message

Main Entry:
message [mes-ij]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: communication, often written
Synonyms: bulletin, cannonball, communiqué, directive, dispatch, dope, earful, epistle, information, intelligence, intimation, letter, memo, memorandum, missive, news, note, notice, paper, report, tidings, wire, word
Main Entry: announcement
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: proclamation, declaration
Synonyms: advertisement, advice, briefing, broadcast, broadcasting, bulletin, communication, communiqué, disclosure, dissemination, divulgence, edict, exposing, exposition, expression, intimation, message, narration, news, notice, notification, prediction, promulgation, publication, publishing, recitation, release, report, reporting, revelation, statement
Main Entry: cautionary tale
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: piece of advice
Synonyms: a few words of wisdom, admonition, advisory, caution light, caveat, deterrent example, enough said, event illustrating a hazard, forewarning, hint, lesson, message, moral, omen, portent, red flag, red flag, sign of things to come, sign of things to come, wake-up call, wake-up call, warning, word to the wise, word to the wise
Main Entry: communication
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: information transmitted
Synonyms: account, advice, announcement, briefing, bulletin, communiqué, conversation, converse, declaration, directive, disclosure, dispatch, excerpt, goods*, hot story, ideas, info, information, inside story, intelligence, language, lowdown, message, missive, news, note, pipeline, poop, prophecy, précis, publicity, report, revelation, scoop*, skinny*, speech, statement, summary, tidings, translation, utterance, warning, word, work
Main Entry: dedication
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: speech of praise; sanctification
Synonyms: address, celebration, consecration, devotion, envoy, glorification, hallowing, inscription, message
Antonyms: apathy
Main Entry: directive
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: command, instruction
Synonyms: charge, communication, decree, dictate, edict, injunction, mandate, memo, memorandum, message, notice, order, ordinance, regulation, ruling, ukase, word
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: dispatch
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: communication
Synonyms: account, bulletin, communiqué, document, instruction, item, letter, message, missive, news, piece, report, story
Main Entry: epistle
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: letter
Synonyms: FYI, billet doux, cannonball, card, communication, dispatch, get-well, invite, kite, line*, love letter, memo, message, missive, note, poison pen, postcard, scratch*, tab, thank-you
Main Entry: errand
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: task
Synonyms: assignment, charge, commission, duty, job, message, mission
Notes: an errand is a short trip that is taken for a specific purpose; arrant means thoroughgoing - downright - out-and-out - extreme - notorious; errant means wandering or roving especially in search of adventure - deviating or straying from an appointed course - straying from the proper standards - moving aimlessly or irregularly
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