Synonyms for Kept:

adj.
• conserved
- maintained
- preserved
• preserved
- put up
• retained
- held
- Clutched
- withheld
• all
- kept
• canned
- more bottled
- more conserved
- most bottled
- most conserved
• enforced
- ex acted
- ex-acted
- forced up on
- more advocated
- more compelled
- more demanded
- more dictated
- more enjoined
- more exacted
- more imposed
- more invoked
- most advocated
- most compelled
- most demanded
- most dictated
- most enjoined
- most exacted
- most imposed
- most invoked
- ordained
- pre-scribed
- re quired
- re-quired
• owned
- in hand
• stolen
- sacked
• written
- recorded
v.
• gripped
- Adhered
- Clasped
- Embraced
- Grappled
- Had
- grasped
- gripped
- seized
• withdrew
- Recanted
- Revoked
- Withdrew
- recalled
- retracted
- suppressed
- withdrawn
Other synonyms:

•

observed

Other relevant words:

• in force

enforced

• put away

stacked

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• Other relevant words (noun):

• Other relevant words (transitive noun):

retained

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Equivalence
- Proper noun, singular
  retained.
Reverse Entailment
- Verb, past tense
  conserved.
- Verb, past participle
  conserved.
Independent
- Proper noun, singular
  TBS.
- Verb, past tense
  accepted, accordance, acquired, adhere, adopted, advised, affirmed, agreed, ali, allow, always, anywhere, applied, ascertained, asserted, assumed, assured, attached, attended, au, baked, banned, barred, based, be, being, bet, blocked, bore, bounded, broke, built, cease, celebrated, closed, collected, commissioned, committed, completed, concluded, conducted, conferred, confirmed, considered, consistently, contained, contracted, controlled, cut, decided, decreased, deducted, delayed, demonstrated, deprived, designed, detain, detention, developed, diminished, discharge, discharged, drew, elaborated, elevated, emphasized, ended, endorsed, engaged, everywhere, experienced, extended, facilitated, failed, felt, filled, formed, found, fulfil, fulfilled, gathered, guaranteed, halted, handled, heard, hide, high, hired, holding, honour, honoured, hung, identified, implemented, included, informed, inhibited, initiated, insured, invested, lay, learned, led, licence, licensed, limit, limited, loaded, locked, loved, lowered, made, manned, me, mitigated, monitoring, narrowed, needed, none, not, observed, opened, organised, organized, owned, packed, paid, periodically, permitted, placed, planted, played, pledged, pointed, posted, postponed, prepared, pressed, prevention, produced, prohibited, protected, proved, pursued, quit, raised, read, realized, received, recommended, recorded, recording, reduced, registered, regularly, relation, released, remembered, removed, renewed, repeated, repeatedly, requested, rescued, reserved, respected, restricted, retained, revised, rose, ruled, said, sat, satisfied, save, saved, saw, scheduled, secured, seized, selected, serviced, set, shielded, shut, sounded, spent, spoke, staged, stated, stemmed, stopped, struck, studied, terminated, thought, tracked, tracking, tried, used, utilized, violated, wanted, welcomed, Achieved, Adhered, Administered, Allowed, Argued, Arose, Attracted, Averted, Avoided, Awarded, Was, Behaved, Bred, Brought, Came, Captured, Cared, Caught, Caused, Ceased, Chaired, Cheered, Chose, Claimed, Dealt, Deemed, Delivered, Denied, Deported, Deposited, Detained, Deterred, Did, Discounted, Discussed, Displayed, Distanced, Doing, Drafted, Earmarked, Enabled, Enjoyed, Ensued, Entered, Existed, Filed, Followed, Froze, Gained, Garnered, Gave, Got, Grabbed, Had, Heeded, Helped, Hid, Hindered, Incubated, Infringed, Insisted, Introduced, Issued, Jeopardized, Knew, Lasted, Launched, Listened, Lived, Logged, Managed, Meant, Met, Notified, Nurtured, Obtained, Occurred, Offered, Operated, Participated, Performed, Persisted, Picked, Ran, Ranged, Reached, Referred, Regarded, Reiterated, Relied, Remained, Remanded, Remitted, Rendered, Rescinded, Responded, Resulted, Resumed, Seemed, Served, Shunned, Skipped, T, Took, Talked, Told, Than, Undertook, Upheld, Viewed, Wore, Were, Wished, Worked, Wrote, no., Commanded, Complied, Contended, Contributed, Convened, Cooperated, Created, Curtailed, Presided, Prevailed, Prevented, Pried, Proceeded, Prosecuted, Provided, Stayed, Stood, Stowed, started, Submitted, Succeeded, Sued, Survived, arrests, abided, maintains, inmates, entrusted, cached, stockpiled, briefed, showed, ensured, guys, allocated, items, positioned, hides, prisoners, withheld, GOTTA, fuelled, opted, foodstuffs, stashed, monitored, laid, no, follow-up, to, 'd, peace-, re-watched, secretaried.
- Verb, past participle
  abandoned, accepted, accompanied, accomplished, accumulated, accused, acquired, adapted, added, addressed, adjusted, admitted, adopted, advanced, advised, aged, agreed, al, ali, alleviated, allotted, altered, always, amended, applied, appointed, apprehended, arranged, arrested, ascertained, assigned, assisted, assumed, assured, attached, attained, attended, au, available, backed, background, banned, barred, based, become, blocked, blown, booked, born, bound, bounded, breached, broken, built, calculated, called, cancelled, canned, cashed, cast, categorized, changed, charged, checked, cherished, chosen, classified, cloaked, closed, clustered, collected, combined, committed, compelled, completed, compliant, composed, compressed, concealed, concentrated, concerned, concluded, conditioned, conducted, confined, confirmed, confiscated, connected, considered, consolidated, constituted, constrained, contained, contracted, controlled, convicted, coupled, covered, credited, cultivated, cultured, cut, decreased, dedicated, deducted, deferred, defined, delayed, demonstrated, depleted, depressed, deprived, derived, designated, designed, desired, detention, determined, developed, devoted, diminished, directed, discharged, disclosed, discontinued, discouraged, disguised, dismissed, disposed, disqualified, distributed, divided, documentation, documented, donated, done, drawn, dressed, driven, dropped, dumped, earned, eased, effected, elapsed, embodied, emphasised, employed, enclosed, ended, enforced, engaged, enrolled, equipped, eroded, established, evidenced, executed, expected, experienced, expired, exposed, expressed, extended, faced, facilitated, failed, fallen, fastened, fed, felt, filled, financed, finished, fixed, forced, forfeited, formed, formulated, found, founded, frozen, frustrated, fueled, fulfilled, funded, given, gone, governed, graded, granted, grouped, grown, guaranteed, guarded, guided, handled, have, headed, heard, heated, hidden, hired, honored, honoured, identified, ignored, imagined, immunized, impaired, impeded, implemented, imposed, imprisoned, imprisonment, improved, included, incorporated, increased, informed, inhabited, inhibited, initiated, inscribed, institutionalized, instructed, insured, invested, invited, involved, jailed, joined, known, law, learned, led, lessened, licensed, lifted, liked, limited, linked, listed, loaded, located, locked, lost, low, lowered, made, maintenance, manned, matched, matured, measured, minimized, missed, mitigated, modified, motivated, mounted, moved, named, narrowed, needed, not, note, noted, noticed, obligated, obliged, observed, obstructed, offset, opened, ordered, organised, organized, outlined, owed, owned, packaged, packed, paid, paved, penned, perceived, permitted, placed, planned, planted, played, pledged, pointed, poised