All animadvert antonyms

verb animadvert

• compliment — A compliment is a polite remark that you say to someone to show that you like their appearance, appreciate their qualities, or approve of what they have done.
• laud — to praise; extol.
• praise — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
• forgive — to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.); absolve.
• sanction — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
• protect — to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
• cherish — If you cherish something such as a hope or a pleasant memory, you keep it in your mind for a long period of time.
• permit — to allow to do something: Permit me to explain.
• flatter — to make flat.
• approve — If you approve of an action, event, or suggestion, you like it or are pleased about it.
• commend — If you commend someone or something, you praise them formally.
• agree — If people agree with each other about something, they have the same opinion about it or say that they have the same opinion.
• defend — If you defend someone or something, you take action in order to protect them.
• allow — If someone is allowed to do something, it is all right for them to do it and they will not get into trouble.
• ignore — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
• mystify — to perplex (a person) by playing upon the person's credulity; bewilder purposely.
• obscure — (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
• hide — Informal. to administer a beating to; thrash.
• refrain — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
• miss — to fail to hit or strike: to miss a target.
• neglect — to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight: The public neglected his genius for many years.
• overlook — to fail to notice, perceive, or consider: to overlook a misspelled word.
• confuse — If you confuse two things, you get them mixed up, so that you think one of them is the other one.
• keep quiet — not reveal a secret
• assist — If you assist someone, you help them to do a job or task by doing part of the work for them.
• help — to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
• support — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
• forget — to cease or fail to remember; be unable to recall: to forget someone's name.
• break — When an object breaks or when you break it, it suddenly separates into two or more pieces, often because it has been hit or dropped.
• violate — to break, infringe, or transgress (a law, rule, agreement, promise, instructions, etc.).
• disregard — to pay no attention to; leave out of consideration; ignore: Disregard the footnotes.
• misunderstand — to take (words, statements, etc.) in a wrong sense; understand wrongly.
• hold back — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
• suppress — to put an end to the activities of (a person, body of persons, etc.): to suppress the Communist and certain left-leaning parties.
• ask — If you ask someone something, you say something to them in the form of a question because you want to know the answer.
• question — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
• surrender — to yield (something) to the possession or power of another; deliver up possession of on demand or under duress: to surrender the fort to the enemy; to surrender the stolen goods to the police.
• concur — If one person concurs with another person, the two people agree. You can also say that two people concur.
• consent — If you give your consent to something, you give someone permission to do it.
• applaud — When a group of people applaud, they clap their hands in order to show approval, for example when they have enjoyed a play or concert.
• concede — If you concede something, you admit, often unwillingly, that it is true or correct.
• give in — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
• yield — to give forth or produce by a natural process or in return for cultivation: This farm yields enough fruit to meet all our needs.
• go along — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
• accept — If you accept something that you have been offered, you say yes to it or agree to take it.