What is another word for massed?

Pronunciation: [mˈast] (IPA)

Massed is an adjective that describes a large number of things or people grouped together in a concentrated manner. Some synonyms for massed are assembled, congregated, gathered, clustered, piled, heaped, and stacked. Assembled means to bring together and put in order, while congregated implies a gathering for a specific purpose. Gathered suggests a collection of things or people in one place, while clustered describes things or people grouped together in a compact manner. Piled and heaped indicate a large quantity of things or people stacked on top of each other. Finally, stacked suggests an ordered arrangement of things on top of each other. These synonyms can be used interchangeably with massed to provide variety in your writing.

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What are the opposite words for massed?

The antonyms for the word "massed" are scattered, dispersed, and spread out. Scattered refers to things that are widely spaced in various directions. Dispersed means to break up something that was previously grouped or concentrated, resulting in a more even distribution. Spread out implies an item that has been expanded to cover a larger area or is diffused to occupy multiple locations. These antonyms are commonly used in contexts where a concentration of people, objects, or emotions needs to be described as being diffused or spread thin. Using these antonyms can provide clarity and precision in communication, avoiding ambiguity in meaning.

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Usage examples for Massed

He had never appeared to her more concentrated and full of purpose; as if behind his forehead were massed so much experience that he could choose for himself which part of it he would display and which part he would keep to himself.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
Worth all those petty considerations that had been passing before me, but there was another heavier than all the others massed together.
"To-morrow?"
Victoria Cross
Horace flashed away and ran in among the massed elephants and mahouts.
"Son of Power"
Will Levington Comfort and Zamin Ki Dost

Famous quotes with Massed

  • I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.
    King George V
  • Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central power-houses. The conflict is no longer between the men, but between the motors that drive the men, and the men tend to succumb to their own motive forces.
    Henry Adams
  • I find it breathtaking [...] that when musical composition competitions are held, the contestants often do not submit tapes or records (or live performances) of their works they submit written scored, and the judges confidently make their judgements on the basis of just reading the scores and . How good are the best musical imaginations? Can a trained musician, swiftly reading a score tell how that voicing of dissonant oboes and flutes over the massed strings will sound?
    Daniel Dennett
  • On my native planet, whenever I had been dismayed by the suffering and the futility of individuals, I had taken comfort in the thought that at least the massed effect of all our blind striving must be the slow but glorious awakening of the human spirit. This hope, this certainty, had been the one sure consolation. But now I saw that there was no guarantee of any such triumph. It seemed that the universe, or the maker of the universe, must be indifferent to the fate of worlds. That there should be endless struggle and suffering and waste must of course be accepted; and gladly, for these were the very soil in which the spirit grew. But that all struggle should be finally, absolutely vain, that a whole world of sensitive spirits fail and die, must be sheer evil. In my horror it seemed to me that Hate must be the Star Maker.
    Olaf Stapledon
  • Defiling their shadows, infidels, accursed of Allah, with fingernails that are foot-long daggers, with mouths agape like cauldrons full of teeth on the boil, with eyes all fire, shaitans possessed of Iblis, clanking into their wars all linked, like slaves, with iron chains. Murad Bey, the huge, the single-blowed ox-beheader, saw without too much surprise mild-looking pale men dressed in blue, holding guns, drawn up in squares six deep as though in some massed dance depictive of orchard walls. At the corners of the squares were heavy giins and gunners. There did not seem to be many horsemen. Murad said a prayer within, raised his scimitar to heaven and yelled a fierce and holy word. The word was taken up, many thousandfold, and in a kind of gloved thunder the Mamelukes threw themselves on to the infidel right and nearly broke it. But the squares healed themselves at once, and the cavalry of the faithful crashed in three avenging prongs along the fire-spitting avenues between the walls. A great gun uttered earthquake language at them from within a square, and, rearing and cursing the curses of the archangels of Islam on to the uncircumcized, they wheeled and swung towards their protective village of Embabeh. There they encountered certain of the blue-clad infidel horde on the flat roofs of the houses, coughing musket-fire at them. But then disaster sang along their lines from the rear as shell after shell crunched and the Mamelukes roared in panic and burden to the screams of their terrified mounts, to whose ears these noises were new. Their rear dissolving, their retreat cut off, most sought the only way, that of the river. They plunged in, horseless, seeking to swim across to join the inactive horde of Ibrahim, waiting for .action that could now never come. Murad Bey, with such of his horsemen as were left, yelped off inland to Gizeh.
    Anthony Burgess

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