Word Meanings - RECOGNIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To know again; to perceive the identity of, with a person or thing previously known; to recover or recall knowledge of. Speak, vassal; recognize thy sovereign queen. Harte. 2. To avow knowledge of; to allow that one knows; to consent to admit,

Additional info about word: RECOGNIZE

1. To know again; to perceive the identity of, with a person or thing previously known; to recover or recall knowledge of. Speak, vassal; recognize thy sovereign queen. Harte. 2. To avow knowledge of; to allow that one knows; to consent to admit, hold, or the like; to admit with a formal acknowledgment; as, to recognize an obligation; to recognize a consul. 3. To acknowledge acquaintance with, as by salutation, bowing, or the like. 4. To show appreciation of; as, to recognize services by a testimonial. 5. To review; to reëxamine. South. 6. To reconnoiter. R. Monro. Syn. -- To acknowledge; avow; confess; own; allow; concede. See Acknowledge.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RECOGNIZE)

• Accept
• Welcome
• hail
• admit
• recognize
• avow
• acknowledge
• take
• accede to
• receive
• assent to
• Acknowledge
• Avow
• own
• accept
• profess
• endorse
• grant
• concede
• concern
• Allow
• Concede
• apportion
• allot
• assign
• afford
• tolerate
• authorize
• remit
• confess
• permit
• suffer
• sanction
• yield
• Appreciate
• Esteem
• respect
• value
• prize
• regard
• reckon
• estimate
• Descry
• Discern
• discover
• distinguish
• espy
• detect
• observe
• mark
• perceive

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of RECOGNIZE)

• Miss
• overlook
• disregard
• despise
• dislike
• contemn
• hate
• loathe
• misconsider
• misconceive
• misestimate
• misjudge
• Overlook
• dishonor
• Miscompute
• disesteem
• vilipend
• underrate
• undervalue
• underestimate
• cheapen
• vilify

Related words: (words related to RECOGNIZE)

• PROFESSORY
  Of or pertaining to a professor; professorial. Bacon.
• ASSIGNEE
  In England, the persons appointed, under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors. (more info) A person to whom an assignment is made; a person appointed or deputed by another to do some act,
• CONFESSION
  The act of disclosing sins or faults to a priest in order to obtain sacramental absolution. Auricular confession . . . or the private and special confession of sins to a priest for the purpose of obtaining his absolution. Hallam. 4. A formulary
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• RECEIVER'S CERTIFICATE
  An acknowledgement of indebtedness made by a receiver under order of court to obtain funds for the preservation of the assets held by him, as for operating a railroad. Receivers' certificates are ordinarily a first lien on the assets, prior to that
• ACCEPTABLE
  Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us.
• MISJUDGE
  To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
• ADMITTER
  One who admits.
• DISCERNANCE
  Discernment.
• PROFESSORIALISM
  The character, manners, or habits of a professor.
• CONFESSER
  One who makes a confession.
• ENDORSER
  See INDORSER
• ASSENTATORY
  Flattering; obsequious. -- As*sent"a*to*ri*ly, adv.
• PERMIT
  1. To consent to; to allow or suffer to be done; to tolerate; to put up with. What things God doth neither command nor forbid . . . he permitteth with approbation either to be done or left undone. Hooker. 2. To grant express license or liberty
• RECKON
  reckon, G. rechnen, OHG. rahnjan), and to E. reck, rake an implement; the original sense probably being, to bring together, count together. 1. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate. The priest shall reckon to him the
• ACCEPT
  To receive as obligatory and promise to pay; as, to accept a bill of exchange. Bouvier. 6. In a deliberate body, to receive in acquittance of a duty imposed; bill , to agree to pay it when due. -- To accept service , to agree that a writ or
• DETECTOR BAR
  A bar, connected with a switch, longer than the distance between any two consecutive wheels of a train , laid inside a rail and operated by the wheels so that the switch cannot be thrown until all the train is past the switch.
• ALLOTTABLE
  Capable of being allotted.
• RECKONER
  One who reckons or computes; also, a book of calculation, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning. Reckoners without their host must reckon twice. Camden.
• PROFESSORIAT
  See PROFESSORIATE
• LONG-SUFFERANCE
  Forbearance to punish or resent.
• CONTRADISTINGUISH
  To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke.
• 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
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• INDISTINGUISHABLE
  Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form
• SUPREMITY
  Supremacy. Fuller.
• SALLOWISH
  Somewhat sallow. Dickens.