Word Meanings - HEARSAY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Report; rumor; fame; common talk; something heard from another. Much of the obloquy that has so long rested on the memory of our great national poet originated in frivolous hearsays of his life and conversation. Prof. Wilson. Hearsay evidence ,

Additional info about word: HEARSAY

Report; rumor; fame; common talk; something heard from another. Much of the obloquy that has so long rested on the memory of our great national poet originated in frivolous hearsays of his life and conversation. Prof. Wilson. Hearsay evidence , that species of testimony which consists in a a narration by one person of matters told him by another. It is, with a few exceptions, inadmissible as testimony. Abbott.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HEARSAY)

• Rumor
• Report
• repute
• hearsay
• publication
• bruit

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of HEARSAY)

• Silence
• hush
• suppress
• misreport
• misrepresent
• miarelate
• falsify

Related words: (words related to HEARSAY)

• MISREPORT
  To report erroneously; to give an incorrect account of. Locke.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• PUBLICATION
  1. The act of publishing or making known; notification to the people at large, either by words, writing, or printing; proclamation; divulgation; promulgation; as, the publication of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel;
• REPUTE
  1. Character reputed or attributed; reputation, whether good or bad; established opinion; public estimate. He who regns Monarch in heaven, till then as one secure Sat on his throne, upheld by old repute. Milton. 2. Specifically: Good character
• HEARSAY
  Report; rumor; fame; common talk; something heard from another. Much of the obloquy that has so long rested on the memory of our great national poet originated in frivolous hearsays of his life and conversation. Prof. Wilson. Hearsay evidence ,
• REPUTELESS
  Not having good repute; disreputable; disgraceful; inglorius. Shak.
• SUPPRESSION
  Complete stoppage of a natural secretion or excretion; as, suppression of urine; -- used in contradiction to retention, which signifies that the secretion or excretion is retained without expulsion. Quain. (more info) 1. The act of suppressing,
• BRUIT
  An abnormal sound of several kinds, heard on auscultation. (more info) brugitus; cf. L. rugire to roar; perh. influenced by the source of E. 1. Report; rumor; fame. The bruit thereof will bring you many friends. Shak.
• MISREPRESENTATION
  Untrue representation; false or incorrect statement or account; -- usually unfavorable to the thing represented; as, a misrepresentation of a person's motives. Sydney Smith. Note: In popular use, this word often conveys the idea of intentional
• REPORTAGE
  SAme as Report.
• SUPPRESSIVE
  Tending to suppress; subduing; concealing.
• MISREPRESENTATIVE
  Tending to convey a wrong impression; misrepresenting.
• MISREPRESENTER
  One who misrepresents.
• REPORTER
  One who reports. Specifically: An officer or person who makees authorized statements of law proceedings and decisions, or of legislative debates. One who reports speeches, the proceedings of public meetings, news, etc., for the newspapers. Of
• REPORTINGLY
  By report or common fame.
• SUPPRESSIBLE
  That may be suppressed.
• REPUTEDLY
  In common opinion or estimation; by repute.
• RUMOROUS
  1. Of or pertaining to a rumor; of the nature of rumors. Sir H. Wotton. 2. Famous; notorious. Bale. 3. Murmuring. Drayton.
• REPORTABLE
  Capable or admitting of being reported.
• SILENCER
  The muffler of an internal-combustion engine. Any of various devices to silence the humming noise of telegraph wires. A device for silencing the report of a firearm shooting its projectiles singly, as a tubular attachment for the muzzle having
• INSUPPRESSIBLE
  That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible. Young. -- In`sup*press"i*bly, adv.
• INSUPPRESSIVE
  Insuppressible. "The insuppressive mettle of our spirits." Shak.
• MISREPUTE
  To have in wrong estimation; to repute or estimate erroneously.
• REPUBLICATION
  A second publication, or a new publication of something before published, as of a former will, of a volume already published, or the like; specifically, the publication in one country of a work first issued in another; a reprint. If there be many
• DISREPUTE
  Loss or want of reputation; ill character; disesteem; discredit. At the beginning of the eighteenth century astrology fell into general disrepute. Sir W. Scott. Syn. -- Disesteem; discredit; dishonor; disgrace.