Word Meanings - RATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To chide with vehemence; to scold; to censure violently. Spencer. Go, rate thy minions, proud, insulting boy! Shak. Conscience is a check to beginners in sin, reclaiming them from it, and rating them for it. Barrow. (more info) certain rate, to

Additional info about word: RATE

To chide with vehemence; to scold; to censure violently. Spencer. Go, rate thy minions, proud, insulting boy! Shak. Conscience is a check to beginners in sin, reclaiming them from it, and rating them for it. Barrow. (more info) certain rate, to estimate, but more prob. fr. Sw. rata to find fault, to blame, to despise, to hold cheap; cf. Icel. hrat refuse, hrati

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RATE)

• Account Deem
• esteem
• consider
• regard
• hold
• judge
• rate
• estimate
• value
• reckon
• explain
• solve
• Calculate
• Estimate
• weigh
• number
• count
• apportion
• proportion
• investigate
• compute
• Chide
• Rate
• scold
• trounce
• reprove
• reprimand
• rebuke
• blame
• admonish
• objurgate
• Compute
• appraise
• cast up
• Degree
• Grade
• rank
• stage
• step
• extent
• measure
• mark
• position
• quality
• class
• station
• range
• quantity
• amount
• limit
• order

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of RATE)

• Fall
• recede
• relapse
• decline
• fail
• Misfit
• misconform
• mismeasure
• misdeal
• misapportion
• Disturb
• disconnect
• disorder
• derange
• intermit
• remain
• be stationary
• Miss
• overlook
• disregard
• despise
• dislike
• contemn
• hate
• loathe
• misconsider
• misconceive
• misestimate
• misjudge
• Miscompute
• disesteem
• vilipend
• underrate
• undervalue
• underestimate
• cheapen
• vilify

Related words: (words related to RATE)

• 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.
• ADMONISHER
  One who admonishes.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• CLASSIFIC
  Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• CLASSIFICATORY
  Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification. "A classificatory system." Earle.
• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• 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.
• MISJUDGE
  To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• COUNTABLE
  Capable of being numbered.
• SCOLDER
  1. One who scolds. The oyster catcher; -- so called from its shrill cries. The old squaw.
• CLASSICISM
  A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. C. Kingsley.
• COUNTRY-DANCE
  See MACUALAY
• DERANGEMENT
  The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity;
• CHIDESTER
  A female scold.
• RANGEMENT
  Arrangement. Waterland.
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• IMPROPORTIONATE
  Not proportionate.
• ESTRANGE
  extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and
• ORANGEADE
  A drink made of orange juice and water, corresponding to lemonade; orange sherbet.
• CITRANGE
  A citrous fruit produced by a cross between the sweet orange and the trifoliate orange . It is more acid and has a more pronounced aroma than the orange; the tree is hardier. There are several varieties.
• MENOSTATION
  See MENOSTASIS