Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

Nouns (6)

evaluator, judge

n. an authority who is able to estimate worth or quality

justice, judge, jurist, magistrate

n. a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice

Verbs (16)

judge, determine the result of

v. determine the result of (a competition)

judge, pass judgment on, form an opinion of

v. form a critical opinion of; "I cannot judge some works of modern art"; "How do you evaluate this grant proposal?" "We shouldn't pass judgment on other people"

label, judge, pronounce

v. pronounce judgment on; "They labeled him unfit to work here"

try, judge, adjudicate

v. put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of; "The football star was tried for the murder of his wife"; "The judge tried both father and son in separate trials"

estimate, gauge, guess, judge, approximate

v. judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time); "I estimate this chicken to weigh three pounds"

Adverbs (0)

Adjectives (7)

acceptable

adj. worthy of acceptance or satisfactory; "acceptable levels of radiation"; "performances varied from acceptable to excellent"

acceptable

adj. adequate for the purpose; "the water was acceptable for drinking"

acceptable

adj. worthy of acceptance or satisfactory; "acceptable levels of radiation"; "performances varied from acceptable to excellent"

acceptable, satisfactory

adj. meeting requirements; "the step makes a satisfactory seat"

acceptable, accepted

adj. judged to be in conformity with approved usage; "acceptable English usage"

Fuzzynyms (213)

analyst

n. an expert who studies financial data (on credit or securities or sales or financial patterns etc.) and recommends appropriate business actions

examiner, inspector

n. an investigator who observes carefully; "the examiner searched for clues"

investigator

n. someone who investigates

observer, commentator

n. an expert who observes and comments on something

epicure, gourmet, gastronome, epicurean, bon vivant

n. a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink)

expert

n. a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully

arbiter, arbitrator

n. someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue

premier, chancellor, prime minister

n. the person who is head of state (in several countries)

moderator

n. someone who mediates disputes and attempts to avoid violence

regard, view, see, reckon, take to be, consider

v. deem to be; "She views this quite differently from me"; "I consider her to be shallow"; "I don't see the situation quite as negatively as you do"

esteem, repute, think of, look on as, look upon, regard as, take to be

v. look on as or consider; "she looked on this affair as a joke"; "He thinks of himself as a brilliant musician"; "He is reputed to be intelligent"

admire, look up to

v. feel admiration for

revere, reverence, fear, venerate

v. regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of; "Fear God as your father"; "We venerate genius"

study, analyze, analyse, examine

v. consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning; "analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare"; "analyze the evidence in a criminal trial"; "analyze your real motives"

count

v. include as if by counting; "I can count my colleagues in the opposition"

hold, deem, take for, view as

v. keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view; "take for granted"; "view as important"; "hold these truths to be self-evident"; "I hold him personally responsible"

reward, honor, honour, bring honor to, do honor to

v. bestow honor or rewards upon; "Today we honor our soldiers"; "The scout was rewarded for courageous action"

think, guess, suppose, imagine, reckon

v. expect, believe, or suppose; "I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel"; "I thought to find her in a bad state"; "he didn't think to find her in the kitchen"; "I guess she is angry at me for standing her up"

assume, presume

v. take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof; "I assume his train was late"

proclaim, promulgate, exclaim

v. state or announce; "`I am not a Communist,' he exclaimed"; "The King will proclaim an amnesty"

declare, announce, announce officially

v. announce publicly or officially; "The President declared war"

blazon, emblazon, decorate with heraldic arms

v. decorate with heraldic arms

decree, command by decree, issue a decree

v. issue a decree; "The King only can decree"

ordain

v. issue an order

avow, avouch

v. admit openly and bluntly; make no bones about

place, order, range, rate, grade, rank

v. assign a rank or rating to; "how would you rank these students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide"

lecture, advocate, preach

v. speak, plead, or argue in favour of; "The doctor advocated a smoking ban in the entire house"

profess

v. confess one's faith in, or allegiance to; "The terrorists professed allegiance to the Muslim faith"; "he professes to be a Communist"

swan, affirm, avow, swear, assert, aver

v. to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true; "Before God I swear I am innocent"

state, say, tell

v. express in words; "He said that he wanted to marry her"; "tell me what is bothering you"; "state your opinion"; "state your name"

claim, lay claim to, make a claim to

v. lay claim to; as of an idea; "She took credit for the whole idea"

claim, postulate, contend, affirm strongly, assert strongly

v. assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing; "He claimed that he killed the burglar"

draw, describe, depict

v. represent by making a drawing of, as with a pencil, chalk, etc. on a surface; "She drew an elephant"; "Draw me a horse"

clear up, clarify, elucidate

v. make clear and (more) comprehensible; "clarify the mystery surrounding her death"

elaborate, expatiate, expound, expatiate on, expatiate upon, elaborate on, elaborate upon, flesh out, dilate on, enlarge on, expand on, dilate upon

v. add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing; "She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation"

hold, buy, believe

v. accept as true; take to be true; "I believed his report"; "We didn't believe his stories from the War"; "She believes in spirits"

narrate, provide a commentary for

v. provide commentary for a film, for example

spin, recount, tell, recite, narrate

v. narrate or give a detailed account of; "Tell what happened"; "The father told a story to his child"

relate, give an account of

v. give an account of; "The witness related the events"

relate

v. have or establish a relationship to; "She relates well to her peers"

report, describe, report on

v. give information

report, turn in, inform on

v. make known to the authorities; "One student reported the other to the principal"

