Antonyms for confess
kənˈfɛscon·fess

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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 AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. confess

   Antonyms:
   disaver, disavow, suppress, silentiate, deny

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

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1. • Admit

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:1.0 / 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

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1. confessverb

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

How to use confess in a sentence?

1. Otep Shamaya:

   It’s infuriating to know that this band was in prison and could face death just for making an art form and speaking their own truth, what is also important here is that not everyone in Iran is an extremist and that there are many there who still value self-expression. They [ Confess ] took a chance to make art that they felt compelled to do.

2. Jurgen Otto:

   They are harmless, they are cute, they are colorful, they remind people of their own cat. I often compare them with kittens with too many legs, so really people get excited when they see them, people who hate spiders confess that they actually can't help loving these ones and in time this will just change the opinions people have of spiders, I hope.

3. John Crist:

   Over the past number of years, various women have accused me of behavior that has been hurtful to them, while I am not guilty of everything Ive been accused of, I confess to being guilty of this I have treated relationships with women far too casually, in some cases even recklessly. My behavior has been destructive and sinful.

4. Human Rights Watch:

   Police are torturing criminal suspects to get them to confess to crimes and courts are convicting people who confessed under torture.

5. Vincent Van Gogh:

   I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.

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