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rate

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of rate

1 to be or make worthy of (as a reward or punishment)

  • how does a summer intern rate a new computer when I've been told to make do with this clunker?
Synonyms of rate

deserve, earn, merit
Words Related to rate

entitle, qualify

2 to make an approximate or tentative judgment regarding

  • nowadays most motorists would probably rate their cell phone as an "essential" piece of electronic equipment
Synonyms of rate

appraise, assess, estimate, evaluate, guesstimate, set, valuate, value
Words Related to rate

adjudge, deem, judge

ascertain, determine, discover, learn

price, prize

decide, settle

analyze, assay, survey, test

reappraise, reassess, reevaluate, rejudge, revalue

transvaluate, transvalue

misesteem, misjudge, misprize, underestimate, undervalue

3 to take or have a certain position within a group arranged in vertical classes

  • a restaurant that consistently rates high in all the standard categories
Synonyms of rate

be, grade, place, rank, stand
Words Related to rate

seed

count

categorize, class, classify, codify, compartmentalize, group, separate, set, sort

install, instate

4 to think of in a particular way

  • I would rate her my best friend; after all, sheʼs always been there when I needed her
Synonyms of rate

account, call, consider, count, esteem, hold, look (on or upon), reckon, regard, set down, view
Words Related to rate

believe, deem, feel, sense, think

conceive, fancy, imagine
Phrases Synonymous with rate

take for

Synonym Discussion of rate

estimate, appraise, evaluate, value, rate, assess mean to judge something with respect to its worth or significance. estimate implies a judgment, considered or casual, that precedes or takes the place of actual measuring or counting or testing out.
    • estimated the crowd at two hundred
appraise commonly implies the fixing by an expert of the monetary worth of a thing, but it may be used of any critical judgment.
    • having their house appraised
evaluate suggests an attempt to determine relative or intrinsic worth in terms other than monetary.
    • evaluate a student's work
value equals appraise but without implying expertness of judgment.
    • a watercolor valued by the donor at $500
rate adds to estimate the notion of placing a thing according to a scale of values.
    • a highly rated restaurant
assess implies a critical appraisal for the purpose of understanding or interpreting, or as a guide in taking action.
    • officials are trying to assess the damage
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rate

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of rate

to criticize (someone) severely or angrily especially for personal failings

  • a tyrannical father who usually spent most of dinnertime rating his children on their alleged multitude of failings
Synonyms of rate

baste, bawl out, berate, call down, castigate, chastise, chew out, dress down, flay, hammer, jaw, keelhaul, lambaste (or lambast), lecture, rag, rail (at or against), rant (at), ream (out), rebuke, reprimand, reproach, scold, score, tongue-lash, upbraid
Words Related to rate

admonish, chide, remonstrate (with), reprove

abuse, assail, attack, bad-mouth, blame, blast, censure, condemn, criticize, crucify, denounce, dis (also diss) [slang], excoriate, fault, harangue, knock, lace (into), lash, pan, reprehend, revile, scourge, slam, vituperate

belittle, disparage, mock, put down

ridicule, scoff, scorn
Phrases Synonymous with rate

lay into, read the riot act (to), take to task
Near Antonyms of rate

approve, endorse (also indorse), sanction

extol (also extoll), laud, praise

Synonym Discussion of rate

estimate, appraise, evaluate, value, rate, assess mean to judge something with respect to its worth or significance. estimate implies a judgment, considered or casual, that precedes or takes the place of actual measuring or counting or testing out.
    • estimated the crowd at two hundred
appraise commonly implies the fixing by an expert of the monetary worth of a thing, but it may be used of any critical judgment.
    • having their house appraised
evaluate suggests an attempt to determine relative or intrinsic worth in terms other than monetary.
    • evaluate a student's work
value equals appraise but without implying expertness of judgment.
    • a watercolor valued by the donor at $500
rate adds to estimate the notion of placing a thing according to a scale of values.
    • a highly rated restaurant
assess implies a critical appraisal for the purpose of understanding or interpreting, or as a guide in taking action.
    • officials are trying to assess the damage

rate

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of rate

1 degree of excellence

  • not being of the first rate, these apples are usually sold as food for livestock
Synonyms of rate

caliber (or calibre), class, grade, quality
Words Related to rate

hallmark

mark

footing, place, position, rank, standing, stature, status

benchmark, criterion, measure, par, standard, touchstone, yardstick

2 the relationship in quantity, amount, or size between two or more things

  • the exchange rate was 10 pesos to the dollar when we visited Mexico
Synonyms of rate

proportion, ratio
Words Related to rate

average

frequency

correspondence

percentage
Near Antonyms of rate

disproportion

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