Word Meanings - COMMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To make remarks, observations, or criticism; especially, to write notes on the works of an author, with a view to illustrate his meaning, or to explain particular passages; to write annotations; -- often followed by on or upon. A physician
Additional info about word: COMMENT
To make remarks, observations, or criticism; especially, to write notes on the works of an author, with a view to illustrate his meaning, or to explain particular passages; to write annotations; -- often followed by on or upon. A physician to comment on your malady. Shak. Critics . . . proceed to comment on him. Dryden. I must translate and comment. Pope. (more info) intens, of comminisci, commentus, to reflect upon, invent; com- + the
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COMMENT)
- Annotation
- Explanation
- criticism
- remark
- note
- commentary
- elucidation
- observation
- comment
- Approve
- Like
- sanction
- praise
- support
- second
- promote
- encourage
- authorize
- Observation
- Contemplation
- study
- attention
- notice
- Remark
- Observe
- heed
- assert
- say
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of COMMENT)
- Confound
- confuse
- obscure
- mystify
- misinterpret
- misapprehend
- misconceive
- misrepresent
- Blame
- censure
- discommend
- reprove
- Drop
- betray
- surrender
- abandon
- discontinue
- oppose
- discourage
- weaken
- exhaust
- thwart
- discountenance
- disfavor
- subvert
- suppress
Related words: (words related to COMMENT)
- SECOND
1. Immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occuring again; another; other. And he slept and dreamed the second time. Gen. xli. 5. 2. Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, - MISINTERPRETABLE
Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood. - SUPPORTABLE
Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv. - CONFOUNDED
1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott. - APPROVEDLY
So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner. - SUPPORTATION
Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon. - OBSCURENESS
Obscurity. Bp. Hall. - PRAISEWORTHINESS
The quality or state of being praiseworthy. - 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 - OBSCURER
One who, or that which, obscures. - REMARKER
One who remarks. - SUPPRESSOR
One who suppresses. - ENCOURAGER
One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer. The pope is . . . a great encourager of arts. Addison. - 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. - DISCONTINUE
To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off. Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued. Bp. Burnet. I have discontinued school - CENSURER
One who censures. Sha. - SUPPORTFUL
Abounding with support. Chapman. - EXHAUSTION
An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits. Note: The method of exhaustions was applied to great variety of propositions, pertaining to rectifications - NOTICE
1. The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note. How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take of other persons ! I. Watts. 2. Intelligence, by whatever means communicated; knowledge - PRAISER
1. One who praises. "Praisers of men." Sir P. Sidney. 2. An appraiser; a valuator. Sir T. North. - APPRAISER
One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates. - 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 - MISOBSERVE
To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke. - OVERTHWARTLY
In an overthwart manner;across; also, perversely. Peacham.