#480. Judgment. [Conclusion.] -- N. result

• • conclusion

  • upshot;

  • deduction

  • inference

  • ergotism[Med]

  • illation

  • corollary

  • moral

  • estimation

  • valuation

  • appreciation

  • adjudication

  • arbitrament

  • arbitration

  • assessment

  • valorization

  • award

  • estimate

  • review

  • criticism

  • critique

  • notice

  • report

  • decision

  • determination

  • judgment

  • finding

  • verdict

  • sentence

  • decree;

  • findings of fact

  • findings of law

  • res judicata[Lat]

  • plebiscite

  • voice

  • casting vote

  • vote

  • opinion

  • (belief)

  • good judgment

  • judge

  • umpire

  • arbiter

  • arbitrator

  • asessor

  • referee

  • censor

  • reviewer

  • critic

  • connoisseur

  • commentator

  • inspector

  • inspecting officer

  • twenty-twenty hindsight[judgment after the fact]

  • armchair general

  • monday morning quarterback

  • V. judge

  • conclude

  • come to a conclusion

  • draw a conclusion

  • arrive at

  • a conclusion

  • ascertain

  • determine

  • make up one's mind

  • deduce

  • derive

  • gather

  • collect

  • draw an inference

  • make a deduction

  • weet|

  • form an estimate

  • estimate

  • appreciate

  • value

  • count

  • assess

  • rate

  • rank

  • account

  • regard

  • consider

  • think of

  • look upon

  • review

  • size up *

  • settle

  • pass an opinion

  • give an opinion

  • decide

  • try

  • pronounce

  • rule

  • pass judgment

  • pass sentence

  • sentence

  • doom

  • find

  • give judgment

  • deliver judgment

  • adjudge

  • adjudicate

  • arbitrate

  • award

  • report

  • bring in a

  • verdict

  • make absolute

  • set a question at rest

  • confirm

  • comment

  • criticize

  • kibitz

  • pass under review

  • investigate

  • hold the scales

  • sit in judgment

  • try judgment

  • hear a cause

  • Adj. judging

  • judicious

  • determinate

  • conclusive

  • Adv. on the whole

  • all things considered

  • Phr. "a Daniel come to judgment" [Merchant of Venice]

  • "and stand a

  • critic

  • hated yet caress'd" [Byron]

  • "it is much easier to be critical than

  • to be correct" [Disraeli]

  • la critique est aisee et l'art est

  • "nothing if not critical" [Othello]

  • "O most lame and

  • impotent conclusion" [Othello]

#480a. [Result of search or inquiry.] Discovery. -- N. discovery

• • detection

  • disenchantment

  • disclosure

  • find

  • revelation

  • trover

  • V. discover

  • find

  • determine

  • evolve

  • learn

  • fix upon

  • pick

  • up

  • find out

  • trace out

  • make out

  • hunt out

  • fish out

  • worm out

  • ferret

  • out

  • root out

  • fathom

  • bring out

  • draw out

  • educe

  • elicit

  • bring to light;

  • dig out

  • grub up

  • fish up

  • unearth

  • disinter

  • solve

  • resolve

  • elucidate

  • unriddle

  • unravel

  • unlock

  • crack

  • crack

  • open

  • pick up

  • open the lock

  • find a clue

  • find clew a to

  • find the key to

  • the riddle

  • interpret

  • disclose

  • trace

  • get at

  • hit it

  • have it

  • lay one's finger

  • lay one's hands

  • upon

  • spot

  • get at the truth

  • arrive at the truth

  • put the saddle

  • on the right horse

  • hit the right nail on the head

  • be near the truth

  • be warm

  • get warmer

  • burn

  • smoke

  • scent

  • sniff

  • catch a whiff of

  • smell a rat

  • open the eyes to

  • see through

  • see daylight

  • see in its true colors

  • see the cloven foot

  • detect

  • catch

  • catch tripping

  • pitch upon

  • fall upon

  • light upon

  • hit upon

  • stumble upon

  • pop upon;

