All dictate antonyms
dic·tate
D d noun dictate
- answer — When you answer someone who has asked you something, you say something back to them.
- lawlessness — contrary to or without regard for the law: lawless violence.
- question — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
verb dictate
- disallow — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- implore — to beg urgently or piteously, as for aid or mercy; beseech; entreat: They implored him to go.
- request — the act of asking for something to be given or done, especially as a favor or courtesy; solicitation or petition: At his request, they left.
- mismanage — Manage (something) badly or wrongly.
- ask — If you ask someone something, you say something to them in the form of a question because you want to know the answer.
- withhold — to hold back; restrain or check.
- conceal — If you conceal something, you cover it or hide it carefully.
- refrain — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.