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English Synonyms and Antonyms2.0 / 1 vote

  1. greetverb

    To accost is to speak first, to friend or stranger, generally with a view to opening conversation; greet is not so distinctly limited, since one may return another's greeting; greet and hail may imply but a passing word; greeting may be altogether silent; to hail is to greet in a loud-voiced and commonly hearty and joyous way, as appears in the expression "hail fellow, well met." To salute is to greet with special token of respect, as a soldier his commander. To apostrophize is to solemnly address some person or personified attribute apart from the audience to whom one is speaking; as, a preacher may apostrophize virtue, the saints of old, or even the Deity. To appeal is strictly to call for some form of help or support. Address is slightly more formal than accost or greet, though it may often be interchanged with them. One may address another at considerable length or in writing; he accosts orally and briefly.

    Synonyms:
    address, address, apostrophize, appeal, approach, cost, court, hail, salute, speak to, woo

    Antonyms:
    avoid, cut, elude, ignore, overlook, pass, pass by, shun

    Preposition:
    Address the memorial to the legislature; the president addressed the people in an eloquent speech; he addressed an intruder with indignation.

Princeton's WordNet4.5 / 2 votes

  1. greet, recognize, recogniseverb

    express greetings upon meeting someone

    Synonyms:
    know, recognise, realize, tell apart, agnize, spot, realise, acknowledge, distinguish, accredit, pick out, recognize, discern, make out, agnise

  2. greetverb

    send greetings to

    Synonyms:
    recognise, recognize

  3. greetverb

    react to in a certain way

    "The President was greeted with catcalls"

    Synonyms:
    recognise, recognize

  4. greetverb

    be perceived by

    "Loud music greeted him when he entered the apartment"

    Synonyms:
    recognise, recognize

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. greetverb

    Synonyms:
    salute, welcome, hail, address, accost

  2. greetverb

    Synonyms:
    compliment, send greeting to

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. greetverb

    Synonyms:
    address, salute, hail, accost

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "greet":

    welcome, salute, commend

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#10269distinguish
#12168recognise
#12748realise
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#25147commend
#26968discern
#89015accredit

How to use greet in a sentence?

  1. Laurence Hope:

    For this is Wisdom to love, to live To take what fate, or the Gods may give. To ask no question, to make no prayer, To kiss the lips and caress the hair, Speed passion's ebb as you greet its flow To have, - to hold - and - in time, - let go

  2. Kim Jong:

    I was excited to meet at this historic place and it is really moving that you came all the way to the demarcation line to greet me in person, a new history starts now. An age of peace, from the starting point of history.

  3. Bethany Mandel:

    If you can't say a woman is a woman and a man is a man, you can't greet someone, and so it's a really sort of terrifying environment for him to work in eight hours a day.

  4. Matt Youngquist:

    Especially for introverts, it gives you something to do, you can greet people when they come in. You will get far more mileage networking if you are involved in the planning.

  5. Jonathan Reiner:

    I don't think I'm going to be doing it, wearing a face mask as I greet presidents, prime ministers, dictators, kings, queens -- I just don't see it.


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