performance | Definition of performance

Synonyms and Antonyms of performance

1 a presentation of an artistic work (as a piece of music) from a particular point of view

a disappointing, lackluster performance of a classic of the musical theater

Synonyms of performance

account, interpretation, reading, rendition, version

Words Related to performance

adaptation, reworking, variation

2 the doing of an action

the performance of her nightly ritual, the taking of a warm bath, calmed her

Synonyms of performance

accomplishment, achievement, commission, discharge, enactment, execution, fulfillment (or fulfilment), implementation, perpetration, prosecution, pursuance

Words Related to performance

dispatch, expedition

administration, direction, handling, management

application, operation, practice (also practise)

Antonyms of performance

nonfulfillment, nonperformance