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message - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | message |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | communication, often written |
| Synonyms: | bulletin, directive, dispatch, dope, epistle, information, intelligence, intimation, letter, memorandum, missive, news, note, notice, paper, report, tidings, wire, word, cannonball, communiqué, earful, memo |
| Main Entry: | message |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | meaning, idea |
| Synonyms: | import, moral, point, purport, sense, significance, theme, understanding, acceptation, intendment, significancy, signification |
| Main Entry: | announcement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | proclamation, declaration |
| Synonyms: | advertisement, advice, briefing, broadcast, broadcasting, bulletin, communication, disclosure, dissemination, edict, exposition, expression, intimation, message, narration, news, notice, notification, prediction, publication, recitation, release, report, reporting, revelation, statement, communiqué, divulgence, exposing, promulgation, publishing |
| Main Entry: | cautionary tale |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | piece of advice |
| Synonyms: | admonition, advisory, caveat, hint, lesson, message, moral, omen, portent, red flag*, red flag, sign of things to come*, sign of things to come, warning, word to the wise, word to the wise, a few words of wisdom, caution light, deterrent example, enough said, event illustrating a hazard, forewarning, wake-up call, wake-up call |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | directive |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | command, instruction |
| Synonyms: | charge, communication, decree, dictate, edict, injunction, mandate, memorandum, message, notice, order, ordinance, regulation, ruling, word, memo, ukase |
| 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: | answer |
| Main Entry: | epistle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | letter |
| Synonyms: | card, communication, dispatch, invite, line*, message, missive, note, scratch*, tab*, FYI, billet doux, cannonball, get-well, kite*, love letter, memo, poison pen, postcard, thank-you |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | errand |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | task |
| Synonyms: | assignment, charge, commission, duty, job, message, mission |
| Main Entry: | information |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | facts, news |
| Synonyms: | advice, ammo, break*, chapter and verse*, clue, confidence, counsel, cue, data, dirt*, dope*, dossier, earful, enlightenment, erudition, illumination, info, inside story, instruction, intelligence, knowledge, leak, learning, lore, lowdown, material, message, network, notice, notification, orientation, propaganda, report, science, scoop, score, tidings, tip, what's what, whole story, wisdom, word* |
| Antonyms: | ignorance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | memorandum/memo |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | written note |
| Synonyms: | announcement, chit, diary, directive, dispatch, epistle, letter, message, minute, missive, notation, notice, record, reminder, jotting, tickler |
| Main Entry: | missive |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | written communication |
| Synonyms: | dispatch, epistle, letter, line, memorandum, message, note, report, word, memo |
| Main Entry: | moral |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lesson, proverb |
| Synonyms: | adage, aphorism, axiom, dictum, epigram, gnome, maxim, meaning, message, motto, point, precept, rule, saying, sermon, significance, truism, apophthegm, moralism, saw |
| Main Entry: | news |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | information, revelation |
| Synonyms: | account, advice, announcement, broadcast, bulletin, cable, cognizance, communication, copy, data, description, disclosure, discovery, dispatch, enlightenment, exposé, hearsay, intelligence, knowledge, leak, message, narration, news flash, recital, recognition, release, report, rumor, scandal, scoop*, specification, statement, story, telecast, telegram, telling, tidings*, word*, communiqué, eye-opener, front-page news, headlines, itemization, lowdown, particularization, the goods |
| Antonyms: | history |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | notification |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | announcement |
| Synonyms: | advertisement, advisory, alert, bulletin, communication, declaration, information, message, news, notice, proclamation, release, report, statement, warning, communique |
| Main Entry: | purport |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | meaning, implication |
| Synonyms: | aim, bearing, burden, connotation, core, design, drift, gist, heart, idea, import, intent, intention, matter, meat, message, nub, object, objective, pith, plan, point, purpose, score, sense, significance, spirit, stuff, substance, tendency, tenor, thrust, understanding, upshot, acceptation, intendment, significancy, signification |
| Main Entry: | tidings |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | greetings, news |
| Synonyms: | advice, bulletin, communication, dirt, information, intelligence, message, report, word |
| Main Entry: | memorandum |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | note |
| Synonyms: | announcement, chit, diary, directive, dispatch, epistle, letter, message, minute, missive, notation, notice, record, reminder, jotting, memo, tickler |
| Main Entry: | import |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | meaning |
| Synonyms: | bearing, bottom line*, construction, drift*, gist*, heart*, implication, intention, interpretation, meat*, message, name of the game*, nuts and bolts*, point, punch line*, purport, score*, sense, significance, stuff*, thrust, understanding, acceptation, intendment, nature of beast, significancy, signification |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | report |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | account, story |
| Synonyms: | address, announcement, article, brief, broadcast, cable, chronicle, communication, declaration, description, detail, digest, dispatch, handout, history, information, message, narration, narrative, news, note, opinion, outline, paper, picture, piece, précis, proclamation, pronouncement, résumé, recital, record, relation, release, rundown, scoop*, statement, summary, tale, telegram, tidings, version, wire, word*, write-up, blow by blow, communique, hot wire |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | significance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | meaning |
| Synonyms: | bottom line*, connotation, drift, force, heart, implication, import, meat*, message, name of the game*, nitty-gritty*, nub, nuts and bolts*, point, punch line*, purport, score, sense, stuff, understanding, acceptation, intendment, kicker, nature of the beast, significancy, signification |
| Antonyms: | insignificance, unimportance, meaninglessness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | communication |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | information transmitted |
| Synonyms: | account, advice, announcement, briefing, bulletin, conversation, converse, declaration, directive, disclosure, dispatch, excerpt, goods*, information, intelligence, language, message, missive, news, note, précis, prophecy, publicity, report, revelation, scoop*, skinny*, speech, statement, summary, tidings, translation, utterance, warning, word, work, communiqué, hot story, ideas, info, inside story, lowdown, pipeline, poop |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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