  • come across

  • come onto

  • meet with

  • meet up with

  • fall in with

  • recognize

  • realize

  • verify

  • make certain of

  • identify

#481. Misjudgment. -- N. misjudgment

• • obliquity of judgment;

  • miscalculation

  • miscomputation

  • misconception

  • hasty

  • conclusion

  • [causes of misjudgment. 1] prejudgment

  • prejudice

  • foregone conclusion

  • prevention

  • preconception

  • predilection

  • prepossession

  • presumption

  • assumption

  • presentiment

  • fixed idea

  • preconceived idea

  • id_e fixe

  • mentis

  • gratissimus error[Lat]

  • fool's paradise

  • [causes of misjudgment.2] esprit de corps

  • party spirit

  • partisanship

  • clannishness

  • prestige

  • [causes of misjudgment. 3] bias

  • bigotry

  • warp

  • twist

  • hobby

  • fad

  • quirk

  • crotchet

  • partiality

  • infatuation

  • blind side

  • mote in the eye

  • [causes of misjudgment. 4] one-sided views

  • one-track mind

  • partial

  • views

  • narrow views

  • confined views

  • superficial views

  • one-sided ideas

  • partial ideas

  • narrow ideas

  • confined ideas

  • superficial ideas

  • one-sided

  • conceptions

  • partial conceptions

  • narrow conceptions

  • confined conceptions

  • superficial conceptions

  • one-sided notions

  • partial notions

  • narrow

  • notions

  • confined notions

  • superficial notions

  • narrow mind

  • bigotry

  • (obstinacy) 60

  • odium theologicum[Lat]

  • pedantry

  • hypercriticism

  • doctrinaire

  • [causes of misjudgment. 5] overestimation

  • underestimation

  • 483

  • [causes of misjudgment. 6] ignorance

  • assumptions

  • erroneous data

  • mistaken assumptions

  • incorrect assumptions

  • (error) 495

  • V. misjudge

  • misestimate

  • misconceive

  • fly in the face of facts

  • miscalculate

  • misreckon

  • miscompute

  • overestimate

  • underestimate

  • prejudge

  • forejudge

  • presuppose

  • presume

  • dogmatize

  • have a bias

  • have only one idea

  • jurare in verba

  • magistri[Lat]

  • run away with the notion

  • jump to a conclusion

  • rush to a

  • conclusion

  • leap to a conclusion

  • judge hastily

  • shoot from the hip

  • jump

  • to conclusions

  • look only at one side of the shield

  • view with jaundiced

  • eye

  • view through distorting spectacles

  • not see beyond one's nose

  • dare

  • pondus fumo[Lat]

  • get the wrong sow by the ear

  • give a bias

  • give a twist

  • bias

  • warp

  • twist

  • prejudice

  • prepossess

  • Adj. misjudging

  • ill-judging

  • wrong-headed

  • prejudiced

  • jaundiced

  • shortsighted

  • purblind

  • partial

  • one-sided

  • superficial

  • narrow-minded

  • mean-spirited

  • confined

  • illiberal

  • intolerant

  • besotted

  • infatuated

  • fanatical

  • positive

  • dogmatic

  • conceited

  • opinative

  • opinioned

  • opinionate

  • opinionative

  • opinionated

  • self-opinioned

  • wedded to an

  • opinion

  • opini_tre

  • bigoted

  • crotchety

  • fussy

  • impracticable

  • unreasonable

  • stupid

  • credulous

  • warped

  • misjudged

  • Adv. ex parte[Lat]

  • Phr. nothing like leather

  • the wish the father to the thought

  • wishful

  • thinking

  • unshakable conviction

  • "my mind is made up - don't bother me with

  • the facts"

#482. Overestimation. -- N. overestimation

• • exaggeration

  • 5

  • vanity

  • optimism

  • pessimism

  • pessimist. much cry and little

  • wool

  • much ado about nothing

  • storm in a teacup

  • tempest in a teacup

  • fine

  • talking

  • V. overestimate

  • overrate

  • overvalue

  • overprize

  • overweigh

  • overstrain

  • overpraise

  • eulogize

  • estimate too highly

  • attach too much importance to

  • make mountains of molehills

  • catch at

  • straws

  • strain

  • magnify

  • exaggerate

  • set too high a value upon;

