Word Meanings - ASSEVERATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To affirm or aver positively, or with solemnity. Syn. -- To affirm; aver; protest; declare. See Affirm.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ASSEVERATE)

• Affirm
• Assert
• swear
• testify
• tell
• aver
• propound
• asseverate
• depose
• state
• declare
• endorse
• maintain
• Allege
• Declare
• affirm
• assert
• plead
• cite
• quote
• assign
• advance
• say
• Asseverate
• pronounce
• statement
• avow
• avouch
• allege
• protest
• claim
• Avouch
• Aver
• profess
• typify
• witness
• verify
• attest
• confirm
• certify

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ASSEVERATE)

• Retard
• hinder
• withhold
• withdraw
• recall
• depress
• degrade
• suppress
• oppose
• retreat
• decrease
• Forego
• waive
• disclaim
• abjure
• disavow
• abandon
• concede
• surrender
• repudiate
• Suppress
• repress
• suppose
• imply
• deny
• contradict
• retract

Related words: (words related to ASSEVERATE)

• PROFESSORY
  Of or pertaining to a professor; professorial. Bacon.
• ASSIGNEE
  In England, the persons appointed, under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors. (more info) A person to whom an assignment is made; a person appointed or deputed by another to do some act,
• MAINTAIN
  by the hand; main hand + F. tenir to hold . See 1. To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace;
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• IMPLY
  1. To infold or involve; to wrap up. "His head in curls implied." Chapman. 2. To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting. Where a mulicious act is
• CONTRADICTABLE
  Capable of being contradicting.
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• PROFESSORIALISM
  The character, manners, or habits of a professor.
• ENDORSER
  See INDORSER
• AVOUCHMENT
  The act of avouching; positive declaration. Milton.
• AFFIRMATIVELY
  In an affirmative manner; on the affirmative side of a question; in the affirmative; -- opposed to negatively.
• PROFESSORIAT
  See PROFESSORIATE
• ASSERT
  self, claim, maintain; ad + serere to join or bind together. See 1. To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate. Nothing is more shameful . . . than to assert anything to
• PLEADINGS
  The mutual pleas and replies of the plaintiff and defendant, or written statements of the parties in support of their claims, proceeding from the declaration of the plaintiff, until issue is joined, and the question made to rest on some
• RETRACTOR
  One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
• CONTRADICTIVE
  Contradictory; inconsistent. -- Con`tra*dict"ive*ly, adv..
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• ASSERTORY
  Affirming; maintaining. Arguments . . . assertory, not probatory. Jer. Taylor. An assertory, not a promissory, declaration. Bentham. A proposition is assertory, when it enounces what is known as actual. Sir W. Hamilton.
• DISAVOWANCE
  Disavowal. South.
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• RECLAIMABLE
  That may be reclaimed.
• OLD LINE STATE
  Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
• ENSTATE
  See INSTATE
• MAINSWEAR
  To swear falsely. Blount.
• KATASTATE
  A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.
• BAYOU STATE
  Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous.
• COUNTERPLEAD
  To plead the contrary of; to plead against; to deny.