Wills Synonyms and Antonyms

Conscious power
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. volitions
  2. testaments
  3. resolutions
  4. preferences
  5. resolves
  6. minds
  7. velleities
  8. intentions
  9. orders
  10. convictions
  11. legacies
  12. determinations
  13. commands
  14. purposes
  15. discretions
  16. decisions
  17. inclinations
  18. dispositions
  19. choices
Antonyms:
  1. doubts
  2. vacillations
An indication of futurity
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. proposes
  2. foresees
  3. awaits
  4. anticipates
Leave or give by will after one's death
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. leaves
  2. directs
  3. devises
  4. demands
  5. wishes
  6. enjoins
  7. wants
  8. resolves
  9. commands
  10. prefers
  11. pleasures
  12. bequeaths
  13. insists
  14. ordains
  15. minds
  16. orders
  17. requests
  18. fancies
  19. endows
  20. authorizes
  21. disciplines
  22. decrees
  23. desires
  24. demises
  25. chooses
  26. bestows
Give, bequeath to another
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. wishes
  2. wants
  3. prefers
  4. pleases
  5. likes
  6. desires
  7. chooses
Antonyms:
  1. receives
  2. passes
  3. keeps
  4. neglects
The mental faculty by which one deliberately chooses or decides
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. volitions
Testament for the disposition of property
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. dispositions
  2. bequests

Wills Sentence Examples

  • Thus a privileged land-tenure was createdbookland; the rules as to the succession of kinsmen were set at nought by concession of testamentary power and confirmations of grants and wills; special exemptions from the jurisdiction of the hundreds and special privileges as to levying fines were conferred.

  • She persisted, and a contest of wills followed.

  • Sleep can become a power struggle or test of wills.

  • Adam Ferguson (Institutes of Moral Philosophy, p. 119, new ed., 1800) argues that " the desire for immortality is an instinct, and can reasonably be regarded as an indication of that which the author of this desire wills to do."

  • The leading men of the party were Mr Robert O'Hara Burke, an officer of police, and Mr William John Wills, of the Melbourne observatory.

More Sentences