Counterpart Synonyms and Antonyms

kountər-pärt
One that has the same functions and characteristics as another
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. opposite number
  2. vis-a-vis
Something closely resembling or analogous to something else
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. analogue
  2. correlative
  3. match
  4. congener
  5. complement
  6. correlate
  7. correspondent
  8. equivalent
  9. parallel

Words Related to Counterpart

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Counterpart Sentence Examples

  • The active contraction of muscular tissue has no counterpart in the plant.

  • She grabbed the moisturizer and its cleansing counterpart and eye moisturizer.

  • Thus an organ newly discovered in Scorpio was found to have its counterpart in Limulus.

  • Both in its inner nature then and outward effects the Eucharist was the Christian counterpart of these two other forms of communion of which one, the heathen, was excluded from the first, and the other, the Jewish, soon to disappear.

  • Asceticism is thus the counterpart of medieval mysticism; and, by his example as well as by his teaching in such passages, St Bernard unhappily encouraged practices which necessarily resulted in self-delusion.

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