Word Meanings - DEMONSTRATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To exhibit and explain (a dissection or other anatomical preparation). (more info) 1. To point out; to show; to exhibit; to make evident. Shak. 2. To show, or make evident, by reasoning or proof; to prove by deduction; to establish so as to exclude
Additional info about word: DEMONSTRATE
To exhibit and explain (a dissection or other anatomical preparation). (more info) 1. To point out; to show; to exhibit; to make evident. Shak. 2. To show, or make evident, by reasoning or proof; to prove by deduction; to establish so as to exclude the possibility of doubt or denial. We can not demonstrate these things so as to show that the contrary often involves a contradiction. Tillotson.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEMONSTRATE)
- Argue
- Discuss
- debate
- prove
- question
- evidence
- establish
- imply
- sift
- dispute
- persuade
- controvert
- contend
- demonstrate
- reason
- Attest
- Vouch
- aver
- assert
- certify
- witness
- vouch for
- affirm
- testify
- support
- confirm
- suggest
- involve
- bespeak
- Certify
- Acknowledge
- attest
- vouch
- avow
- avouch
- protest
- declare
- inform
- assure
- Establish
- Plant
- fir
- settle
- found
- organize
- institute
- substantiate
- Evince
- Exhibit
- show
- manifest
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DEMONSTRATE)
- Dictate
- state
- assert
- pronounce
- enunciate
- concede
- endorse
- affirm
- grant
- allow
- Drop
- betray
- surrender
- abandon
- discontinue
- oppose
- discourage
- weaken
- exhaust
- thwart
- discountenance
- disfavor
- subvert
- suppress
Related words: (words related to DEMONSTRATE)
- PROVENTRIULUS
The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop. - PROVERBIAL
1. Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial. In case of excesses, I take the German proverbial cure, by a hair of the same beast, to be the worst. Sir - INFORMITY
Want of regular form; shapelessness. - STATESMANLIKE
Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman. - ASSURER
1. One who assures. Specifically: One who insures against loss; an insurer or underwriter. 2. One who takes out a life assurance policy. - SUPPORTABLE
Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv. - IMPLY
1. To infold or involve; to wrap up. "His head in curls implied." Chapman. 2. To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting. Where a mulicious act is - STATEHOOD
The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood. - ENDORSER
See INDORSER - EXHIBITION
The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art, - SUGGESTER
One who suggests. Beau. & Fl. - SUPPORTATION
Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon. - SUGGEST
1. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects. Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection. Locke. 2. To propose with difference or modesty; - PERSUADER
One who, or that which, persuades or influences. "Powerful persuaders." Milton. - AVOUCHMENT
The act of avouching; positive declaration. Milton. - INFORMOUS
Of irregular form; shapeless. Sir T. Browne. - AFFIRMATIVELY
In an affirmative manner; on the affirmative side of a question; in the affirmative; -- opposed to negatively. - EXHIBITIONER
One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot. - FOUNDATION
The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, - 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 - DISPLANTATION
The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh. - SUPPLANT
heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the - 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 . - INEVIDENCE
Want of evidence; obscurity. Barrow. - SAGEBRUSH STATE
Nevada; -- a nickname. - THRYFALLOW
To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser. - CONFOUNDED
1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott. - OLD LINE STATE
Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line. - ENSTATE
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