What is another word for accost?

Pronunciation: [ɐkˈɒst] (IPA)

Accost means to approach someone boldly or aggressively in order to speak to them. There are several synonyms for this word, including confront, approach, greet, address, buttonhole, and waylay. These words all imply some level of directness and perhaps even an element of surprise or intrusion. Confront may connote a more hostile or challenging stance, while greet and address suggest a more polite or formal interaction. Buttonhole and waylay both convey an element of catching someone off guard or surprising them with a sudden interaction. Regardless of the specific synonym used, all of these words indicate an attempt to initiate a conversation or interaction with someone else.

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What are the hypernyms for Accost?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the hyponyms for Accost?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.

What are the opposite words for accost?

Accost means to approach or speak to someone boldly or aggressively. Antonyms for the word accost would be avoiding, neglecting, ignoring, or snubbing. When someone avoids or neglects to speak to another person, it is essentially the opposite of accosting them. Ignoring someone is actively choosing not to approach them, while snubbing is purposefully disregarding their presence or shutting them down. These antonyms for accost are all related to ignoring or avoiding contact with others, which is the opposite of the bold and assertive act of accosting someone.

What are the antonyms for Accost?

Usage examples for Accost

You did not accost them?
"A Maker of History"
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Yet because, if a man lie down, the best of girls will set her pretty foot on his neck, and also from my love of a thing that is new, I was thoroughly resolved to accost the gardener's guest; and my purpose was not altered by Barbara's scornful toss of her little head as she turned away.
"Simon Dale"
Anthony Hope
But Wagg did not accost the prisoner.
"When Egypt Went Broke"
Holman Day

Famous quotes with Accost

  • So last January, with the beginning of a snowstorm in the air about me—and if it settled on me it would betray me!—weary, cold, painful, inexpressibly wretched, and still but half convinced of my invisible quality, I began this new life to which I am committed. I had no refuge, no appliances, no human being in the world in whom I could confide. To have told my secret would have given me away—made a mere show and rarity of me. Nevertheless, I was half-minded to accost some passer-by and throw myself upon his mercy. But I knew too clearly the terror and brutal cruelty my advances would evoke. I made no plans in the street. My sole object was to get shelter from the snow, to get myself covered and warm; then I might hope to plan. But even to me, an Invisible Man, the rows of London houses stood latched, barred, and bolted impregnably.
    H. G. Wells

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