referee, umpire

v. be a referee or umpire in a sports competition

mediate, arbitrate

v. act between parties with a view to reconciling differences; "He interceded in the family dispute"; "He mediated a settlement"

control, curb, moderate, restrain, contain, hold in

v. lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits; "moderate your alcohol intake"; "hold your tongue"; "hold your temper"; "control your anger"

surmise, suspect

v. imagine to be the case or true or probable; "I suspect he is a fugitive"; "I surmised that the butler did it"

price, set the price of

v. determine the price of; "The grocer priced his wares high"

figure, estimate, forecast, reckon, calculate, count on

v. judge to be probable

measure, value, rate, appraise, evaluate, assess, place a valuation on, place a value on

v. place a value on; judge the worth of something; "I will have the family jewels appraised by a professional"

graduate, calibrate, fine tune

v. make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring; "calibrate an instrument"; "graduate a cylinder"

measure, quantify, express as a quantity

v. express as a number or measure or quantity; "Can you quantify your results?"

promise, anticipate, prognosticate, foretell, predict, forebode

v. make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome of an election"

foresee, envision

v. picture to oneself; imagine possible; "I cannot envision him as President"

speculate, indulge in speculations

v. talk over conjecturally, or review in an idle or casual way and with an element of doubt or without sufficient reason to reach a conclusion; "We were speculating whether the President had to resign after the scandal"

fair, adequate, passable, fair to middling

adj. about average; acceptable; "more than adequate as a secretary"

admissible

adj. deserving to be admitted; "admissible evidence"

allowable, permitted

adj. "a degree of freedom allowable among friends"

permissible

adj. that may be permitted especially as according to rule; "permissible behavior in school"; "a permissible tax deduction"

decent, comfortable

adj. sufficient to provide comfort; "a comfortable salary"

respectable

adj. characterized by proper behavior or conventional conduct; worthy of respect; "a respectable woman"

sufficient

adj. of a quantity that can fulfill a need or requirement but without being abundant; "sufficient food"

fair, middling, average, mediocre

adj. lacking exceptional quality or ability; "a novel of average merit"; "only a fair performance of the sonata"; "in fair health"; "the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average"; "the performance was middling at best"

nice, decent

adj. socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous; "from a decent family"; "a nice girl"

yielding, obliging, complying

adj. (compliant)

legal

adj. established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules

presentable

adj. fit to be seen; "presentable clothes"

appropriate

adj. suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc; "a book not appropriate for children"; "a funeral conducted the appropriate solemnity"; "it seems that an apology is appropriate"

proper

adj. marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness; "proper medical treatment"; "proper manners"

valid

adj. well grounded in logic or truth or having legal force; "a valid inference"; "a valid argument"; "a valid contract"; "a valid license"

genuine

adj. not fake or counterfeit; "a genuine Picasso"; "genuine leather"

permissible

adj. that may be accepted or conceded; "a kind of speculation that was permissible in cosmology but inadmissible in medicine"

admissible

adj. deserving to be admitted; "admissible evidence"

allowable

adj. deserving to be allowed or considered

given, granted

adj. acknowledged as a supposition; "given the engine's condition, it is a wonder that it started"

Synonyms (45)

satisfactory

adj. giving satisfaction; "satisfactory living conditions"; "his grades were satisfactory"

appropriate, suitable, suited

adj. meant or adapted for an occasion or use; "a tractor suitable (or fit) for heavy duty"; "not an appropriate (or fit) time for flippancy"

fair, adequate, passable, fair to middling

adj. about average; acceptable; "more than adequate as a secretary"

okay, ok, all-right, O.K., all right

adj. being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition; "an all-right movie"; "the passengers were shaken up but are all right"; "is everything all right?"; "everything's fine"; "things are okay"; "dinner and the movies had been fine"; "another minute I'd have been fine"

alright

adj. nonstandard usage

satisfying, cheering, comforting

adj. providing freedom from worry

copacetic, copasetic, copesetic, copesettic

adj. completely satisfactory; "his smile said that everything was copacetic"; "You had to be a good judge of what a man was like, and the English was copacetic"- John O'Hara

passing

adj. allowing you to pass (e.g., an examination or inspection) satisfactorily; "a passing grade"

right

adj. in or into a satisfactory condition; "things are right again now"; "put things right"

smashing, cracking, cool, swell, keen, bully, dandy, neat, great, groovy, bang-up, corking, nifty, peachy, slap-up, not bad

adj. very good; "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing"

good enough

adj. adequately good for the circumstances; "if it's good enough for you it's good enough for me"

goodish

adj. moderately good of its kind; "a goodish wine"

positive

adj. "a positive attitude"

redeeming

adj. compensating for some fault or defect; "the redeeming feature of the plan is its simplicity"; "his saving grace was his sense of humor"

suitable

adj. worthy of being chosen especially as a spouse; "the parents found the girl suitable for their son"

well-behaved

adj. (usually of children) someone who behaves in a manner that the speaker believes is correct; "a well-behaved child"

Antonyms (6)

reason, think logically

v. think logically; "The children must learn to reason"

unacceptable

adj. not acceptable; not welcome; "a word unacceptable in polite society"; "an unacceptable violation of personal freedom"

unsatisfactory

adj. not giving satisfaction; "shops should take back unsatisfactory goods"; "her performance proved to be unsatisfactory"; "life is becoming increasingly unsatifactory"; "our discussion was very unsatisfactory"

inadmissible

adj. not deserving to be admitted; "inadmissible evidence"

unsatisfactory

judge acceptable

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