Word Meanings - ADDRESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore. To address one's self to. To prepare one's self for; to apply one's self to. To direct one's speech or discourse to. (more

Additional info about word: ADDRESS

To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore. To address one's self to. To prepare one's self for; to apply one's self to. To direct one's speech or discourse to. (more info) to straighten, address, F. adresser, fr. à + OF. drecier, F. 1. To aim; to direct. Chaucer. And this good knight his way with me addrest. Spenser. 2. To prepare or make ready. His foe was soon addressed. Spenser. Turnus addressed his men to single fight. Dryden. The five foolish virgins addressed themselves at the noise of the bridegroom's coming. Jer. Taylor. 3. Reflexively: To prepare one's self; to apply one's skill or energies ; to betake. These men addressed themselves to the task. Macaulay. 4. To clothe or array; to dress. Tecla . . . addressed herself in man's apparel. Jewel. 5. To direct, as words ; to make, as a speech, petition, etc. . The young hero had addressed his players to him for his assistance. Dryden. 6. To direct speech to; to make a communication to, whether spoken or written; to apply to by words, as by a speech, petition, etc., to speak to; to accost. Are not your orders to address the senate Addison. The representatives of the nation addressed the king. Swift. 7. To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit; as, he addressed a letter. 8. To make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ADDRESS)

• Accost
• Address
• salute
• invoke
• hail
• greet
• stop
• apostrophize
• speak to
• call to
• Appeal
• address
• invite
• cite
• urge
• refer
• call upon
• entreat
• request
• resort
• Direction
• Course
• tendency
• inclination
• line
• control
• command
• bearing
• superscription
• order
• Effusion
• Pouring
• discharge
• emission
• effluence
• oration
• speech
• Facility
• Ease
• readiness
• quickness
• adroitness
• dexterity
• pliancy

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ADDRESS)

• Elude
• avoid
• shun
• ignore
• pass
• Supplicate
• entreat
• persuade
• beg
• petition
• suggest
• represent
• Neglect
• abandon
• license
• berate
• free
• mismanage
• misconduct
• Shun
• discard

Related words: (words related to ADDRESS)

• INVITER
  One who, or that which, invites.
• GREETING
  Expression of kindness or joy; salutation at meeting; a compliment from one absent. Write to him . . . gentle adieus and greetings. Shak. Syn. -- Salutation; salute; compliment.
• 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
• POURSUIVANT
  See PURSUIVANT
• 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;
• APPEALER
  One who makes an appeal.
• PERSUADER
  One who, or that which, persuades or influences. "Powerful persuaders." Milton.
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• SPEECHLESS
  1. Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech. 2. Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent. Speechless with wonder, and half dead with fear. Addison. -- Speech"less*ly, adv. -- Speech"less*ness, n.
• PERSUADED
  Prevailed upon; influenced by argument or entreaty; convinced. -- Per*suad"ed*ly, adv. -- Per*suad"ed*ness, n.
• CONTROLLABLENESS
  Capability of being controlled.
• SUGGESTRESS
  A woman who suggests. "The suggestress of suicides." De Quincey.
• COMMANDING
  1. Exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer. 2. Fitted to impress or control; as, a commanding look or presence. 3. Exalted; overlooking; having superior strategic advantages; as, a commanding position. Syn.
• POURPARLER
  A consultation preliminary to a treaty.
• REPRESENTABLE
  Capable of being represented.
• SUGGESTION
  Information without oath; an entry of a material fact or circumstance on the record for the information of the court, at the death or insolvency of a party. (more info) 1. The act of suggesting; presentation of an idea. 2. That which is suggested;
• 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
• POURPARTY
  A division; a divided share. To make pourparty, to divide and apportion lands previously held in common.
• COURSED
  1. Hunted; as, a coursed hare. 2. Arranged in courses; as, coursed masonry.
• WATER-BEARER
  The constellation Aquarius.
• DOWNPOUR
  A pouring or streaming downwards; esp., a heavy or continuous shower.
• PRELUDE
  An introductory performance, preceding and preparing for the principal matter; a preliminary part, movement, strain, etc.; especially , a strain introducing the theme or chief subject; a movement introductory to a fugue, yet independent; -- with
• DEDECORATION
  Disgrace; dishonor. Bailey.
• PRELUDER
  One who, or that which, preludes; one who plays a prelude. Mason.
• SHIELD-BEARER
  Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• ELABORATION
  The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle,
• RECOURSEFUL
  Having recurring flow and ebb; moving alternately. Drayton.
• EVAPORATION
  See VAPORIZATION (more info) 1. The process by which any substance is converted from a liquid state into, and carried off in, vapor; as, the evaporation of water, of ether, of camphor. 2.