hails

The word “hails” has 1 syllable: hails

It's pronounced as /heɪlz/


What is synonym and antonym for hails?

In the thesaurus, “hails” has 119 synonyms and 41 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for hails along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for hails

  • acclaims
  • accredits
  • adulates
  • applauds
  • approves
  • asks
  • assembles
  • avalanches
  • ballyhoos
  • barrages
  • beckons
  • belauds
  • bids
  • blitzes
  • blitzkriegs
  • bombardments
  • bravoes
  • broadsides
  • bursts
  • buzzes
  • calls
  • calls out
  • calls up
  • cannonades
  • cataclysms
  • cataracts
  • celebrates
  • cheers
  • cites
  • claps
  • commands
  • commends
  • convenes
  • convokes
  • cracks up
  • currents
  • deifies
  • deluges
  • demands
  • discharges
  • distances
  • drumbeats
  • drumfires
  • earfuls
  • emblazons
  • endorses
  • engulfments
  • eruptions
  • eulogizes
  • excesses
  • extolls
  • extols
  • favors
  • flatters
  • flood tides
  • floods
  • flurries
  • flushes
  • fusillades
  • glorifies
  • gluts
  • gushes
  • hearings
  • idolizes
  • indorses
  • inundations
  • invites
  • invokes
  • knells
  • lauds
  • magnifies
  • musters
  • orders
  • outbreaks
  • outbursts
  • outflows
  • outpourings
  • overabundances
  • overages
  • overflows
  • overkills
  • overmuch
  • overpraises
  • oversupplies
  • pages
  • praises
  • rains
  • rashes
  • recommends
  • requests
  • requisitions
  • rings
  • rivers
  • rushes
  • salutes
  • salvoes
  • salvos
  • sends for
  • showers
  • sights
  • sings
  • sounds
  • spates
  • storms
  • streams
  • subpoenas
  • summons
  • superabundances
  • superfluities
  • supports
  • surfeits
  • surges
  • surpluses
  • tides
  • torrents
  • touts
  • volleys
  • volumes
  • whistles

Antonyms for hails

  • admonishes
  • banishes
  • belittles
  • blames
  • castigates
  • casts out
  • censures
  • chides
  • criticizes
  • discommends
  • dismisses
  • disparages
  • dribbles
  • drips
  • ejects
  • excoriates
  • expels
  • keelhauls
  • kicks out
  • knocks
  • lambastes
  • lambasts
  • ousts
  • outs
  • pans
  • puts down
  • rebukes
  • reprehends
  • reprimands
  • reproaches
  • reprobates
  • reproves
  • routs
  • runs off
  • skewers
  • slags
  • slams
  • throws out
  • trickles
  • turns away
  • vilifies

Meanings of hails

  • verb
    1. Of hail, to fall from the sky.
    2. To send or release hail.
    3. To pour down in rapid succession.
    4. To greet; give salutation to; salute.
    5. To name; to designate; to call.
    6. To call out loudly in order to gain the attention of.
    7. To signal in order to initiate communication with.

Example Sentences

  • The captain confidently hails the crew to prepare for departure.
  • In times of celebration, the crowd hails their victorious team with cheers and applause.
  • The leader hails the volunteers for their dedication and hard work.
  • From his humble beginnings, he hails as a successful entrepreneur in the tech industry.
  • The renowned artist hails from a small town but has gained international recognition for her work.

On this page you'll find 160 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to hails, such as: acclaims, accredits, admonishes, adulates, applauds, approves, asks.

