Word Meanings - PREFER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To carry or bring forward, or before one; hence, to bring for consideration, acceptance, judgment, etc.; to offer; to present; to proffer; to address; -- said especially of a request, prayer, petition, claim, charge, etc. He spake, and to

Additional info about word: PREFER

1. To carry or bring forward, or before one; hence, to bring for consideration, acceptance, judgment, etc.; to offer; to present; to proffer; to address; -- said especially of a request, prayer, petition, claim, charge, etc. He spake, and to her hand preferred the bowl. Pope. Presently prefer his suit to Cæsar. Shak. Three tongues prefer strange orisons on high. Byron. 2. To go before, or be before, in estimation; to outrank; to surpass. "Though maidenhood prefer bigamy." Chaucer. 3. To cause to go before; hence, to advance before others, as to an office or dignity; to raise; to exalt; to promote; as, to prefer an officer to the rank of general. I would prefer him to a better place. Shak. 4. To set above or before something else in estimation, favor, or liking; to regard or honor before another; to hold in greater favor; to choose rather; -- often followed by to, before, or above. If I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy. Ps. cxxxvii. 6. Preferred an infamous peace before a most just war. Knolles. Preferred stock, stock which takes a dividend before other capital stock; -- called also preference stock and preferential stock. Syn. -- To choose; elect. See Choose.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PREFER)

• Choose
• Select
• elect
• prefer
• appropriate
• adopt
• cull
• pick out
• Promote
• Aid
• further
• advance
• excite
• exalt
• raise
• elevate
• Respect Notice
• regard
• honor
• venerate
• esteem
• Select Cull
• pick choose
• segregate

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PREFER)

• Retard
• hinder
• withhold
• withdraw
• recall
• depress
• degrade
• suppress
• oppose
• retreat
• decrease
• Miss
• overlook
• disregard
• despise
• dislike
• contemn
• hate
• loathe
• misconsider
• misconceive
• misestimate
• misjudge
• Lump
• confound
• sweep

Related words: (words related to PREFER)

• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• ELECTRO-MUSCULAR
  Pertaining the reaction of the muscles under electricity, or their sensibility to it.
• 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.
• MISJUDGE
  To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
• ELECTROTYPER
  One who electrotypes.
• ELECTREPETER
  An instrument used to change the direction of electric currents; a commutator.
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• 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
• PREFERMENT
  1. The act of choosing, or the state of being chosen; preference. Natural preferment of the one . . . before the other. Sir T. Browne. 2. The act of preferring, or advancing in dignity or office; the state of being advanced; promotion. Neither
• ELECTRO-DYNAMIC; ELECTRO-DYNAMICAL
  Pertaining to the movements or force of electric or galvanic currents; dependent on electric force.
• ELECTRO-CAPILLARITY
  The occurrence or production of certain capillary effects by the action of an electrical current or charge.
• ELECTRONIC
  Of or pertaining to an electron or electrons.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• ELECTRO-BIOLOGIST
  One versed in electro-biology.
• RAISE
  To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
• ELECTORATE
  1. The territory, jurisdiction, or dignity of an elector, as in the old German empire. 2. The whole body of persons in a nation or state who are entitled to vote in an election, or any distinct class or division of them. The middle-class electorate
• ELECTROLOGY
  That branch of physical science which treats of the phenomena of electricity and its properties.
• ELECTRICIAN
  An investigator of electricity; one versed in the science of electricity.
• ELECTRO-CHRONOGRAPH
  An instrument for obtaining an accurate record of the time at which any observed phenomenon occurs, or of its duration. It has an electro-magnetic register connected with a clock. See Chronograph.
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• ANELECTRIC
  Not becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to idioelectric. -- n.
• ENSWEEP
  To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly. Thomson.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• MISRAISE
  To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall.
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• PYROELECTRICITY
  Electricity developed by means of heat; the science which treats of electricity thus developed.