task

The word “task” has 1 syllable: task

It's pronounced as /tæsk/


What is synonym and antonym for task?

In the thesaurus, “task” has 100 synonyms and 19 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for task

  • activity
  • affair
  • allocate
  • allot
  • assign
  • assignment
  • authorize
  • bother
  • burden
  • business
  • calling
  • capacity
  • care
  • char
  • chare
  • charge
  • chore
  • circuit
  • commission
  • commit
  • concern
  • confer
  • confide
  • consign
  • daily grind
  • deadweight
  • delegate
  • duty
  • effort
  • employ
  • employment
  • empower
  • encumber
  • endeavor
  • enterprise
  • entrust
  • errand
  • exercise
  • exhaust
  • fun and games
  • function
  • gig
  • grind
  • grindstone
  • hand
  • headache
  • impose
  • intrust
  • invest
  • involvement
  • job
  • labor
  • lade
  • load
  • long row to hoe
  • millstone
  • mission
  • niche
  • nuisance
  • occupation
  • office
  • onus
  • operation
  • oppress
  • overload
  • pain
  • part
  • participation
  • place
  • position
  • post
  • project
  • province
  • purpose
  • pursuit
  • push
  • recommend
  • relegate
  • repose
  • responsibility
  • role
  • round
  • route
  • saddle
  • service
  • situation
  • stint
  • strain
  • tax
  • test
  • toil
  • trouble
  • trust
  • undertaking
  • use
  • vocation
  • weary
  • weigh
  • weight
  • work

Antonyms for task

  • aid
  • assist
  • benefit
  • blessing
  • entertainment
  • exonerate
  • fun
  • good health
  • happiness
  • health
  • help
  • hobby
  • idleness
  • inactivity
  • irresponsibility
  • pastime
  • pleasure
  • unburden
  • unemployment

Meanings of task

  • noun
    1. A piece of work done as part of one’s duties.
    2. A difficult or tedious undertaking.
    3. An objective.
    4. A process or execution of a program.
    5. Second sight; the involuntary ability of seeing the future or distant events.
    6. The sound of the voice of a person about to die, heard supernaturally by somebody not present at the scene.
  • verb
    1. To assign a task to, or impose a task on.
    2. To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax.
    3. To charge, as with a fault.

Example Sentences

  • The manager assigned a difficult task to the team.
  • Completing this task requires patience and skill.
  • She focused on her task without any distractions.
  • The teacher gave the students a new task to complete.
  • He struggled with the challenging task but eventually succeeded.

On this page you'll find 119 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to task, such as: activity, affair, aid, allocate, allot, assign, assignment.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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  • accumulation
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  • battery
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  • blaze
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  • body
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  • hold
  • hold-down
  • holding
  • hoop
  • horde
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  • immurement
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  • interlace
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  • lash
  • league
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  • line
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  • net
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  • odds and ends
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  • order
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  • tangle
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  • the whole kit and caboodle
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bands

  • accumulations
  • administrations
  • agglomerations
  • aggregates
  • aggregations
  • alliances
  • annulets
  • armies
  • arrays
  • assemblages
  • assemblies
  • assortments
  • bandages
  • banks
  • bars
  • batches
  • battalions
  • batteries
  • beckets
  • begirds
  • belts
  • bevies
  • binds
  • blazes
  • blocks
  • blocs
  • bodies
  • bonds
  • boodles
  • bracelets
  • braces
  • brass bands
  • brasses
  • brigades
  • broods
  • bunches
  • captivities
  • chains
  • chamber orchestras
  • cinches
  • cinctures
  • circles
  • clans
  • cliques
  • clots
  • clumps
  • clusters
  • clutches
  • coalitions
  • coils
  • collars
  • collections
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  • combos
  • companies
  • confederacies
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  • conglomerations
  • congregations
  • consorts
  • constellations
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  • cords
  • corps
  • coteries
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  • crews
  • crops
  • crossbars
  • cuffs
  • curbs
  • curls
  • cycles
  • departments
  • duos
  • enchainments
  • enchains
  • engirdles
  • engirds
  • ensembles
  • enslavements
  • enswathes
  • entanglements
  • entangles
  • enwinds
  • enwreathes
  • eyes
  • factions
  • fasteners
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  • fellowships
  • fetters
  • forces
  • furls
  • gangs
  • garters
  • gatherings
  • gilds
  • girdles
  • girds
  • girths
  • girts
  • groupings
  • groups
  • guilds
  • handcuffs
  • hanks
  • help
  • hindrances
  • hobbles
  • hodgepodges
  • hold-downs
  • holdings
  • holds
  • hoops
  • hosts
  • huddles
  • immurements
  • imprisonments
  • incarcerations
  • interlaces
  • intertwines
  • interweaves
  • irons
  • jumbles
  • knots
  • laces
  • lashes
  • leagues
  • leashes
  • ligatures
  • loops
  • lots
  • manacles
  • miscellanies
  • mixtures
  • musters
  • nets
  • octets
  • odds and ends
  • orchestras
  • orders
  • organizations
  • outfits
  • packages
  • parcels
  • parties
  • passels
  • personnels
  • phalanges
  • phalanxes
  • philharmonics
  • pinstripes
  • platoons
  • posses
  • quartets
  • quartettes
  • quintets
  • restraints
  • restrictions
  • rings
  • ropes
  • rounds
  • runs
  • schools
  • sects
  • septets
  • series
  • sets
  • sextets
  • shackles
  • shoulder straps
  • sinfoniettas
  • snarls
  • spirals
  • spires
  • squadrons
  • squads
  • stables
  • staffs
  • staves
  • straightjackets
  • straitjackets
  • straps
  • streaks
  • strings
  • stripes
  • suites
  • suits
  • sundries
  • swathes
  • symphonies
  • symphony orchestras
  • tangles
  • tapes
  • task forces
  • teams
  • tethers
  • the whole kit and caboodle
  • threads
  • ties
  • ties up
  • trammels
  • traps
  • trios
  • troops
  • troupes
  • trusses
  • twirls
  • twists
  • unions
  • varieties
  • whorls
  • winds
  • wires
  • woodwinds
  • wraps
  • wreathes
  • wreaths

caesar

  • Big Brother
  • autarch
  • authoritarian
  • autocrat
  • baron
  • baroness
  • boss
  • caliph
  • captain
  • caudillo
  • chief
  • contessa
  • count
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  • crowned head
  • czar
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  • dame
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  • disciplinarian
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  • dynast
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  • king
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  • man on horseback
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  • rajah
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  • rex
  • royal
  • ruler
  • shah
  • sovereign
  • sovran
  • strongman
  • sultan
  • sultana
  • taskmaster
  • totalitarian
  • tsar
  • tycoon
  • tyrannizer
  • tyrant
  • tzar
  • warlord

caesars

  • Big Brothers
  • autarchs
  • authoritarians
  • autocrats
  • barons
  • bosses
  • captains
  • caudillos
  • chiefs
  • czars
  • despots
  • dictators
  • disciplinarians
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  • dominators
  • enforcers
  • fuehrers
  • kingpins
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  • masters
  • men on horseback
  • moguls
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  • oppressors
  • overlords
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  • potentates
  • princes
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  • sovrans
  • strongmen
  • taskmasters
  • totalitarians
  • tsars
  • tycoons
  • tyrannizers
  • tyrants
  • tzars
  • warlords

calisthenics

  • PE
  • act
  • action
  • activity
  • aerobatics
  • aerobics
  • athletics
  • balance beam
  • bars
  • body mechanics
  • body-building
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  • daily dozen
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