Word Meanings - TAUNT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Very high or tall; as, a ship with taunt masts. Totten.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TAUNT)

• Accuse
• Charge
• incriminate
• impeach
• arraign
• tax
• taunt
• censure
• cite
• summon
• criminate
• Gibe
• Sneer
• scoff
• ridicule
• jeer
• mock
• deride
• rail at
• Irony
• Satire
• banter
• quiz
• rally
• sarcasm
• raillery
• Jeer
• scout
• flout
• Rally Banter
• satirize
• chaff
• joke
• twit

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of TAUNT)

• Compliment
• flatter
• panegyrize
• eulogize

Related words: (words related to TAUNT)

• SARCASM
  A keen, reproachful expression; a satirical remark uttered with some degree of scorn or contempt; a taunt; a gibe; a cutting jest. The sarcasms of those critics who imagine our art to be a matter of inspiration. Sir J. Reynolds. Syn. -- Satire;
• FLATTER
  1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
• CHARGEANT
  Burdensome; troublesome. Chaucer.
• RIDICULER
  One who ridicules.
• CHAFFERY
  Traffic; bargaining. Spenser.
• ACCUSE
  Accusation. Shak.
• CENSURER
  One who censures. Sha.
• TAUNTER
  One who taunts.
• FLOUTER
  One who flouts; a mocker.
• CHARGEABLE
  1. That may be charged, laid, imposed, or imputes; as, a duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man. 2. Subject to be charge or accused; liable or responsible; as, revenues chargeable with a claim; a man chargeable with murder. 3. Serving
• IMPEACH
  To challenge or discredit the credibility of, as of a witness, or the validity of, as of commercial paper. Note: When used in law with reference to a witness, the term signifies, to discredit, to show or prove unreliable or unworthy of belief; when
• FLATTERY
  The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise. Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. Rambler. Flattery corrupts both the receiver
• ARRAIGN
  To call or set as a prisoner at the bar of a court to answer to the matter charged in an indictment or complaint. Blackstone. 2. To call to account, or accuse, before the bar of reason, taste, or any other tribunal. They will not arraign you for
• CHARGE
  1. To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill. A carte that charged was with hay. Chaucer. The charging of children's memories with rules. Locke. 2. To lay on or impose, as a task, duty, or trust; to command, instruct, or
• CHARGE D'AFFAIRES
  A diplomatic representative, or minister of an inferior grade, accredited by the government of one state to the minister of foreign affairs of another; also, a substitute, ad interim, for an ambassador or minister plenipotentiary.
• SARCASMOUS
  Sarcastic. "Sarcasmous scandal." Hubidras.
• CHAFFINCH
  A bird of Europe , having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also copper finch.
• SNEER
  1. To show contempt by turning up the nose, or by a particular facial expression. 2. To inssinuate contempt by a covert expression; to speak derisively. I could be content to be a little sneared at. Pope. 3. To show mirth awkwardly. Tatler. Syn.
• RALLY
  To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.
• INCRIMINATE
  To accuse; to charge with a crime or fault; to criminate.
• MISCHARGE
  To charge erroneously, as in account. -- n.
• SUTURALLY
  In a sutural manner.
• BEFLATTER
  To flatter excessively.
• ENCHARGE
  To charge ; to impose upon. His countenance would express the spirit and the passion of the part he was encharged with. Jeffrey.
• CENTRALLY
  In a central manner or situation.
• REACCUSE
  To accuse again. Cheyne.
• PASTORALLY
  1. In a pastoral or rural manner. 2. In the manner of a pastor.
• OVERCHARGE
  1. To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress; to cloy. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. To fill too full; to crowd. Our language is overcharged with consonants. Addison. 3. To charge excessively; to charge beyond a fair rate or price. 4.
• ORALLY
  1. In an oral manner. Tillotson. 2. By, with, or in, the mouth; as, to receive the sacrament orally. Usher.
• UNCHARGE
  1. To free from a charge or load; to unload. Wyclif. 2. To free from an accusation; to make no charge against; to acquit. Shak.