Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to address
Participle: addressed
Gerund: addressing
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | address |
| you | address |
| he;she;it | addresses |
| we | address |
| you | address |
| they | address |
Perfect
| I | have addressed |
| you | have addressed |
| he;she;it | has addressed |
| we | have addressed |
| you | have addressed |
| they | have addressed |
Past
| I | addressed |
| you | addressed |
| he;she;it | addressed |
| we | addressed |
| you | addressed |
| they | addressed |
Pluperfect
| I | had addressed |
| you | had addressed |
| he;she;it | had addressed |
| we | had addressed |
| you | had addressed |
| they | had addressed |
Future
| I | will address |
| you | will address |
| he;she;it | will address |
| we | will address |
| you | will address |
| they | will address |
Future Perfect
| I | will have addressed |
| you | will have addressed |
| he;she;it | will have addressed |
| we | will have addressed |
| you | will have addressed |
| they | will have addressed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | address |
| you | address |
| he;she;it | address |
| we | address |
| you | address |
| they | address |
Perfect
| I | have addressed |
| you | have addressed |
| he;she;it | have addressed |
| we | have addressed |
| you | have addressed |
| they | have addressed |
Imperfect
| I | addressed |
| you | addressed |
| he;she;it | addressed |
| we | addressed |
| you | addressed |
| they | addressed |
Pluperfect
| I | had addressed |
| you | had addressed |
| he;she;it | had addressed |
| we | had addressed |
| you | had addressed |
| they | had addressed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would address |
| you | would address |
| he;she;it | would address |
| we | would address |
| you | would address |
| they | would address |
Perfect
| I | would have addressed |
| you | would have addressed |
| he;she;it | would have addressed |
| we | would have addressed |
| you | would have addressed |
| they | would have addressed |
Imperative
| you | address |
| we | Let's address |
| you | address |
Verbs conjugated like 'address'
abash,
abolish,
abroach,
accomplish,
accroach,
address,
admix,
admonish,
ado,
adpress,
affamish,
affix,
alloo,
amass,
ambush,
anguish,
annex,
appeach,
appears,
approach, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'address'
adpress,
aggress,
appress,
dress,
duress,
readdress,
redress,
unaddress,
undress,
abscess,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to solicit in love
- bedear, chase after, court, endear, make love, pitch woo, put the moves on, romance, solicit, spark, woo
- to adorn or cover with clothing
- accouter, apparel, array, attire, beclothe, clothe, dight, don, dress, enrobe, equip, invest, put on, robe, slip on
- greet
- hail, accost, apply, direct, approach
- appeal
- style, petition, ask, invoke, plead
- lecture
- harangue, discourse, sermon, oration, speech
Antonyms
- appeal
- deny, refuse, protest, renounce
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1374, "to make straight," from O.Fr.
adresser, from V.L.
*addirectiare "make straight," from L.
ad "to" +
*directiare, from L.
directus "straight, direct" (see direct). Meaning "to direct spoken words (too someone)" is from 1490; noun sense of "formal speech" is from 1751. Meaning in Eng. expanded 17c.-18c. to the notion of directing something, as a letter, "straight" to where somebody lives. "To send as a written message" is from 1636, which led to noun senses of "superscription of a letter" (1712) and "place of residence" (1888).
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
4. Proto-Italic *ad
5. Proto-Italic *ad-
6. Latin ad-
7. Old French a-
8. Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
9. Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
10. Proto-Italic *dis-
11. Latin dīs-
12. Latin rēctus
13. Latin dīrēctus
14. Proto-Indo-European *-yetider.
15. Latin -iāre
16. Vulgar Latin *dīrēctiāre
17. Old French drecier
18. Old French adrecierbor.
19. Middle English adressen
20. English address
21. From Middle English adressen (“to raise erect, adorn”), from Old French adrecier (“to straighten, address”) (modern French adresser), from Proto-Romance *addīrēctiāre, from ad- (“to; towards”) + *dīrēctiāre (“to guide; to direct”), from Latin dīrēctus (“straight; right”), from dīrigō (“to lay straight; to direct”), itself from regō (“to govern, to rule”). Cognate with Spanish aderezar (“to garnish; dress (food); to add spices”). See: Middle English '
adressen', Old French '
adrecier', French '
adresser', Spanish '
aderezar'.
Verbs referencing "address"
Cebuano adres, Spanish
aderezar.
Sample Sentences
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[...] in an unsteady looking-glass; but I knew it for the captain; and such was the cheerful influence of his face, that I tried to smile: yes, even then I tried to smile. I saw by his gestures that he addressed me; but it was a long time before I could make out that he remonstrated against my standing up to my knees in water—as I was; of course I do n't know why. I tried to thank him, but could n't. I [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] light: when I gazed from sail to sail away upon a ship at sea, a tiny speck of shining white, the only cloud upon the still, deep, distant blue—and, turning, saw a blind boy with his sightless face addressed that way, as though he too had some sense within him of the glorious distance: I felt a kind of sorrow that the place should be so very light, and a strange wish that for his sake it were darker. [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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In the civil court an action was trying, for damages sustained in some accident upon a railway. The witnesses had been examined, and counsel was addressing the jury. The learned gentleman (like a few of his English brethren ) was desperately long-winded, and had a remarkable capacity of saying the same thing over and over again. His great theme was [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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The only preacher I heard in Boston was Mr. Taylor, who addresses himself peculiarly to seamen, and who was once a mariner himself. I found his chapel down among the shipping, in one of the narrow, old, water-side streets, with a gay blue flag waving freely from [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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“ Jim, see to the trunks, ” said the gentleman, negligently; then addressing himself to Mr. Wilson, he added—“I should like to have a few moments ’ conversation with you on business, in my room, if you please. ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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The boys addressed responded the invariable “ Yes, Mas’r, ” for ages the watchword of poor Africa; but it's to be owned they did not look particularly cheerful; they had their various little prejudices in favor of [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] passengers were waiting for us at the inn-door, the coachman observed under his breath, in the usual self-communicative voice, looking the while at his mouldy harness as if it were to that he was addressing himself,
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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This speech was addressed to Tom quite confidentially, as if it was something that would be specially interesting to him. Tom made no answer.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] At home, I should have protested lustily, but being a foreigner here, I held my peace. Not so this passenger. He cleft a path among the people on deck (we were nearly all on deck ), and without addressing anybody whomsoever, soliloquised as follows:
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] of the same hue, and enormous eyebrows; which almost obscured his lazy, semi-drunken glance, as he stood regarding us with folded arms: poising himself alternately upon his toes and heels. On being addressed by one of the party, he drew nearer, and said, rubbing his chin (which scraped under his horny hand like fresh gravel beneath a nailed shoe ), that he was from Delaware, and had lately bought a farm [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)