Defenition of the word official

• Defenition of the word official

  • Made or communicated by virtue of authority.
  • An employee of the public authorities who acts in an official capacity and with certain powers and authorities.
  • Characteristic of or befitting a person in authority.
  • having official authority or sanction; "official permission"; "an official representative"
  • verified officially; "the election returns are now official"
  • (of a church) given official status as a national or state institution
  • of or relating to an office; "official privileges"
  • administers rules of a game or sport
  • a worker who holds or is invested with an office
  • conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline; "in prescribed order"
  • someone who administers the rules of a game or sport; "the golfer asked for an official who could give him a ruling"
  • someone who administers the rules of a game or sport
  • having official authority or sanction
  • verified officially
  • conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline
  • of or relating to an office

Synonyms for the word official

• • administrator
  • allowed
  • approved
  • authoritative
  • authorized
  • bureaucrat
  • certified
  • endorsed
  • executive
  • formal
  • functionary
  • legitimate
  • officer
  • prescribed
  • representative
  • sanctioned
  • spokesperson

Similar words in the official

• • authorised
  • authoritative
  • authorized
  • confirmed
  • constituted
  • established
  • ex officio
  • formal
  • formalised
  • formalized
  • official
  • officialdom
  • officialdom's
  • regular
  • semiofficial

Hyponyms for the word official

• • administrative official
  • agent
  • apparatchik
  • appointee
  • bailiff
  • beadle
  • bureaucrat
  • caretaker
  • censor
  • census taker
  • church officer
  • city father
  • civil servant
  • commissar
  • Comptroller General
  • Comptroller of the Currency
  • diplomat
  • diplomatist
  • dispatcher
  • doorkeeper
  • elected official
  • enumerator
  • equerry
  • federal agent
  • fire marshall
  • fire warden
  • football official
  • forest fire fighter
  • hangover
  • hearing examiner
  • hearing officer
  • holdover
  • incumbent
  • Inquisitor
  • invalidator
  • judge
  • jurist
  • justice
  • licenser
  • linesman
  • mace
  • macebearer
  • macer
  • magistrate
  • 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
  • ref
  • referee
  • registrar
  • regulator
  • returning officer
  • scorekeeper
  • scorer
  • sealer
  • searcher
  • starter
  • teller
  • timekeeper
  • timer
  • town clerk
  • ump
  • umpire
  • usher
  • vizier
  • voider
  • vote counter
  • weigher

Hypernyms for the word official

• • adjudicator
  • skilled worker
  • skilled workman
  • trained worker

Antonyms for the word official

• • unofficial

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