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Related Words

acclaims

acclamations

accredits

  • OKs
  • accepts
  • acclaims
  • acknowledges
  • adulates
  • affirms
  • allows
  • applauds
  • approbates
  • approves
  • ascribes
  • assigns
  • associates
  • attaches
  • attributes
  • authorizes
  • ballyhoos
  • belauds
  • blames
  • blesses
  • bravoes
  • canonizes
  • celebrates
  • certifies
  • chalks up
  • charges
  • charters
  • cheers
  • claps
  • clears
  • commends
  • commissions
  • confirms
  • connects
  • cracks up
  • credentials
  • credits
  • deifies
  • emblazons
  • empowers
  • enables
  • endorses
  • enfranchises
  • entitles
  • eulogizes
  • extolls
  • extols
  • favors
  • finalizes
  • flatters
  • formalizes
  • glorifies
  • hails
  • homologates
  • idolizes
  • imputes
  • inaugurates
  • indorses
  • inducts
  • initials
  • initiates
  • installs
  • instates
  • invests
  • lauds
  • lays
  • legalizes
  • lets
  • licences
  • licenses
  • links
  • magnifies
  • okays
  • overpraises
  • passes
  • permits
  • praises
  • privileges
  • puts down
  • qualifies
  • ratifies
  • reapproves
  • recommends
  • refers
  • rubber-stamps
  • salutes
  • sanctifies
  • sanctions
  • signs
  • sings
  • supports
  • swears in
  • touts
  • validates
  • vests
  • warrants

attacks

  • abuse
  • abuses
  • access
  • accesses
  • addresses
  • advance
  • affronts
  • aggress
  • aggression
  • aggressions
  • agitations
  • ailment
  • air raids
  • ambuscades
  • ambush
  • ambushes
  • approaches
  • asperses
  • assail
  • assailing
  • assailment
  • assails
  • assault
  • assaults
  • attempts
  • bad-mouths
  • barrage
  • barrages
  • bash
  • bashes
  • bat
  • batters
  • bean
  • beat
  • beats up on
  • belabors
  • beleaguers
  • belittles
  • belligerence
  • berate
  • berates
  • beset
  • besets
  • besiege
  • besieges
  • biff
  • blackguards
  • blame
  • blasphemes
  • blast
  • blasts
  • blister
  • blitz
  • blitzes
  • blitzkrieg
  • blitzkriegs
  • boff
  • bombard
  • bombardments
  • bombards
  • bombings
  • bombs
  • boot
  • bop
  • bout
  • bouts
  • brain
  • brainstorms
  • breakdown
  • breakdowns
  • breakthroughs
  • buckle down
  • buffets
  • bum-rushes
  • bushwhacks
  • bust
  • calumny
  • cannonades
  • cannons
  • cases
  • castigates
  • censure
  • charge
  • charges
  • chastises
  • chides
  • chop down
  • clip
  • clock
  • club
  • collapses
  • combat
  • combativeness
  • convulsion
  • convulsions
  • cook
  • counter-aggressions
  • counter-assaults
  • counter-attacks
  • counter-strikes
  • counteraggressions
  • counterassaults
  • counterattacks
  • counteroffensives
  • counterstrikes
  • coups de main
  • criticism
  • criticize
  • criticizes
  • curses
  • deal with
  • defilement
  • denigration
  • denunciation
  • descents
  • dirty deed
  • disease
  • disparages
  • dive into
  • drive
  • eclampsias
  • encounter
  • encroachment
  • envelopments
  • envelops
  • excoriates
  • execrates
  • faces
  • failure
  • fit
  • fits
  • flanks
  • flies at
  • foray
  • forays
  • frenzies
  • fulminates
  • fusillades
  • goes at
  • hails
  • harangues
  • harasses
  • harm
  • harries
  • has at
  • hit
  • hurt
  • illness
  • imprecates
  • impugn
  • impugnment
  • incursion
  • incursions
  • infiltrate
  • initiative
  • inroad
  • insults
  • intervention
  • intrusion
  • invade
  • invades
  • invasion
  • invasions
  • irruption
  • jump
  • kick
  • knock block off
  • knock cold
  • knock for a loop
  • lambastes
  • lambasts
  • larrup
  • lay into
  • lay siege to
  • libel
  • libels
  • light into
  • lights into
  • loots
  • malign
  • mobs
  • molest
  • mug
  • mugging
  • mugs
  • nukes
  • offences
  • offense
  • offenses
  • offensive
  • offensives
  • onrush
  • onset
  • onsets
  • onslaught
  • onslaughts
  • outbreak
  • overruns
  • overwhelm
  • pangs
  • paroxysm
  • paroxysms
  • pillages
  • pitches in
  • pitches into
  • plasters
  • plunders
  • plunge into
  • potshots
  • pounce upon
  • presses
  • profanes
  • prostrations
  • pugnacity
  • punch
  • pursues
  • push
  • puts down
  • raid
  • raids
  • rape
  • ravages
  • rebukes
  • recurrences
  • refute
  • relapse
  • relapses
  • reprimands
  • reprove
  • revile
  • reviles
  • robs
  • rounds on
  • rush
  • rushes
  • sacks
  • sails into
  • sallies
  • salvoes
  • salvos
  • savages
  • scathes
  • scolds
  • seizure
  • seizures
  • set to
  • set upon
  • sets at
  • sets on
  • sets upon
  • shoot down
  • sicks
  • sics
  • sieges
  • skirmish
  • slams
  • slander
  • slanders
  • slog
  • slurs
  • soak
  • sorties
  • spasm
  • spasms
  • spell
  • spells
  • stab
  • start in on
  • storm
  • storming
  • storms
  • stretch
  • strike
  • strikes
  • stroke
  • surprises
  • surprizes
  • swarms
  • tackle
  • tackles
  • take the offensive
  • take up
  • takes up
  • tear into
  • tears into
  • throe
  • throes
  • thrust
  • ties into
  • traduces
  • trashes
  • turn on
  • turns
  • undertakes
  • vilification
  • vilifies
  • vilify
  • violation
  • vituperates
  • volley
  • volleys
  • wallop
  • waylays
  • whammies
  • whips
  • whop

