Synonyms of declaring

declaring

verb

present participle of declare

1

as in announcing

to make known openly or publicly

she chose to declare her presidential aspirations at her college alma mater

Synonyms & Similar Words

• announcing
• proclaiming
• publishing
• posting
• advertising
• disclosing
• promulgating
• broadcasting
• publicizing
• trumpeting
• heralding
• promoting
• releasing
• blaring
• running with
• blazing
• enunciating
• revealing
• flashing
• sounding
• annunciating
• giving out
• reporting
• beating the drum (for or about)
• placarding
• introducing
• blazoning
• spreading
• showing
• disseminating
• crying
• barking
• calling (off or out)
• informing
• ringing
• notifying
• imparting
• featuring
• divulging
• manifesting
• tolling
• gazetting
• puffing
• intimating
• bulletining
• communicating
• billing
• billboarding
• plugging
• knelling
• apprising
• advising
• blurbing
• kithing
• handing down
• pitching

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• concealing
• suppressing
• withholding
• silencing
• recalling
• revoking
• retracting
• hushing (up)
• recanting

2

as in insisting

to state as a fact usually forcefully

she would declare her innocence to the whole world if she could

Synonyms & Similar Words

• insisting
• claiming
• alleging
• asserting
• announcing
• maintaining
• proclaiming
• contending
• protesting
• affirming
• arguing
• professing
• averring
• purporting
• avowing
• confirming
• warranting
• defending
• reasoning
• putting forth
• avouching
• justifying
• broadcasting
• rationalizing
• vindicating
• reaffirming
• upholding
• reasserting
• persevering
• supporting

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• denying
• abandoning
• rejecting
• repudiating
• disclaiming
• disavowing
• negating
• questioning
• challenging
• disputing
• refuting
• disowning
• gainsaying
• disproving
• rebutting
• contradicting
• countering
• negativing
• confuting

3

as in asserting

to state clearly and strongly

our guest enthusiastically declared that the pie was the best he had ever eaten

Synonyms & Similar Words

• asserting
• proclaiming
• announcing
• professing
• saying
• affirming
• guaranteeing
• explaining
• averring
• justifying
• avowing
• defending
• promoting
• laying down
• pronouncing
• emphasizing
• upholding
• assuring
• stressing
• advertising
• avouching
• publicizing
• advocating
• convincing
• advancing
• underscoring
• calling
• underlining
• plugging
• boosting
• blazing
• persuading
• championing
• accenting
• reaffirming
• supporting
• accentuating
• espousing
• reasserting
• rationalizing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• minimizing
• ignoring
• disregarding
• neglecting
• overlooking
• understating

4

as in displaying

to make known (something abstract) through outward signs

though she was silent, her expression declared her unwillingness to go along with the others

Synonyms & Similar Words

• displaying
• revealing
• showing
• demonstrating
• betraying
• exposing
• manifesting
• communicating
• evincing
• announcing
• proclaiming
• disclosing
• giving away
• sounding
• baring
• uncovering
• bespeaking
• publicizing
• airing
• broadcasting
• advertising
• projecting
• blazing
• trumpeting
• unbosoming
• uncloaking
• placarding

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• misrepresenting
• falsifying
• distorting
• twisting
• belying
• disguising
• camouflaging
• hiding
• covering
• concealing
• garbling
• masking
• whitewashing
• obscuring
• varnishing
• glossing (over)
• counterfeiting
• occluding
• veiling
• gilding

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of declaring

In April, a Lombardy court ruled against the cities, declaring their challenges inadmissible, and clearing the way for dedication of the Milan Malpensa Silvio Berlusconi airport. — Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026

When the trial reconvened less than 30 minutes later, a statement was read aloud declaring that Bulone had found Kosowski guilty of first-degree murder. — Natasha Holt, FOXNews.com, 23 Sep. 2026

Newsom spoke with European Union Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra on Tuesday during New York’s Climate Week, a day after declaring a state of emergency as California braces for one of the strongest storms on record. — Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 22 Sep. 2026

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in recent years has suspended virtually all cooperation and diplomacy with South Korea while declaring Seoul as his most hostile enemy during a stalemate in his larger nuclear negotiations with Washington. — ABC News, 21 Sep. 2026

For many reasons, declaring robots to be persons would be a very bad idea. — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026

If the issues being talked about weren’t so serious, declaring that machines are now smarter than humans, given this glaring gap between AI agents and their principals, would be a fun keynote for the next AI summit. — Bhaskar Chakravorti, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2026

And now Selena Gomez is declaring that leggings are pants for fall 2026. — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 16 Sep. 2026

But declaring a nation and keeping it alive are very different things. — Harry Ostrer, New York Daily News, 16 Sep. 2026