Word Meanings - RATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To chide with vehemence; to scold; to censure violently. Spencer. Go, rate thy minions, proud, insulting boy! Shak. Conscience is a check to beginners in sin, reclaiming them from it, and rating them for it. Barrow. (more info) certain rate, to
Additional info about word: RATE
To chide with vehemence; to scold; to censure violently. Spencer. Go, rate thy minions, proud, insulting boy! Shak. Conscience is a check to beginners in sin, reclaiming them from it, and rating them for it. Barrow. (more info) certain rate, to estimate, but more prob. fr. Sw. rata to find fault, to blame, to despise, to hold cheap; cf. Icel. hrat refuse, hrati
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RATE)
- Account Deem
- esteem
- consider
- regard
- hold
- judge
- rate
- estimate
- value
- reckon
- explain
- solve
- Calculate
- Estimate
- weigh
- number
- count
- apportion
- proportion
- investigate
- compute
- Chide
- Rate
- scold
- trounce
- reprove
- reprimand
- rebuke
- blame
- admonish
- objurgate
- Compute
- appraise
- cast up
- Degree
- Grade
- rank
- stage
- step
- extent
- measure
- mark
- position
- quality
- class
- station
- range
- quantity
- amount
- limit
- order
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of RATE)
- Fall
- recede
- relapse
- decline
- fail
- Misfit
- misconform
- mismeasure
- misdeal
- misapportion
- Disturb
- disconnect
- disorder
- derange
- intermit
- remain
- be stationary
- Miss
- overlook
- disregard
- despise
- dislike
- contemn
- hate
- loathe
- misconsider
- misconceive
- misestimate
- misjudge
- Miscompute
- disesteem
- vilipend
- underrate
- undervalue
- underestimate
- cheapen
- vilify
Related words: (words related to RATE)
- COUNTERBRACE
To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another. - ADMONISHER
One who admonishes. - DISREGARDFULLY
Negligently; heedlessly. - CLASSIFIC
Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification. - APPRAISER
One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates. - COUNTERACTIVE
Tending to counteract. - CLASSIFICATORY
Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification. "A classificatory system." Earle. - DERANGER
One who deranges. - MISJUDGE
To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue. - COUNTERFLEURY
Counterflory. - COUNTERVIEW
1. An opposite or opposing view; opposition; a posture in which two persons front each other. Within the gates of hell sat Death and Sin, In counterview. Milton M. Peisse has ably advocated the counterview in his preface and appendixx. - COUNTABLE
Capable of being numbered. - COUNTER WEIGHT
A counterpoise. - SCOLDER
1. One who scolds. The oyster catcher; -- so called from its shrill cries. The old squaw. - CLASSICISM
A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. C. Kingsley. - COUNTRY-DANCE
See MACUALAY - DERANGEMENT
The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity; - RANGEMENT
Arrangement. Waterland. - CHIDESTER
A female scold. - DISPROPORTIONALLY
In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally. - IMPROPORTIONATE
Not proportionate. - ESTRANGE
extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and - ORANGEADE
A drink made of orange juice and water, corresponding to lemonade; orange sherbet. - CITRANGE
A citrous fruit produced by a cross between the sweet orange and the trifoliate orange . It is more acid and has a more pronounced aroma than the orange; the tree is hardier. There are several varieties. - MENOSTATION
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