  • think much of

  • make much of

  • think too much of

  • make too much of;

  • extol

  • extol to the skies

  • make the most of

  • make the best of

  • make

  • the worst of

  • make two bites of a cherry

  • have too high an opinion of oneself

  • Adj. overestimated

  • oversensitive

  • Phr. all his geese are swans

  • parturiunt montes[Lat]

#483. Underestimation. -- N. underestimation

• • depreciation

  • (detraction) 9

  • pessimism

  • pessimist

  • undervaluing

  • modesty

  • 881

  • V. underrate

  • underestimate

  • undervalue

  • depreciate

  • disparage

  • not do justice to

  • misprize

  • disprize

  • ridicule

  • slight

  • neglect

  • slur

  • over

  • make light of

  • make little of

  • make nothing of

  • make no account of;

  • belittle

  • minimize

  • think nothing of

  • set no store by

  • set at naught

  • shake

  • off as dewdrops from the lion's mane

  • Adj. depreciating

  • depreciated

  • unvalued

#484. Belief. -- N. belief

• • credence

  • credit

  • assurance

  • faith

  • trust

  • troth

  • confidence

  • presumption

  • sanguine expectation

  • dependence on

  • reliance on

  • persuasion

  • conviction

  • self-

  • conviction

  • certainty

  • opinion

  • mind

  • view

  • conception

  • thinking;

  • impression

  • surmise

  • conclusion

  • tenet

  • dogma

  • principle

  • way of thinking

  • popular belief

  • 488

  • firm belief

  • implicit belief

  • settled belief

  • fixed rooted deep-rooted

  • belief

  • staunch belief

  • unshaken belief

  • steadfast belief

  • inveterate

  • belief

  • calm belief

  • sober belief

  • dispassionate belief

  • impartial belief

  • well-founded belief

  • firm opinion

  • implicit opinion

  • settled opinion

  • fixed

  • rooted deep-rooted opinion

  • staunch opinion

  • unshaken opinion

  • steadfast

  • opinion

  • inveterate opinion

  • calm opinion

  • sober opinion

  • dispassionate

  • opinion

  • impartial opinion

  • well-founded opinion

  • uberrima

  • system of opinions

  • school

  • doctrine

  • articles

  • canons

  • article of

  • faith

  • declaration of faith

  • profession of faith

  • tenets

  • creed

  • thirty-nine articles

  • catechism

  • assent

  • 48

  • propaganda

  • credibility

  • V. believe

  • credit

  • give faith to

  • give credit to

  • credence to

  • see

  • realize

  • assume

  • receive

  • set down for

  • take for

  • have it

  • take it;

  • consider

  • esteem

  • presume

  • count upon

  • depend upon

  • calculate upon

  • pin one's faith upon

  • reckon

  • upon

  • lean upon

  • build upon

  • rely upon

  • rest upon

  • lay one's account for;

  • make sure of

  • make oneself easy about

  • on that score

  • take on trust

  • take on credit;

  • take for granted

  • take for gospel

  • allow some weight to

  • attach some weight

  • to

  • know

  • know for certain

  • have know

  • make no doubt

  • doubt not

  • be

  • rest

  • assured

  • persuade oneself

  • assure oneself

  • satisfy oneself

  • make

  • up one's mind

  • give one credit for

  • confide in

  • believe in

  • put one's trust in

  • place

  • in

  • repose in

  • implicit confidence in

  • take one's word for

  • at one's word;

  • place reliance on

  • rely upon

  • swear by

  • regard to

  • think

  • hold

  • take

  • take it

  • opine

  • be of opinion

  • conceive

  • fancy

  • apprehend

  • have it

  • hold a belief

  • possess

  • entertain a belief

  • adopt a belief

  • imbibe a belief

  • embrace a belief

  • get

  • hold of a belief

  • hazard

  • foster

  • nurture a belief

  • cherish a belief

  • have

  • an opinion

  • hold an opinion

  • possess

  • entertain an opinion

  • adopt an

  • opinion

  • imbibe an opinion

  • embrace an opinion

  • get hold of an opinion

  • hazard an opinion

  • foster an opinion

  • nurture an opinion

  • cherish an

  • opinion

  • view as

  • consider as

  • take as

  • hold as

  • conceive as

  • regard as

  • esteem

  • as

  • deem as

  • look upon as

  • account as

  • set down as

  • surmise

  • get it into one's head

  • take it into one's head

  • come round to an

  • opinion

  • swallow

  • cause to be believed

  • satisfy

  • persuade

  • have the ear of

  • gain

  • the confidence of

  • assure

  • convince

  • convict|!

