exhort
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts
The crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- urging derivation
- exhortation derivation
- exhortation derivation
- shouting derivation
- cheerer derivation
- pressing derivation
- exhortative derivation
Sense 2 verb
force or impel in an indicated direction
I urged him to finish his studies
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- pressure derivation
- exhortation derivation
- exhortation derivation
- urging derivation
- pressing derivation
- exhortative derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | urging |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | exhortation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | exhortation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | shouting |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | cheerer |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | pressing |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | exhortative |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | encourage |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | cheerlead |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | pressure |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | exhortation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | exhortation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | urging |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | pressing |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | exhortative |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | counsel |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | hurry |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | push |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | advocate |