official

Meanings

Plural: officials

Noun

• a worker who holds or is invested with an office
• someone who administers the rules of a game or sport
  • "the golfer asked for an official who could give him a ruling"
• An office holder, a person holding an official position in government, sports, or other organization.

Adjective

• having official authority or sanction
  • "official permission"
  • "an official representative"
• of or relating to an office
  • "official privileges"

Adjective Satellite

• verified officially
  • "the election returns are now official"
• conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline
• (of a church) given official status as a national or state institution

Adj

• Of or about an office or public trust.
• Derived from the proper office or officer, or the appropriate authority; made or communicated by authority
• Approved by authority; authorized.
• Approved by authority; authorized.
• Dubious but recognized by authorities as the truth or canon.
• Sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; officinal.
• Discharging an office or function.
• Relating to an office, especially a subordinate executive officer or attendant.
• Relating to an ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction.
• True, real, beyond doubt.
• Listed in a national pharmacopeia.

Synonyms

approved, decreed, functionary, official, prescribed, recognized, sanctioned

Antonyms

unofficial

Related Words

dignitary, office, officer, officiate, ruler

Anagrams of official