Remonstrate

Definitions: Remonstrate

Remonstrate

Verb

1. Argue in protest or opposition.

2. Present and urge reasons in opposition.

3. Censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"; "check" is archaic.

Date "remonstrate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references)

Synonyms: Remonstrate

Synonyms: bawl out (v), berate (v), chew out (v), chew up (v), chide (v), dress down (v), have words (v), jaw (v), lambast (v), lambaste (v), lecture (v), point out (v), rag (v), rebuke (v), reprimand (v), reproof (v), scold (v), trounce (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Deprecation	Verb: deprecate, protest, expostulate, enter a protest, intercede for; remonstrate.
Disapprobation	Remonstrate, expostulate, recriminate.
Dissuasion	Verb: dissuade, dehort, cry out against, remonstrate, expostulate, warn, contraindicate.
Resistance	Kick, kick against; recalcitrate, kick against the pricks; oppose; fly in the face of; lift the hand against; (attack); rise up in arms; (war); strike, turn out; draw up a round robin; (remonstrate); revolt; (disobey); make a riot.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Remonstrate

English words defined with "remonstrate": Emphatical ♦ Remonstrant, Remonstrated, Remonstrating. (references)

"Remonstrate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 95.65% of the time. "Remonstrate" is used about 23 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	95.65%	22	74,468
Lexical Verb (base form)	4.35%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	23	N/A

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Language		Translations for "remonstrate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		protestoj (clamor against, clamour against, deprecate, object, outcry, protest), bind (assure, bring, bring over, convince, expostulate, get, get round, induce, lead, make smb. listen to reason, outrun, persuade, prevail, prevail upon, reassure, rub in). (various references)

Arabic		‏إحتج (allege, complain, demur, deprecate, expostulate, grouse, nag, object, pick, protest, represent, take exception to, yell), ‏إعترض (bar, blockade, challenge, cross, demur, except, expostulate, impugn, intercept, interpose, interrupt, intervene, object, object to, obstruct, oppose, protest, stop, take exception to, traverse). (various references)

Bulgarian		увещавам (admonish, exhort, expostulate, persuade, reason with, urge), възразявам (but, except, expostulate, object, quarrel, reply, take up, talk back), протестирам (declaim, kick, object, obtest, outcry, protest, up in arms). (various references)

Czech		stìžovat si (complain, grumble, yammer), protestovat (object, protest). (various references)

Farsi		تعرض کردن , باتعرض ونکوهش گفتن . (various references)

Finnish		nuhdella (admonish, rebuke, reproach, reprove). (various references)

French		protester, faire observer (remark), faire des remontrances. (various references)

German		protestieren (object, protest, remonstration, to protest). (various references)

Greek		συμβουλεύω εναντίον, διαμαρτύρομαι (expostulate, object to, protest). (various references)

Hungarian		tiltakozik (object, protest, to bar, to demur, to harrumph, to interpose one's veto, to object, to object to sg, to protest, to raise objection, to recriminate). (various references)

Indonesian		berbantah (disputant). (various references)

Italian		protestare (complain, expostulate, protest), fare rimostranze (protest). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		諭す (to admonish, to persuade, to remonstrate, to warn), 諫める (to remonstrate, to warn not to do something), �'める　 (to admonish, to remonstrate), �'める (to admonish, to remonstrate). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		さとす (to admonish, to persuade, to remonstrate, to warn), いましめる (to admonish, to remonstrate), いさめる (to remonstrate, to warn not to do something). (various references)

Manx		resooney (argue, argument, debate, deduction, dialectic, dialectics, reason, reasoning). (various references)

Pig Latin		emonstrateray

Portuguese		reclamar (assert, call, challenge, demand, exact, have, kick off, lay claim to, obtestation, outcry, postulate, protest, reclaim, require), queixar-se (chide, complain, crab, grumble, moan, quarrel, repine, whine), protestar (challenge, clamor, clamour, expostulate, outcry, protest), objetar (but, demur, dislike, mind, object), argumentar (argue, contend, maintain, reason, urge, vie), advertir (admonish, advert, advertise, advertize, caution, expostulate, forbid, forewarn, poster, publicize, reprimand, scold, warn), admoestar (admonish, caution, jaw, reprehend, scold, sermonize, talk to, warn). (various references)

Romanian		sfãdi (reprimand, scold), mustra (berate, chide, lash into, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reprove, row, scold, slate, snub, twit), dojeni (blame, chide, correct, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reprove, scold, snub, taunt, trim, twit, upbraid, wig). (various references)

Russian		убеждать (admonish, carry conviction, coax, convince, drive home, exhort, gain over, get, induce, persuade, reason, reassure, satisfy), протестовать (demur, exclaim against, object, obtest, outcry, protest, protested, protesting, rebel, reclaim). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		protiviti se (antagonize, buck, counteract, object to, oppose), prigovarati (animadvert, demur, fuss about, reproach), istupati. (various references)

Spanish		protestar (carry on, contest, expostulate, kick, moan, obtest, protest, remonstration, wail, yap), objetar (demur, object). (various references)

Swedish		protestera (expostulate, kick, object, obtest, protest). (various references)

Turkish		uyarmak (admonish, advise, advise against, advise smb. of smth., alert, awake, awake smb. to smth., caution, charge, excite, exhort, expostulate, forewarn, give notice, give smb. notice of, give warning, induce, lecture, serve notice, sex up, stimulate, tip, tip off, tip smb. off, tip the wink, warn), sitem etmek (expostulate, rebuke, reproach, reprove), protesto etmek (enter a protest, note, protest, protest against, raise a hue and cry), kınamak (blame, cast reflection on smb., castigate, censure, condemn, decry, denounce, disapprove, fault, reprimand, reproach, reprobate, reprove, slate, stigmatize, strafe), itiraz etmek (argue, argue against smth., blow the whistle on, buck, challenge, contest, contravene, demur, deprecate, dispute, except, expostulate, gainsay, interpose, make an objection to, object, object to, oppose, protest, protest against, raise an objection to, take exception to, take objection to), güçlü kanıtları olmak. (various references)

Ukranian		напучувати (admonish, edify, exhort, monitor, rant), протестувати (cry shame, demur, deprecate, except, expostulate, object, obtest, protest). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	expostulans, expostulas. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "remonstrate": remonstrated, remonstrates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Remonstrate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: remonsrate, remonsta, remonstrane, remonstrare. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-m-n-o-r-r-s-t-t"
	-1 letter: arrestment, rotameters, tormenters.
	-2 letters: ratteners, rotameter, smatterer, tetramers, tormenter.
	-3 letters: antrorse, earstone, entreats, monstera, onstream, ransomer, ratteens, rattener, rearmost, reasoner, remaster, remotest, resonate, retreats, rostrate, rottener, streamer, teamster, terranes, tetramer, tonearms, torments, torrents, treaters.
	-4 letters: arenose, armrest, atoners, attorns, earners, earnest, eastern, emoters, enamors, entreat, errants, estreat, estrone, maestro, marrons, martens, matrons, matters, meaners.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-m-n-o-r-r-s-t-t"
	+1 letter: remonstrated, remonstrates.
	+2 letters: concertmaster, counterstream, determinators, exterminators, remonstrative.
	+3 letters: concertmasters, counterstreams, overtreatments, pretournaments.
	+4 letters: anthropometries, intervalometers, preterminations, remonstratively, transmissometer.
	+5 letters: antiferromagnets, counterarguments, endarterectomies, heterochromatins, neurotransmitter, northeasternmost, reapportionments, redeterminations, transmissometers.
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