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 - ELECTRICIAN
An investigator of electricity; one versed in the science of electricity. - ELECTROLOGY
That branch of physical science which treats of the phenomena of electricity and its properties. - 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.