Synonyms of declaring

declaring

verb

present participle of declare

1

as in announcing

to make known openly or publicly

she chose to declare her presidential aspirations at her college alma mater

Synonyms & Similar Words

• announcing
• proclaiming
• publishing
• posting
• advertising
• disclosing
• promulgating
• broadcasting
• publicizing
• trumpeting
• heralding
• promoting
• releasing
• blaring
• running with
• blazing
• enunciating
• revealing
• flashing
• sounding
• annunciating
• giving out
• reporting
• beating the drum (for or about)
• placarding
• introducing
• blazoning
• spreading
• showing
• disseminating
• crying
• barking
• calling (off or out)
• informing
• ringing
• notifying
• imparting
• featuring
• divulging
• manifesting
• tolling
• gazetting
• puffing
• intimating
• bulletining
• communicating
• billing
• billboarding
• plugging
• knelling
• apprising
• advising
• blurbing
• kithing
• handing down
• pitching

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• concealing
• suppressing
• withholding
• silencing
• recalling
• revoking
• retracting
• hushing (up)
• recanting

2

as in insisting

to state as a fact usually forcefully

she would declare her innocence to the whole world if she could

Synonyms & Similar Words

• insisting
• claiming
• alleging
• asserting
• announcing
• maintaining
• proclaiming
• contending
• protesting
• affirming
• arguing
• professing
• averring
• purporting
• avowing
• confirming
• warranting
• defending
• reasoning
• putting forth
• avouching
• justifying
• broadcasting
• rationalizing
• vindicating
• reaffirming
• upholding
• reasserting
• persevering
• supporting

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• denying
• abandoning
• rejecting
• repudiating
• disclaiming
• disavowing
• negating
• questioning
• challenging
• disputing
• refuting
• disowning
• gainsaying
• disproving
• rebutting
• contradicting
• countering
• negativing
• confuting

3

as in asserting

to state clearly and strongly

our guest enthusiastically declared that the pie was the best he had ever eaten

Synonyms & Similar Words

• asserting
• proclaiming
• announcing
• professing
• saying
• affirming
• guaranteeing
• explaining
• averring
• justifying
• avowing
• defending
• promoting
• laying down
• pronouncing
• emphasizing
• upholding
• assuring
• stressing
• advertising
• avouching
• publicizing
• advocating
• convincing
• advancing
• underscoring
• calling
• underlining
• plugging
• boosting
• blazing
• persuading
• championing
• accenting
• reaffirming
• supporting
• accentuating
• espousing
• reasserting
• rationalizing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• minimizing
• ignoring
• disregarding
• neglecting
• overlooking
• understating

4

as in displaying

to make known (something abstract) through outward signs

though she was silent, her expression declared her unwillingness to go along with the others

Synonyms & Similar Words

• displaying
• revealing
• showing
• demonstrating
• betraying
• exposing
• manifesting
• communicating
• evincing
• announcing
• proclaiming
• disclosing
• giving away
• sounding
• baring
• uncovering
• bespeaking
• publicizing
• airing
• broadcasting
• advertising
• projecting
• blazing
• trumpeting
• unbosoming
• uncloaking
• placarding

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• misrepresenting
• falsifying
• distorting
• twisting
• belying
• disguising
• camouflaging
• hiding
• covering
• concealing
• garbling
• masking
• whitewashing
• obscuring
• varnishing
• glossing (over)
• counterfeiting
• occluding
• veiling
• gilding

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of declaring

Comic-Con’s lineup since the pandemic has been cyclical, with the biggest names staying away one year — and some blogs declaring the convention dead — and then a large push the next year. — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 July 2026

Earlier this year, the actor celebrated alongside players on the court after the New York Knicks won the NBA championship, later declaring in a video obtained by ESPN’s SportsCenter that the title meant more to him than an Academy Award. — Angelique Brenes, PEOPLE, 15 July 2026

The Honduran Filmmakers Association raised concerns over the government’s actions, declaring that this move creates legal and institutional uncertainty for the country’s expanding film industry. — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 14 July 2026

The suit reads to Ohioans like an out-of-state giant declaring their beloved Mickey Mart mascot has to go. — Roger Dooley, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026

Air traffic control recordings captured the moments surrounding the incident, including the pilot declaring a mayday before the aircraft came down in the river. — Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 6 July 2026

On March 31, 1817, New York lawmakers passed legislation declaring that every person still legally enslaved in the state would become free on July 4, 1827. — Tunisia Morrison, New York Daily News, 5 July 2026

The king refused to look at it, and issued the Proclamation of Rebellion, declaring the colonists traitors and hiring 30,000 German mercenaries to help crush them. — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 4 July 2026

Almost 250 years later, in 2013, the New Hampshire Senate unanimously passed the petition, declaring the 14 men free posthumously. — Catherine Messier, The Providence Journal, 4 July 2026