Word Meanings - AVOWED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Openly acknowledged or declared; admitted. -- A*vow"ed*ly (, adv.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AVOWED)

• Ostensible
• Avowed
• pretended
• declared
• professed
• manifest
• visible
• nominal
• apparent
• outward
• Overt
• Deliberate
• public
• open
• avowed

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of AVOWED)

• Shelve
• burke
• discard
• hazard
• chance
• risk

Related words: (words related to AVOWED)

• PUBLIC-SPIRITED
  1. Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men. 2. Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure. Addison. -- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ly,
• PROFESSORY
  Of or pertaining to a professor; professorial. Bacon.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• OVERTASK
  To task too heavily.
• PROFESSORIALISM
  The character, manners, or habits of a professor.
• PUBLICLY
  1. With exposure to popular view or notice; without concealment; openly; as, property publicly offered for sale; an opinion publicly avowed; a declaration publicly made. 2. In the name of the community. Addison.
• OVERTROUBLED
  Excessively troubled.
• PUBLIC SCHOOL
  In Great Britain, any of various schools maintained by the community, wholly or partly under public control, or maintained largely by endowment and not carried on chiefly for profit; specif., and commonly, any of various select and usually
• PROFESSORIAT
  See PROFESSORIATE
• OVERTURN
  1. To turn or throw from a basis, foundation, or position; to overset; as, to overturn a carriage or a building. 2. To subvert; to destroy; to overthrow. 3. To overpower; to conquer. Milton. Syn. -- To demolish; overthrow. See Demolish.
• PUBLIC-SERVICE CORPORATION; QUASI-PUBLIC CORPORATION
  A corporation, such as a railroad company, lighting company, water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a public calling or to render services more or less essential to the general public convenience or safety.
• OVERTHWARTLY
  In an overthwart manner;across; also, perversely. Peacham.
• PUBLICNESS
  1. The quality or state of being public, or open to the view or notice of people at large; publicity; notoriety; as, the publicness of a sale. 2. The quality or state of belonging to the community; as, the publicness of property. Boyle.
• NOMINALIST
  One of a sect of philosophers in the Middle Ages, who adopted the opinion of Roscelin, that general conceptions, or universals, exist in name only. Reid.
• PUBLICAN
  A farmer of the taxes and public revenues; hence, a collector of toll or tribute. The inferior officers of this class were often oppressive in their exactions, and were regarded with great detestation. As Jesus at meat . . . many publicans
• NOMINAL
  1. Of or pertaining to a name or names; having to do with the literal meaning of a word; verbal; as, a nominal definition. Bp. Pearson. 2. Existing in name only; not real; as, a nominal difference. "Nominal attendance on lectures." Macaulay.
• PROFESSEDLY
  By profession.
• PRETENDER
  The pretender , the son or the grandson of James II., the heir of the royal family of Stuart, who laid claim to the throne of Great Britain, from which the house was excluded by law. It is the shallow, unimproved intellects that are the confident
• OVERTEMPT
  To tempt exceedingly, or beyond the power of resistance. Milton.
• POVERT
  Poverty. Chaucer.
• INDIVISIBLE
  Not capable of exact division, as one quantity by another; incommensurable. (more info) 1. Not divisible; incapable of being divided, separated, or broken; not separable into parts. "One indivisible point of time." Dryden.
• SACROVERTEBRAL
  Of or pertaining to the sacrum and that part of the vertebral column immediately anterior to it; as, the sacrovertebral angle.
• MULTINOMINAL; MULTINOMINOUS
  Having many names or terms.
• DISAVOWANCE
  Disavowal. South.
• RETROVERT
  To turn back.