Word Meanings - CENSURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion. Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Shak. 2. The act of blaming or finding fault with and condemning as wrong; reprehension; blame. Both the censure and the praise were merited.

Additional info about word: CENSURE

1. Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion. Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Shak. 2. The act of blaming or finding fault with and condemning as wrong; reprehension; blame. Both the censure and the praise were merited. Macaulay. 3. Judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand; condemnatory judgment. Excommunication or other censure of the church. Bp. Burnet. Syn. -- Blame; reproof; condemnation; reprobation; disapproval; disapprobation; reprehension; animadversion; reprimand; reflection; dispraise; abuse.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CENSURE)

• Accuse
• Charge
• incriminate
• impeach
• arraign
• tax
• taunt
• censure
• cite
• summon
• criminate
• Admonish
• Remind
• forewarn
• advise
• warn
• dissuade
• caution
• counsel
• reprove
• rebuke
• Animadversion
• Rebuke
• disapproval
• blame
• Arraign
• Summon
• accuse
• indict
• charge
• Blame
• Censure
• chide
• reproach
• vituperate
• dispraise
• disapprove
• condemn
• reprehend
• reprobate

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CENSURE)

• Laud
• praise
• approve
• commend
• Sanction

Related words: (words related to CENSURE)

• COMMENDATOR
  One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers.
• CAUTIONARY BLOCK
  A block in which two or more trains are permitted to travel, under restrictions imposed by a caution card or the like.
• ADMONISHER
  One who admonishes.
• DISAPPROVAL
  Disapprobation; dislike; censure; adverse judgment.
• INDICTEE
  A person indicted.
• REPROACHER
  One who reproaches.
• REMIND
  To put in mind of something; to bring to the remembrance of; to bring to the notice or consideration of . When age itself, which will not be defied, shall begin to arrest, seize, and remind us of our mortality. South.
• APPROVEDLY
  So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
• CHIDESTER
  A female scold.
• COMMENDER
  One who commends or praises.
• CHARGEANT
  Burdensome; troublesome. Chaucer.
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• REMINDER
  One who, or that which, reminds; that which serves to awaken remembrance.
• DISAPPROVE
  1. To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others. 2. To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline
• ACCUSE
  Accusation. Shak.
• CENSURER
  One who censures. Sha.
• CHIDER
  One who chides or quarrels. Shak.
• TAUNTER
  One who taunts.
• INDICTER
  One who indicts.
• CHARGEABLE
  1. That may be charged, laid, imposed, or imputes; as, a duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man. 2. Subject to be charge or accused; liable or responsible; as, revenues chargeable with a claim; a man chargeable with murder. 3. Serving
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• MISADVISE
  To give bad counsel to.
• MISCHARGE
  To charge erroneously, as in account. -- n.
• ENCHARGE
  To charge ; to impose upon. His countenance would express the spirit and the passion of the part he was encharged with. Jeffrey.
• REACCUSE
  To accuse again. Cheyne.
• ORCHIDEOUS
  See ORCHIDACEOUS