Word Meanings - EMBOLDEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To give boldness or courage to; to encourage. Shak. The self-conceit which emboldened him to undertake this dangerous office. Sir W. Scott.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EMBOLDEN)

• Abet
• Aid
• support
• promote
• countenance
• uphold
• assist
• instigate
• encourage
• incite
• advocate
• sanction
• subsidize
• embolden
• Animate
• Enliven
• Inspirit
• quicken
• exhilarate
• rouse
• revivify
• cheer
• gladden
• stir
• prompt
• stimulate
• imbolden
• Enhearten

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of EMBOLDEN)

• Oppose
• confront
• discourage
• discountenance
• browbeat
• Drop
• betray
• surrender
• abandon
• discontinue
• oppose
• weaken
• exhaust
• thwart
• disfavor
• subvert
• suppress

Related words: (words related to EMBOLDEN)

• ASSISTANTLY
  In a manner to give aid.
• PROMPT-BOOK
  The book used by a prompter of a theater.
• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• CONFRONT
  1. To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness. We four, indeed, confronted were with four In Russian habit. Shak. He spoke and then confronts the bull. Dryden. Hester caught hold of Pearl, and drew
• SUPPORTATION
  Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
• ROUSE
  To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
• ASSISTANCE
  1. The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support. Without the assistance of a mortal hand. Shak. 2. An assistant or helper; a body of helpers. Wat Tyler killed by valiant Walworth, the lord mayor of London, and his assistance,
• ASSIST
  To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor. Assist me, knight. I am undone! Shak. Syn. -- To help; aid; second; back; support; relieve; succor; befriend; sustain; favor. See Help.
• ADVOCATE
  advocatus, one summoned or called to another; properly the p. p. of advocare to call to, call to one's aid; ad + vocare to call. See 1. One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• 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
• CONFRONTATION
  Act of confronting. H. Swinburne.
• 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
• PROMPTLY
  In a prompt manner.
• CHEERINESS
  The state of being cheery.
• ASSISTER
  An assistant; a helper.
• SUPPORTLESS
  Having no support. Milton.
• OPPOSELESS
  Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak.
• UPCHEER
  To cheer up. Spenser.
• ENQUICKEN
  To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More.
• TROUSERING
  Cloth or material for making trousers.
• TROUSE
  Trousers. Spenser.
• OVERTHWARTLY
  In an overthwart manner;across; also, perversely. Peacham.
• INSUPPRESSIBLE
  That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible. Young. -- In`sup*press"i*bly, adv.