| Main Entry: | appeal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | request for help |
Synonyms: |
address, adjuration, application, bid, call, claim, demand, entreaty, imploration, importunity, invocation, overture, petition, plea, prayer, proposal, proposition, question, recourse, requisition, solicitation, submission, suit, supplication |
Antonyms: |
denial, disavowal, disclaimer, refusal, retraction, revocation |
| Main Entry: | command |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | directive, instruction |
Synonyms: |
act, adjuration, ban, behest, bidding, call, canon, caveat, charge, citation, commandment, decree, demand, devoir, dictate, dictation, dictum, direction, duty, edict, enactment, exaction, fiat, imperative, imposition, injunction, interdiction, law, mandate, notification, obligation, order, ordinance, precept, prescript, proclamation, prohibition, proscription, regulation, request, requirement, requisition, responsibility, rule, subpoena, summons, ultimatum, warrant, will, word, writ |
| Notes: | an order is being told to do something with no specific guidelines, a command is being told to do something in a specific way, and a directive is being told to do something and getting this information through channels |
Antonyms: |
contradiction, countermand, opposition, recall, reversal, revocation |
| Main Entry: | denial |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dismissal, refusal of belief in |
Synonyms: |
abstaining, adjuration, brush-off, cold shoulder, contradiction, controversion, declination, disallowance, disapproval, disavowal, disclaimer, dismissing, disproof, dissent, forswearing, gainsaying, nay, negation, negative, nix, no way, nonacceptance, noncommittal, prohibition, protestation, rebuff, rebuttal, refraining, refusing, refutal, refutation, rejecting, rejection, renegement, renouncement, renunciation, repudiating, repudiation, repulse, retraction, statement abnegation, turndown, veto |
Antonyms: |
affirmation, agreement, approval, avowal, claim, corroboration, vouching |
| Main Entry: | oath |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | promise |
Synonyms: |
adjuration, affidavit, affirmation, avowal, bond, contract, deposition, pledge, profession, sworn declaration, sworn statement, testimony, vow, word, word of honor |
Antonyms: |
break |
| Main Entry: | supplication |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | entreaty |
Synonyms: |
adjuration, appeal, invocation, petition, prayer, request |
| Main Entry: | imploration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appeal |
Synonyms: |
address, adjuration, application, bid, call, claim, demand, entreaty, importunity, invocation, overture, petition, plea, prayer, proposal, proposition, question, recourse, requisition, solicitation, submission, suit, supplication |
| Main Entry: | traversal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | denial |
Synonyms: |
abnegation, abstaining, adjuration, brush-off, cold shoulder, contradiction, controversion, declination, disaffirmance, disaffirmation, disallowance, disapproval, disavowal, disclaimer, dismissing, disproof, dissent, forswearing, gainsaying, nay, negation, negative, nix, no way, nonacceptance, noncommittal, prohibition, protestation, rebuff, rebuttal, refraining, refusing, refutal, refutation, rejecting, rejection, renegement, renouncement, renunciation, repudiating, repudiation, repulse, retraction, statement, turndown, veto |
| Main Entry: | denial |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
at issue upon, cashiered, contradictory, denied, denying, negative, negatory, recusant
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