Synonyms for supplicate
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Entreat — to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority); to beg, to beseech, to entreat. Of a…
entreat, beseech, implore, beg, invoke, crave, appeal, conjure, importune, adjure, pray dated, obtest dated
2. Petition — to make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority); to beg, to beseech, to entreat
petition, obsecrate, sifflicate, thig dated UK
Definitions
- v. 1
To make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority); to beg, to beseech, to entreat.
- v. 2
To make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority); to beg, to beseech, to entreat. Of a member of the university, or an alumnus or alumna of another university seeking a degree ad eundem: to make a formal request (to the university) that an academic degree be awarded to oneself.
Related words
- Word family
- supplicant supplication supplicatory
Forms
- Past participle
- supplicated
e.g. supplicated → entreated, beseeched, implored, begged…
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.
- implore "I implore you not to do this, Jack," she cried.
- beseech But he said: I beseech thee, Lord, send whom thou wilt send.
- entreat I entreat you to go and see him.
By length
- 3 letters
- beg1
- 4 letters
- pray1, thig
- 5 letters
- plead1, crave1
- 6 letters
- appeal2, invoke2, adjure, obtest
- 7 letters
- procure2, conjure2, solicit3, implore2, beseech2, entreat
- 8 letters
- petition3
- 9 letters
- importune, obsecrate
- 10 letters
- sifflicate
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (appeal2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- supplier
- Italiano
- supplicare
- Español
- suplicar
- Deutsch
- anflehen