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🙋 To confess 🤝 To accept 🚪 To let in ❓ Allows possibility
to admit

to admit

68 3.6
Make something possible
  • verb
  • /ədˈmɪt/
  • Formal
translation icon : admitir
  • The director had to admit the possibility of a less favorable response from the audience.
  • admit the possibility

Now, the qualities of things do admit of a greater and a lesser.

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Examples

  • I gotta admit, that was pretty cool.

    Elemental (2023)

  • You gotta admit doc, it's a pretty radical theory.

    Phantoms (1998)

  • If I can get him to admit that it's more than a coincidence...

    Night of Dark Shadows (1971)

  • Yeah, you gotta admit, it's fun to be off-leash for a bit, right?

    Strays (2023)

  • I have to admit, I never thought he'd be the first.

    No Appointment Necessary (2017)

  • You've got to admit, it's fresh.

    Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008)

  • Can you at least admit there's a chance she didn't do it?

    Wicked Little Letters (2024)

  • Another teacher commented that hearing colleagues admit their initial nervousness or feelings of awkwardness helped build her confidence.

    Academic text (2013)

  • The study revealed that many people are willing to admit the possibility of climate change being a pressing issue.

  • To solve this problem, we must admit the chance of our mistakes affecting the outcome.

Synonyms

to allow
vsto admit
767 1.0

To accept that something may be true or plan for it

is used to say something can be possible rather than proved true
to acknowledge
vsto admit
367 3.8

To admit that something is true or real

makes room for possibility rather than publicly accepting it as true
to grant
vsto admit
  • Formal
331 3.8

To admit that something is true, often reluctantly

says something can be possible rather than confirming it as true
to concede
vsto admit
146 4.9

To say that something is true even when you do not want to say it

expresses possibility instead of a reluctant acceptance of truth

Antonyms

to prohibit
299 3.3

To officially say that something is not allowed by law

How Possible

to enable
459 2.3
to allow
∞ 1.0
to admit
  • Formal
68 3.6
to rule out
246 3.5

Surface Forms

admit infinitive
admitted past
admitted past participle
admitting present participle
admits third person singular

Etymology

Admit comes from Latin ad- 'to' and mittere 'to send', giving the simple idea of 'letting in'. A helpful way to remember is that if a theory 'admits' an explanation it 'lets in' that possibility, so the word means to allow or make possible.