Word Meanings - APPRAISE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. To set a value; to estimate the worth of, particularly by persons appointed for the purpose; as, to appraise goods and chattels. 2. To estimate; to conjecture. Enoch . . . appraised his weight. Tennyson. 3. To praise; to commend. R. Browning.
Additional info about word: APPRAISE
1. To set a value; to estimate the worth of, particularly by persons appointed for the purpose; as, to appraise goods and chattels. 2. To estimate; to conjecture. Enoch . . . appraised his weight. Tennyson. 3. To praise; to commend. R. Browning. Appraised the Lycian custom. Tennyson. Note: In the United States, this word is often pronounced, and sometimes written, apprize.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of APPRAISE)
- Compute
- Calculate
- reckon
- count
- number
- appraise
- value
- estimate
- cast up
- rate
- Measure Mete
- gauge
- Value Appreciate
- compute
- esteem
- treasure
- prize
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of APPRAISE)
- Scatter
- squander
- dissipate
- disregard
- disesteem
- prostitute
- waste
- betray
- Miscompute
- misestimate
- vilipend
- underrate
- undervalue
- underestimate
- despise
- contemn
- cheapen
- vilify
Related words: (words related to APPRAISE)
- COUNTERBRACE
To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another. - DISREGARDFULLY
Negligently; heedlessly. - APPRAISER
One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates. - COUNTERACTIVE
Tending to counteract. - GAUGE
To measure the dimensions of, or to test the accuracy of the form of, as of a part of a gunlock. The vanes nicely gauged on each side. Derham. 4. To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it, as cloth or a garment. 5. To measure - COUNTERVIEW
1. An opposite or opposing view; opposition; a posture in which two persons front each other. Within the gates of hell sat Death and Sin, In counterview. Milton M. Peisse has ably advocated the counterview in his preface and appendixx. - COUNTERFLEURY
Counterflory. - COUNTABLE
Capable of being numbered. - COUNTER WEIGHT
A counterpoise. - COUNTRY-DANCE
See MACUALAY - COUNTERJUMPER
A salesman in a shop; a shopman; -- used contemtuously. - WASTEL
A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott. - RECKON
reckon, G. rechnen, OHG. rahnjan), and to E. reck, rake an implement; the original sense probably being, to bring together, count together. 1. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate. The priest shall reckon to him the - NUMBERFUL
Numerous. - RECKONER
One who reckons or computes; also, a book of calculation, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning. Reckoners without their host must reckon twice. Camden. - COUNTERPLEAD
To plead the contrary of; to plead against; to deny. - COUNTER BRACE
The brace of the fore-topsail on the leeward side of a vessel. - COUNTERIRRITANT; COUNTERIRRITATION
See A - WASTETHRIFT
A spendthrift. - ALKALI WASTE
Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste. - BESCATTER
1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser. - OVERWASTED
Wasted or worn out; Drayton. - ENCOUNTERER
One who encounters; an opponent; an antagonist. Atterbury. - ACCOUNTANTSHIP
The office or employment of an accountant. - ARCHTREASURER
A chief treasurer. Specifically, the great treasurer of the German empire.