official - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

someone who administers the rules of a game or sport

Synonyms

• official

More generic

• adjudicator

More specific

• dispatcher
• football official
• linesman
• ref
• referee
• scorekeeper
• scorer
• starter
• timekeeper
• timer
• ump
• umpire

Noun

a worker who holds or is invested with an office

Synonyms

• functionary
• official

More generic

• skilled worker
• skilled workman
• trained worker

More specific

• Comptroller General
• Comptroller of the Currency
• Inquisitor
• administrative official
• agent
• apparatchik
• appointee
• bailiff
• beadle
• bureaucrat
• caretaker
• censor
• census taker
• church officer
• city father
• civil servant
• commissar
• diplomat
• diplomatist
• doorkeeper
• elected official
• enumerator
• equerry
• federal agent
• fire marshall
• fire warden
• forest fire fighter
• hangover
• hearing examiner
• hearing officer
• holdover
• incumbent
• invalidator
• judge
• jurist
• justice
• licenser
• mace
• macebearer
• macer
• mandarin
• notary
• notary public
• noticer
• nullifier
• officeholder
• officer
• political commissar
• postmaster general
• proconsul
• prosecuting attorney
• prosecuting officer
• prosecutor
• provincial
• public prosecutor
• quaestor
• ranger
• record-keeper
• recorder
• recruiter
• registrar
• regulator
• returning officer
• sealer
• searcher
• teller
• town clerk
• usher
• vizier
• voider
• vote counter
• weigher

Adjective

having official authority or sanction

Synonyms

• official

Related

• authorised
• authoritative
• authorized
• ex officio
• formal
• formalised
• formalized
• semiofficial

Opposite / Antonyms

• unofficial

Also See

• authorised
• authorized

Adjective

verified officially

Synonyms

• official

Related

• confirmed

Adjective

(of a church) given official status as a national or state institution

Synonyms

• official

Related

• constituted
• established

Adjective

conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline

Synonyms

• official
• prescribed

Related

• regular

Adjective

of or relating to an office

Synonyms

• official

Related

• office

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