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Antonyms for confess
kənˈfɛscon·fess

This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term confess.

English Synonyms and Antonyms2.0 / 1 vote

  1. confess

    We accept another's statement; admit any point made against us; acknowledge what we have said or done, good or bad; avow our individual beliefs or feelings; certify to facts within our knowledge; confess our own faults; endorse a friend's note or statement; grant a request; own our faults or obligations; recognize lawful authority; concede a claim. Confess has a high and sacred use in the religious sense; as, to confess Christ before men. It may have also a playful sense (often with to); as, one confesses to a weakness for confectionery. The chief present use of the word, however, is in the sense of making known to others one's own wrong-doing; in this sense confess is stronger than acknowledge or admit, and more specific than own; a person admits a mistake; acknowledges a fault; confesses sin or crime. Compare APOLOGY; AVOW.

    Antonyms:
    cloak, conceal, cover, deny, disavow, disguise, disown, dissemble, dissimulate, hide, mask, repudiate, screen, secrete, veil

    Synonyms:
    accept, acknowledge, admit, allow, avow, certify, concede, disclose, endorse, grant, own, recognize

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms1.0 / 1 vote

  1. confess

    Antonyms:
    disaver, disavow, suppress, silentiate, deny

    Synonyms:
    avow, aver, own, reveal, disclose, acknowledge

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Princeton's WordNet1.0 / 5 votes

  1. confess, squeal, finkverb

    confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure

    Synonyms:
    oink, scab, fink, squeal, concede, profess, blackleg, rat

  2. concede, profess, confessverb

    admit (to a wrongdoing)

    "She confessed that she had taken the money"

    Synonyms:
    yield, cede, pretend, grant, concede, profess, fink, squeal

  3. confessverb

    confess to God in the presence of a priest, as in the Catholic faith

    Synonyms:
    fink, concede, squeal, profess

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. confessverb

    Synonyms:
    acknowledge, own, admit, avow, divulge, disclose, reveal

How to use confess in a sentence?

  1. Bernie Sanders:

    I must confess, I was dumb, during this campaign, I've been doing, in some cases three or four rallies a day, running all over the state -- Iowa, New Hampshire, wherever. And yet I, in the last month of two, just was more fatigued than I usually have been.

  2. Barack Obama:

    I'm the first to confess, you know, I was not able to give this message effectively, it's just not the stuff that moved people to vote, and the other side didn't get punished for it.

  3. Saint Jerome:

    The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

  4. Whenever Langston:

    I want to say I stole a 50 cent off your desk, i didn't think he would've noticed 50 cents gone him from his desk. So, throughout the day, he kept just picking about it, throwing out hints that he knows that it's gone. So I had to confess because it was eating me up on the inside. I was like, ‘Pastor, I can't lie. I stole 50 cents from your desk.’ And he tried to act shocked.

  5. Andrea Velez:

    I confess that I sinned, but I paid a high price for my faults.

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#16683suppress
#17738veil
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#24594conceal
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#82810repudiate
#111844disown
#114534disavow
#181493dissemble

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