Word Meanings - PROFFER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

forth or forward, to offer; pro forward + ferre to bring. See Bear to 1. To offer for acceptance; to propose to give; to make a tender of; as, to proffer a gift; to proffer services; to proffer friendship. Shak. I reck not what wrong that thou

Additional info about word: PROFFER

forth or forward, to offer; pro forward + ferre to bring. See Bear to 1. To offer for acceptance; to propose to give; to make a tender of; as, to proffer a gift; to proffer services; to proffer friendship. Shak. I reck not what wrong that thou me profre. Chaucer. 2. To essay or attempt of one's own accord; to undertake, or propose to undertake. Milton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PROFFER)

• Bid
• Tell
• request
• instruct
• direct
• order
• proffer
• charge
• command
• propose
• offer
• Offer
• Propose
• exhibit
• present
• tender
• extend
• adduce
• volunteer
• Tender Offer
• bid
• produce
• Volunteer
• tend
• originate

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PROFFER)

• Supplicate
• entreat
• persuade
• beg
• petition
• suggest
• represent
• Withhold
• withdraw
• retain
• appropriate

Related words: (words related to PROFFER)

• SUPPLICATE
  supplicate; of uncertain origin, cf. supplex, supplicis, humbly begging or entreating; perhaps fr. sub under + a word akin to placare to reconcile, appease , or fr. sub under + plicare to fold, whence the idea of bending the knees . Cf. 1. To
• DIRECT CURRENT
  A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the
• TENDER
  A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes
• 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
• DIRECTER
  One who directs; a director. Directer plane , the plane to which all right-lined elements in a warped surface are parallel.
• EXHIBITION
  The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art,
• SUGGESTER
  One who suggests. Beau. & Fl.
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• CHARGEANT
  Burdensome; troublesome. Chaucer.
• SUGGEST
  1. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects. Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection. Locke. 2. To propose with difference or modesty;
• PERSUADER
  One who, or that which, persuades or influences. "Powerful persuaders." Milton.
• EXHIBITIONER
  One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot.
• OFFERER
  One who offers; esp., one who offers something to God in worship. Hooker.
• PRESENT
  one, in sight or at hand, p. p. of praeesse to be before; prae before 1. Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent. These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. John xiv. 25.
• PERSUADED
  Prevailed upon; influenced by argument or entreaty; convinced. -- Per*suad"ed*ly, adv. -- Per*suad"ed*ness, n.
• INSTRUCTRESS
  A woman who instructs; a preceptress; a governess. Johnson.
• PRESENTIVE
  Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination; -- distinguished from symbolic. How greatly the word "will" is felt to have lost presentive power in the last three centuries. Earle. --
• SUGGESTRESS
  A woman who suggests. "The suggestress of suicides." De Quincey.
• PROPOSER
  1. One who proposes or offers anything for consideration or adoption. 2. A speaker; an orator. Shak.
• TENDERLY
  In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly. Chaucer.
• SADDUCEEISM; SADDUCISM
  The tenets of the Sadducees.
• MISCHARGE
  To charge erroneously, as in account. -- n.
• PREINSTRUCT
  To instruct previously or beforehand. Dr. H. More.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• ENCHARGE
  To charge ; to impose upon. His countenance would express the spirit and the passion of the part he was encharged with. Jeffrey.