Word Meanings - CONTEST - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist; as a claim, by course of law; to controvert. To contest an election. To strive to be elected. To dispute the declared result of an election. Syn. -- To
Additional info about word: CONTEST
To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist; as a claim, by course of law; to controvert. To contest an election. To strive to be elected. To dispute the declared result of an election. Syn. -- To dispute; controvert; debate; litigate; oppose; argue; contend. (more info) litem to introduce a lawsuit by calling witnesses, to bring an 1. To make a subject of dispute, contention, litigation, or emulation; to contend for; to call in question; to controvert; to oppose; to dispute. The people . . . contested not what was done. Locke. Few philosophical aphorisms have been more frequenty repeated, few more contested than this. J. D. Morell. 2. To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend; as, the troops contested every inch of ground.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONTEST)
- Battle
- Fight
- conflict
- contest
- combat
- engagement
- encounter
- action
- Combat
- Encounter
- contention
- struggle
- arms
- battle
- Conflict
- fight
- Contend
- Strive
- compete
- cope
- dispute
- vie
- grapple
- argue
- maintain
- disagree
- wrangle
- Debate
- moot
- controvert
- discuss
- deliberate
- question
- ventilate
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CONTEST)
- Shelve
- burke
- discard
- hazard
- chance
- risk
- Dictate
- state
- assert
- pronounce
- enunciate
- concede
- endorse
- affirm
- grant
- allow
Related words: (words related to CONTEST)
- BATTLE
Fertile. See Battel, a. - 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; - STATESMANLIKE
Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman. - CHANCELLERY
Chancellorship. Gower. - HAZARDIZE
A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser. - STATEHOOD
The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood. - DISAGREEABLENESS
The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness. - ENDORSER
See INDORSER - ENCOUNTERER
One who encounters; an opponent; an antagonist. Atterbury. - AFFIRMATIVELY
In an affirmative manner; on the affirmative side of a question; in the affirmative; -- opposed to negatively. - VENTILATE
brandish in the air, to fan, to winnow, from ventus wind; akin to E. 1. To open and expose to the free passage of air; to supply with fresh air, and remove impure air from; to air; as, to ventilate a room; to ventilate a cellar; to ventilate a - 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 - ALLOWEDLY
By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone. - 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. - COMBAT
To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight. To combat with a blind man I disdain. Milton. After the fall of the republic, the Romans combated only for the choice of masters. Gibbon. - ALLOW
allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend - ALLOWER
1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits. - ARGUE
1. To invent and offer reasons to support or overthrow a proposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason. I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will. Milton. 2. To contend in argument; to dispute; to reason; -- followed by with; as, - CONTESTABLE
Capable of being contested; debatable. - STRUGGLER
One who struggles. - CREBRICOSTATE
Marked with closely set ribs or ridges. - DENUNCIATE
To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly. To denunciate this new work. Burke. - CALLOW
1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play . - HALLOW
To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed - SAGEBRUSH STATE
Nevada; -- a nickname. - THRYFALLOW
To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser. - OLD LINE STATE
Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line. - ENSTATE
See INSTATE - REENGAGEMENT
A renewed or repeated engagement. - SALLOWISH
Somewhat sallow. Dickens.