Hedged Synonyms and Antonyms

Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. skirted
  2. sidestepped
  3. evaded
  4. ducked
  5. eluded
  6. dodged
  7. parried
  8. circumvented
  9. fudged
Avoid, dodge
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. waffled
  2. pussyfooted
  3. shuffled
  4. euphemized
  5. equivocated
Antonyms:
  1. confronted
  2. faced
  3. met
To surround and advance upon
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. hemmed
  2. enveloped
  3. enclosed
  4. besieged
Evasively worded in order to avoid an unqualified statement
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. weasel-worded

Words Related to Hedged

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.

Hedged Sentence Examples

  • No. I just hedged around his questions.

  • But the divinity which hedged a prophet saved him.

  • She smelled the ocean on the air and was surprised to see the strange stone cottage perched in the middle of a field hedged by a stone wall.

  • It is easy to distinguish the great primitive watercourses from the lateral ducts which they fed, the latter being almost without banks and merely traceable by the winding curves of the layers of alluvium in the bed, while the former are hedged in by high banks of mud, heaped up during centuries of dredging.

  • Beyond them was a crude wooden floored arena hedged by rows of shouting people.

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