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.
• 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.
• ENCOURAGER
  One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer. The pope is . . . a great encourager of arts. Addison.
• 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.