lecture | Definition of lecture

Synonyms and Antonyms of lecture

1 to criticize (someone) severely or angrily especially for personal failings

the frustrated manager lectured the waitstaff about its poor level of service

Synonyms of lecture

baste, bawl out, berate, call down, castigate, chastise, chew out, dress down, flay, hammer, jaw, keelhaul, lambaste (or lambast), rag, rail (at or against), rant (at), rate, ream (out), rebuke, reprimand, reproach, scold, score, tongue-lash, upbraid

Words Related to lecture

admonish, chide, remonstrate (with), reprove

abuse, assail, attack, bad-mouth, blame, blast, censure, condemn, criticize, crucify, denounce, dis (also diss) [slang], excoriate, fault, harangue, knock, lace (into), lash, pan, reprehend, revile, scourge, slam, vituperate

belittle, disparage, mock, put down

ridicule, scoff, scorn

Phrases Synonymous with lecture

lay into, read the riot act (to), take to task

Near Antonyms of lecture

approve, endorse (also indorse), sanction

extol (also extoll), laud, praise

2 to give a formal often extended talk on a subject

a physician who has lectured before countless audiences on the importance of diet and exercise in avoiding heart disease

Synonyms of lecture

declaim, descant, discourse, expatiate, harangue, orate, speak, talk

Words Related to lecture

recite, soliloquize

dissert, expound, pontificate, sermonize

Phrases Synonymous with lecture

hold forth, take the floor