Synonyms for implore
Most common
Definitions
- v. 1
To beg or plead that (someone) earnestly or urgently do something; to beseech, to entreat.
Related words
- Word family
- imploring imploration
Forms
- Past participle
- implored
e.g. implored → begged, beseeched, entreated, supplicated…
Choose the right word
To implore is to ask with weeping and lamentation; to supplicate is to ask, as it were, on bended knees.
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.
- entreat I entreat you to go and see him.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| implore | rising | |
| beg | steady | |
| plead | steady | |
| entreat | rising | |
| supplicate | steady | |
| exhort | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- ask1, beg1
- 4 letters
- pray1
- 5 letters
- plead1, crave1
- 6 letters
- appeal2, invoke2, exhort2, adjure, obtest
- 7 letters
- solicit3, conjure2, beseech2, entreat
- 8 letters
- petition3
- 9 letters
- importune, impetrate
- 10 letters
- supplicate
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (appeal2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- adjurer
- Italiano
- scongiurare