Word Meanings - CLAIM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

cry out, call; akin to calare to proclaim, Gr. kal to sound, G. holen 1. To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due. 2. To proclaim. Spenser. 3. To call or name.

Additional info about word: CLAIM

cry out, call; akin to calare to proclaim, Gr. kal to sound, G. holen 1. To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due. 2. To proclaim. Spenser. 3. To call or name. Spenser. 4. To assert; to maintain.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CLAIM)

• Arrogate
• Claim
• assume
• vindicate
• assert
• demand
• Assert
• Asseverate
• declare
• pronounce
• depose
• maintain
• statement
• avow
• avouch
• affirm
• allege
• protest
• claim
• Assume
• Take
• appropriate
• arrogate
• wear
• exhibit
• postulate
• suppose
• presume
• usurp
• pretend
• feign
• affect
• Debt
• Debit
• liability
• default
• obligation
• score
• something due
• Demand
• require
• ask for
• call for
• insist

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CLAIM)

• Forego
• waive
• disclaim
• abjure
• disavow
• abandon
• concede
• surrender
• repudiate

Related words: (words related to CLAIM)

• MAINTAIN
  by the hand; main hand + F. tenir to hold . See 1. To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace;
• DEMANDRESS
  A woman who demands.
• EXHIBITION
  The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art,
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• AVOUCHMENT
  The act of avouching; positive declaration. Milton.
• AFFIRMATIVELY
  In an affirmative manner; on the affirmative side of a question; in the affirmative; -- opposed to negatively.
• AFFECTATIONIST
  One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
• SCORER
  One who, or that which, scores.
• EXHIBITIONER
  One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot.
• ASSERT
  self, claim, maintain; ad + serere to join or bind together. See 1. To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate. Nothing is more shameful . . . than to assert anything to
• ASSERTORY
  Affirming; maintaining. Arguments . . . assertory, not probatory. Jer. Taylor. An assertory, not a promissory, declaration. Bentham. A proposition is assertory, when it enounces what is known as actual. Sir W. Hamilton.
• INSISTURE
  A dwelling or standing on something; fixedness; persistence. Shak.
• DISAVOWANCE
  Disavowal. South.
• AFFECTION
  Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections
• AVOUCHABLE
  Capable of being avouched.
• DISAVOWMENT
  Disavowal. Wotton.
• DISAVOWER
  One who disavows.
• DEBITOR
  A debtor. Shak.
• AFFECTIBILITY
  The quality or state of being affectible.
• POSTULATE
  The enunciation of a self-evident problem, in distinction from an axiom, which is the enunciation of a self-evident theorem. The distinction between a postulate and an axiom lies in this, -- that the latter is admitted to be self-evident, while
• RECLAIMABLE
  That may be reclaimed.
• OVERAFFECT
  To affect or care for unduly. Milton.
• MISAFFECT
  To dislike.
• RECLAIMER
  One who reclaims.
• ACCLAIM
  1. To applaud. "A glad acclaiming train." Thomson. 2. To declare by acclamations. While the shouting crowd Acclaims thee king of traitors. Smollett. 3. To shout; as, to acclaim my joy.
• MISPRONOUNCE
  To pronounce incorrectly.
• INAFFECTED
  Unaffected. -- In`af*fect"ed*ly, adv.