单词 | pass judgment |
释义 | pass judgment (once / 7843 pages) v When you pass judgment, you express your strong disapproval of someone or something. If you're overly critical of your sister, you probably tend to pass judgment on every little move she makes. The worst thing about people who pass judgment on others is that they tend to act morally superior, as if they're in a position to judge the actions of other people. In fact, the original meaning of pass judgment is a courtroom judge making a legal decision, or — literally — judging. The source of this term is judgment, originally "action of trying at law," from the Latin iudicare, "to examine officially." WORD FAMILYpass judgment: passed judgment, passes judgment, passing judgment USAGE EXAMPLESAnd we voters did our part, passing judgment on the candidates, thinning the herd, rejecting them one by one. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) Read this before passing judgment on the causes and effects of America’s violent streak. Washington Times(Dec 21, 2016) Mr. Loehr urged critics to see the movie before passing judgment. Wall Street Journal(Dec 15, 2016) v form a critical opinion of Syn|Hypo|Hyper evaluate, judge grade, order, place, range, rank, rate assign a rank or rating to standhave or maintain a position or stand on an issue approvejudge to be right or commendable; think well of disapproveconsider bad or wrong choosesee fit or proper to act in a certain way; decide to act in a certain way prejudgejudge beforehand, especially without sufficient evidence appraise, assess, evaluate, measure, valuate, valueevaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of reappraiseappraise anew rejectrefuse to accept or acknowledge acceptconsider or hold as true believe, conceive, consider, thinkjudge or regard; look upon; judge calculate, count on, estimate, figure, forecast, reckonjudge to be probable anticipate, expectregard something as probable or likely ascribe, assign, attribute, imputeattribute or credit to assign, attributedecide as to where something belongs in a scheme disapprove, rejectdeem wrong or inappropriate adjudge, declare, holddeclare to be critique, reviewappraise critically failjudge unacceptable passaccept or judge as acceptable essay, examine, prove, test, try, try output to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to acknowledge, know, recognise, recognizeaccept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority adopt, embrace, espouse, sweep uptake up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own holdremain committed to guess, imagine, opine, reckon, suppose, thinkexpect, believe, or suppose assume, presume, take for grantedtake to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof conjecture, hypothecate, hypothesise, hypothesize, speculate, suppose, theorise, theorizeto believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds grade, mark, scoreassign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation superordinateplace in a superior order or rank shortlistput someone or something on a short list seeddistribute (players or teams) so that outstanding teams or players will not meet in the early rounds reorderassign a new order to subordinaterank or order as less important or consider of less value prioritise, prioritizeassign a priority to sequencearrange in a sequence downgraderate lower; lower in value or esteem upgraderate higher; raise in value or esteem rate, valueestimate the value of frown on, frown uponlook disapprovingly upon rubberstampapprove automatically standardise, standardizeevaluate by comparing with a standard reassess, reevaluaterevise or renew one's assessment censorsubject to political, religious, or moral censorship believeaccept as true; take to be true disbelieve, discreditreject as false; refuse to accept repudiaterefuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid recusechallenge or except to a judge as being incompetent or interested, in canon and civil law receiveaccept as true or valid approbateaccept (documents) as valid reprobatereject (documents) as invalid rethinkchange one's mind thinkdispose the mind in a certain way esteem, look on, look upon, regard as, repute, take to be, think oflook on as or consider feelhave a feeling or perception about oneself in reaction to someone's behavior or attitude consider, reckon, regard, see, viewdeem to be believe, trustbe confident about something allow, take into accountallow or plan for a certain possibility; concede the truth or validity of something imputeattribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source carnalize, sensualizeascribe to an origin in sensation creditgive someone credit for something reattributeattribute to another source anthropomorphise, anthropomorphizeascribe human features to something personate, personifyattribute human qualities to something accredit, creditascribe an achievement to blame, chargeattribute responsibility to externalise, externalize, projectregard as objective interiorise, interiorize, internalise, internalizeincorporate within oneself; make subjective or personal reconcile, resign, submitaccept as inevitable discountenanceshow disapproval by discouraging align, arrayalign oneself with a group or a way of thinking classify, relegateassign to a class or kind acknowledgeaccept as legally binding and valid disown, renounce, repudiatecast off brush aside, brush off, discount, dismiss, disregard, ignore, push asidebar from attention or consideration objectexpress or raise an objection or protest or criticism or express dissent acknowledge, admitdeclare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of superannuatedeclare to be obsolete bastardise, bastardizedeclare a child to be illegitimate certifydeclare legally insane calldeclare in the capacity of an umpire or referee beatifydeclare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood canonise, canonize, saintdeclare (a dead person) to be a saint peer review, refereeevaluate professionally a colleague's work deprecateexpress strong disapproval of; deplore praiseexpress approval of take a bowacknowledge praise or accept credit deter, discouragetry to prevent; show opposition to judge, label, pronouncepronounce judgment on abide by, honor, honour, observe, respectshow respect towards cancel, strike downdeclare null and void; make ineffective formalise, formalizemake formal or official control, verifycheck or regulate (a scientific experiment) by conducting a parallel experiment or comparing with another standard floatcirculate or discuss tentatively; test the waters with field-testtest something under the conditions under which it will actually be used cerebrate, cogitate, think use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments |
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