ALLUDING Antonyms

• a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage

• make reference to

• commend

• refer to

• repeat a passage from

• refer to for illustration or proof

• advance evidence for

• call in an official matter, such as to attend court

• state emphatically and authoritatively

• announce publicly or officially

• state firmly

• declare to be

• authorize payments of

• designate (a trump suit or no-trump) with the final bid of a hand

• make a declaration (of dutiable goods) to a customs official

• proclaim one's support, sympathy, or opinion for or against

• direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short

• straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action

• in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child

• moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in the same direction as the Earth

• similar in nature or effect or relation to another quantity

• (of a current) flowing in one direction only

• without deviation

• having no intervening persons, agents, conditions

• being an immediate result or consequence

• in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker

• lacking compromising or mitigating elements

• command with authority

• intend (something) to move towards a certain goal

• guide the actors in (plays and films)

• govern or manage

• take somebody somewhere

• cause to go somewhere

• point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards

• lead, as in the performance of a composition

• give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction

• specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public

• direct the course; determine the direction of travelling

• put an address on (an envelope)

• plan and direct (a complex undertaking)

• make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret

• reveal to view as by removing a cover

• specify individually

• determine the number or amount of

• a remark that calls attention to something or someone

• a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage

• an official recognition of merit

• make reference to

• make mention of

• commend

• without restrictions or stipulations or further payments

• without reservation or concealment

• without any delay

• thoroughgoing

• without reservation or exception

• make manifest

• make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret

• disclose directly or through prophets

• specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement

• decide upon or fix definitely

• determine the essential quality of

• be specific about

• define clearly

• design or destine

• select something or someone for a specific purpose

• the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies

• the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation

• the way something is with respect to its main attributes

• the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state

• a politically organized body of people under a single government

• (chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container)

• a state of depression or agitation

• the territory occupied by a nation

• express in words

• put before

• indicate through a symbol, formula, etc.