  • convert

  • wean

  • bring round;

  • bring over

  • win over

  • indoctrinate

  • cram down the throat;

  • produce conviction

  • carry conviction

  • bring home to

  • drive home to

  • go down

  • find credence

  • pass current

  • be received

  • be current

  • possess

  • take hold of

  • take possession of the mind

  • Adj. believing

  • certain

  • sure

  • assured

  • positive

  • cocksure

  • satisfied

  • confident

  • unhesitating

  • convinced

  • secure

  • under the impression

  • impressed with

  • imbued with

  • penetrated with

  • confiding

  • unsuspecting

  • unsuspicious

  • void of

  • suspicion

  • credulous

  • wedded to

  • believed

  • accredited

  • putative

  • unsuspected

  • worthy of

  • deserving of

  • commanding belief

  • credible

  • reliable

  • trustworthy

  • to be depended on

  • satisfactory

  • probably

  • fiduciary

  • persuasive

  • impressive

  • relating to belief

  • doctrinal

  • Adv. in the opinion of

  • in the eyes of

  • me judice[Lat];

  • methinks

  • to the best of one's belief

  • I dare say

  • I doubt

  • not

  • I have no doubt

  • I am sure

  • sure enough

  • depend

  • upon

  • rely upon it

  • be assured

  • rest assured

  • I'll warrant you

  • (affirmation) 535

  • Phr. experto crede [Lat][Vergil]

  • fata viam invenient [Lat]

  • Justitiae

  • soror incorrupta Fides[Lat]

  • "live to explain thy doctrine by thy life"

  • [Prior]

  • "stands not within the prospect of belief" [Macbeth]

  • tarde quae

  • credita laedunt credimus [Lat][Ovid]

  • vide et crede [Lat]

#485. Unbelief. Doubt.-- N. unbelief

• • disbelief

  • misbelief

  • discredit

  • infidelity

  • dissent

  • change of opinion

  • retraction

  • doubt

  • skepticism

  • scepticism

  • misgiving

  • demure

  • distrust

  • mistrust

  • cynicism

  • suspicion

  • jealousy

  • scruple

  • qualm

  • onus probandi[Lat]

  • incredibility

  • incredibleness

  • incredulity

  • [person who doubts] doubter

  • skeptic

  • cynic

  • unbeliever

  • V. disbelieve

  • discredit

  • not believe

  • refuse to admit

  • refuse to believe

  • doubt

  • be doubtful

  • doubt the truth of

  • be

  • skeptical as to

  • diffide|

  • distrust

  • mistrust

  • suspect

  • smoke

  • scent

  • smell a rat

  • have doubts

  • harbor doubts

  • entertain doubts

  • suspicions

  • have one's doubts

  • demure

  • stick at

  • pause

  • hesitate

  • scruple

  • stop to consider

  • waver

  • hang in suspense

  • hang in doubt

  • throw doubt upon

  • raise a question

  • bring in

  • call in question;

  • question

  • challenge

  • dispute

  • deny

  • cavil

  • cause a doubt

  • raise a

  • doubt

  • start a doubt

  • suggest a doubt

  • awake a doubt

  • make suspicion;

