Word Meanings - REGARD - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. To keep in view; to behold; to look at; to view; to gaze upon. Your niece regards me with an eye of favor. Shak. 2. Hence, to look or front toward; to face. It is peninsula which regardeth the mainland. Sandys. That exceedingly beatiful seat,
Additional info about word: REGARD
1. To keep in view; to behold; to look at; to view; to gaze upon. Your niece regards me with an eye of favor. Shak. 2. Hence, to look or front toward; to face. It is peninsula which regardeth the mainland. Sandys. That exceedingly beatiful seat, on the assregarding the river. Evelyn. 3. To look closely at; to observe attentively; to pay attention to; to notice or remark particularly. If much you note him, You offened him; . . . feed, and regard him not. Shak. 4. To look upon, as in a certain relation; to hold as an popinion; to consider; as, to regard abstinence from wine as a duty; to regard another as a friend or enemy. 5. To consider and treat; to have a certain feeling toward; as, to regard one with favor or dislike. His associates seem to have regarded him with kindness. Macaulay. 6. To pay respect to; to treat as something of peculiar value, sanctity, or the like; to care for; to esteem. He that regardeth thae day, regardeth it into the LOrd. Rom. xiv. 6. Here's Beaufort, that regards nor God nor king. Shak. 7. To take into consideration; to take account of, as a fact or condition. "Nether regarding that she is my child, nor fearing me as if II were her father." Shak. 8. To have relation to, as bearing upon; to respect; to relate to; to touch; as, an argument does not regard the question; -- often used impersonally; as, I agree with you as regards this or that. Syn. -- To consider; observe; remark; heed; mind; respect; esteem; estimate; value. See Attend.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REGARD)
- Account Deem
- esteem
- consider
- regard
- hold
- judge
- rate
- estimate
- value
- reckon
- explain
- solve
- Advert to
- Refer to
- allude to
- notice
- remark
- glance at
- touch upon
- hint at
- Appreciate
- Esteem
- recognize
- acknowledge
- respect
- prize
- Attention
- Observation
- watchfulness
- heed
- consideration
- circumspection
- study
- vigilance
- care
- Behold
- Look
- discern
- view
- descry
- look upon
- gaze
- contemplate
- observe
- see
- scan
- survey
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of REGARD)
- Miss
- overlook
- disregard
- despise
- dislike
- contemn
- hate
- loathe
- misconsider
- misconceive
- misestimate
- misjudge
- Overlook
- dishonor
- Miscompute
- disesteem
- vilipend
- underrate
- undervalue
- underestimate
- cheapen
- vilify
Related words: (words related to REGARD)
- DISREGARDFULLY
Negligently; heedlessly. - MISJUDGE
To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue. - DISCERNANCE
Discernment. - ACCOUNTANTSHIP
The office or employment of an accountant. - RECKON
reckon, G. rechnen, OHG. rahnjan), and to E. reck, rake an implement; the original sense probably being, to bring together, count together. 1. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate. The priest shall reckon to him the - CONSIDERINGLY
With consideration or deliberation. - RECKONER
One who reckons or computes; also, a book of calculation, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning. Reckoners without their host must reckon twice. Camden. - CONTEMPLATE
contemplate; con- + templum a space for observation marked out by the 1. To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study. To love, - MISCOMPUTE
To compute erroneously. Sir T. Browne. - APPRECIATE
a price, appraise; ad + pretiare to prize, pretium price. Cf. 1. To set a price or value on; to estimate justly; to value. To appreciate the motives of their enemies. Gibbon. 3. To raise the value of; to increase the market price of; -- opposed - REMARKER
One who remarks. - ACCOUNTANCY
The art or employment of an accountant. - BEHOLDER
One who beholds; a spectator. - ESTEEM
1. To set a value on; to appreciate the worth of; to estimate; to value; to reckon. Then he forsook God, which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. Deut. xxxii. 15. Thou shouldst esteem his censure and authority to be of - REFER
1. To carry or send back. Chaucer. 2. Hence: To send or direct away; to send or direct elsewhere, as for treatment, aid, infirmation, decision, etc.; to make over, or pass over, to another; as, to refer a student to an author; to refer a beggar - DISESTEEMER
One who disesteems. Boyle. - DISLIKE
1. To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish. Every nation dislikes an impost. Johnson. 2. To awaken dislike in; to displease. "Disliking countenance." Marston. "It dislikes me." Shak. - REFERENTIAL
Containing a reference; pointing to something out of itself; as, notes for referential use. -- Ref`er*en"tial*ly, adv. - ACKNOWLEDGE
1. To of or admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God. I acknowledge my transgressions. Ps. li. 3. For ends generally acknowledged to be good. Macaulay. 2. To own - BEHOLDING
Obliged; beholden. I was much bound and beholding to the right reverend father. Robynson So much hath Oxford been beholding to her nephews, or sister's children. Fuller. - DISRESPECTABILITY
Want of respectability. Thackeray. - UNCONSIDERED
Not considered or attended to; not regarded; inconsiderable; trifling. A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. Shak. - PREJUDGE
To judge before hearing, or before full and sufficient examination; to decide or sentence by anticipation; to condemn beforehand. The committee of council hath prejudged the whole case, by calling the united sense of both houses of Parliament" a - FOREJUDGER
A judgment by which one is deprived or put of a right or thing in question. - PREFERMENT
1. The act of choosing, or the state of being chosen; preference. Natural preferment of the one . . . before the other. Sir T. Browne. 2. The act of preferring, or advancing in dignity or office; the state of being advanced; promotion. Neither - MISOBSERVE
To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke. - INCONSIDERATION
Want of due consideration; inattention to consequences; inconsiderateness. Blindness of mind, inconsideration, precipitation. Jer. Taylor. Not gross, willful, deliberate, crimes; but rather the effects of inconsideration. Sharp.