Word Meanings - CONFER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To bring together for comparison; to compare. If we confer these observations with others of the like nature, we may find cause to rectify the general opinion. Boyle. 2. To grant as a possession; to bestow. The public marks of honor and reward

Additional info about word: CONFER

1. To bring together for comparison; to compare. If we confer these observations with others of the like nature, we may find cause to rectify the general opinion. Boyle. 2. To grant as a possession; to bestow. The public marks of honor and reward Conferred upon me. Milton. 3. To contribute; to conduce. The closeness and compactness of the parts resting together doth much confer to the strength of the union. Glanvill.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONFER)

• Afford
• Produce
• supply
• give
• yield
• grant
• confer
• bestow
• impart
• administer
• extend
• Bestow
• Confer
• present
• award
• accord
• Consult
• Interrogate
• canvass
• question
• deliberate
• advise with
• regard
• consider
• ask advice of
• care for
• promote
• Give
• produce
• surrender
• concede
• afford
• communicate
• furnish
• Grant
• allot
• transfer
• admit
• allow
• convey
• cede

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CONFER)

• Pretermit
• allow
• ignore
• disregard
• admit
• pass
• misexamine
• misinvestigate
• Shelve
• burke
• discard
• hazard
• chance
• risk
• Dictate
• state
• assert
• pronounce
• enunciate
• concede
• endorse
• affirm
• grant
• Miss
• overlook
• despise
• dislike
• contemn
• hate
• loathe
• misconsider
• misconceive
• misestimate
• misjudge

Related words: (words related to CONFER)

• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• CONFERENCE
  A stated meeting of preachers and others, invested with authority to take cognizance of ecclesiastical matters. 6. A voluntary association of Congregational churches of a district; the district in which such churches are. Conference meeting,
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• MISJUDGE
  To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
• ADMITTER
  One who admits.
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• ENDORSER
  See INDORSER
• FURNISHMENT
  The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. Daniel.
• INTERROGATE
  To question formally; to question; to examine by asking questions; as, to interrogate a witness. Wilt thou, uncalled, interrogate, Talker! the unreplying Fate Emerson. Syn. -- To question; ask. See Question. (more info) interrogatus,
• AFFIRMATIVELY
  In an affirmative manner; on the affirmative side of a question; in the affirmative; -- opposed to negatively.
• SUPPLYMENT
  A supplying or furnishing; supply. Shak.
• ALLOTTABLE
  Capable of being allotted.
• ADVICE
  Counseling to perform a specific illegal act. Wharton. Advice boat, a vessel employed to carry dispatches or to reconnoiter; a dispatch boat. -- To take advice. To accept advice. To consult with another or others. Syn. -- Counsel; suggestion;
• CONSIDERINGLY
  With consideration or deliberation.
• ASSERT
  self, claim, maintain; ad + serere to join or bind together. See 1. To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate. Nothing is more shameful . . . than to assert anything to
• YIELD
  pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be
• 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.
• ALLOWEDLY
  By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone.
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• DENUNCIATE
  To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly. To denunciate this new work. Burke.
• HALLOW
  To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• OLD LINE STATE
  Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
• ENSTATE
  See INSTATE
• MISADVISE
  To give bad counsel to.
• SALLOWISH
  Somewhat sallow. Dickens.