DIRECTIVES Antonyms

• earnest or urgent request

• attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates

• (law) a legal proceeding in which the appellant resorts to a higher court for the purpose of obtaining a review of a lower court decision and a reversal of the lower court's judgment or the granting of a new trial

• request for a sum of money

• take a court case to a higher court for review

• request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection

• be attractive to

• challenge (a decision)

• cite as an authority; resort to

• not direct in spatial dimension; not leading by a straight line or course to a destination

• descended from a common ancestor but through different lines

• extended senses; not direct in manner or language or behavior or action

• having intervening factors or persons or influences

• not as a direct effect or consequence

• a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority

• reverent petition to a deity

• write a petition for something to somebody; request formally and in writing

• a humble request for help from someone in authority

• (law) a defendant's answer by a factual matter (as distinguished from a demurrer)

• an answer indicating why a suit should be dismissed

• something proposed (such as a plan or assumption)

• an offer of marriage

• the act of making a proposal

• a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority

• the verbal act of requesting

• express the need or desire for

• ask (a person) to do something

• inquire for (information)

• an idea that is suggested

• a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection

• a just detectable amount

• persuasion formulated as a suggestion

• the sequential mental process in which one thought leads to another by association

• the act of inducing hypnosis

• not precisely limited, determined, or distinguished

• not clearly expressed or understood

• lacking clarity or distinctness