Word Meanings - SIGNALIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish. It is this passion which drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves. Burke. 2. To communicate with by means of a signal; as, a ship

Additional info about word: SIGNALIZE

1. To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish. It is this passion which drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves. Burke. 2. To communicate with by means of a signal; as, a ship signalizes its consort. 3. To indicate the existence, presence, or fact of, by a signal; as, to signalize the arrival of a steamer.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SIGNALIZE)

• Aggrandize
• Promote
• dignify
• exalt
• ennoble
• enrich
• advance
• augment
• make great
• magnify
• elevate
• signalize
• Blazon
• Notify
• publicate
• adventure
• circulate
• propagate
• disseminate
• Glorify
• Exalt
• honor
• laud
• praise
• aggrandize
• adore
• panegyrize
• extol
• Mark Stamp
• label
• sign
• indicate
• decorate
• brand
• stigmatize
• note
• observe
• regard
• heed
• specify
• specialize

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SIGNALIZE)

• Retard
• hinder
• withhold
• withdraw
• recall
• depress
• degrade
• suppress
• oppose
• retreat
• decrease
• Distinguish
• honor
• decorate
• Blame
• censure
• discommend
• reprove
• Miss
• overlook
• disregard
• despise
• dislike
• contemn
• hate
• loathe
• misconsider
• misconceive
• misestimate
• misjudge

Related words: (words related to SIGNALIZE)

• BRANDLING; BRANDLIN
  See WORM
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• BRAND IRON
  1. A branding iron. 2. A trivet to set a pot on. Huloet. 3. The horizontal bar of an andiron.
• MISJUDGE
  To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
• DECORATE
  To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero
• HONORABLE
  1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
• SIGNALIZE
  1. To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish. It is this passion which drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves. Burke. 2. To communicate with by means of a signal; as, a ship
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• ADORE
  adorare; ad + orare to speak, pray, os, oris, mouth. In OE. confused with honor, the French prefix a- being confused with OE. a, an, on. 1. To worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors to; to honor as deity or as divine. Smollett. 2.
• EXTOLMENT
  Praise. Shak.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• LABELER
  One who labels.
• CENSURER
  One who censures. Sha.
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• DISLIKE
  1. To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish. Every nation dislikes an impost. Johnson. 2. To awaken dislike in; to displease. "Disliking countenance." Marston. "It dislikes me." Shak.
• LABEL
  A barrulet, or, rarely, a bendlet, with pendants, or points, usually three, especially used as a mark of cadency to distinguish an eldest or only son while his father is still living. 6. A brass rule with sights, formerly used, in connection with
• HONORABLENESS
  1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness.
• ADVENTURESS
  A female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means.
• ENSTAMP
  To stamp; to mark as It is the motive . . . which enstamps the character. Gogan.
• CONTRADISTINGUISH
  To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• INDISTINGUISHABLE
  Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• UNSPECIALIZED
  Not specialized; specifically , not adapted, or set apart, for any particular purpose or function; as, an unspecialized unicellular organism. W. K. Brooks.
• MISOBSERVE
  To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.