Word Meanings - BEHOLD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To have in sight; to see clearly; to look at; to regard with the eyes. When he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived. Num. xxi. 9. Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. John. i. 29. Syn. -- To scan; gaze; regard; descry;

Additional info about word: BEHOLD

To have in sight; to see clearly; to look at; to regard with the eyes. When he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived. Num. xxi. 9. Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. John. i. 29. Syn. -- To scan; gaze; regard; descry; view; discern. (more info) bihalden, biholden, AS. behealdan to hold, have in sight; pref. be- +

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BEHOLD)

• Contemplate
• Meditate
• behold
• observe
• ponder
• study
• purpose
• design
• intend
• project
• Discern
• Descry
• recognize
• see
• distinguish
• discover
• penetrate
• discriminate
• differentiate
• separate
• perceive
• Gaze
• Stare
• contemplate
• scan
• regard
• view
• glower
• gloat
• Regard Behold
• esteem
• consider
• deem
• affect
• respect
• reverence
• revere
• value
• conceive
• heed
• notice
• mind
• See
• Perceive
• descry
• discern
• look
• understand
• comprehend
• attend
• beware
• visit
• experience

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of BEHOLD)

• Evade
• escape
• miss
• lose
• Recal
• withdraw
• draw
• retract
• pull
• attract
• rebound
• recoil
• adduce
• revert
• rebate
• Chance
• risk
• hazard
• revoke
• Miscalculate
• venture
• stake
• 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 BEHOLD)

• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• PROJECTION
  The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction
• MISJUDGE
  To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
• DISCERNANCE
  Discernment.
• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• EXPERIENCED
  Taught by practice or by repeated observations; skillful or wise by means of trials, use, or observation; as, an experienced physician, workman, soldier; an experienced eye. The ablest and most experienced statesmen. Bancroft.
• REVOKER
  One who revokes.
• 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.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• REVERT
  To change back. See Revert, v. i. To revert a series , to treat a series, as y = a + bx + cx2 + etc., where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x, so as to find therefrom the second variable x, expressed in a series arranged
• AFFECTATIONIST
  One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• CONSIDERINGLY
  With consideration or deliberation.
• 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.
• VENTURESOME
  Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act. -- Ven"ture*some*ly, adv. -- Ven"ture*some*ness, n.
• RETRACTOR
  One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
• PROJECTMENT
  Design; contrivance; projection. Clarendon.
• DISVENTURE
  A disadventure. Shelton.
• CONTRADISTINGUISH
  To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke.
• EQUIPONDERANCE; EQUIPONDERANCY
  Equality of weight; equipoise.
• SADDUCEEISM; SADDUCISM
  The tenets of the Sadducees.
• INDISTINGUISHABLE
  Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form
• INSEPARATE
  Not separate; together; united. Shak.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• OVERAFFECT
  To affect or care for unduly. Milton.
• MISAFFECT
  To dislike.