Word Meanings - SUPERVISE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
to view, surely, intens. from videre, visum, to see. Cf. Survise, and 1. To oversee for direction; to superintend; to inspect with authority; as, to supervise the construction of a steam engine, or the printing of a book. 2. To look over so as
Additional info about word: SUPERVISE
to view, surely, intens. from videre, visum, to see. Cf. Survise, and 1. To oversee for direction; to superintend; to inspect with authority; as, to supervise the construction of a steam engine, or the printing of a book. 2. To look over so as to read; to peruse. Shak. Syn. -- See Superintend.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SUPERVISE)
- Ensue
- Follow
- accrue
- supervise
- befall
- Govern
- Rule
- direct
- control
- moderate
- guide
- sway
- manage
- command
- conduct
- Inspect
- Scrutinize
- examine
- investigate
- search
- overhaul
- look into
- Overlook
- Condone
- connive
- disregard
- oversee
- inspect
- survey
- review
- excuse
- pardon
- forgive
- neglect
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SUPERVISE)
- Supplicate
- entreat
- persuade
- beg
- petition
- suggest
- represent
- Neglect
- abandon
- license
- berate
- free
- mismanage
- misconduct
- Consider
- respect
- notice
- observe
- regard
- esteem
- tend
- attend
- foster
- study
- Discard
- dismiss
- overlook
- skim
- disregard
- misexamine
- Pretermit
- misinvestigate
Related words: (words related to SUPERVISE)
- DISREGARDFULLY
Negligently; heedlessly. - DISMISSIVE
Giving dismission. - SUPPLICATE
supplicate; of uncertain origin, cf. supplex, supplicis, humbly begging or entreating; perhaps fr. sub under + a word akin to placare to reconcile, appease , or fr. sub under + plicare to fold, whence the idea of bending the knees . Cf. 1. To - DIRECT CURRENT
A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the - EXCUSEMENT
Excuse. Gower. - PARDON
A release, by a sovereign, or officer having jurisdiction, from the penalties of an offense, being distinguished from amenesty, which is a general obliteration and canceling of a particular line of past offenses. Syn. -- Forgiveness; remission. - DIRECTER
One who directs; a director. Directer plane , the plane to which all right-lined elements in a warped surface are parallel. - SUGGESTER
One who suggests. Beau. & Fl. - 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. - CONSIDERINGLY
With consideration or deliberation. - DISMISSAL
Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley. - MISMANAGER
One who manages ill. - REVIEW
Etym: 1. To view or see again; to look back on "I shall review Sicilia." Shak. 2. To go over and examine critically or deliberately. Specifically: To reconsider; to revise, as a manuscript before printing it, or a book for a new edition. To go - PERSUADED
Prevailed upon; influenced by argument or entreaty; convinced. -- Per*suad"ed*ly, adv. -- Per*suad"ed*ness, n. - INSPECTOR
One who inspects, views, or oversees; one to whom the supervision of any work is committed; one who makes an official view or examination, as a military or civil officer; a superintendent; a supervisor; an overseer. Inspector general , a staff - FOLLOWING EDGE
See ABOVE - CONTROLLABLENESS
Capability of being controlled. - 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 - SUGGESTRESS
A woman who suggests. "The suggestress of suicides." De Quincey. - SAFE-CONDUCT
That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak. - CROSS-EXAMINER
One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination. - MISGOVERNED
Ill governed, as a people; ill directed. "Rude, misgoverned hands." Shak. - DISRESPECTABILITY
Want of respectability. Thackeray. - UNCONSIDERED
Not considered or attended to; not regarded; inconsiderable; trifling. A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. Shak.