All object synonyms

noun object

• thing — (in Scandinavian countries) a public meeting or assembly, especially a legislative assembly or a court of law.
• article — An article is a piece of writing that is published in a newspaper or magazine.
• item — a separate article or particular: 50 items on the list.
• entity — A thing with distinct and independent existence.
• body — Your body is all your physical parts, including your head, arms, and legs.
• piece — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
• commodity — A commodity is something that is sold for money.
• gadget — a mechanical contrivance or device; any ingenious article.
• matter — a dull or dead surface, often slightly roughened, as on metals, paint, paper, or glass.
• phenomenon — a fact, occurrence, or circumstance observed or observable: to study the phenomena of nature.
• something — Informal. a person or thing of some value or consequence: He is really something! This writer has something to say and she says it well.
• substance — that of which a thing consists; physical matter or material: form and substance.
• bulk — You can refer to something's bulk when you want to emphasize that it is very large.
• doodad — a decorative embellishment; trinket; bauble: a dress covered with doodads.
• doohickey — a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
• fact — Fully Automated Compiling Technique
• gizmo — gismo.
• mass — the celebration of the Eucharist. Compare High Mass, Low Mass.
• reality — the state or quality of being real.
• thingamajig — a gadget or other thing for which the speaker does not know or has forgotten the name.
• volume — a collection of written or printed sheets bound together and constituting a book.
• whatchamacallit — an object or person whose name one does not know or cannot recall.
• widget — a small mechanical device, as a knob or switch, especially one whose name is not known or cannot be recalled; gadget: a row of widgets on the instrument panel.
• purpose — the reason for which something exists or is done, made, used, etc.
• objective — something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target: the objective of a military attack; the objective of a fund-raising drive.
• aim — If you aim for something or aim to do something, you plan or hope to achieve it.
• idea — any conception existing in the mind as a result of mental understanding, awareness, or activity.
• goal — the result or achievement toward which effort is directed; aim; end.
• intention — an act or instance of determining mentally upon some action or result.
• intent — something that is intended; purpose; design; intention: The original intent of the committee was to raise funds.
• reason — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
• point — a fraction whose denominator is some power of 10, usually indicated by a dot (decimal point or point) written before the numerator: as 0.4 = 4/10; 0.126 = 126/1000.
• use — to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.
• design — When someone designs a garment, building, machine, or other object, they plan it and make a detailed drawing of it from which it can be built or made.
• target — an object, usually marked with concentric circles, to be aimed at in shooting practice or contests.
• duty — something that one is expected or required to do by moral or legal obligation.
• end — Come or bring to a final point; finish.
• function — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
• mark — Marcus Alonzo ("Mark") 1837–1904, U.S. merchant and politician: senator 1897–1904.
• mission — a city in S Texas.
• motive — something that causes a person to act in a certain way, do a certain thing, etc.; incentive.
• view — an instance of seeing or beholding; visual inspection.
• wish — to want; desire; long for (usually followed by an infinitive or a clause): I wish to travel. I wish that it were morning.
• recipient — a person or thing that receives; receiver: the recipient of a prize.
• butt — Someone's butt is their bottom.
• focus — a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity: The need to prevent a nuclear war became the focus of all diplomatic efforts.
• receiver — a person or thing that receives.
• victim — a person who suffers from a destructive or injurious action or agency: a victim of an automobile accident.
• zero — the figure or symbol 0, which in the Arabic notation for numbers stands for the absence of quantity; cipher.
• ground zero — the point on the surface of the earth or water directly below, directly above, or at which an atomic or hydrogen bomb explodes.