Deferring Synonyms and Antonyms

Hold off, put off
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. delaying
  2. yielding
  3. submitting
  4. bowing
  5. shelving
Antonyms:
  1. advancing
  2. hurrying
  3. hastening
  4. forwarding
  5. forging
  6. expediting
To submit to the wish or decision of another, as in recognition of authority.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. yielding

Words Related to Deferring

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.

Deferring Sentence Examples

  • Fortunately, you can avoid some of the guesswork by deferring to experts in the field.

  • Deferring his criticism of the significance of self and object, Hume yet makes use of both to aid his explanation of the belief attaching to reality.

  • The fathers, however, of the 4th century emphasized already the danger of deferring the rite until men fall into mortal sickness, when they may be unconscious or paralysed or otherwise unable to profess their faith and repentance, or to swallow the viaticum.

  • For a moment the idea was entertained of giving way to the opposition and deferring a decision in the matter, or, in the manner of the fathers in the Council of Trent, adjourning it to the Greek kalends.

  • Bismarck in this crisis by deferring to the emperor in appearance avoided the danger, but he knew that he had been deceived, and the cordial understanding was never renewed.

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