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judge

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of judge

1 a person who impartially decides or resolves a dispute or controversy

their father always played the role of judge when there was a disagreement between the siblings

Synonyms of judge

adjudicator, arbiter, arbitrator, referee, umpire

Words Related to judge

jurist, justice, magistrate

intermediary, intermediate, mediator, mediatrix, moderator, negotiator

conciliator, go-between, peacemaker, reconciler, troubleshooter

2 a public official having authority to decide questions of law

the judge gave the defendant a suspended sentence

Synonyms of judge

adjudicator, beak [chiefly British], bench, court, jurist, justice, magistrate

Words Related to judge

chief justice, circuit judge, justice of the peace, squire

auditor, master

jurisconsult, jurisprudent

judge

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of judge

1 to give an opinion about (something at issue or in dispute)

the committee will judge the case solely on the evidence

Synonyms of judge

adjudge, adjudicate, arbitrate, decide, determine, referee, rule (on), settle, umpire

Words Related to judge

consider, deem, deliberate, hear, ponder, weigh

mediate, moderate, negotiate

find (for or against)

conclude, resolve

redetermine, rejudge

Near Antonyms of judge

equivocate, hedge, pussyfoot, skirt

2 to decide the size, amount, number, or distance of (something) without actual measurement

considering the amount of dough we have, I judge we'll get about six dozen cookies out of it

Synonyms of judge

calculate, call, conjecture, estimate, figure, gauge (also gage), guess, make, place, put, reckon, suppose

Words Related to judge

conclude, deduce, extrapolate, gather, infer, reason, understand

Near Antonyms of judge

calibrate, measure, scale

compute, work out

3 to form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information

I judge that the girl has had a troubled relationship with her mother

Synonyms of judge

conclude, decide, deduce, derive, extrapolate, gather, infer, make out, reason, understand

Words Related to judge

assume, suppose

conjecture, guess, speculate, surmise

construe, interpret, read

contemplate, philosophize, rationalize, think

ascertain, dope (out), find out

Phrases Synonymous with judge

draw a conclusion

4 to have as an opinion

I judge that he knew what kind of woman she was when he married her

Synonyms of judge

allow [chiefly Southern & Midland], believe, conceive, consider, deem, esteem, feel, figure, guess, hold, imagine, reckon [chiefly dialect], suppose, think

Words Related to judge

accept, perceive

depend, rely, trust

assume, presume, presuppose, surmise

conclude, deduce, infer

Near Antonyms of judge

distrust, doubt, mistrust, question, suspect

disbelieve, discredit, reject

Synonym Discussion of judge

infer, deduce, conclude, judge, gather mean to arrive at a mental conclusion. infer implies arriving at a conclusion by reasoning from evidence; if the evidence is slight, the term comes close to surmise.

- from that remark, I inferred that they knew each other

deduce often adds to infer the special implication of drawing a particular inference from a generalization.

- denied we could deduce anything important from human mortality

conclude implies arriving at a necessary inference at the end of a chain of reasoning.

- concluded that only the accused could be guilty

judge stresses a weighing of the evidence on which a conclusion is based.

- judge people by their actions

gather suggests an intuitive forming of a conclusion from implications.

- gathered their desire to be alone without a word

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