| Main Entry: | rumor |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tell a supposed truth |
Synonyms: |
bruit, buzz*, circulate, gossip, noise about, pass around, publish, report, say, talk, tattle, whisper |
Antonyms: |
tell truth |
| Main Entry: | rumored |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | reported |
Synonyms: |
all over town, broadcast, bruited, circulating, given out, going around, gossiped, prevailing, reputed, reputed, rife, said, told |
| Main Entry: | buzz |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | gossip |
Synonyms: |
call, chatter, inform, natter, rumor, tattle |
| Main Entry: | gossip |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | talk about others; spread rumors |
Synonyms: |
babble, bad-mouth, bend one's ear, blab, blather, blether, chat, chatter, cut to pieces, cut up, dish, hint, imply, insinuate, intimate, jaw, prate, prattle, rattle on, repeat, report, rumor, schmoose, spill the beans, spread*, suggest, talk, talk idly, tattle, tell secrets, tell tales, wiggle-waggle |
| Main Entry: | reputed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | believed |
Synonyms: |
accounted, alleged, assumed, conjectural, considered, deemed, estimated, gossiped, held, hypothetical, ostensible, putative, reckoned, regarded, reported, rumored, said, seeming, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious, suppositive, suppository, thought |
Antonyms: |
actual, real, true |
| Main Entry: | say |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make declaration |
Synonyms: |
add, affirm, allege, announce, answer, assert, break silence, claim, come out with, communicate, conjecture, convey, declare, deliver, disclose, divulge, do, estimate, express, flap, gab, give voice, guess, imagine, imply, jaw, judge, lip, maintain, make known, mention, opine, orate, perform, pronounce, put forth, put into words, rap, read, recite, rehearse, relate, remark, render, repeat, reply, report, respond, reveal, rumor, speak, spiel*, state, suggest, tell, utter, verbalize, voice, yak |
| Notes: | say, speak, and tell are near synonyms, but say is usually followed by a statement or words actually uttered |
Antonyms: |
ask, question, request |
| Main Entry: | tattle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | gossip; tell rumor |
Synonyms: |
babble, blab, chat, chatter, give away, give the show away, gossip, have a big mouth, jabber, leak, noise, prate, prattle*, rumor, snitch, spill, spill the beans, spread rumor, squeal, talk, talk idly, tell on, tell tale, yak |
Antonyms: |
conceal, hide |
| Main Entry: | reported |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stated |
Synonyms: |
announced, believed, broadcast, communicated, described, disclosed, divulged, expressed, made known, narrated, noted, proclaimed, recited, recorded, recounted, reputed, revealed, rumored, said |
Antonyms: |
certain, secret, unknown, verified |
| Main Entry: | tittle-tattle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | gossip |
Synonyms: |
babble, bad-mouth, bend one's ear, blab, blather, blether, chat, chatter, cut to pieces, cut up, dish, hint, imply, insinuate, intimate, jaw, noise, prate, prattle, rattle on, repeat, report, rumor, schmoose, spill the beans, spread*, suggest, talk, talk idly, tattle, tell secrets, tell tales out of school, tell tales, whisper, wiggle-waggle |