Word Meanings - REBUKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To check, silence, or put down, with reproof; to restrain by expression of disapprobation; to reprehend sharply and summarily; to chide; to reprove; to admonish. The proud he tamed, the penitent he cheered, Nor to rebuke the rich offender feared.

Additional info about word: REBUKE

To check, silence, or put down, with reproof; to restrain by expression of disapprobation; to reprehend sharply and summarily; to chide; to reprove; to admonish. The proud he tamed, the penitent he cheered, Nor to rebuke the rich offender feared. Dryden. Syn. -- To reprove; chide; check; chasten; restrain; silence. See Reprove. (more info) re- re- + bouche mouth, OF. also bouque, L. bucca cheek; if so, the

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REBUKE)

• Admonish
• Remind
• forewarn
• advise
• warn
• dissuade
• caution
• counsel
• reprove
• censure
• rebuke
• Animadversion
• Rebuke
• disapproval
• blame
• Blame
• Censure
• chide
• reproach
• vituperate
• dispraise
• disapprove
• condemn
• reprehend
• reprobate
• stricture
• inculpate
• berate
• scold
• upbraid
• remonstrance
• reprimand
• dispiaise
• Chide
• Rate
• trounce
• admonish
• objurgate

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of REBUKE)

• Laud
• praise
• approve
• commend
• Sanction

Related words: (words related to REBUKE)

• COMMENDATOR
  One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers.
• ADMONISHER
  One who admonishes.
• CAUTIONARY BLOCK
  A block in which two or more trains are permitted to travel, under restrictions imposed by a caution card or the like.
• DISAPPROVAL
  Disapprobation; dislike; censure; adverse judgment.
• REPROACHER
  One who reproaches.
• SCOLDER
  1. One who scolds. The oyster catcher; -- so called from its shrill cries. The old squaw.
• REMIND
  To put in mind of something; to bring to the remembrance of; to bring to the notice or consideration of . When age itself, which will not be defied, shall begin to arrest, seize, and remind us of our mortality. South.
• APPROVEDLY
  So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
• CHIDESTER
  A female scold.
• COMMENDER
  One who commends or praises.
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• REMINDER
  One who, or that which, reminds; that which serves to awaken remembrance.
• DISAPPROVE
  1. To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others. 2. To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline
• SCOLDINGLY
  In a scolding manner.
• CENSURER
  One who censures. Sha.
• CHIDER
  One who chides or quarrels. Shak.
• REPREHENDER
  One who reprehends.
• CONDEMNER
  One who condemns or censures.
• OBJURGATE
  To chide; to reprove. (more info) + jurgare to quarrel, scold, fr. jus right, court. See
• FOREWARN
  To warn beforehand; to give previous warning, admonition, information, or notice to; to caution in advance. We were forewarned of your coming. Shak.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• MISADVISE
  To give bad counsel to.
• ORCHIDEOUS
  See ORCHIDACEOUS
• PROTUBERATE
  To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out. S. Sharp.
• PRECAUTION
  praecautum, to guard against beforehand; prae before + cavere be on 1. Previous caution or care; caution previously employed to prevent mischief or secure good; as, his life was saved by precaution. They treasured up their supposed discoveries
• PRECONDEMN
  To condemn beforehand. -- Pre*con`dem*na"tion, n.