What does dictate mean?
Dictate means An order or command..
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/ˈdɪkˌteɪt/ · noun
An order or command..
I must obey the dictates of my conscience.
Trademark Owners will nevertheless try to dictate how their marks are to be represented, but dictionary publishers with spine can resist such pressure.
She is dictating a letter to a stenographer.
The French teacher dictated a passage from Victor Hugo.
He had offered, and been refused! There was that in her own nature, which sympathised with the pride, for such she held to be the motive, dictating the refusal.
Geology dictates the approximate location of the tunnel.
I didn't lay this bar, or the restaurant for that matter, out on paper. The design was dictated by the materials.
Use dictate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Dictate means An order or command..
Common synonyms include order, prescribe.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
I must obey the dictates of my conscience.
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