Word Meanings - CONSENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To agree in opinion or sentiment; to be of the same mind; to accord; to concur. And Saul was consenting unto his death. Acts. viii. 1. Flourishing many years before Wyclif, and much consenting with him in jugdment. Fuller. 2. To indicate or

Additional info about word: CONSENT

1. To agree in opinion or sentiment; to be of the same mind; to accord; to concur. And Saul was consenting unto his death. Acts. viii. 1. Flourishing many years before Wyclif, and much consenting with him in jugdment. Fuller. 2. To indicate or express a willingness; to yield to guidance, persuasion, or necessity; to give assent or approval; to comply. My poverty, but not my will, consents. Shak. And whispering "I will ne'er consent," -- consented. Byron. Syn. -- To accede; yield; assent; comply; agree; allow; concede; permit; admit; concur; acquiesce.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONSENT)

• Accede
• Assent
• consent
• acquiesce
• comply with
• accept
• concur
• approve
• coincide
• Accord
• Agree
• harmonize
• tally
• answer
• comport
• consist
• conform
• grant
• concede
• surrender
• allow
• Suit
• accord
• fit
• combine
• assent
• admit
• consort
• Approbation
• Approval
• satisfaction
• praise
• encouragement
• confirmation
• permission
• commendation
• concurrence
• acceptance
• Coincidence
• agreement
• concert
• acknowledgment
• acquiescence
• approval
• approbation
• compliance

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CONSENT)

• Avoid
• abandon
• excommunicate
• blackball
• banish
• exclude
• Blame
• censure
• discommend
• reprove

Related words: (words related to CONSENT)

• ACCEPTABLE
  Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us.
• ADMITTER
  One who admits.
• APPROVEDLY
  So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
• CONSENTANEOUS
  Consistent; agreeable; suitable; accordant to; harmonious; concurrent. A good law and consentaneous to reason. Howell. -- Con`sen*ta"ne*ous*ly, adv. -- Con`sen*ta"ne*ous*ness, n.
• CONSORTSHIP
  The condition of a consort; fellowship; partnership. Hammond.
• ASSENTATORY
  Flattering; obsequious. -- As*sent"a*to*ri*ly, adv.
• ACCEPT
  To receive as obligatory and promise to pay; as, to accept a bill of exchange. Bouvier. 6. In a deliberate body, to receive in acquittance of a duty imposed; bill , to agree to pay it when due. -- To accept service , to agree that a writ or
• COMPLY
  are of different origin: cf. It. complire to compliment, finish, 1. To yield assent; to accord; agree, or acquiesce; to adapt one's self; to consent or conform; -- usually followed by with. Yet this be sure, in nothing to comply, Scandalous or
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• CONSORT
  A ship keeping company with another. 3. Concurrence; conjunction; combination; association; union. "By Heaven's consort." Fuller. "Working in consort." Hare. Take it singly, and is carries an air of levity; but, in consort with the rest,
• TALLYHO
  1. The huntsman's cry to incite or urge on his hounds. 2. A tallyho coach. Tallyho coach, a pleasure coach. See under Coach.
• CONFORMABLE
  1. Corresponding in form, character, opinions, etc.; similar; like; consistent; proper or suitable; --usually followed by to. The fragments of Sappho give us a taste of her way of writing perfectly conformable with that character. Addison.
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• ALLOWEDLY
  By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone.
• CONCURRENCE
  1. The act of concurring; a meeting or coming together; union; conjunction; combination. We have no other measure but our own ideas, with the concurence of other probable reasons, to persuade us. Locke. 2. A meeting of minds; agreement in opinion;
• ASSENTER
  One who assents.
• 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
• CENSURER
  One who censures. Sha.
• ACCEPTOR
  One who accepts; specifically ,
• ALLOWER
  1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits.
• DISAPPROVAL
  Disapprobation; dislike; censure; adverse judgment.
• ACCIDENTALLY
  In an accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance; unintentionally; casually; fortuitously; not essentially.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• 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 .
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• MALCONFORMATION
  Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts.
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• SALLOWISH
  Somewhat sallow. Dickens.
• PRECONSENT
  A previous consent.