Synonyms for address
- verb
- noun
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Court — to make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo
court, request, woo, petition, solicit, appeal, spark, romance, beau
3. Accost
accost, approach, come up to, greet, hail, make up to slang, apostrophize rare, apostrophise UK
4. Speak to — to direct attention towards a problem or obstacle, in an attempt to resolve it
Other
name, call, alleviate, turn to, dedicate, prefer, direct dated, superscribe rare, dight dated, beclothe dated
Noun
1. Facility
facility, ability, readiness, art, tact, dexterity, ingenuity, cleverness, adroitness, skill dated
2. Speech
3. Salutation
Other
reference, application, destination, manner, dedication, manners, put-on informal, savoir-faire, direction dated, superscription rare
Definitions
- v. 1
To make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo.
- v. 2
To direct attention towards a problem or obstacle, in an attempt to resolve it.
- n. 1
Direction. A manner of speaking or writing to another; language, style.
a man of pleasing or insinuating address
- n. 2
Direction. A formal approach to a sovereign or head of state, especially an official appeal or petition.
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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. Address is slightly more formal than accost or greet, though it may often be interchanged with them.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- deal The wholesalers might try to back out of the deal.
- field The players marched triumphantly across the field.
- name I beg your pardon; I didn't quite catch your name.
By length
- 3 letters
- art1, woo1
- 4 letters
- name1, call1, deal1, hail1, beau1, plow1, tact1
- 5 letters
- court1, field1, cover2, speak1, treat1, skill1, spark1, greet1, dight
- 6 letters
- direct2, handle2, speech1, appeal2, prefer2, manner2, salute2, accost2
- 7 letters
- ability4, request2, romance2, embrace2, lecture2, manners2, solicit3, oration3
- 8 letters
- approach2, facility4, petition3, greeting2, dedicate3, harangue2, beclothe
- 9 letters
- direction3, reference3, discourse2, readiness3, alleviate4, ingenuity5, dexterity4
- 10 letters
- dedication4, cleverness3, salutation, allocution, adroitness
- 11 letters
- application4, destination4, superscribe
- 12 letters
- apostrophize, apostrophise
- 14 letters
- superscription
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (cover2 = 2 syllables).