CANCEL (cancelled, cancelling)
Dictionary entry overview: What does cancel mean?
• CANCEL (noun)
The noun CANCEL has 1 sense:
1. a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat
Familiarity information: CANCEL used as a noun is very rare.
• CANCEL (verb)
The verb CANCEL has 5 senses:
1. postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled
2. make up for
3. declare null and void; make ineffective
4. remove or make invisible
5. make invalid for use
Familiarity information: CANCEL used as a verb is common.
Dictionary entry details
• CANCEL (noun)
Meaning:
A notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
cancel; natural
Hypernyms ("cancel" is a kind of...):
musical notation (a notation used by musicians)
• CANCEL (verb)
Meaning:
Postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
call off; cancel; scrub; scratch
Context examples:
Call off the engagement / cancel the dinner party / we had to scrub our vacation plans / scratch that meeting--the chair is ill
"Cancel" entails doing...:
schedule (make a schedule; plan the time and place for events)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Make up for
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
cancel; offset; set off
Context example:
His skills offset his opponent's superior strength
Hypernyms (to "cancel" is one way to...):
balance; equilibrate; equilibrise; equilibrize (bring into balance or equilibrium)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cancel"):
counteract; counterbalance; countervail; neutralize (oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Declare null and void; make ineffective
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
strike down; cancel
Context examples:
Cancel the election results / strike down a law
Hypernyms (to "cancel" is one way to...):
adjudge; declare; hold (declare to be)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cancel"):
annul; countermand; lift; overturn; repeal; rescind; reverse; revoke; vacate (annul by recalling or rescinding)
remit (release from (claims, debts, or taxes))
write off (cancel (a debt))
annul; avoid; invalidate; nullify; quash; void (declare invalid)
recall (make unavailable; bar from sale or distribution)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Remove or make invisible
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
delete; cancel
Context example:
Please delete my name from your list
Hypernyms (to "cancel" is one way to...):
remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cancel"):
efface; erase; rub out; score out; wipe off (remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing)
excise; expunge; scratch; strike (remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Make invalid for use
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
invalidate; cancel
Context example:
cancel cheques or tickets
Hypernyms (to "cancel" is one way to...):
mark; score (make underscoring marks)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