, possessed, posted, postponed, powered, predicted, preferred, prepared, presented, pressed, presumed, prevention, proceed, processed, produced, prohibited, promised, protected, proved, pursued, qualified, quit, raised, ranked, read, realised, realized, received, recognised, recognized, recorded, reduce, reduced, reflected, registered, related, released, remembered, removed, repeated, reported, requested, rescued, reservation, reserved, resolved, respected, restrained, restricted, retained, retired, revised, risen, rooted, roster, run, said, sat, satisfied, save, saved, scaled, scheduled, sealed, seated, secured, seen, seized, selected, sent, separated, serviced, set, settled, severed, shed, shortened, shut, situated, sold, sorted, sought, specified, spent, spoken, spotted, stated, statistics, stocked, stolen, stopped, stowage, stranded, struck, studied, suited, supervised, supported, supposed, suspended, swept, sworn, tailored, taped, terminated, thought, thwarted, tied, tightened, tinned, tracked, trained, transmitted, trapped, treasured, treated, tried, unlocked, used, utilized, valued, veiled, versed, vested, violated, wanted, warden, wasted, weakened, welcomed, wholly, withdrawn, witnessed, written, Accommodated, Accorded, Accounted, Achieved, Acted, Adhered, Administered, Afforded, Aggregated, Allowed, Annexed, Answered, Appended, Apprised, Argued, Asked, Assessed, Attracted, Attributed, Averted, Avoided, Awarded, Banished, Been, Borne, Begun, Believed, Bought, Bred, Brought, Caged, Captured, Cared, Caught, Caused, Ceased, Challenged, Claimed, Classed, Dealt, Declined, Deemed, Defended, Delivered, Denominated, Denied, Depended, Deployed, Deposited, Detained, Deterred, Disbursed, Discounted, Discussed, Displaced, Displayed, Dissuaded, Drafted, Earmarked, Eliminated, Enabled, Enacted, Encountered, Endured, Enjoined, Enjoyed, Enshrined, Entered, Envisaged, Evolved, Examined, Exceeded, Excluded, Exercised, Exhibited, Farmed, Filed, Fitted, Followed, Forestalled, Forwarded, Frequented, Gained, Generated, Gotten, Got, Greeted, Grounded, Had, Hampered, Happened, Has, Helped, Hindered, Housed, Impounded, Incarcerated, Incubated, Incurred, Indicated, Infringed, Inserted, Insisted, Installed, Introduced, Issued, Lagged, Lain, Lasted, Launched, Learnt, Lived, Lodged, Logged, Looked, Managed, Mapped, Materialized, Meant, Met, Notified, Nurtured, Obeyed, Obtained, Occurred, Offered, Operated, Overhauled, Participated, Passed, Performed, Perpetuated, Picked, Rated, Reached, Reared, Regarded, Remained, Remanded, Remitted, Rendered, Resided, Responded, Resulted, Resumed, Screened, Sentenced, Served, Shifted, Shown, Sided, Tackled, Talked, Tasked, Told, Transferred, Translated, Undergone, Undertaken, Upheld, Urged, V, Viewed, Visited, Warehoused, Wished, Worded, Worked, Commanded, Communicated, Compared, Compiled, Complied, Comprised, Consigned, Construed, Consulted, Contemplated, Contravened, Contributed, Convened, Counted, Created, Curtailed, Pooled, Poured, Precluded, Prevailed, Prevented, Progressed, Prompted, Propped, Prosecuted, Provided, Pushed, Spared, Spilled, Stationed, Stayed, Stood, Stowed, Subjected, started, Submitted, Succeeded, Supplied, abided, undermined, accessed, archived, tabled, documents, entrusted, cached, stockpiled, fixated, briefed, circulated, ensured, safeguarded, allocated, reproduced, positioned, mandated, prisoners, reviewed, withheld, STIII, authored, fuelled, rescheduled, revisited, interviewed, staffed, interned, encapsulated, updated, reconsidered, hospitalized, reminded, downsized, monitored, laid, endeavoured, follow-up, re-examined, regrouped, minimised.
- Verb, non-3rd person singular present
  hold.
Other Related
- Proper noun, singular
  keep, keeps.

