Antonyms for confess
kənˈfɛscon·fess

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1. confess

   We accept another's statement; admit any point made against us; acknowledge what we have said or done, good or bad; avow our individual beliefs or feelings; certify to facts within our knowledge; confess our own faults; endorse a friend's note or statement; grant a request; own our faults or obligations; recognize lawful authority; concede a claim. Confess has a high and sacred use in the religious sense; as, to confess Christ before men. It may have also a playful sense (often with to); as, one confesses to a weakness for confectionery. The chief present use of the word, however, is in the sense of making known to others one's own wrong-doing; in this sense confess is stronger than acknowledge or admit, and more specific than own; a person admits a mistake; acknowledges a fault; confesses sin or crime. Compare APOLOGY; AVOW.

   Antonyms:
   cloak, conceal, cover, deny, disavow, disguise, disown, dissemble, dissimulate, hide, mask, repudiate, screen, secrete, veil

   Synonyms:
   accept, acknowledge, admit, allow, avow, certify, concede, disclose, endorse, grant, own, recognize

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. confess

   Antonyms:
   disaver, disavow, suppress, silentiate, deny

   Synonyms:
   avow, aver, own, reveal, disclose, acknowledge

Matched Categories

1. • Admit

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:1.0 / 5 votes

1. confess, squeal, finkverb

   confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure

   Synonyms:
   oink, scab, fink, squeal, concede, profess, blackleg, rat

2. concede, profess, confessverb

   admit (to a wrongdoing)

   "She confessed that she had taken the money"

   Synonyms:
   yield, cede, pretend, grant, concede, profess, fink, squeal

3. confessverb

   confess to God in the presence of a priest, as in the Catholic faith

   Synonyms:
   fink, concede, squeal, profess

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1. confessverb

   Synonyms:
   acknowledge, own, admit, avow, divulge, disclose, reveal

How to use confess in a sentence?

1. Lucius Annaeus Seneca:

   Why does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams.

2. Mark Harris:

   You can not be in that land, as powerful and as moving as it is, without realizing the incredible tension that is constantly in that land between the Palestinians and the Jews, there will never be peace in Jerusalem until the day comes that every knee shall bow, every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Jesus Christ.

3. Jim Bob:

   We felt it was an important step for Josh to confess to the police.

4. Andrea Velez:

   I confess that I sinned, but I paid a high price for my faults.

5. Goethe:

   We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.

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