Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Request

Nouns
  • request, requisition
  • claim etc. (demand) Command
  • petition, suit, prayer
  • begging letter, round robin. motion, overture, application, canvass, address, appeal, apostrophe
  • imprecation
  • rogation
  • proposal, proposition. orison etc. (worship) Worship
  • incantation etc. (spell) Spell. mendicancy
  • asking, begging etc. v.
  • postulation, solicitation, invitation, entreaty, importunity, supplication, instance, impetration, imploration, obsecration, obtestation, invocation, interpellation.
Verbs
  • request, ask
  • beg, crave, sue, pray, petition, solicit, invite, pop the question, make bold to ask
  • beg leave, beg a boon
  • apply to, call to, put to
  • call upon, call for
  • make a request, address a request, prefer a request, put up a request, make a prayer, address a prayer, prefer a prayer, put up a prayer, make a petition, address a petition, prefer a petition, put up a petition
  • make application, make a requisition
  • ask trouble, ask one for
  • claim etc. (demand) Command
  • offer up prayers etc. (worship) Worship
  • whistle for. beg hard, entreat, beseech, plead, supplicate, implore
  • conjure, adjure
  • obtest
  • cry to, kneel to, appeal to
  • invoke, evoke
  • impetrate, imprecate, ply, press, urge, beset, importune, dun, tax, clamor for
  • cry aloud, cry for help
  • fall on one's knees
  • throw oneself at the feet of
  • come down on one's marrowbones. beg from door to door, send the hat round, go a begging
  • mendicate, mump, cadge, beg one's bread. dance attendance on, besiege, knock at the door. bespeak, canvass, tout, make interest, court
  • seek, bid for etc. (offer) Offer
  • publish the banns.
Adjectives
  • requesting etc. v.
  • precatory
  • suppliant, supplicant, supplicatory
  • postulant
  • obsecratory. importunate, clamorous, urgent
  • cap in hand
  • on one's knees, on one's bended knees, on one's marrowbones.
Adverbs
  • prithee, do, please, pray
  • be so good as, be good enough
  • have the goodness, vouchsafe, will you, I pray thee, if you please.
Int
  • for God's sake!, for heaven's sake!, for goodness' sake!, for mercy's sake!
Phrases
  • would you be so kind as to.