What are the hypernyms for Kept?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Other hypernyms:
custodian, hold, maintain, possess, reserve, retain, safeguard.

What are the opposite words for kept?

The word kept is a verb that means to have possession or control over something. Antonyms for the word kept include "lost," "abandoned," or "surrendered." If someone loses something, they do not have control over it, and it is no longer kept. If something is abandoned, it is left behind and not kept. Surrendering implies giving up possession or control over something, which is the opposite of keeping. Other antonyms for kept include "released," "discarded," or "freed." Each of these words implies a lack of control or possession over something, which is the opposite of the meaning of kept.

What are the antonyms for Kept?

adj.
• affected
- Influenced
- dis tressed
- dis-tressed
- ex cited
- ex-cited
- more stirred
- most stirred
- over whelmed
- over-whelmed
- over-wrought
- up set
- up-set
• all
- broken
• altered
- co oked
- co-oked
- more adjusted
- more amended
- more cooked
- more redone
- more refitted
- more reshaped
- more retailored
- more transformed
- more turned
- more updated
- most adjusted
- most amended
- most cooked
- most redone
- most refitted
- most reshaped
- most retailored
- most transformed
- most turned
- most updated
- re done
- re fitted
- re formed
- re made
- re modeled
- re shaped
- re tailored
- re-done
- re-fitted
- re-formed
- re-made
- re-modeled
- re-shaped
- re-tailored
- refitted
- reshaped
- retailored
- trans formed
- trans-formed
- transformed
- up dated
- up-dated
• broken
- Slivered
- Transgressed
- coming unstuck
- de moralized
- de pressed
- de-moralized
- de-pressed
- dis connected
- dis heartened
- dis honored
- dis integrated
- dis jointed
- dis membered
- dis obeyed
- dis regarded
- dis-connected
- dis-heartened
- dis-honored
- dis-integrated
- dis-jointed
- dis-membered
- dis-obeyed
- dis-regarded
- fallen apart
- fractured
- gone pot
- gone to pieces
- gone to pot
- in complete
- in disrepair
- in fringed
- in need repair
- in operable
- in pieces
- in shop
- in the shop
- in-coherent
- in-complete
- in-fringed
- in-operable
- inoperable
- more browbeaten
- more busted
- more collapsed
- more crumbled
- more crushed
- more demolished
- more disheartened
- more dishonored
- more dismembered
- more disobeyed
- more disregarded
- more fragmented
- more humbled
- more ignored
- more infringed
- more inoperable
- more mumbled
- more muttered
- more overpowered
- more rent
- more retracted
- more ruptured
- more severed
- more shattered
- more shivered
- more shot
- more shredded
- more slivered
- more spastic
- more stammering
- more tamed
- more traduced
- more transgressed
- more vanquished
- more violated
- more wracked
- most browbeaten
- most burst
- most busted
- most collapsed
- most crumbled
- most crushed
- most demolished
- most disheartened
- most dishonored
- most disintegrated
- most dismembered
- most disobeyed
- most disregarded
- most fractured
- most fragmented
- most humbled
- most ignored
- most infringed
- most inoperable
- most mangled
- most mumbled
- most muttered
- most overpowered
- most pulverized
- most rent
- most retracted
- most riven
- most ruptured
- most severed
- most shivered
- most shot
- most shredded
- most slivered
- most spastic
- most split
- most stammering
- most tamed
- most traduced
- most transgressed
- most vanquished
- most violated
- most wracked
- not functioning
- on fritz
- on shelf
- out commission
- out kilter
- out of kilter
- out of whack
- out order
- over powered
- over-powered
- spastic
- un satisfactory
- un-intelligible
- un-satisfactory
• changed
- altered
- commutated
- done over
- inter changed
- more alternated
- more bartered
- more commutated
- more edited
- more interchanged
- more metamorphosed
- more modernized
- more mutated
- more reciprocated
- more reconditioned
- more recreated
- more reorganized
- more reprogrammed
- more rotated
- more shifted
- more shuffled
- more substituted
- more swapped
- more switched
- more traded
- more transfigured
- more transmuted
- more transposed
- most alternated
- most bartered
- most commutated
- most interchanged
- most mutated
- most reciprocated
- most reconditioned
- most recreated
- most reorganized
- most reprogrammed
- most rescheduled
- most rotated
- most shifted
- most shuffled
- most substituted
- most swapped
- most switched
- most traded
- most transfigured
- most transmuted
- most transposed
- re conditioned
- re organized
- re placed
- re programmed
