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Supplication - 15 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | supplication |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | entreaty |
| Synonyms: | appeal, invocation, petition, prayer, request, adjuration |
| Main Entry: | demand |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | question, request |
| Synonyms: | appeal, application, bid, bidding, call, call for, charge, claim, clamor, command, entreaty, imposition, inquiry, insistence, interest, interrogation, lien, necessity, need, occasion, order, petition, plea, prayer, pursuit, requirement, requisition, rush, sale, search, stipulation, suit, supplication, trade, ultimatum, use, vogue, want, arrogation, counterclaim, entreatment, exaction, impetration, imploration, importunity, solicitation |
| Antonyms: | grant, offer, reply |
| Main Entry: | entreaty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | plea |
| Synonyms: | appeal, application, imprecation, petition, prayer, request, suit, supplication, imploration |
| Antonyms: | answer, command, demand |
| Main Entry: | invitation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | proposal; asking |
| Synonyms: | appeal, attraction, begging, bid, bidding, call, challenge, date, encouragement, enticement, feeler*, ground, hit, incitement, inducement, invite, lure, motive, offer, open door*, overture, paper, pass, petition, pressure, proffer, proposition, provocation, rain check, reason, request, suggestion, summons, supplication, temptation, urge, allurement, compliments, coquetry, prompting, solicitation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | invocation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prayer |
| Synonyms: | abracadabra*, appeal, calling, command, entreaty, hocus-pocus*, mumbo jumbo*, petition, summons, supplication, voodoo*, beseeching, conjuration, hoodoo, rune |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | litany |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | recital of items, often part of religious services |
| Synonyms: | account, catalogue, enumeration, invocation, list, petition, prayer, recitation, refrain, repetition, supplication, tale |
| Notes: | a litany is a series of prayers; a liturgy is the canon of a religious service |
| Main Entry: | petition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appeal, plea |
| Synonyms: | address, application, entreaty, imprecation, invocation, memorial, prayer, request, suit, supplication, imploration, round robin, solicitation |
| Main Entry: | prayer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pleading, especially with a deity; |
| Synonyms: | appeal, application, begging, benediction, communion, devotion, entreaty, grace, imprecation, invocation, litany, petition, plea, pleading, request, rogation, service, suit, supplication, worship, answer adoration, beseeching, imploration, imploring, orison, request for help |
| Main Entry: | request |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | question or petition |
| Synonyms: | appeal, application, asking, begging, call, commercial, demand, desire, entreaty, inquiry, invitation, offer, prayer, recourse, requisition, suit, supplication, solicitation |
| Antonyms: | answer, reply |
| Main Entry: | worship |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | honoring, glorification |
| Synonyms: | adoration, adulation, awe, benediction, chapel, devotion, exaltation, glory, homage, honor, idolatry, invocation, love, offering, praise, prayer, prostration, regard, respect, reverence, rite, ritual, service, supplication, veneration, vespers, beatification, church service, deification, genuflection, idolization, laudation |
| Main Entry: | appeal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | request for help |
| Synonyms: | address, application, bid, call, claim, demand, entreaty, invocation, overture, petition, plea, prayer, proposal, proposition, question, recourse, requisition, submission, suit, supplication, adjuration, imploration, importunity, solicitation |
| Antonyms: | denial, disclaimer, refusal, retraction, revocation, disavowal |
| Main Entry: | plea |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | begging request |
| Synonyms: | appeal, application, entreaty, imprecation, intercession, overture, petition, prayer, suit, supplication, imploration, orison, round robin, solicitation |
| Antonyms: | answer, reply |
| Main Entry: | call |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | demand, announcement |
| Synonyms: | appeal, bidding, command, invitation, notice, order, plea, proposal, request, subpoena, summons, supplication, visit, solicitation |
| Main Entry: | desire |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | request |
| Synonyms: | appeal, entreaty, hope, petition, supplication, want, wish, importunity, solicitation |
| Antonyms: | answer, antagonism, reply |
| Main Entry: | suit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appeal, request |
| Synonyms: | address, application, asking, attention, court, courtship, entreaty, imprecation, invocation, petition, plea, prayer, requesting, soliciting, supplication, imploration, solicitation, wooing |
| Antonyms: | demand, order |
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