Word Meanings - MENTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A speaking or notice of anything, -- usually in a brief or cursory manner. Used especially in the phrase to make mention of. I will make mention of thy righteousness. Ps. lxxi. 16. And sleep in dull, cold marble, where no mention Of me more must

Additional info about word: MENTION

A speaking or notice of anything, -- usually in a brief or cursory manner. Used especially in the phrase to make mention of. I will make mention of thy righteousness. Ps. lxxi. 16. And sleep in dull, cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MENTION)

• Adduce
• Allege
• apply
• cite
• advance
• offer
• introduce
• produce
• add
• import
• name
• mention
• quote
• Cite
• Summon
• call
• adduce
• select
• refer to
• Specify
• Particularize
• individualize
• indicate
• designate
• detail
• determine
• state
• enumerate
• Tell
• Mention
• number
• count
• recount
• utter
• recite
• narrate
• disclose
• publish
• betray
• divulge
• promulgate
• acquaint
• teach
• inform
• explain
• communicate
• report
• rehearse
• discern
• judge
• discriminate
• ascertain
• decide
• describe

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of MENTION)

• Retard
• hinder
• withhold
• withdraw
• recall
• depress
• degrade
• suppress
• oppose
• retreat
• decrease
• Generalize
• condense
• conglomerate
• gather
• sketch
• suggest abstract
• classify
• amalgamate
• Misname
• miscall
• misdesignate
• misindicate
• hint
• suggest
• shadow
• adumbrate
• Silence
• hush
• misreport
• misrepresent
• miarelate
• falsify
• Lump
• confound
• sweep
• Suppress
• repress
• suppose
• imply
• deny
• contradict
• retract
• Recal
• stifle
• check
• swallow

Related words: (words related to MENTION)

• COUNTERBRACE
  To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
• INFORMITY
  Want of regular form; shapelessness.
• CHECKWORK
  Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard.
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• IMPLY
  1. To infold or involve; to wrap up. "His head in curls implied." Chapman. 2. To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting. Where a mulicious act is
• COUNTERFLEURY
  Counterflory.
• COUNTERVIEW
  1. An opposite or opposing view; opposition; a posture in which two persons front each other. Within the gates of hell sat Death and Sin, In counterview. Milton M. Peisse has ably advocated the counterview in his preface and appendixx.
• TEACHER
  1. One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor. 2. One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination.
• 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.
• COUNTABLE
  Capable of being numbered.
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• CONTRADICTABLE
  Capable of being contradicting.
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• DISCERNANCE
  Discernment.
• STIFLED
  Stifling. The close and stifled study. Hawthorne.
• COUNTRY-DANCE
  See MACUALAY
• OFFER
  ferre to bear, bring. The English word was influenced by F. offrir to 1. To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up. Thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for
• PUBLISH
  Etym: 1. To make public; to make known to mankind, or to people in general; to divulge, as a private transaction; to promulgate or proclaim, as a law or an edict. Published was the bounty of her name. Chaucer. The unwearied sun, from day to day,
• FORESHADOW
  To shadow or typi Dryden.
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• UNUTTERABLE
  Not utterable; incapable of being spoken or voiced; inexpressible; ineffable; unspeakable; as, unutterable anguish. Sighed and looked unutterable things. Thomson. -- Un*ut"ter*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*ut"ter*a*bly, adv.
• SADDUCEEISM; SADDUCISM
  The tenets of the Sadducees.
• OLD LINE STATE
  Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
• MISJUDGE
  To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
• ENSWEEP
  To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly. Thomson.
• MUTTERER
  One who mutters.