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| Main Entry: | argue |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | verbally fight |
| Synonyms: | altercate, bandy, battle, bicker, break with, buck, bump heads, contend, cross, cross swords, disagree, dispute, face down, face off, feud, gang up on, get in one's face, go one on one, hammer, hammer away, hash, hash over, hassle, have at each other, have at it, jump, jump on, knock around, lock horns*, mix it up, pettifog, pick an argument, put up a fight, put up a struggle, quarrel, quibble, rehash, row, sass, set to, sock it to, squabble, stick it to, talk back, wrangle |
| Antonyms: | agree, harmonize, ignore, overlook |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | argue |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | try to convince; present support |
| Synonyms: | appeal, assert, attest, claim, contend, controvert, defend, demonstrate, denote, display, elucidate, establish, evince, exhibit, explain, hold, imply, indicate, justify, maintain, manifest, persuade, plead, present, reason, show, suggest, testify, vindicate, warrant, witness, prevail upon, talk into |
| Antonyms: | agree, comply |
| Main Entry: | argue |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | discuss |
| Synonyms: | agitate, canvass, clarify, debate, dispute, expostulate, hold, maintain, question, reason, remonstrate, talk about |
| Antonyms: | abstain, keep quiet, keep silent |
| Main Entry: | assert |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | insist, declare, maintain |
| Synonyms: | advance, affirm, allege, argue, asservate, attest, aver, avouch, avow, butt in*, cite, claim, contend, defend, horn in, justify, mouth off*, pop off*, predicate, press, proclaim, profess, pronounce, protest, put forward, say, shoot off one's mouth, shoot one's wad, stand up for, state, stress, swear, uphold, vindicate, warrant |
| Antonyms: | deny, reject |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | attest |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | affirm, vouch for |
| Synonyms: | adjure, announce, argue, assert, authenticate, aver, bear out, bear witness, certify, confirm, corroborate, countersign, declare, demonstrate, display, exhibit, indicate, prove, ratify, seal, show, substantiate, support, sustain, swear, testify, uphold, verify, warrant, witness, asservate, give evidence |
| Antonyms: | deny |
| Main Entry: | battle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fight, struggle |
| Synonyms: | agitate, argue, clamor, combat, contend, contest, dispute, feud, oppugn, skirmish, strive, tug, war, wrestle |
| Antonyms: | make peace |
| Main Entry: | brawl |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fight nastily |
| Synonyms: | argue, battle, bicker, buck*, caterwaul, dispute, quarrel, raise Cain*, roughhouse, row, rumble*, scrap, scuffle, spat, squabble, tussle, wrangle, wrestle, altercate, kick up a row |
| Antonyms: | make peace |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bring around |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | convince, induce |
| Synonyms: | argue, convert, draw, get, indoctrinate, persuade, prompt, prove, prevail upon, talk into, win over |
| Main Entry: | canvass |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | poll; discuss issues |
| Synonyms: | agitate, analyze, apply, argue, campaign, check, consult, debate, dispute, examine, inspect, investigate, review, run, scan, scrutinize, sift, solicit, study, survey, ventilate, check over, electioneer |
| Notes: | canvas is the noun (fabric etc.) and canvass is generally a verb (to solicit, question) - though a canvass can be an examination of pros and cons |
| Main Entry: | consult |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ask, confer |
| Synonyms: | argue, ask advice of, be closeted with, brainstorm*, call in, cogitate, collogue, commune, compare notes, confab, confabulate, consider, debate, deliberate, discuss, examine, flap*, groupthink, huddle, interrogate, interview, kick ideas around, negotiate, parlay, pick one's brains, powwow*, put heads together, question, refer to, regard, respect, review, seek advice, seek opinion of, take a meeting, take account of, take counsel, talk over, toss ideas around, treat, turn to |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deliberate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | think about seriously; discuss |
| Synonyms: | argue, cogitate, consider, consult, contemplate, debate, excogitate, judge, meditate, muse, ponder, reason, reflect, revolve, roll, ruminate, speculate, study, turn over, weigh, bat it around, cerebrate, chew over, hammer away at, kick around, knock around, mull over, pour it on, put on thinking cap, rack brains, run up a flagpole, stew over, sweat over, talk over |
| Main Entry: | denote |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | designate, mean |
| Synonyms: | announce, argue, bespeak, betoken, connote, evidence, express, finger, flash, imply, import, indicate, insinuate, intend, make, mark, peg, prove, show, signify, spell, stand for, symbol, symbolize, tab, tag, typify, add up, hang sign on, put down for, put finger on |
| Main Entry: | discourse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | discuss, speak about |
| Synonyms: | argue, chew*, comment, confer, converse, debate, declaim, descant, develop, dispute, elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, explain, expound, harangue, lecture, modulate, orate, perorate, remark, talk, treat, voice, commentate, confab, dilate upon, dissert, dissertate, give a meeting, hold forth, sermonize |
| Antonyms: | be quiet |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | discuss |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | talk over with another |
| Synonyms: | argue, canvass, confer, consider, contend, contest, converse, debate, deliberate, descant, dispute, examine, explain, figure, get together, go into, jaw*, moot, review, sift, take up, ventilate, weigh, altercate, bounce off, compare notes, confabulate, consult with, discept, discourse about, dissert, dissertate, exchange views on, groupthink, hash over, hold forth, kick about, knock around, put heads together, reason about, thrash out*, toss around* |
| Antonyms: | be quiet |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dissent |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | disagree |
| Synonyms: | argue, balk, break with, buck, contradict, decline, demur, differ, discord, divide, object, oppose, protest, refuse, shy, vary, wrangle, disaccord, fly in the face of, pettifog, put up a fight, put up an argument, say no way, say not a chance, say nothing doing, stickle |
| Antonyms: | agree, approve, assent, authorize, concur, consent, endorse, ratify, sanction |
| Main Entry: | expostulate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | reason with |
| Synonyms: | argue, dissuade, oppose, protest, remonstrate |
| Main Entry: | haggle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bicker, quarrel |
| Synonyms: | argue, bargain, barter, cavil, deal, dicker*, dispute, palter, quibble, squabble, wrangle, beat down*, chaffer, hammer out a deal, horse-trade, make a deal |
| Antonyms: | agree, comply, concur |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hassle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bother, harass |
| Synonyms: | annoy, argue, badger, bedevil, beleaguer, bicker, dispute, harry, hound, pester, plague, quibble, squabble, worry, wrangle, argufy, dun |
| Antonyms: | agree, concur, make peace |
| Main Entry: | indicate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | signify, display |
| Synonyms: | add up to, announce, argue, attest, augur, bespeak, betoken, card, connote, demonstrate, denote, designate, evidence, evince, express, finger, hint, illustrate, imply, import, intimate, make, manifest, mark, mean, name, peg*, pinpoint*, point out, prove, read, record, register, reveal, show, sign, signal, slot, specify, suggest, symbolize, tab, tag, testify, witness, be symptomatic, button down, pin down, point to |
| Antonyms: | conceal, hide, mislead |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | involve |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | draw in; include |
| Synonyms: | absorb, affect, argue, associate, bind, catch, commit, complicate, comprehend, comprise, compromise, concern, connect, contain, cover, denote, embrace, embroil, engage, engross, enmesh, entail, entangle, grip, hold, hook, implicate, imply, incorporate, incriminate, inculpate, link, mean, mire, mix up*, necessitate, number, presuppose, prove, relate, require, suggest, take in, tangle, touch, point to, preoccupy, rivet, rope in, snarl up, wrap up in |
| Antonyms: | exclude, free, remove |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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