Comment

Quick meaning: Comment is a noun meaning A spoken or written remark.

Meaning

A spoken or written remark.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable) The act of commenting.
2. (linguistics) The part of a sentence that provides new information regarding the current theme.
3. (transitive) To remark.
4. (intransitive, with "on" or "about") To make remarks or notes; to express a view regarding.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To comment or remark on.
6. (transitive, software, of code) To insert comments into (source code).
7. (programming) A remark embedded in source code in such a way that it will be ignored by the compiler or interpreter, typically to help people to understand the code.

Example Sentences

I have no comment on that.

Pay attention to the teacher's comments in the margin of your marked essay.

I think Mamet always comments that commerce really comes down to just a confidence game

People bled to death like gentlemen in an operating room or expired without comment in an oxygen tent.

Word Forms

• comments
• commenting
• commented

Synonyms for comment

Depending on context, synonyms include rheme, remark, gloss, commentary, scuttlebutt, notice.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include remark, notice, commentary, gossip, gloss, scuttlebutt.

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