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ratedverb1past tense of rate to be or make worthy of (as a reward or punishment)how does a summer intern rate a new computer when I've been told to make do with this clunker? deserved, earned, merited entitled, qualified to make an approximate or tentative judgment regardingnowadays most motorists would probably rate their cell phone as an "essential" piece of electronic equipment appraised, assessed, estimated, evaluated, guesstimated, set, valuated, valued adjudged, deemed, judgedascertained, determined, discovered, learnedpriced, prizeddecided, settledanalyzed, assayed, surveyed, testedreappraised, reassessed, reevaluated(or re-evaluated), rejudged, revaluedtransvaluated, transvaluedmisesteemed, misjudged, misprized, underestimated, undervalued to take or have a certain position within a group arranged in vertical classesa restaurant that consistently rates high in all the standard categories graded, placed, ranked, stood, was seededcountedcategorized, classed, classified, codified, compartmentalized, grouped, separated, set, sortedinstalled, instated to think of in a particular wayI would rate her my best friend; after all, she's always been there when I needed her accounted, called, considered, counted, esteemed, held, looked (on or upon), reckoned, regarded, set down, viewed believed, deemed, felt, sensed, thoughtconceived, fancied, imagined took for ratedverb2past tense of rateto criticize (someone) severely or angrily especially for personal failingsa tyrannical father who usually spent most of dinnertime rating his children on their alleged multitude of failings basted, bawled out, berated, called down, castigated, chastised, chewed out, dressed down, flayed, hammered, jawed, keelhauled, lambasted, lectured, ragged, railed (at or against), ranted (at), reamed (out), rebuked, reprimanded, reproached, scolded, scored, tongue-lashed, upbraided admonished, chid(or chided), remonstrated (with), reprovedabused, assailed, attacked, bad-mouthed, blamed, blasted, censured, condemned, criticized, crucified, denounced, dissed(slang), excoriated, faulted, harangued, knocked, laced (into), lashed, panned, reprehended, reviled, scourged, slammed, vituperatedbelittled, disparaged, mocked, put downridiculed, scoffed, scorned laid into, read the riot act (to), took to task approved, endorsed(also indorsed), sanctionedextolled, lauded, praised |