Word Meanings - GREET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Great. Chaucer.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GREET)

• Accost
• Address
• salute
• invoke
• hail
• greet
• stop
• apostrophize
• speak to
• call to
• Address Accost
• approach
• appeal
• court
• Hail
• address
• call
• welcome
• Salute
• Hall
• compliment
• accost

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of GREET)

• Elude
• avoid
• shun
• ignore
• pass
• Repel
• abjure
• disaffect
• insult
• repudiate

Related words: (words related to GREET)

• REPELLENCE; REPELLENCY
  The principle of repulsion; the quality or capacity of repelling; repulsion.
• GREETING
  Expression of kindness or joy; salutation at meeting; a compliment from one absent. Write to him . . . gentle adieus and greetings. Shak. Syn. -- Salutation; salute; compliment.
• APPEALER
  One who makes an appeal.
• INSULT
  1. The act of leaping on; onset; attack. Dryden. 2. Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity. The ruthless sneer that insult adds to grief. Savage. Syn. -- Affront;
• INSULTMENT
  Insolent treatment; insult. "My speech of insultment ended." Shak.
• APPEAL
  appellare to approach, address, invoke, summon, call, name; akin to appellere to drive to; ad + pellere to drive. See Pulse, and cf. To make application for the removal of from an inferior to a superior judge or court for a rehearing or review
• COURTESAN
  A woman who prostitutes herself for hire; a prostitute; a harlot. Lasciviously decked like a courtesan. Sir H. Wotton. (more info) courtier, It. cortigiano; or directly fr. It. cortigiana, or Sp.
• COURT TENNIS
  See TENNIS
• INSULTING
  Containing, or characterized by, insult or abuse; tending to insult or affront; as, insulting language, treatment, etc. -- In*sult"ing*ly, adv. Syn. -- Insolent; impertinent; saucy; rude; abusive; contemptuous. See Insolent.
• ACCOST
  1. To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of. "So much as accosts the sea." Fuller. 2. To approach; to make up to. Shak. 3. To speak to first; to address; to greet. "Him, Satan thus accosts." Milton.
• COURT-CUPBOARD
  A movable sideboard or buffet, on which plate and other articles of luxury were displayed on special ocasions. A way with the joint stools, remove the court-cupboard, look to the plate. Shak.
• APOSTROPHIZE
  1. To address by apostrophe. 2. To contract by omitting a letter or letters; also, to mark with an apostrophe or apostrophes.
• ADDRESS
  To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore. To address one's self to. To prepare one's self for; to apply one's self to. To direct one's speech or discourse to. (more
• COURTEPY
  A short coat of coarse cloth. Full threadbare was his overeste courtepy. Chaucer.
• COURTBRED
  Bred, or educated, at court; polished; courtly.
• APPROACHABLENESS
  The quality or state of being approachable; accessibility.
• REPELLENT
  Driving back; able or tending to repel.
• ABJUREMENT
  Renunciation.
• COURTESANSHIP
  Harlotry.
• SPEAKERSHIP
  The office of speaker; as, the speakership of the House of Representatives.
• 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
• PRELUDER
  One who, or that which, preludes; one who plays a prelude. Mason.
• SELF-REPELLING
  Made up of parts, as molecules or atoms, which mutually repel each other; as, gases are self-repelling.
• BESPEAKER
  One who bespeaks.
• OUTSPEAK
  1. To exceed in speaking. 2. To speak openly or boldly. T. Campbell. 3. To express more than. Shak.
• UNBESPEAK
  To unsay; hence, to annul or cancel. Pepys.
• UNAVOIDED
  1. Not avoided or shunned. Shak. 2. Unavoidable; inevitable. B. Jonson.