Antonyms for hail
heɪlha·il

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.3 / 4 votes

1. hailverb

   To accost is to speak first, to friend or stranger, generally with a view to opening conversation; greet is not so distinctly limited, since one may return another's greeting; greet and hail may imply but a passing word; greeting may be altogether silent; to hail is to greet in a loud-voiced and commonly hearty and joyous way, as appears in the expression "hail fellow, well met." To salute is to greet with special token of respect, as a soldier his commander. To apostrophize is to solemnly address some person or personified attribute apart from the audience to whom one is speaking; as, a preacher may apostrophize virtue, the saints of old, or even the Deity. To appeal is strictly to call for some form of help or support. Address is slightly more formal than accost or greet, though it may often be interchanged with them. One may address another at considerable length or in writing; he accosts orally and briefly.

   Antonyms:
   avoid, cut, elude, ignore, overlook, pass, pass by, shun

   Synonyms:
   address, address, apostrophize, appeal, approach, cost, court, greet, salute, speak to, woo

   Preposition:
   Address the memorial to the legislature; the president addressed the people in an eloquent speech; he addressed an intruder with indignation.

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

1. hail

   Antonyms:
   ignore, pass, cut, avoid

   Synonyms:
   accost, address, salute, call, welcome, greet

Matched Categories

1. • Applaud
   • Be
   • Call
   • Object
   • Precipitate
   • Precipitation

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:3.0 / 3 votes

1. hailnoun

   precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents

2. hailnoun

   many objects thrown forcefully through the air

   "a hail of pebbles"; "a hail of bullets"

3. hailverb

   enthusiastic greeting

4. acclaim, hail, heraldverb

   praise vociferously

   "The critics hailed the young pianist as a new Rubinstein"

   Synonyms:
   acclaim, herald, clap, announce, applaud, harbinger, foretell, annunciate, come, spat

5. hail, comeverb

   be a native of

   "She hails from Kalamazoo"

   Synonyms:
   fare, herald, issue forth, amount, total, acclaim, occur, arrive, number, come up, follow, get, descend, come, fall, do, get along, make out, derive, come in, add up

6. hailverb

   call for

   "hail a cab"

   Synonyms:
   acclaim, come, herald

7. hail, heraldverb

   greet enthusiastically or joyfully

   Synonyms:
   acclaim, herald, announce, harbinger, foretell, annunciate, come

8. hailverb

   precipitate as small ice particles

   "It hailed for an hour"

   Synonyms:
   acclaim, come, herald

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1. hailverb

   Synonyms:
   accost, salute, address, signal

How to use hail in a sentence?

1. Matthew Kumjian:

   Anything larger than about a quarter in size can start putting dents into your car, in some rare cases, 6-inch hail has actually gone through roofs and multiple floors in houses. Wed like to help mitigate the impacts on life and property, to help anticipate these kinds of events.

2. Zannah Mustapha:

   These are children who do not even know what's their second name, where they hail from, their tribe, their religion, most of these children came from a very difficult background. Most of them saw when their parents were killed. They are confused and in a helpless state.

3. The Book of the Dead:

   Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, without guilt, without evil, without a witness against me, without one whom I have wronged. I am one pure of mouth, pure of hands.

4. Haley Brink:

   It was very loud. The hail was pelting the house, hitting the windows, we were just hoping that the windows were going to hold up and wouldn't break, at one point it was so loud that you couldn't hear a person ten feet away from you talking without yelling.

5. The National Weather Service:

   Locally damaging wind and marginally severe hail also may occur from the lower Missouri and lower Ohio Valleys to the mid-Atlantic coast.

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