Word Meanings - CONFRONT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness. We four, indeed, confronted were with four In Russian habit. Shak. He spoke and then confronts the bull. Dryden. Hester caught hold of Pearl, and drew

Additional info about word: CONFRONT

1. To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness. We four, indeed, confronted were with four In Russian habit. Shak. He spoke and then confronts the bull. Dryden. Hester caught hold of Pearl, and drew her forcibly into her arms, confronting the old Puritan magistrate with almost a fierce expression. Hawthorne. It was impossible at once to confront the might of France and to trample on the liberties of England. Macaulay. 2. To put face to face; to cause to face or to meet; as, to confront one with the proofs of his wrong doing. 3. To set in opposition for examination; to put in contrast; to compare. When I confront a medal with a verse, I only show you the same design executed by different hands. Addison.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONFRONT)

• Abide
• Dwell
• stay
• inhabit
• continue
• rest
• tarry
• lodge
• reside
• live
• wait
• sojourn
• remain
• expect
• endure
• tolerate
• anticipate
• confront
• await
• bear
• face
• watch
• Daunt
• Terrify
• scare
• frighten
• cow
• dishearten
• appall
• intimidate
• Encounter
• Meet
• withstand
• attack
• assault
• combat
• engagement
• Find
• ascertain
• experience
• perceive
• discover
• furnish
• invent
• Oppose
• Withstand
• resist
• mutch
• obstruct
• oppugn
• bar
• hinder
• contravene
• check
• thwart

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CONFRONT)

• Loose
• liberate
• instigate
• accelerate
• license
• indulge
• allow
• abet
• Evade
• escape
• miss
• lose

Related words: (words related to CONFRONT)

• INVENTIVE
  Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius. Dryden. -- In*vent"ive*ly, adv. -- In*vent"ive*ness, n.
• CHECKWORK
  Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard.
• INHABITATE
  To inhabit.
• EXPERIENCED
  Taught by practice or by repeated observations; skillful or wise by means of trials, use, or observation; as, an experienced physician, workman, soldier; an experienced eye. The ablest and most experienced statesmen. Bancroft.
• CONFRONT
  1. To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness. We four, indeed, confronted were with four In Russian habit. Shak. He spoke and then confronts the bull. Dryden. Hester caught hold of Pearl, and drew
• ENCOUNTERER
  One who encounters; an opponent; an antagonist. Atterbury.
• FURNISHMENT
  The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. Daniel.
• INHABITATIVENESS
  A tendency or propensity to permanent residence in a place or abode; love of home and country.
• WATCHET
  Pale or light blue. "Watchet mantles." Spenser. Who stares in Germany at watchet eyes Dryden.
• ASCERTAINMENT
  The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.
• ASCERTAINABLE
  That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv.
• WATCHDOG
  A dog kept to watch and guard premises or property, and to give notice of the approach of intruders.
• ASSAULTABLE
  Capable of being assaulted.
• WATCHHOUSE
  1. A house in which a watch or guard is placed. 2. A place where persons under temporary arrest by the police of a city are kept; a police station; a lockup.
• ALLOWEDLY
  By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone.
• CONTRAVENE
  1. To meet in the way of opposition; to come into conflict with; to oppose; to contradict; to obstruct the operation of; to defeat. So plain a proposition . . . was not likely to be contravened. Southey. 2. To violate; to nullify; to
• DAUNTER
  One who daunts.
• COMBAT
  To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight. To combat with a blind man I disdain. Milton. After the fall of the republic, the Romans combated only for the choice of masters. Gibbon.
• ALLOW
  allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend
• INVENTRESS
  A woman who invents. Dryden.
• 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 .
• 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
• INDWELLING
  Residence within, as in the heart. The personal indwelling of the Spirit in believers. South.
• UNRESISTANCE
  Nonresistance; passive submission; irresistance. Bp. Hall.
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• INEXPECTABLE
  Not to be expected or anticipated. Bp. Hall.
• UNEXPECTATION
  Absence of expectation; want of foresight. Bp. Hall.
• REENGAGEMENT
  A renewed or repeated engagement.
• SALLOWISH
  Somewhat sallow. Dickens.
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.