Nearby Words
pro mise
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | allurement; persuasion |
| Synonyms: | attraction, bait, blandishment, cajolery, coaxing, come hither, come-on, decoy, fascination, inducement, inveiglement, lure, mousetrap, promise, seduction, snare, sweetener, sweetening, temptation, trap |
| Antonyms: | disgust, dissuasion, repulsion |
| Main Entry: | forebode |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | predict, warn |
| Synonyms: | augur, betoken, bode, divine, forecast, foresee, foreshadow, foretell, foretoken, forewarn, indicate, omen, portend, premonish, presage, prognosticate, promise |
| Main Entry: | foreshadow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | indicate |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, augur, be in the wind, betoken, bode, forebode, foretell, hint, imply, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, promise, prophesy, shadow, signal, suggest, telegraph |
| Main Entry: | herald |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bring message |
| Synonyms: | advertise, announce, ballyhoo, broadcast, declare, forerun, foretoken, harbinger, indicate, pave the way, portend, precede, preindicate, presage, proclaim, promise, publicize, publish, show, tout, trumpet, usher in |
| Main Entry: | hire |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | commission for responsibility, use |
| Synonyms: | add to payroll, appoint, authorize, book, bring in, bring on board, carry, charter, contract for, delegate, draft, employ, empower, engage, enlist, exploit, fill a position, find help, give a break, give job to, give work, ink, lease, let, make use of, obtain, occupy, pick, place, pledge, procure, promise, put on*, put to work, rent, retain, secure, select, sign on, sign up, sublease, sublet, take on, truck with, utilize |
| Antonyms: | discharge, fire, lay off, let go |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hope |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | longing; dream |
| Synonyms: | Utopia, achievement, ambition, anticipation, aspiration, assumption, belief, bright side, buoyancy, castles in air, concern, confidence, daydream, dependence, desire, endurance, expectancy, expectation, faith, fancy, fool's paradise, fortune, gain, goal, greedy glutton, hopefulness, light at end of tunnel, optimism, pipe dream, promise, promised land, prospect, reliance, reverie, reward, rosiness, sanguineness, security, stock, thing with feathers, wish |
| Antonyms: | despair, disbelief, discouragement, hopelessness, pessimism |
| Main Entry: | marry |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become husband and wife in legal ceremony |
| Synonyms: | ally, associate, become one, bond, catch*, combine, conjoin, conjugate, contract, couple, drop anchor, espouse, get hitched, get married, join, knit, land*, lead to altar, link, match, mate, merge, one, pledge, plight one's troth, promise, relate, settle down, take vows, tie, tie the knot, unify, unite, walk down aisle, wed, yoke |
| Antonyms: | divorce |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mean |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | signify, convey |
| Synonyms: | add up, adumbrate, allude, allude to, argue, attest, augur, betoken, connote, denote, designate, determine, drive at, express, foreshadow, foretell, herald, hint at, imply, import, indicate, intimate, involve, name, point to, portend, presage, promise, purport, represent, say, speak of, spell, stand for, suggest, symbolize, tell the meaning of, touch on |
| Notes: | the median is the halfway point, dividing a series of numbers in half - while a mean is the average of the sum of the series |
| Main Entry: | obligation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | responsibility |
| Synonyms: | IOU, accountability, accountableness, agreement, bond, burden, business, call, cause, charge, chit, commitment, committal, compulsion, conscience, constraint, contract, debit, debt, devoir, due bill, dues, duty, engagement, liability, must, necessity, need, occasion, onus, ought, part, place, promise, requirement, restraint, right, trust, understanding |
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