tell off

Questions about tell off

What is another word for tell off?

It depends which tell off you mean. In the sense “reprimand”, the synonyms are brush down. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of tell off?

WordNet records no antonym for tell off. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for tell off come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of tell off

• Full entry for tell offAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for tell offWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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