Antonyms for REFEREE
ˌrɛf əˈriref·er·ee

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1. referee

   A judge, in the legal sense, is a judicial officer appointed or elected to preside in courts of law, and to decide legal questions duly brought before him; the name is sometimes given to other legally constituted officers; as, the judges of election; in other relations, any person duly appointed to pass upon the merits of contestants or of competing articles may be called a judge; as, the judges at an agricultural fair, or at a race-track; in the widest sense, any person who has good capacity for judging is called a judge; as, a person is said to be a judge of pictures, or a good judge of a horse, etc. In most games the judge is called an umpire; as, the umpire of a game of ball or cricket. A referee is appointed by a court to decide disputed matters between litigants; an arbitrator is chosen by the contending parties to decide matters in dispute without action by a court. In certain cases an umpire is appointed by a court to decide where arbitrators disagree. Arbiter, with its suggestion of final and absolute decision, has come to be used only in a high or sacred sense; as, war must now be the arbiter; the Supreme Arbiter of our destinies. The judges of certain courts, as the United States Supreme Court, are technically known as justices.

   Synonyms:
   arbiter, arbitrator, judge, justice, umpire

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1. referee

   Antonyms:
   litigant, opponent, adversary

   Synonyms:
   umpire, arbitrator

Matched Categories

1. • Judge
   • Sport

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. referee, refnoun

   (sports) the chief official (as in boxing or American football) who is expected to ensure fair play

   Synonyms:
   ref, reviewer, reader, referee

2. reviewer, referee, readernoun

   someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication

   Synonyms:
   ref, commentator, subscriber, proofreader, lecturer, referee, reader, reviewer, lector

3. refereeverb

   an attorney appointed by a court to investigate and report on a case

   Synonyms:
   ref, reviewer, reader

4. referee, umpireverb

   be a referee or umpire in a sports competition

   Synonyms:
   peer review, umpire, referee

5. referee, peer reviewverb

   evaluate professionally a colleague's work

   Synonyms:
   peer review, umpire, referee

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1. refereenoun

   Synonyms:
   umpire, judge, arbitrator, arbiter

How to use REFEREE in a sentence?

1. Rafael Benitez:

   We conceded the goals early, but then the team reacted, i am not going to judge the decisions of the referee, but from the sending-off the team did what it had to do, try to play well and score goals.

2. Phil Neville:

   The sessions that I did at Manchester United and the sessions that I did at Valencia were no different than the sessions I did for my women’s team last year, it’s football played on the same pitch, with the same size balls, with a referee, with supporters in the stadium and ultimately the same goal, and that’s to win.

3. Steve Chabot:

   Rather than wearing stripes like a referee, the Mueller team overwhelmingly ought to be attired with Democratic donkeys or Hillary t-shirts, not shirts that say ‘Make America Great Again,’ because I think the American people deserve more than the very biased team they have under Mueller, it’s really sad.

4. Darren Urquhart:

   The idea came from witnessing some bad habits that school kids have picked up from the increased coverage of global football, we've seen kids brandish imaginary red cards towards the referee in an attempt to get an opposition player sent off. And also blatantly diving to win penalties.

5. Steven Baffico:

   The bigger issue... what, in my mind, is driving all this selloff is that markets are losing confidence in central banks' ability to act as an effective referee.

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