reprove

Verb

Meaning

To convince.

To disprove; to refute.

To chide to the face as blameworthy; to accuse as guilty; to censure.

To express disapprobation of; as, to reprove faults.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

rebuke reprimand scold admonish chide flay tut ream rate attack slam chastise chasten check discipline
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Antonyms

back support celebrate praise advocate warrant
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Hypernyms

knock criticise criticize pick apart

Phrases with the word

to reprove

Derivatives

reproved reproving

Examples

A light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove. William Wordsworth

Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly. Leonardo da Vinci

Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it. François de La Rochefoucauld

Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them. Isaac Barrow

If you have a friend that will reprove your faults and foibles, consider you enjoy a blessing which the king upon the throne cannot have. James Burgh

Neither reprove nor flatter thy wife, where any one heareth or seeth it. Dutch Proverb

Close letter words and terms

reprovable reprovably reproval reproveable reprovement reprover