ballyhoos

  • acclaims
  • ados
  • advances
  • advertises
  • alarums and excursions
  • announces
  • applauds
  • asserts
  • avers
  • barks
  • blares
  • blathers
  • blazes
  • blazons
  • blows up
  • bluster
  • bobberies
  • boosts
  • bothers
  • brawls
  • broadcasts
  • bustles
  • cacophonies
  • claims
  • clamors
  • clatters
  • clutters
  • coils
  • commends
  • commotions
  • compliments
  • corroborees
  • cracks up
  • cries up
  • declares
  • dins
  • disorders
  • disturbances
  • dithers
  • dos
  • endorses
  • eruptions
  • eulogizes
  • extolls
  • extols
  • fevers
  • flare-ups
  • flurries
  • flutters
  • foofaraws
  • fracas
  • fracases
  • frays
  • frets
  • fun
  • furores
  • furors
  • fusses
  • glorifies
  • hails
  • hassles
  • helter-skelters
  • heralds
  • hoo-hahs
  • hoo-has
  • hooplas
  • howls
  • hubble-bubbles
  • hubbubs
  • hue and cries
  • hullabaloos
  • hurlies
  • hurly-burlies
  • hurricanes
  • hurry-scurries
  • hurry-skurries
  • hypes
  • indorses
  • kerfuffles
  • lathers
  • lauds
  • lays down
  • magnifies
  • makes out
  • melees
  • merchandises
  • merchandizes
  • moils
  • noises
  • offers
  • outbreaks
  • outbursts
  • outcries
  • pandemoniums
  • pitches
  • plugs
  • pothers
  • praises
  • proclaims
  • promotes
  • pronounces
  • publicizes
  • publishes
  • pushes
  • rackets
  • recommends
  • reviews
  • roars
  • rows
  • ruckuses
  • ructions
  • rumpuses
  • scuffles
  • sells
  • shindies
  • shindys
  • splores
  • squalls
  • stews
  • stirs
  • storms
  • talks up
  • tizzies
  • to-dos
  • touts
  • trumpets
  • tub-thumps
  • tumults
  • turmoils
  • upheavals
  • uproars
  • welters
  • whirls
  • williwaws
  • zoos

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