Adjudicate Synonyms and Antonyms

ə-jo͝odĭ-kāt
To make a decision about (a controversy or dispute, for example) after deliberation, as in a court of law
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. decide
  2. adjudge
  3. arbitrate
  4. judge
  5. settle
  6. mediate
  7. decree
  8. determine
  9. referee
  10. rule
  11. umpire
  12. try
  13. resolve
Antonyms:
  1. defer
  2. dodge
  3. ignore
  4. not judge

Words Related to Adjudicate

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. law
  2. take-a-decision
  3. arbitrator

Adjudicate Sentence Examples

  • It will be observed that the king does not hear the cause or adjudicate upon it.

  • As the king and his minister had to listen to and adjudicate upon the appeals from the contending parties their patience was at last worn out, and both governor and intendant were recalled to France in the year 1682.

  • Castile and Aragon alike royal officers were appointed to adjudicate on disputes within.

  • In the absence of an appointed umpire a neutral person, mutually agreed, shall adjudicate.

  • Boetius ends by declining to adjudicate between Plato and Aristotle, remarking in a semi-apologetic style that, if he has expounded Aristotle's opinion by preference, his course is justified by the fact that he is commenting upon an introduction to Aristotle.