Thesaurus
protest
Synonyms and Antonyms of protest
- submitted an official protest about her treatment
compunction, doubt, misgiving, qualm, scruple
cavil, niggle [chiefly British], quibble
argument, conflict, debate, dispute, dissent, hassle, quarrel, squabble, static
defiance, disobedience, rebellion
distrust, distrustfulness, dubiety, dubitation [archaic], incertitude, indetermination, misdoubt, mistrust, mistrustfulness, reservation, skepticism, suspicion, uncertainty
protest
Synonyms and Antonyms of protest
- he protested that he usually was very good at baseball, and all the strikeouts were just bad luck
- plans to protest against the judgeʼs ruling regarding admissible evidence
conflict, debate, dispute, hassle, quarrel, squabble, wrangle
beef, bellyache, bitch, bleat, carp, caterwaul, complain, crab, croak, fuss, gripe, grizzle, grouch, grouse, growl, grumble, grump, holler, keen, maunder [chiefly British], moan, murmur, mutter, nag, repine, scream, squawk, squeal, wail, whimper, whine, whinge [British], yammer, yawp (or yaup), yowl
Synonym Discussion of protest
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- asserted that modern music is just noise
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- declared her support for the candidate
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- affirmed the existence of an afterlife
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- protested that he really had been misquoted
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- avowed that all investors would be repaid in full
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