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

Path two runs through Congress, where Senators Schiff and Curtis have a bill declaring the quiet part, the Prediction Markets Are Gambling Act, and the AGA is lobbying for exactly that. — Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2026

Rokita said in a statement that nothing in Indiana’s emergency powers statutes prevent the governor from declaring separate emergencies based on different factors. — Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2026

Krinsky’s concern broadly echoes Michael Burry’s warning Tuesday, although the BTIG charts analyst stops short of declaring a major top and focuses instead on the risk that the latest momentum rebound fails. — Deena Zaidi, CNBC, 5 Aug. 2026

Last August, the International Association of Genocide Scholars passed a resolution declaring that Israel’s actions met the legal definition of genocide. — Arielle Kaden, New York Daily News, 3 Aug. 2026

Online, millennials are declaring open revolt against their aging boomer parents. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 31 July 2026

Montse declaring herself the daughter of God, and that the words her daughters sing are dictated to her by God and part of her mission to save humanity via music. — John Hopewell, Variety, 30 July 2026

The Tates’ triumphant return to Miami functioned as something of a litmus test for conservative personalities, with some declaring that their brand of masculinity had no place in the party. — Dan Adler, Vanity Fair, 29 July 2026

The Houthis opened a new front against Saudi Arabia by declaring a naval blockade of the kingdom, threatening the flow of global oil supplies and trade. — Munir Ahmed, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2026