Antonyms for compounded

Grammar : Verb

Spell : adjective kom-pound, kom-pound; noun kom-pound; verb kuh m-pound, kom-pound

Phonetic Transcription : adjective ˈkɒm paʊnd, kɒmˈpaʊnd; noun ˈkɒm paʊnd; verb kəmˈpaʊnd, ˈkɒm paʊnd

Definition of compounded

Origin : "to put together," late 14c., compounen "to mix, combine," from Old French compondre, componre "arrange, direct," from Latin componere "to put together" (see composite). The -d appeared 1500s in English on model of expound, etc. Related: Compounded; compounding.

verb mix, combine
verb make difficult; complicate

Example sentences :

But no single generation is compounded all of fact or all of dream.
Extract from : « The American Mind » by Bliss Perry

"I am compounded of sweet courtesy," he informed her modestly.
Extract from : « The Lion's Skin » by Rafael Sabatini

It was all of them, dozens of them, compounded year upon year upon year.
Extract from : « Second Sight » by Alan Edward Nourse

The world in which Erik Dorn lived was compounded of many surfaces.
Extract from : « Erik Dorn » by Ben Hecht

He didn't give you one single thing to go on; just compounded the confusion.
Extract from : « Masters of Space » by Edward Elmer Smith

When compounded with white lead, however, the colour has been stated to be destroyed.
Extract from : « Field's Chromatography » by George Field

He thought they were "compounded" of a certain earth, or calx, and phlogiston.
Extract from : « Priestley in America » by Edgar F. Smith

They are both mystic and utilitarian, or compounded of the two.
Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner

If a neat wound a man, let the neat be delivered up or compounded for.
Extract from : « The Common Law » by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

It was of the sort that is compounded in the brain laboratories of egotists, and it worked.
Extract from : « The House of Pride » by Jack London

Synonyms for compounded

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