessions
  • property
  • prosperity
  • rainy day fund
  • reserve
  • resources
  • riches
  • sinking fund
  • something put aside
  • something put away
  • spending money
  • stake
  • stash
  • stuff
  • substance
  • success
  • things
  • treasure
  • wallet
  • wealth
  • wherewithal
  • worth

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