Antonyms for announce
əˈnaʊnsan·nounce

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. announceverb

   Synonyms:
   publish, herald, declare, promulgate, proclaim

2. announceverb

   To give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim.

   Her [Q. Elizabeth’s] arrival was announced through the country by a peal of cannon from the ramparts. — Gilpin.

   Synonyms:
   herald, publish, proclaim, promulgate, declare

3. announceverb

   To pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence.

   Publish laws, announce Or life or death. — Prior.

   Synonyms:
   proclaim, herald, publish, declare, promulgate

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. announce

   To announce is to give intelligence of in some formal or public way. We may announce that which has occurred or that which is to occur, tho the word is chiefly used in the anticipative sense; we announce a book when it is in press, a guest when he arrives. We advertise our business, communicate our intentions, enunciate our views; we notify an individual, give notice to the public. Declare has often an authoritative force; to declare war is to cause war to be, where before there may have been only hostilities; we say declare war, proclaim peace. We propound a question or an argument, promulgate the views of a sect or party, or the decision of a court, etc. We report an interview, reveal a secret, herald the coming of some distinguished person or great event. Publish, in popular usage, is becoming closely restricted to the sense of issuing through the press; we announce a book that is to be published.

   Antonyms:
   bury, conceal, cover (up), hide, hush, keep back, keep secret, secrete, suppress, withhold

   Synonyms:
   advertise, circulate, communicate, declare, enunciate, give notice (of), give out, herald, make known, notify, proclaim, promulgate, propound, publish, report, reveal, say, spread abroad, state, tell

   Preposition:
   The event was announced to the family by telegraph.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. announce

   Antonyms:
   conceal, suppress, hush, stifle, withhold, shroud, bury, burke

   Synonyms:
   declare, propound, give notice, enunciate, advertise, publish, report, notify, make known, give out, reveal, herald, proclaim, intimate, promulgate

Matched Categories

1. • Name
   • State
   • Tell

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. announce, denoteverb

   make known; make an announcement

   "She denoted her feelings clearly"

   Synonyms:
   herald, declare, denote, foretell, refer, harbinger, annunciate

2. announce, declareverb

   announce publicly or officially

   "The President declared war"

   Synonyms:
   adjudge, hold, herald, declare, denote, foretell, harbinger, annunciate

3. announceverb

   give the names of

   "He announced the winners of the spelling bee"

   Synonyms:
   denote, foretell, declare, herald, annunciate, harbinger

4. announce, annunciate, harbinger, foretell, heraldverb

   foreshadow or presage

   Synonyms:
   predict, herald, hail, betoken, augur, annunciate, bode, portend, omen, harbinger, acclaim, prefigure, call, prognosticate, anticipate, foreshadow, foretell, forebode, forecast, declare, promise, auspicate, denote, presage

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. announceverb

   Antonyms:
   suppress, reserve, withhold, secrete, hush up

   Synonyms:
   proclaim, publish, blazon, advertise, trumpet, noise abroad, promulgate, herald

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. insinuate

   as insinuate means to suggest something unpleasant in an indirect way, its antonym should be a word related to suggesting something openly and boldly but not indirectly.

   Submitted by rockdbattle231k on April 17, 2021  

How to use announce in a sentence?

1. Mullah Abdul Niazi:

   Their (Mansour's) armed men are raiding ?in different places in Afghanistan and forcing their rivals to announce allegiance to Mansour.

2. Hawk Carlisle:

   I am proud to announce this powerful new weapons system has achieved initial combat capability, the F-35A will be the most dominant aircraft in our inventory because it can go where our legacy aircraft cannot and provide the capabilities our commanders need on the modern battlefield.

3. Iran Haj and Pilgrimage Organization:

   Seven days after the incident and after visiting hospitals [in Saudi Arabia] ... we sadly announce that number of Iranians died is 464.

4. Yanzhong Huang:

   I believe it's very likely they'll be the first to announce the successful development of a vaccine, but the key question is how well the international society, especially the scientific community, will recognize it.

5. Charles de LEUSSE:

   The regrets are like yesterday: They announce only the future. (Les regrets sont comme hier: - Ils n'annoncent que le futur)

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