Word Meanings - ATTRIBUTE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To ascribe; to consider as due or appropriate ; to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging . We attribute nothing to God that hath any repugnancy or contradiction in it. Abp. Tillotson. The merit of service

Additional info about word: ATTRIBUTE

To ascribe; to consider as due or appropriate ; to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging . We attribute nothing to God that hath any repugnancy or contradiction in it. Abp. Tillotson. The merit of service is seldom attributed to the true and exact performer. Shak. Syn. -- See Ascribe.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ATTRIBUTE)

• Ascribe
• Assign
• attribute
• impute
• refer
• render
• allege
• charge
• Attribute
• apportion
• specify
• consign
• intrust
• commit
• point out
• allot to
• adduce
• advance
• appoint
• convey
• Award
• accord
• grant
• distribute
• divide
• allot
• give
• determine
• decree
• order
• adjudge
• Owe
• Borrow
• hypothecate
• Place
• Locate
• assign
• fix
• establish
• settle
• situate

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ATTRIBUTE)

• Retard
• hinder
• withhold
• withdraw
• recall
• depress
• degrade
• suppress
• oppose
• retreat
• decrease
• Divorce
• disconnect
• dissociate
• dissever

Related words: (words related to ATTRIBUTE)

• 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,
• CONSIGNER
  One who consigns. See Consignor.
• DIVORCEABLE
  Capable of being divorced.
• CHARGEANT
  Burdensome; troublesome. Chaucer.
• DIVIDER
  An instrument for dividing lines, describing circles, etc., compasses. See Compasses. Note: The word dividers is usually applied to the instrument as made for the use of draughtsmen, etc.; compasses to the coarser instrument used by carpenters.
• ALLOTTABLE
  Capable of being allotted.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• DIVIDEND
  A number or quantity which is to be divided. (more info) 1. A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated
• DISSEVER
  To part in two; to sever thoroughly; to sunder; to disunite; to separate; to disperse. The storm so dissevered the company . . . that most of therm never met again. Sir P. Sidney. States disserved, discordant, belligerent. D. Webster. (more info)
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• ALLOTRIOPHAGY
  A depraved appetite; a desire for improper food.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• REFER
  1. To carry or send back. Chaucer. 2. Hence: To send or direct away; to send or direct elsewhere, as for treatment, aid, infirmation, decision, etc.; to make over, or pass over, to another; as, to refer a student to an author; to refer a beggar
• ASCRIBE
  1. To attribute, impute, or refer, as to a cause; as, his death was ascribed to a poison; to ascribe an effect to the right cause; to ascribe such a book to such an author. The finest that is ascribed to Satan in the whole poem. Addison. 2. To
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• DISSOCIATE
  To separate from fellowship or union; to disunite; to disjoin; as, to dissociate the particles of a concrete substance. Before Wyclif's death in 1384, John of Gaunt had openly dissociated himself from the reformer. A. W. Ward. (more info)
• REFERENTIAL
  Containing a reference; pointing to something out of itself; as, notes for referential use. -- Ref`er*en"tial*ly, adv.
• POINT SWITCH
  A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.
• DISCONNECT
  To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse. The commonwealth itself would . . . be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality. Burke. This restriction disconnects bank paper and the precious
• SADDUCEEISM; SADDUCISM
  The tenets of the Sadducees.
• MISCHARGE
  To charge erroneously, as in account. -- n.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• ENCHARGE
  To charge ; to impose upon. His countenance would express the spirit and the passion of the part he was encharged with. Jeffrey.
• IMMIGRANT
  One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant. Syn. -- See Emigrant.
• PREFERMENT
  1. The act of choosing, or the state of being chosen; preference. Natural preferment of the one . . . before the other. Sir T. Browne. 2. The act of preferring, or advancing in dignity or office; the state of being advanced; promotion. Neither
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• BALLOTER
  One who votes by ballot.