Synonyms of the word deign


DEIGNACT - CONDESCEND - DESCEND - MOVE

deign

  • v. (intransitive) To condescend; to do despite a perceived affront to one's dignity.
  • v. (transitive) To condescend to give; to do something.
  • v. (obsolete) To esteem worthy; to consider worth notice.

act

  • n. (countable) Something done, a deed.
  • n. (obsolete, uncountable) Actuality.
  • n. (countable) A product of a legislative body, a statute.
  • n. The process of doing something.
  • n. (countable) A formal or official record of something done.
  • n. (countable) A division of a theatrical performance.
  • n. (countable) A performer or performers in a show.
  • n. (countable) Any organized activity.
  • n. (countable) A display of behaviour.
  • n. A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the…
  • n. (countable) A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
  • v. (intransitive) To do something.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To do (something); to perform.
  • v. (intransitive) To perform a theatrical role.
  • v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way.
  • v. (copulative) To convey an appearance of being.
  • v. To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
  • v. (intransitive, construed with on or upon) To have an effect (on).
  • v. (transitive) To play (a role).
  • v. (transitive) To feign.
  • v. (mathematics, intransitive, construed with on or upon, of a group) To map via a homomorphism to a group…
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To move to action; to actuate; to animate.

condescend

  • v. (intransitive) To come down from one's superior position; to deign (to do something).
  • v. (intransitive) To treat (someone) as though inferior; to be patronizing (toward someone); to talk down…
  • v. (transitive, rare, possibly nonstandard) To treat (someone) as though inferior; to be patronizing toward…
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To consent, agree.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To come down.

descend

  • v. (intransitive) To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way,…
  • v. (intransitive, poetic) To enter mentally; to retire.
  • v. (intransitive, with on or upon) To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come…
  • v. (intransitive) To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station;…
  • v. (intransitive) To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters…
  • v. (intransitive) To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation…
  • v. (intransitive, anatomy) To move toward the south, or to the southward.
  • v. (intransitive, music) To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
  • v. (transitive) To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of.

move

  • v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
  • v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
  • v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
  • v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
  • v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
  • v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
  • v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
  • v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
  • v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
  • n. The act of moving; a movement.
  • n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
  • n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
  • n. The event of changing one's residence.
  • n. A change in strategy.
  • n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
  • n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

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