Word Meanings - EXTOL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To place on high; to lift up; to elevate. Who extolled you in the half-crown boxes, Where you might sit and muster all the beauties. Beau. 2. To elevate by praise; to eulogize; to praise; to magnify; as, to extol virtue; to extol an act or a

Additional info about word: EXTOL

1. To place on high; to lift up; to elevate. Who extolled you in the half-crown boxes, Where you might sit and muster all the beauties. Beau. 2. To elevate by praise; to eulogize; to praise; to magnify; as, to extol virtue; to extol an act or a person. Wherein have I so deserved of you, That you extol me thus Shak. Syn. -- To praise; applaud; commend; magnify; celebrate; laud; glorify. See Praise.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EXTOL)

• Applaud
• Laud
• praise
• extol
• approve
• eulogize
• commend
• cry up
• magnify
• encourage
• cheer
• Commend
• Praise
• laud
• recommend
• applaud
• Extract
• Draw
• educe
• elicit
• cite
• excerpt
• select
• take out
• gather
• quote
• collect
• Glorify
• Exalt
• honor
• elevate
• signalize
• aggrandize
• adore
• panegyrize
• Enlarge
• amplify
• increase
• augment
• exaggerate

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of EXTOL)

• Blame
• censure
• discommend
• reprove
• Lump
• confound
• sweep

Related words: (words related to EXTOL)

• COMMENDATOR
  One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers.
• COLLECTIVENESS
  A state of union; mass.
• COLLECTEDLY
  Composedly; coolly.
• ELICITATION
  The act of eliciting. Abp. Bramhall.
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• APPROVEDLY
  So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
• COMMENDER
  One who commends or praises.
• HONORABLE
  1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• SIGNALIZE
  1. To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish. It is this passion which drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves. Burke. 2. To communicate with by means of a signal; as, a ship
• ADORE
  adorare; ad + orare to speak, pray, os, oris, mouth. In OE. confused with honor, the French prefix a- being confused with OE. a, an, on. 1. To worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors to; to honor as deity or as divine. Smollett. 2.
• EXTOLMENT
  Praise. Shak.
• ENCOURAGER
  One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer. The pope is . . . a great encourager of arts. Addison.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• COLLECTIBLE
  Capable of being collected.
• CENSURER
  One who censures. Sha.
• COLLECTIVISM
  The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism. W. G. Summer.
• HONORABLENESS
  1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness.
• EXTRACTABLE; EXTRACTIBLE
  Capable of being extracted.
• CHEERINESS
  The state of being cheery.
• UPCHEER
  To cheer up. Spenser.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• ENSWEEP
  To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly. Thomson.
• MEGATHEROID
  One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.
• SEDUCEMENT
  1. The act of seducing. 2. The means employed to seduce, as flattery, promises, deception, etc.; arts of enticing or corrupting. Pope.
• DISAPPROVE
  1. To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others. 2. To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline
• REDUCEMENT
  Reduction. Milton.