Synonyms for confer
Definitions
- v. 1
To talk together, to consult, discuss; to collogue.
They were in a huddle, conferring about something.
- v. 2
To grant as a possession; to bestow.
The college has conferred an honorary degree upon the visiting Prime Minister.
Related words
- Word family
- conferment conferral conferrer conference
Forms
- Past participle
- conferred
e.g. conferred → consulted, imparted, discussed, advised…
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Consult and confer always imply two or more persons, as does debate, unless expressly limited as above. Confer suggests the interchange of counsel, advice, or information; consult indicates almost exclusively the receiving of it.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- discuss I have a lot of friends I can discuss things with.
- advise Please advise me of the date for the next meeting.
- consult You had better consult a doctor about your health.
- impart Let me impart these few words of wisdom to you.
- grant My father, God grant him peace, was an accountant.
- bestow That's a real strongman, bestow upon him a goblet of wine!
By length
- 2 letters
- do1
- 4 letters
- give1, talk1, lend1
- 5 letters
- treat1, grant1, yield1
- 6 letters
- afford2, advise2, accord2, render2, impart2, bestow2, parlay2, confab
- 7 letters
- present2, discuss2, counsel2, consult2, palaver
- 8 letters
- converse2
- 9 letters
- vouchsafe
- 10 letters
- deliberate4
- 11 letters
- communicate4, confabulate
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (afford2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- conférer
- Italiano
- conferire
- Español
- conversar
- Deutsch
- konferieren