status

noun

1. the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society; “he had the status of a minor”; “the novel attained the status of a classic”; “atheists do not enjoy a favorable position in American life”

   Synonyms

   • position

   Less specific

   • state

   More specific

   • face, election, equality, equivalence, equation, par, social station, social status, social rank, rank, standing, high status, high ground, high profile, Holy Order (more) , Order, low status, lowness, lowliness, legal status, bastardy, illegitimacy, bar sinister, left-handedness, command, nationality, footing, terms, retirement, rank, caste, dignity, nobility, noblesse, ordination, pedestal, leadership, slot, toehold

2. a state at a particular time; “a condition (or state) of disrepair”; “the current status of the arms negotiations”

   Synonyms

   • condition

   Less specific

   • state

   More specific

   • diversity, anchorage, health, mode, niche, ecological niche, noise conditions, participation, involvement, prepossession, regularization, regularisation, saturation, silence, situation (more) , position, ski conditions, nomination, standardization, standardisation, stigmatism, astigmatism, astigmia, way, circumstance, homelessness, reinstatement, place, celibacy, virginity, innocence, purity, pureness, sinlessness, innocence, whiteness, guilt, guiltiness, encapsulation, polarization, polarisation, physical condition, physiological state, physiological condition, hyalinization, hyalinisation, vacuolization, vacuolisation, vacuolation, protuberance, curvature, psychological state, psychological condition, mental state, mental condition, difficulty, improvement, melioration, decline, declination, ennoblement, dominance, ascendance, ascendence, ascendancy, ascendency, control, comfort, comfortableness, discomfort, uncomfortableness, need, demand, fullness, emptiness, nakedness, nudity, nudeness, hairlessness, depilation, dishabille, deshabille, hopefulness, despair, desperation, purity, pureness, impurity, impureness, financial condition, economic condition, sanitary condition, tilth, orderliness, order, disorderliness, disorder, normality, normalcy, lactosuria, environmental condition, climate, mood, atmosphere, ambiance, ambience, unsusceptibility, immunity, immunity, resistance, subservience, susceptibility, susceptibleness, wetness, dryness, waterlessness, xerotes, safety, danger, tension, tensity, tenseness, tautness, atonicity, atony, atonia, amyotonia, laxness, laxity, repair, soundness, mutism, muteness, eye condition, unsoundness, impropriety, iniquity, wickedness, darkness, dark, light, illumination, malady, serration, absolution, automation, brutalization, brutalisation, condemnation, deification, diversification, exoneration, facilitation, frizz, fruition, hospitalization, identification, impaction, ionization, ionisation, irradiation, leakiness, lubrication, mechanization, mechanisation, motivation, mummification, preservation, prognathism, rustication, rustiness, scandalization, scandalisation, submission, urbanization, urbanisation