Word Meanings - ATTEND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

L. attendre to stretch, , to apply the mind to; ad + 1. To direct the attention to; to fix the mind upon; to give heed to; to regard. The diligent pilot in a dangerous tempest doth not attend the unskillful words of the passenger. Sir P. Sidney.

Additional info about word: ATTEND

L. attendre to stretch, , to apply the mind to; ad + 1. To direct the attention to; to fix the mind upon; to give heed to; to regard. The diligent pilot in a dangerous tempest doth not attend the unskillful words of the passenger. Sir P. Sidney. 2. To care for; to look after; to take charge of; to watch over. 3. To go or stay with, as a companion, nurse, or servant; to visit professionally, as a physician; to accompany or follow in order to do service; to escort; to wait on; to serve. The fifth had charge sick persons to attend. Spenser. Attends the emperor in his royal court. Shak. With a sore heart and a gloomy brow, he prepared to attend William thither. Macaulay. 4. To be present with; to accompany; to be united or consequent to; as, a measure attended with ill effects. What cares must then attend the toiling swain. Dryden. 5. To be present at; as, to attend church, school, a concert, a business meeting. 6. To wait for; to await; to remain, abide, or be in store for. The state that attends all men after this. Locke. Three days I promised to attend my doom. Dryden. Syn. -- To Attend, Mind, Regard, Heed, Notice. Attend is generic, the rest are specific terms. To mind is to attend so that it may not be forgotten; to regard is to look on a thing as of importance; to heed is to ~ to a thing from a principle of caution; to notice is to think on that which strikes the senses. Crabb. See Accompany.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ATTEND)

• Accompany
• Follow
• consort
• attend
• join
• coexist
• escort
• convoy
• Consider
• Attend
• revolve
• meditate
• think
• reflect
• investigate
• regard
• observe
• judge
• opine
• infer
• deduce
• weigh
• cogitate
• deliberate
• ponder
• deem
• Pursue
• chase
• accompany
• obey
• Imitate
• succeed
• result
• ensue
• shadow
• copy
• Listen
• Hear
• hearken
• incline
• give ear
• heed
• Minister Attend
• subserve
• wait
• supply

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ATTEND)

• Abandon
• relinquish
• discard
• dismiss
• avoid
• elude
• evade
• Avoid
• abandon
• excommunicate
• blackball
• banish
• exclude
• Shelve
• burke
• hazard
• chance
• risk
• Trend
• diverge
• ascend
• deter
• rise
• indispose
• disincline
• Miss
• overlook
• disregard
• despise
• dislike
• contemn
• hate
• loathe
• misconsider
• misconceive
• misestimate
• misjudge
• Originate
• arise
• precede
• spring
• commence
• start
• begin

Related words: (words related to ATTEND)

• THINKING
  Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being. -- Think"ing*ly, adv.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• OPINER
  One who opines. Jer. Taylor.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
  See ASCENDENCY
• MISJUDGE
  To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
• SUCCEEDANT
  Succeeding one another; following.
• SPRINGBOARD
  An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising.
• CONSORTSHIP
  The condition of a consort; fellowship; partnership. Hammond.
• PONDEROUS
  1. Very heavy; weighty; as, a ponderous shield; a ponderous load; the ponderous elephant. The sepulcher . . . Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws. Shak. 2. Important; momentous; forcible. "Your more ponderous and settled project." Shak. 3.
• SPRINGE
  A noose fastened to an elastic body, and drawn close with a sudden spring, whereby it catches a bird or other animal; a gin; a snare. As a woodcock to mine own springe. Shak.
• SPRINGAL
  An ancient military engine for casting stones and arrows by means of a spring.
• CONVOY
  To accompany for protection, either by sea or land; to attend for protection; to escort; as, a frigate convoys a merchantman. I know ye skillful to convoy The total freight of hope and joy. Emerson. (more info) Etym:
• SUPPLYMENT
  A supplying or furnishing; supply. Shak.
• SHADOWY
  1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak. 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow. 3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. The moon
• INFERNALLY
  In an infernal manner; diabolically. "Infernally false." Bp. Hacket.
• CONSORT
  A ship keeping company with another. 3. Concurrence; conjunction; combination; association; union. "By Heaven's consort." Fuller. "Working in consort." Hare. Take it singly, and is carries an air of levity; but, in consort with the rest,
• FORESHADOW
  To shadow or typi Dryden.
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• 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
• EQUIPONDERANCE; EQUIPONDERANCY
  Equality of weight; equipoise.
• SUPERREFLECTION
  The reflection of a reflected image or sound. Bacon.
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• DISPROPORTIONABLE
  Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv.
• DISPROPORTIONALITY
  The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.