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Antonyms for condemn
kənˈdɛmcon·demn

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Wiktionary3.0 / 2 votes

  1. condemnverb

    Antonyms:
    save

    Synonyms:
    damn

  2. condemnverb

    To confer some sort of eternal divine punishment upon.

    Antonyms:
    save

    Synonyms:
    damn

  3. condemnverb

    To adjudge (a building) as being unfit for habitation.

    The house was condemned after it was badly damaged by fire.

    Antonyms:
    save

    Synonyms:
    damn

  4. condemnverb

    To scold sharply; to excoriate the perpetrators of.

    Antonyms:
    save

    Synonyms:
    damn

  5. condemnverb

    To judicially pronounce (someone) guilty.

    Antonyms:
    save

    Synonyms:
    damn

  6. condemnverb

    To determine and declare (property) to be assigned to public use. See eminent domain

    Antonyms:
    save

    Synonyms:
    damn

  7. condemnverb

    To adjudge (food or drink) as being unfit for human consumption.

    Antonyms:
    save

    Synonyms:
    damn

  8. condemnverb

    To declare (a vessel) to be forfeited to the government, to be a prize, or to be unfit for service.

    Synonyms:
    damn

    Antonyms:
    save

English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. condemn

    To condemn is to pass judicial sentence or render judgment or decision against. We may censure silently; we condemn ordinarily by open and formal utterance. Condemn is more final than blame or censure; a condemned criminal has had his trial; a condemned building can not stand; a condemned ship can not sail. A person is convicted when his guilt is made clearly manifest to others; in somewhat archaic use, a person is said to be convicted when guilt is brought clearly home to his own conscience (convict in this sense being allied with convince, which see under PERSUADE); in legal usage one is said to be convicted only by the verdict of a jury. In stating the penalty of an offense, the legal word sentence is now more common than condemn; as, he was sentenced to imprisonment; but it is good usage to say, he was condemned to imprisonment. To denounce is to make public or official declaration against, especially in a violent and threatening manner.

    From the pulpits in the northern States Burr was denounced as an assassin.

    Coffin Building the Nation ch. 10, p. 137. [Harper & Bros. '83.]

    To doom is to condemn solemnly and consign to evil or destruction or to predetermine to an evil destiny; an inferior race in presence of a superior is doomed to subjugation or extinction. Compare ARRAIGN; REPROVE.

    Antonyms:
    absolve, acquit, applaud, approve, exonerate, justify, pardon, pardon, praise

    Synonyms:
    blame, censure, convict, denounce, doom, reprobate, reprove, sentence

    Preposition:
    The bandit was condemned to death for his crime.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms4.5 / 2 votes

  1. condemn

    Antonyms:
    absolve, acquit, exonerate, pardon, justify, approve

    Synonyms:
    blame, convict, reprove, cast, censure, denounce, doom, sentence

Princeton's WordNet5.0 / 2 votes

  1. condemn, reprobate, decry, objurgate, excoriateverb

    express strong disapproval of

    "We condemn the racism in South Africa"; "These ideas were reprobated"

    Synonyms:
    chasten, correct, castigate, doom, sentence, excoriate, reprobate, chastise, decry, chafe, objurgate

  2. condemnverb

    declare or judge unfit for use or habitation

    "The building was condemned by the inspector"

    Synonyms:
    decry, objurgate, doom, sentence, reprobate, excoriate

  3. condemnverb

    compel or force into a particular state or activity

    "His devotion to his sick wife condemned him to a lonely existence"

    Synonyms:
    decry, objurgate, doom, sentence, reprobate, excoriate

  4. condemnverb

    demonstrate the guilt of (someone)

    "Her strange behavior condemned her"

    Synonyms:
    decry, objurgate, doom, sentence, reprobate, excoriate

  5. sentence, condemn, doomverb

    pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law

    "He was condemned to ten years in prison"

    Synonyms:
    fate, doom, sentence, excoriate, designate, reprobate, decry, destine, objurgate

  6. condemnverb

    appropriate (property) for public use

    "the county condemned the land to build a highway"

    Synonyms:
    decry, objurgate, doom, sentence, reprobate, excoriate

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. condemnverb

    Antonyms:
    exonerate, exculpate, vindicate, absolve, justify, praise

    Synonyms:
    denounce, anathematize, curse, execrate, reprobate, doom, ban

How to use condemn in a sentence?

  1. Marco Rubio:

    You say, 'David Duke' to me, I say, 'racist,' immediately, why wouldn't he condemn the Ku Klux Klan? There is no room in the conservative movement and there is no room in the Republican Party for members of the Ku Klux Klan or racists like David Duke.

  2. Barack Obama:

    The recent terrorist attacks in Paris serve as a painful reminder of our obligation to condemn and combat rising anti-Semitism in all its forms, including the denial or trivialization of the Holocaust.

  3. Dimitris Kammenos:

    I am opposed to any related posts which were perceived or were insulting to groups of fellow citizens. With this statement, I want to personally apologize to anyone disturbed (by this), and categorically condemn racism, homophobia and anti-semitism.

  4. President Biden:

    There’s no other way to put it: the President of the United States refused to disavow white supremacists on the debate stage last night, are you willing, tonight, to condemn white supremacists and militia groups, and to say that they need to stand down and not add to the violence in a number of these cities, as we saw in Kenosha, and as we've seen in Portland.

  5. Gary Bauer:

    BDS is at its core anti-Semitic, its goal is to demonize and isolate the most free, pluralistic nation in the Middle East. Every elected official in both parties should condemn it.

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#400save
#6468approve
#6760praise
#9531justify
#17724pardon
#21118condemn
#27690applaud
#74511absolve
#95762acquit
#113449exonerate

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