Synonyms for hail
heɪlha·il

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1. hailverb

   To accost is to speak first, to friend or stranger, generally with a view to opening conversation; greet is not so distinctly limited, since one may return another's greeting; greet and hail may imply but a passing word; greeting may be altogether silent; to hail is to greet in a loud-voiced and commonly hearty and joyous way, as appears in the expression "hail fellow, well met." To salute is to greet with special token of respect, as a soldier his commander. To apostrophize is to solemnly address some person or personified attribute apart from the audience to whom one is speaking; as, a preacher may apostrophize virtue, the saints of old, or even the Deity. To appeal is strictly to call for some form of help or support. Address is slightly more formal than accost or greet, though it may often be interchanged with them. One may address another at considerable length or in writing; he accosts orally and briefly.

   Synonyms:
   address, address, apostrophize, appeal, approach, cost, court, greet, salute, speak to, woo

   Antonyms:
   avoid, cut, elude, ignore, overlook, pass, pass by, shun

   Preposition:
   Address the memorial to the legislature; the president addressed the people in an eloquent speech; he addressed an intruder with indignation.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hail

   Synonyms:
   accost, address, salute, call, welcome, greet

   Antonyms:
   ignore, pass, cut, avoid

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.0 / 3 votes

1. hailnoun

   precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents

2. hailnoun

   many objects thrown forcefully through the air

   "a hail of pebbles"; "a hail of bullets"

3. hailverb

   enthusiastic greeting

4. acclaim, hail, heraldverb

   praise vociferously

   "The critics hailed the young pianist as a new Rubinstein"

   Synonyms:
   acclaim, herald, clap, announce, applaud, harbinger, foretell, annunciate, come, spat

5. hail, comeverb

   be a native of

   "She hails from Kalamazoo"

   Synonyms:
   fare, herald, issue forth, amount, total, acclaim, occur, arrive, number, come up, follow, get, descend, come, fall, do, get along, make out, derive, come in, add up

6. hailverb

   call for

   "hail a cab"

   Synonyms:
   acclaim, come, herald

7. hail, heraldverb

   greet enthusiastically or joyfully

   Synonyms:
   acclaim, herald, announce, harbinger, foretell, annunciate, come

8. hailverb

   precipitate as small ice particles

   "It hailed for an hour"

   Synonyms:
   acclaim, come, herald

Matched Categories

1. • Applaud
   • Be
   • Call
   • Object
   • Precipitate
   • Precipitation

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1. hailverb

   Synonyms:
   salute, greet, welcome, call to

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1. hailverb

   Synonyms:
   accost, salute, address, signal

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1. List of paraphrases for "hail":

   ave, glory, oorah, -hail, greetings, intestine, hurrah, huzzah, howdy

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1. Haley Brink:

   It was very loud. The hail was pelting the house, hitting the windows, we were just hoping that the windows were going to hold up and wouldn't break, at one point it was so loud that you couldn't hear a person ten feet away from you talking without yelling.

2. Matt Sena:

   A lot of that is going to depend on where the surface low moves and how far north the warm front gets, the primary threat is going to be damaging winds. There will be some threat for hail. There is enough shear, so we can't rule out the possibility of tornadoes, but the primary threat will be damaging winds.

3. John Boehner:

   Keep the country's best interest in mind and have the courage to do what you can do, in our system of government, it's not about Hail Mary passes. It's the Woody Hayes school of football -- three yards and a cloud of dust. Three yards and a cloud of dust. It's a slow, methodical process.

4. David Roth:

   It was exactly one tornado that hit at 9:02 p.m., we also saw golfball- and baseball-sized hail in some areas and a narrow swath of north Dallas that got between 1 to 3 inches of rain.

5. Scotty Miller:

   We were going to try to heave it like a Hail Mary type thing, they played me pretty much man-to-man and my guy didn’t get too much depth, so I was able to just run right by him. Then Tom put a great ball on me like he always does. It was a special moment. I don’t even know if I could have dreamed of it as a kid. It’s just so crazy.