remonstrate

1. 1.

   argue in protest or opposition

   Broaderobject
2. 2.

   present and urge reasons in opposition

   Synonymspoint out

   Broaderinform

   Narrowerrepresent
3. 3.

   censure severely or angrily

   “The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car”

   “The deputy ragged the Prime Minister”

   “The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup”

   Synonymscall on the carpettake to taskrebukeragtrouncelecturereprimandjawdress downcall downscoldchideberatebawl out

   Broaderknock

   Narrowerchastisetell off

Other forms of remonstrate

past tense

remonstrated·

present participle

remonstrating·

third person

remonstrates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about remonstrate

What does remonstrate mean?

remonstrate means "argue in protest or opposition". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in remonstrate?

remonstrate has 3 syllables: re-mon-strate. The stress falls on "re".

What is another word for remonstrate?

Close synonyms include point out, call on the carpet, take to task, rebuke, rag. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is remonstrate a common word?

remonstrate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.