  • startle

  • stagger

  • shake one's faith

  • shake one's belief

  • stagger one's

  • faith

  • stagger one's belief

  • Adj. unbelieving

  • skeptical

  • sceptical

  • [transitive] incredulous as to

  • skeptical as to

  • distrustful as to

  • shy as to

  • suspicious of

  • doubting

  • doubtful

  • disputable

  • unworthy of

  • undeserving of

  • belief

  • questionable

  • suspect

  • suspicious

  • open to suspicion

  • open

  • to doubt

  • staggering

  • hard to believe

  • incredible

  • unbelievable

  • not to be

  • believed

  • inconceivable

  • impossible

  • fallible

  • undemonstrable

  • controvertible

  • (untrue) 495

  • Adv. cum grano salis[Latin: with a grain of salt]

  • with grains of

  • allowance

  • Phr. fronti nulla fides[Lat]

  • nimium ne crede colori [Lat][Vergil];

  • "timeo Danaos et dona ferentes" [Latin: I fear the Greeks even when

  • bearing gifts][Vergil]

  • beware of Greeks bearing gifts

  • credat Judaeus

  • Apella [Lat][Horace]

  • let those believe who may

  • ad tristem partem stenua

  • est suspicio [Lat][Syrus]

#486. Credulity. -- N. credulity

• • credulousness

  • cullibility|

  • gullibility

  • gross credulity

  • infatuation

  • self delusion

  • self deception

  • superstition

  • one's blind side

  • bigotry

  • 60

  • hyperorthodoxy

  • misjudgment

  • credulous person

  • V. be credulous

  • jurare in verba magistri[Lat]

  • follow

  • implicitly

  • swallow

  • gulp down

  • take on trust

  • take for granted

  • take for

  • gospel

  • run away with a notion

  • run away with an idea

  • jump to a

  • conclusion

  • rush to a conclusion

  • think the moon is made of green cheese;

  • take for granted

  • grasp the shadow for the substance

  • catch at straws

  • grasp at straws

  • impose upon

  • Adj. credulous

  • gullible

  • easily deceived

  • simple

  • green

  • soft

  • childish

  • silly

  • stupid

  • easily convinced

  • over-credulous

  • over

  • confident

  • over trustful

  • infatuated

  • superstitious

  • confiding

  • (believing) 484

  • Phr. the wish the father to the thought

  • credo quia impossibile

  • [Lat][Tertullian]

  • all is not gold that glitters

  • no es oro todo lo que

  • reluce[Sp]

  • omne ignotum pro magnifico[Lat]

  • incredulity;

  • skepticism

  • pyrrhonism|!

  • want of faith

  • suspiciousness

  • scrupulosity

  • suspicion

  • mistrust

  • cynicism

  • unbeliever

  • skeptic

  • cynic

  • misbeliever

  • pyrrhonist

  • heretic

  • (heterodox) 984

  • V. be incredulous

  • distrust

  • refuse to

  • believe

  • shut one's eyes to

  • shut one's ears to

  • turn a deaf ear to

  • hold

  • aloof

  • ignore

  • nullis jurare in verba magistri[Lat]

  • Adj. incredulous

  • skeptical

  • unbelieving

  • hard of

  • belief

  • shy of belief

  • disposed to doubt

  • indisposed to believe;

  • suspicious

  • scrupulous

  • distrustful

  • cynical

  • 1The word miscreant

  • which originally meant simply misbeliever

  • has now

  • quite another meaning (949). See Trench

  • On the Study of Words

  • p. 71

#488. Assent. -- N. assent

• • acquiescence

  • admission;

  • nod

  • accord

  • concord

  • concordance

  • agreement

  • affirmance

  • affirmation

  • recognition

  • acknowledgment

  • avowal

  • confession of faith

  • unanimity

  • common consent

  • consensus

  • acclamation

  • chorus

  • vox populi;

  • popular belief

  • current belief

  • current opinion

  • public opinion;

  • concurrence

  • cooperation

  • ratification

  • confirmation

  • corroboration

  • approval

  • acceptance

  • visa;

