Confess

Quick meaning: Confess is a verb meaning (intransitive, transitive) To admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed.

Meaning

(intransitive, transitive) To admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.
2. (religion) To unburden (oneself) of sins to God or a priest, in order to receive absolution.
3. (transitive, religion) To hear or receive such a confession of sins from.
4. (transitive) To disclose or reveal.
5. (intransitive, chiefly in the context of Japanese media or informal) To profess one's love.

Example Sentences

I confess that I am a sinner.

I confess to spray-painting all over that mural!

And there confess / Humbly our faults, and pardon beg.

I never gave it him. Send for him hither, / And let him confess a truth.

Word Forms

• confesses
• confessing
• confessed

Synonyms for confess

Depending on context, synonyms include acknowledge, admit, assent, avow, beknow, concede.

Antonyms for confess

Common opposites include abjure, deny, disavow, disclaim, disown, reject.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include shrive, concede, profess, squeal, confession, self-confessed.

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