What are some opposite words for witness?

Antonyms for witness
ˈwɪt nɪswit·ness

This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term witness.

Wiktionary5.0 / 2 votes

  1. witnessverb

    Synonyms:
    certify

  2. witnessverb

    To furnish proof of, to show.

    This certificate witnesses his presence on that day.

    Synonyms:
    certify

  3. witnessverb

    To take as evidence.

    As a witness to the event, I can tell you that he really said that.

    Synonyms:
    certify

  4. witnessverb

    To see, note, or gain knowledge of.

    He witnessed the accident.

    Synonyms:
    certify

  5. witnessverb

    To present personal religious testimony; to preach at (someone) or on behalf of.

    I don't really want to be actively harrassed (I mean witnessed to) (...)

    Synonyms:
    certify

English Synonyms and Antonyms2.0 / 1 vote

  1. witness

    Acknowledge, admit, and declare refer either to oneself or to others; all the other words refer only to one's own knowledge or action. To avow is to declare boldly and openly, commonly as something one is ready to justify, maintain, or defend. A man acknowledges another's claim or his own promise; he admits an opponent's advantage or his own error; he declares either what he has seen or experienced or what he has received from another; he avers what he is sure of from his own knowledge or consciousness; he gives his assurance as the voucher for what he avouches; he avows openly a belief or intention that he has silently held. Avow and avouch take a direct object; aver is followed by a conjunction: a man avows his faith, avouches a deed, avers that he was present. Avow has usually a good sense; what a person avows he at least does not treat as blameworthy, criminal, or shameful; if he did, he would be said to confess it; yet there is always the suggestion that some will be ready to challenge or censure what one avows; as, the clergyman avowed his dissent from the doctrine of his church. Own applies to all things, good or bad, great or small, which one takes as his own. Compare CONFESS; STATE.

    Antonyms:
    contradict, deny, disavow, disclaim, disown, ignore, repudiate

    Synonyms:
    admit, aver, avouch, avow, confess, declare, knowledge, own, proclaim, profess, protest, testify

Princeton's WordNet1.8 / 5 votes

  1. witness, witnesser, informantnoun

    someone who sees an event and reports what happened

    Synonyms:
    attestant, watcher, attestator, informant, spectator, viewer, source, attestor, witnesser, looker

  2. spectator, witness, viewer, watcher, lookernoun

    a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind)

    "the spectators applauded the performance"; "television viewers"; "sky watchers discovered a new star"

    Synonyms:
    sweetheart, beauty, viewer, stunner, smasher, watcher, informant, peach, looker, security guard, spectator pump, knockout, lulu, attestator, witnesser, mantrap, watchman, spectator, attestor, dish, ravisher, attestant

  3. witnessnoun

    testimony by word or deed to your religious faith

    Synonyms:
    attestant, watcher, attestator, informant, spectator, viewer, attestor, witnesser, looker

  4. witness, attestant, attestor, attestatornoun

    (law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature

    Synonyms:
    attestant, watcher, attestator, attester, informant, spectator, viewer, attestor, witnesser, looker

  5. witnessverb

    (law) a person who testifies under oath in a court of law

    Synonyms:
    attestant, watcher, attestator, informant, spectator, viewer, attestor, witnesser, looker

  6. witnessverb

    be a witness to

    "She witnessed the accident and had to testify in court"

    Synonyms:
    see, find

  7. witness, find, seeverb

    perceive or be contemporaneous with

    "We found Republicans winning the offices"; "You'll see a lot of cheating in this school"; "The 1960's saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions"; "I want to see results"

    Synonyms:
    line up, detect, recover, take in, figure, date, go out, find oneself, look, get, examine, get hold, run across, see to it, find, view, go steady, retrieve, get word, control, construe, rule, notice, meet, check, chance, determine, see, find out, reckon, project, come up, visualize, realise, fancy, encounter, escort, assure, envision, happen, watch, receive, visit, feel, run into, regard, incur, take care, come across, observe, get a line, go through, image, picture, get wind, ensure, attend, pick up, understand, experience, ascertain, catch, bump, visualise, consider, interpret, learn, realize, regain, obtain, discover, insure, hear

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. witnessnoun

    Synonyms:
    attestation, testimony, evidence, eye-witness, deponent, attestor

  2. witnessverb

    Synonyms:
    testify, bear witness, confirm, corroborate, attest

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD0.0 / 0 votes

  1. witness

    Synonyms:
    Diagnostic witness

How to use witness in a sentence?

  1. Alexandra Miller:

    In coming to Arizona, President Biden has an important opportunity to bear witness to the cruelty that migrants are experiencing at the border and to see the hard work that humanitarian organizations, legal service providers and other good Samaritans are doing at the border every day, unfortunately, it looks like this opportunity will be missed.

  2. Wasserman Schultz:

    I just think the witness today had some difficulty in answering certain questions.

  3. Adam Schiff:

    I think we will probably make a decision this week on our course of conduct with that particular witness and maybe others.

  4. Adam Schiff:

    As one witness put it during our impeachment inquiry, the United States aids Ukraine and her people so that we can fight Russia over there, and we dont have to fight Russia here, the presidents misconduct can not be decided at the ballot box, for we can not be assured that the vote will be fairly won.

  5. The Florida Supreme Court:

    In light of the scant evidence connecting Penalver to this murder and the consequent importance of identifying the individual depicted on the videotape in sunglasses and hat, we conclude that the improperly admitted evidence and the State's suggestion that the defense tampered with or suborned perjury by an identification witness meet the cumulative error requirements outlined above and require reversal.

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#7851deny
#9366stranger
#11981ignorance
#27874contradict
#32840disclaim
#58273refutation
#70433invalidation
#82810repudiate
#111844disown
#114534disavow
#136321ignoramus

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