Word Meanings - DEMAND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To call into court; to summon. Burrill. (more info) L. demandare to give in charge, intrust; de- + mandare to commit to 1. To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for

Additional info about word: DEMAND

To call into court; to summon. Burrill. (more info) L. demandare to give in charge, intrust; de- + mandare to commit to 1. To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily; as, to demand a debt; to demand obedience. This, in our foresaid holy father's name, Pope Innocent, I do demand of thee. Shak. 2. To inquire authoritatively or earnestly; to ask, esp. in a peremptory manner; to question. I did demand what news from Shrewsbury. Shak. 3. To require as necessary or useful; to be in urgent need of; hence, to call for; as, the case demands care.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEMAND)

• Arrogate
• Claim
• assume
• vindicate
• assert
• demand
• Claim Demand
• ask
• require
• insist
• pretense
• right
• privilege
• title
• request
• maintain
• Assertion
• vindication
• pretension
• arrogation
• Insist
• Stand
• contend
• persist
• persevere
• urge
• Lack
• Failure
• scarcity
• deficiency
• want
• need
• insufficiency

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DEMAND)

• Forego
• waive
• disclaim
• abjure
• disavow
• abandon
• concede
• surrender
• repudiate

Related words: (words related to DEMAND)

• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• TITLELESS
  Not having a title or name; without legitimate title. "A titleless tyrant." Chaucer.
• MAINTAIN
  by the hand; main hand + F. tenir to hold . See 1. To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace;
• DEMANDRESS
  A woman who demands.
• PERSISTING
  Inclined to persist; tenacious of purpose; persistent. -- Per*sist"ing*ly, adv.
• TITLED
  Having or bearing a title.
• 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
• TITLER
  A large truncated cone of refined sugar.
• RIGHTEOUSNESS
  The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground justification. There are two kinds of Christian righteousness: the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith,
• ASSERTORY
  Affirming; maintaining. Arguments . . . assertory, not probatory. Jer. Taylor. An assertory, not a promissory, declaration. Bentham. A proposition is assertory, when it enounces what is known as actual. Sir W. Hamilton.
• INSISTURE
  A dwelling or standing on something; fixedness; persistence. Shak.
• DISAVOWANCE
  Disavowal. South.
• DISAVOWMENT
  Disavowal. Wotton.
• DISAVOWER
  One who disavows.
• STANDARD
  The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver. Arbuthnot. (more info) extendere to spread out, extend,
• STANDPOINT
  A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged.
• ASSUMEDLY
  By assumption.
• STANDPIPE
  A vertical pipe, open at the top, between a hydrant and a reservoir, to equalize the flow of water; also, a large vertical pipe, near a pumping engine, into which water is forced up, so as to give it sufficient head to rise to the required level
• INSISTENCE
  The quality of insisting, or being urgent or pressing; the act of dwelling upon as of special importance; persistence; urgency.
• INSISTENTLY
  In an insistent manner.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• RECLAIMABLE
  That may be reclaimed.
• INDEFICIENCY
  The state or quality of not being deficient. Strype.
• BYSTANDER
  One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer.
• CARTWRIGHT
  An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.
• RECLAIMER
  One who reclaims.
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• ACCLAIM
  1. To applaud. "A glad acclaiming train." Thomson. 2. To declare by acclamations. While the shouting crowd Acclaims thee king of traitors. Smollett. 3. To shout; as, to acclaim my joy.
• SPRIGHTLY
  Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope.
• FRIGHTFUL
  1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn.
• SHRIGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Shriek. She cried alway and shright. Chaucer.