  • indorsement

  • consent

  • pressure to conform

  • herd instinct

  • peer pressure

  • V. assent

  • give assent

  • yield assent

  • nod assent

  • acquiesce

  • agree

  • receive

  • accept

  • accede

  • accord

  • concur

  • lend oneself to

  • consent

  • coincide

  • reciprocate

  • go with

  • be at one with

  • go along with

  • chime in with

  • strike in with

  • close in with

  • echo

  • enter into one's views

  • agree in opinion

  • vote

  • give one's voice for

  • recognize

  • subscribe to

  • conform to

  • defer to

  • say yes to

  • say ditto

  • amen to

  • say aye to

  • acknowledge

  • own

  • admit

  • allow

  • avow

  • confess

  • concede

  • come round to

  • abide by

  • permit

  • arrive at an understanding

  • come to an understanding

  • come to terms

  • come to an agreement

  • confirm

  • affirm

  • ratify

  • approve

  • indorse

  • countersign

  • corroborate

  • go with the stream

  • swim with the stream

  • go with the flow

  • blow with

  • the wind

  • be in fashion

  • join in the chorus

  • join the crowd

  • be one of the

  • guys

  • be part of the group

  • go with the crowd

  • don't make waves

  • be in

  • every mouth

  • Adj. assenting

  • of one accord

  • of one mind

  • of the same mind

  • at

  • one with

  • agreed

  • acquiescent

  • content

  • willing

  • uncontradicted

  • unchallenged

  • unquestioned

  • uncontroverted

  • carried

  • agreed

  • nem[abbr]. con.

  • unanimous

  • agreed on all hands

  • carried by acclamation

  • affirmative

  • Adv. yes

  • yea

  • ay

  • aye

  • true

  • good

  • well

  • very well

  • very true

  • well

  • and good

  • granted

  • even so

  • just so

  • to be sure

  • "thou hast said"

  • you said

  • it

  • you said a mouthful

  • truly

  • exactly

  • precisely

  • that's just it

  • indeed

  • certainly

  • you bet

  • certes[Lat]

  • ex concesso[Lat]

  • of course

  • unquestionably

  • assuredly

  • no doubt

  • doubtless

  • naturally

  • natch

  • be it so

  • so be it

  • so let it be

  • amen

  • willingly

  • affirmatively

  • in the affirmative

  • OK

  • all right

  • might as well

  • why not?

  • with one consent

  • with one voice

  • with one accord

  • unanimously

  • una

  • voce

  • by common consent

  • in chorus

  • to a man

  • nem[abbr]. con.[abbr: nemine

  • contradicente]

  • nemine dissentiente[Lat]

  • without a dissentient voice

  • as

  • one man

  • one and all

  • on all hands

  • "the public mind

  • is the creation of the Master-Writers" [Disraeli]

  • you bet your sweet ass

  • it is

  • what are we waiting for? whenever you're ready

  • anytime you're

  • ready

#489. Dissent.-- N. dissent

• • discordance

  • difference diversity of opinion

  • nonconformity

  • protestantism

  • recusancy

  • schism;

  • disaffection

  • secession

  • recantation

  • dissension

  • discontent

  • cavilling

  • protest

  • contradiction

  • noncompliance

  • 764

  • dissentient

  • dissenter

  • non-juror

  • non-content

  • nonconformist;

  • sectary

  • separatist

  • recusant

  • schismatic

  • protestant

  • heretic

  • refusal

  • V. dissent

  • demur

  • call in question

  • differ in

  • opinion

  • disagree

  • say no

  • refuse assent

  • refuse to admit

  • cavil

  • protest

  • raise one's voice against

  • repudiate

  • contradict

  • have no notion of

  • differ toto caelo[Lat]

  • revolt at

  • revolt from the

  • idea

  • shake the head

  • shrug the shoulders

  • look askance

  • secede

  • recant

  • Adj. dissenting

  • negative

  • dissident

  • dissentient;

  • unconsenting

  • non-content

  • protestant

  • recusant

  • unconvinced

  • unconverted

  • unavowed

  • unacknowledged

  • out of the question

  • discontented

  • unwilling

  • extorted

  • sectarian

  • denominational

  • schismatic

  • heterodox

  • intolerant

  • Adv. no

  • at variance

  • at issue with

  • under protest

  • Int. God forbid! not for the world

  • I'll be hanged if

  • never tell me;

  • your humble servant

  • pardon me

  • Phr. many men many minds

  • quot homines tot sententiae [Lat][Terence];

  • by no means

  • count me

  • out