Antonyms for tell
tɛltell

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1. tell

   To announce is to give intelligence of in some formal or public way. We may announce that which has occurred or that which is to occur, tho the word is chiefly used in the anticipative sense; we announce a book when it is in press, a guest when he arrives. We advertise our business, communicate our intentions, enunciate our views; we notify an individual, give notice to the public. Declare has often an authoritative force; to declare war is to cause war to be, where before there may have been only hostilities; we say declare war, proclaim peace. We propound a question or an argument, promulgate the views of a sect or party, or the decision of a court, etc. We report an interview, reveal a secret, herald the coming of some distinguished person or great event. Publish, in popular usage, is becoming closely restricted to the sense of issuing through the press; we announce a book that is to be published.

   Antonyms:
   bury, conceal, cover (up), hide, hush, keep back, keep secret, secrete, suppress, withhold

   Synonyms:
   advertise, announce, circulate, communicate, declare, enunciate, give notice (of), give out, herald, make known, notify, proclaim, promulgate, propound, publish, report, reveal, say, spread abroad, state

   Preposition:
   The event was announced to the family by telegraph.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.0 / 3 votes

1. tell

   Antonyms:
   repress, suppress, misrecount, misnarrate, miscommunicate, misdeclare, misrecite, misjudge, misdescribe

   Synonyms:
   mention, number, enumerate, count, recount, utter, recite, state, narrate, disclose, publish, betray, divulge, promulgate, acquaint, teach, inform, explain, communicate, report, rehearse, discern, judge, discriminate, ascertain, decide, describe

Matched Categories

1. • Affirm
   • Express
   • Guess
   • Identify
   • Inform
   • Request

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1. Tell, William Tellverb

   a Swiss patriot who lived in the early 14th century and who was renowned for his skill as an archer; according to legend an Austrian governor compelled him to shoot an apple from his son's head with his crossbow (which he did successfully without mishap)

2. state, say, tellverb

   express in words

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

   Synonyms:
   enunciate, express, sound out, aver, recite, enounce, distinguish, recount, secern, state, say, narrate, evidence, suppose, submit, articulate, assure, put forward, posit, severalise, separate, pronounce, enjoin, severalize, secernate, allege, read, tell apart, differentiate, order

3. tellverb

   let something be known

   "Tell them that you will be late"

   Synonyms:
   distinguish, recite, differentiate, say, recount, state, narrate, evidence, assure, severalise, enjoin, severalize, secernate, secern, tell apart, separate, order

4. tell, narrate, recount, reciteverb

   narrate or give a detailed account of

   "Tell what happened"; "The father told a story to his child"

   Synonyms:
   distinguish, recite, itemise, differentiate, say, recount, state, narrate, evidence, retell, assure, itemize, severalise, declaim, enjoin, severalize, secernate, secern, tell apart, separate, order, enumerate

5. order, tell, enjoin, sayverb

   give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority

   "I said to him to go home"; "She ordered him to do the shopping"; "The mother told the child to get dressed"

   Synonyms:
   tell apart, distinguish, dictate, suppose, place, ordain, put, differentiate, read, pronounce, range, enjoin, enounce, enunciate, evidence, regulate, state, assure, say, govern, severalize, arrange, separate, regularize, severalise, ordinate, regularise, grade, aver, articulate, secern, set up, allege, rank, consecrate, rate, recite, narrate, recount, sound out, prescribe, order, secernate

6. tellverb

   discern or comprehend

   "He could tell that she was unhappy"

   Synonyms:
   distinguish, recite, differentiate, say, recount, state, narrate, evidence, assure, severalise, enjoin, severalize, secernate, secern, tell apart, separate, order

7. assure, tellverb

   inform positively and with certainty and confidence

   "I tell you that man is a crook!"

   Synonyms:
   tell apart, ensure, reassure, state, say, severalize, recount, control, narrate, promise, enjoin, check, guarantee, secern, differentiate, severalise, separate, recite, ascertain, assure, secernate, see to it, distinguish, insure, order, evidence, secure, see

8. tell, evidenceverb

   give evidence

   "he was telling on all his former colleague"

   Synonyms:
   distinguish, demonstrate, recite, certify, differentiate, testify, say, recount, prove, state, bear witness, narrate, evidence, assure, severalise, enjoin, severalize, secernate, secern, tell apart, separate, order, manifest, show, attest

9. distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell apartverb

   mark as different

   "We distinguish several kinds of maple"

   Synonyms:
   tell apart, distinguish, classify, discriminate, spot, mark, differentiate, sort, signalise, enjoin, split up, key out, evidence, break up, divide, come apart, single out, part, state, pick out, order, carve up, key, severalize, split, assure, speciate, separate, fall apart, severalise, furcate, dissever, signalize, assort, specialize, recount, class, identify, make out, specialise, branch, discern, secern, recognize, recite, name, disunite, recognise, narrate, describe, break, sort out, ramify, fork, discover, secernate, say

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1. tellverb

   Antonyms:
   suppress, reserve, withhold, forbear

   Synonyms:
   mention, recount, relate, narrate, enumerate, advise, inform, recite, disclose, bruit, divulge, proclaim, expose, apprise, peach, communicate, acquaint, notify, reveal, discern

How to use tell in a sentence?

1. Cari Noriega:

   My friend was hurt a long time ago and I didn't know why. If I knew about it back then, we would have gone after him. But I understand why she didn't tell me.

2. Ignacio Caride:

   We could never tell anybody that they can't sell to someone else, if we think there's an opportunity to lower our prices, because we see better prices at other retailers, we're going to negotiate for that access.

3. Brian Leavey:

   I just I battled a lot, my first thought was like, 'Well, my dad was a happy person and I want to be happy,' but also knowing that it was OK to have to cry and to have feelings I think was very important for me. I wish I could tell my 10-year-old self now and embrace that 10-year-old self of mine.

4. Marc Maron:

   The real problem is that female comics have been hearing about this stuff or a while, and there was no place where they could go with that information, so, when it comes to believing women, I want to believe women, but in this particular instance, there was no one named in that story. There was no place for women to go tell this story. There were no women attached to it. I did n’t know their names until Friday … So I believed my friend.

5. Alex Garland:

   That is effectively dramatized and represented within the film because Ava’s sentience comes partly out of the inputs that we’ve put into search engines, there was a loose idea, and this probably does n’t stand up to any scrutiny at all, but for what it’s worth, that if you were to look at everybody’s search engine inputs you ’d get a kind of map and the map would not just tell you what they were thinking about but also how they were thinking because of the strange jumps that people make in their input.

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