Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb publicize

2 senses of publicize

Sense 1
publicize, publicise, air, bare -- (make public; "She aired her opinions on welfare")
       => tell -- (let something be known; "Tell them that you will be late")

Sense 2
advertise, publicize, advertize, publicise -- (call attention to; "Please don't advertise the fact that he has AIDS")
       => announce, denote -- (make known; make an announcement; "She denoted her feelings clearly")

Antonyms of adj publicized

1 sense of publicized

Sense 1
publicized (vs. suppressed), publicised -- (made known; especially made widely known)

suppressed (vs. publicized) -- (kept from public knowledge by various means;)
        => burked (predicate) -- (suppressed quietly or indirectly)
        => hushed-up -- ((used of information or news) kept secret by using influence; "hushed-up stories sometimes leak out")
        => quelled, quenched, squelched -- (subdued or overcome; "the quelled rebellion"; "an uprising quenched almost before it started"; "a squelched rumor")
        => unreleased -- (not (or not yet) made available for distribution or publication; "someone leaked the unreleased announcement"; "a film that remained unreleased for years")

Similarity of adj publicized

1 sense of publicized

Sense 1
publicized (vs. suppressed), publicised -- (made known; especially made widely known)
       => advertised -- (called to public attention; "these advertised products")
       => heralded -- (publicly announced; "the royal couple's much heralded world tour")
       => promulgated, published -- (formally made public; "published accounts")