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pronouncement - 17 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | pronouncement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | declaration, statement |
| Synonyms: | advertisement, announcement, broadcast, decree, dictum, edict, judgment, manifesto, notification, proclamation, publication, report, promulgation, pronunciamento, ukase |
| Antonyms: | concealment |
| Main Entry: | adjudication |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | judgment |
| Synonyms: | conclusion, decision, determination, finding, pronouncement, ruling, settlement, verdict |
| Main Entry: | affirmation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | declaration of the truth of something |
| Synonyms: | affidavit, assertion, avowal, confirmation, declaration, green light*, oath, okay, pronouncement, ratification, statement, sworn statement, testimonial, testimony, asseveration, attestation, averment, avouchment, certification, stamp of approval |
| Antonyms: | denial, negation, veto, nullification |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | assertion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | declaration, positive statement |
| Synonyms: | affirmation, allegation, asservation, attestation, avowal, contention, defense, insistence, maintenance, mouthful, okay, predication, profession, pronouncement, report, say so, stamp of approval, stressing, two cents' worth, vindication |
| Antonyms: | denial, rejection |
| Main Entry: | decree |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mandate, legal order |
| Synonyms: | act, announcement, behest, bidding, charge, command, commandment, declaration, dictum, direction, directive, edict, enactment, injunction, instruction, judgment, law, order, ordinance, precept, prescript, proclamation, pronouncement, rap*, regulation, rule, ruling, say, statute, charging, decretum, promulgation, the riot act, the word, ukase |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | diagnosis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | identification of problem, disease |
| Synonyms: | analysis, conclusion, examination, interpretation, investigation, opinion, pronouncement, scrutiny, summary |
| Notes: | a diagnosis is the process of identifying or determining the nature of a diseased condition or the conclusion reached; a prognosis is a prediction of the probable course of a disease or likely outcome of a problem |
| Main Entry: | doctrine |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | opinion; principle |
| Synonyms: | article, article of faith, attitude, axiom, basic, belief, canon, concept, convention, conviction, creed, declaration, dogma, fundamental, gospel, indoctrination, instruction, position, precept, pronouncement, propaganda, proposition, regulation, rule, statement, teaching, tenet, tradition, credenda, implantation, inculcation, universal law, unwritten rule |
| Antonyms: | disbelief, skepticism, heterodoxy, unbelief |
| Main Entry: | finding |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | judgment, verdict |
| Synonyms: | award, conclusion, data, decision, decree, discovery, pronouncement, recommendation, sentence |
| Main Entry: | proclamation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | advertisement, announcement |
| Synonyms: | broadcast, declaration, decree, edict, manifesto, notice, notification, pronouncement, publication, promulgation, pronunciamento |
| Antonyms: | secret |
| Main Entry: | ruling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | judgment, decree |
| Synonyms: | adjudication, decision, directive, edict, finding, law, order, precept, pronouncement, resolution, rule, verdict, ukase |
| Antonyms: | plea |
| Main Entry: | sentence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | punishing decree |
| Synonyms: | book, censure, clock, condemnation, decision, determination, dictum, doom, edict, fall, hitch, jolt, judgment, knock, order, penalty, pronouncement, punishment, rap*, ruling, sleep, stretch, term, time, trick, vacation, verdict, considered opinion, getup, sending up the river |
| Antonyms: | accusation, charge |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | utterance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | revelation |
| Synonyms: | announcement, articulation, assertion, declaration, delivery, discourse, ejaculation, expression, opinion, oration, pronouncement, rant, recitation, remark, reply, response, saying, sentence, speaking, speech, spiel, statement, talk, vent, voice, word, words, asseveration, peroration, verbalization, vocalization, vociferation |
| Antonyms: | silence |
| Main Entry: | expression |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | verbalization |
| Synonyms: | announcement, argument, articulation, assertion, commentary, communication, declaration, definition, delivery, diction, elucidation, emphasis, execution, explanation, exposition, idiom, interpretation, intonation, issue, language, locution, mention, narration, phrase, phraseology, pronouncement, remark, rendition, speaking, speech, statement, style, term, utterance, vent, voice, word, writ, asseveration, choice of words, enunciation, formulation, phrasing, set phrase, turn of phrase, voicing |
| 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: | declaration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | official proclamation |
| Synonyms: | acclamation, affidavit, allegation, announcement, article, bulletin, canon, charge, confirmation, constitution, credo, creed, denunciation, deposition, document, edict, gospel, indictment, manifesto, notice, notification, plea, proclamation, profession, pronouncement, resolution, testament, testimony, ultimatum, attestation, promulgation, pronunciamento |
| Antonyms: | denial, retraction |
| Main Entry: | observation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | comment on something scrutinized |
| Synonyms: | annotation, catch phrase, comeback, commentary, crack*, finding, mention, mouthful*, note, opinion, pronouncement, reflection, remark, saying, thought, utterance, wisecrack, obiter dictum, say so |
| Antonyms: | no comment |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | word |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | statement |
| Synonyms: | account, adage, advice, announcement, bulletin, byword, comment, communication, declaration, directive, discourse, dispatch, expression, gossip, hearsay, information, intelligence, intimation, introduction, message, news, notice, pronouncement, proverb, remark, report, rumble, rumor, saying, scuttlebutt, speech, talk, tidings, utterance, communiqué, saw |
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