Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to compose
Participle: composed
Gerund: composing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | compose |
| you | compose |
| he;she;it | composes |
| we | compose |
| you | compose |
| they | compose |
Perfect
| I | have composed |
| you | have composed |
| he;she;it | has composed |
| we | have composed |
| you | have composed |
| they | have composed |
Past
| I | composed |
| you | composed |
| he;she;it | composed |
| we | composed |
| you | composed |
| they | composed |
Pluperfect
| I | had composed |
| you | had composed |
| he;she;it | had composed |
| we | had composed |
| you | had composed |
| they | had composed |
Future
| I | will compose |
| you | will compose |
| he;she;it | will compose |
| we | will compose |
| you | will compose |
| they | will compose |
Future Perfect
| I | will have composed |
| you | will have composed |
| he;she;it | will have composed |
| we | will have composed |
| you | will have composed |
| they | will have composed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | compose |
| you | compose |
| he;she;it | compose |
| we | compose |
| you | compose |
| they | compose |
Perfect
| I | have composed |
| you | have composed |
| he;she;it | have composed |
| we | have composed |
| you | have composed |
| they | have composed |
Imperfect
| I | composed |
| you | composed |
| he;she;it | composed |
| we | composed |
| you | composed |
| they | composed |
Pluperfect
| I | had composed |
| you | had composed |
| he;she;it | had composed |
| we | had composed |
| you | had composed |
| they | had composed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would compose |
| you | would compose |
| he;she;it | would compose |
| we | would compose |
| you | would compose |
| they | would compose |
Perfect
| I | would have composed |
| you | would have composed |
| he;she;it | would have composed |
| we | would have composed |
| you | would have composed |
| they | would have composed |
Imperative
| you | compose |
| we | Let's compose |
| you | compose |
Verbs conjugated like 'compose'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'compose'
compone,
compost,
cocompose,
coexpose,
commote,
commove,
comove,
compane,
compare,
compass,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- constitute
- comprise
- be composed of
- consist
- to compose
- compound, comprise
- to constitute
- represent
- make up
- constitute
- to make up the whole
- compound, comprise, constitute, form, make up, represent, upmake
- create
- design, synthesize, combine, draft, forge, originate, consolidate, produce
- arrange
- order, align, rank, array, place, adjust, organize
- write
- score, invent, conceive, imagine, author, coin, program
- control
- calm, quiet, still, collect, repress
Antonyms
- to make up the whole
- decompose, deform, unform
- arrange
- disarrange, disorder, derange, jumble
- control
- neglect, ignore, mismanage, misconduct
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1475, from O.Fr.
composer "put together, arrange" (12c.), from
com- "with" +
poser "to place," from L.L.
pausare "to cease, lay down," ult. from L.
ponere "to put, place" (see position). Meaning infl. in O.Fr. by
componere (see composite). Musical sense is from 1597.
Composed "calm" is from 1621;
composure first recorded 1667.
2. From Middle English composen, from Old French composer (“to compose, compound, adjust, settle”), from com- + poser, as an adaptation of Latin componere (“to put together, compose”), from com- (“together”) + ponere (“to put, place”). See: Old French '
composer', Latin '
componere'.
Verbs referencing "compose"
Ido kompozar.
Sample Sentences
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The captain being gone, we compose ourselves to read, if the place be light enough; and if not, we doze and talk alternately. At one, a bell rings, and the stewardess comes down with a steaming dish of baked potatoes, and another of [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] holds up her tiny fingers, and spells the word in the manual alphabet; next, she takes her types and arranges her letters; and last, to make sure that she is right, she takes the whole of the types composing the word, and places them upon or in contact with the pencil, or whatever the object may be. ”
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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There was another: a young man, whose madness was love and music. After playing on the accordion a march he had composed, he was very anxious that I should walk into his chamber, which I immediately did.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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We were fourteen in all, and all young men: indeed it is a singular though very natural feature in the society of these distant settlements, that it is mainly composed of adventurous persons in the prime of life, and has very few grey heads among it. There were no ladies: the trip being a fatiguing one: and we were to start at five o’clock in the morning [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] ugly old women and very buxom young ones, pigs, dogs, men, children, babies, pots, kettles, dung-hills, vile refuse, rank straw, and standing water, all wallowing together in an inseparable heap, composed the furniture of every dark and dirty hut.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] into this place, and nothing was to be done but walk up and down, and look at it and the other buildings in the village (which were chiefly of wood, painted a dark red like English barns, and composed of many stories like English factories ), I have nothing to communicate to the reader, beyond the scanty results I gleaned the while our purchases were making.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] spirits, and was helped home, between one and two o’clock at night, in a condition when the physical had decidedly attained the upper hand of the intellectual. Tom and Adolph assisted to get him composed for the night, the latter in high spirits, evidently regarding the matter as a good joke, and laughing heartily at the rusticity of Tom's horror, who really was simple enough to lie awake most of [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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The woman suddenly rose up, with her face composed to its usual stern, melancholy expression.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. The Christian is composed by the belief of a wise, all-ruling Father, whose presence fills the void unknown with light and order; but to the man who has dethroned God, the spirit-land is, indeed, in the words of the Hebrew [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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The separate incidents that compose the narrative are, to a very great extent, authentic, occurring, many of them, either under her own observation, or that of her personal friends. She or her friends have observed characters the [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)