- re scheduled
- re stored
- re versed
- re-conditioned
- re-organized
- re-placed
- re-programmed
- re-scheduled
- re-stored
- re-versed
- reprogrammed
- rescheduled
- traded
- trans figured
- trans muted
- trans posed
- trans-figured
- trans-muted
- trans-posed
• corrected
- revised
• cultivated, refined
- finished
• deeply moved or hurt emotionally
- affected
• discarded
- castoff
- dis carded
- dis continued
- dis-carded
- dis-continued
- junked
- more castaway
- more castoff
- more junked
- more scrapped
- more shelved
- most castaway
- most castoff
- most junked
- most scrapped
- most shelved
- out of date
- thrown away
- thrown out
- wornout
• exchanged
- brought back
- changed
- ex-changed
- sent back
• finished
- all around
- allaround
- come an end
- come end
- come to an end
- come to end
- dis charged
- dis patched
- dis-charged
- dis-patched
- done with
- in past
- in the past
- many sided
- more achieved
- more ceased
- more concluded
- more consummated
- more devastated
- more dispatched
- more effected
- more effectuated
- more elaborated
- more liquidated
- more resolved
- more shut
- most achieved
- most concluded
- most consummated
- most devastated
- most dispatched
- most effectuated
- most elaborated
- most liquidated
- most performed
- most resolved
- most shut
- most terminated
- over done
- played out
- re-solved
- sewn up
- un done
- un-done
- washed up
• influenced
- more formed
- more motivated
- more swayed
- most formed
- most inveigled
- most motivated
- most shaped
- most swayed
• mended
- more abated
- more ameliorated
- more bettered
- more cured
- more enhanced
- more lessened
- more rectified
- more refreshed
- more refurbished
- more regenerated
- more rejuvenated
- more remedied
- most abated
- most ameliorated
- most bettered
- most cured
- most enhanced
- most lessened
- most rectified
- most refurbished
- most regenerated
- most rejuvenated
- most remedied
- re furbished
- re generated
- re paired
- re-furbished
- re-generated
- re-paired
• moved
- dis placed
- dis-placed
- more dragged
- more flown
- more hauled
- more lifted
- more lowered
- more lugged
- more pushed
- more reallocated
- more reassigned
- more trucked
- most conveyed
- most dragged
- most flown
- most hauled
- most lifted
- most lowered
- most lugged
- most pushed
- most reallocated
- most reassigned
- most trucked
- re allocated
- re assigned
- re-allocated
- re-assigned
- reallocated
- reassigned
• noun
- unkept
• preserved
- abandoned
- dishonored
- forgotten
• rejected
- discarded
• replaced
- exchanged
• restored
- Mended
- Returned
• returned
- given back
- more reappeared
- more rebounded
- more recurred
- more reoccurred
- more restituted
- more reverberated
- more revolved
- most reappeared
- most rebounded
- most recurred
- most reoccurred
- most restituted
- most reverberated
- most revolved
- re appeared
- re bounded
- re curred
- re funded
- re occurred
- re paid
- re turned
- re-appeared
- re-bounded
- re-curred
- re-funded
- re-occurred
- re-paid
- re-turned
• revised
- more emended
- more redacted
- more reworked
- more rewritten
- most emended
- most overhauled
- most redacted
- most rewritten
- over hauled
- over-hauled
- re vised
- re worked
- re written
- re-vised
- re-worked
- re-written
- redacted
• sent
- more commissioned
- more consigned
- more delegated
- more emitted
- more posted
- more transmitted
- most commissioned
- most consigned
- most delegated
- most emitted
- most posted
- most transmitted
- trans ported
• shipped
- sent
• transported
- moved

Usage examples for Kept

I say he kept me out of my money, and I mean it.

"Leo the Circus Boy"

Ralph Bonehill

Visitors kept on coming, until the little house was uncomfortably full.

"My Lady of the Chimney Corner"

Alexander Irvine

I'd have kept her waiting a while.

"Marjorie Dean High School Freshman"

Pauline Lester

Famous quotes with Kept

I realized there was very little in Hollywood I would ever feel comfortable doing. If I kept one foot there and one foot in my Christianity, I would never grow.

Willie Aames
The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle.

Victoria Abril
The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership.

Gerry Adams
The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports of weapons, even tanks, being kept from the front and hidden for treacherous purposes.

Bill Alexander
It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas.

Kevin J. Anderson

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Synonyms for Kept:

adj.

v.

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