Synonyms for entreat
Definitions
- v. 1
Senses relating to asking or pleading. To ask earnestly or beg for (something, such as a benefit or favour).
Related words
- Word family
- entreatingly entreaty
Forms
- Past participle
- entreated
e.g. entreated → beseeched, begged, implored, pled…
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Entreat implies a special earnestness of asking, and beseech, a still added and more humble intensity; beseech was formerly often used as a polite intensive for beg or pray; as, I beseech you to tell me.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- beg I beg your pardon; I didn't quite catch your name.
- plead Tom is likely to plead guilty to all three charges.
- implore "I implore you not to do this, Jack," she cried.
- beseech But he said: I beseech thee, Lord, send whom thou wilt send.
By length
- 3 letters
- ask1, beg1
- 4 letters
- pray1, urge1
- 5 letters
- press1, plead1, crave1
- 6 letters
- appeal2, invite2, invoke2, adjure, obtest
- 7 letters
- request2, conjure2, solicit3, implore2, beseech2
- 8 letters
- petition3
- 9 letters
- importune, impetrate
- 10 letters
- supplicate
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (appeal2 = 2 syllables).