Synonyms for listen
ˈlɪs ənlis·ten

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1. listenverb

   To pay attention to a sound, to note.

   Synonyms:
   attend, give ear, mind, heed, wait for, pay attention, obey, note, expect, await, anticipate, list, hear, hark

   Antonyms:
   ignore

2. listenverb

   To wait for a sound, such as a signal.

   You should listen for the starting gun.

   Synonyms:
   heed, mind, pay attention, hear, attend, anticipate, give ear, list, note, await, obey, hark, wait for, expect

3. listenverb

   To accept or obey oral instruction.

   Good children listen to their parents.

   Synonyms:
   anticipate, heed, obey, note, list, wait for, give ear, expect, hear, await, attend, pay attention, mind, hark

   Antonyms:
   disregard, disobey

4. listenverb

   To hear (something or someone), to pay attention to.

   Synonyms:
   await, heed, expect, mind, hear, attend, wait for, anticipate, obey, hark, list, note, give ear, pay attention

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. listen

   Between listen and hear is a difference like that between the words look and see. (Compare synonyms for LOOK.) To hear is simply to become conscious of sound, to listen is to make a conscious effort or endeavor to hear. We may hear without listening, as words suddenly uttered in an adjoining room; or we may listen without hearing, as to a distant speaker. In listening the ear is intent upon the sound; in attending the mind is intent upon the thought, tho listening implies some attention to the meaning or import of the sound. To heed is not only to attend, but to remember and observe. Harken is nearly obsolete.

   Synonyms:
   attend, hark, harken, hear, heed, list

   Antonyms:
   be deaf to, ignore, neglect, scorn, slight

   Preposition:
   We listen for what we expect or desire to hear; we listen to what we actually do hear; listen for a step, a signal, a train; listen to the debate.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. listen

   Synonyms:
   hear, attend, hearken, incline, give ear, heed

   Antonyms:
   disregard, ignore, refuse, repudiate

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. listenverb

   hear with intention

   "Listen to the sound of this cello"

   Synonyms:
   heed, take heed, mind, hear

2. listen, hear, take heedverb

   listen and pay attention

   "Listen to your father"; "We must hear the expert before we make a decision"

   Synonyms:
   see, get word, get wind, take heed, get a line, try, find out, discover, hear, pick up, learn, mind, heed

3. heed, mind, listenverb

   pay close attention to; give heed to

   "Heed the advice of the old men"

   Synonyms:
   take heed, take care, hear, beware, bear in mind, mind, heed

Matched Categories

1. • Obey
   • Perceive

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. listenverb

   Synonyms:
   hearken, hark, hear, give ear, lend an ear, incline an ear, prick up the ears, be all ear

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1. listenverb

   Synonyms:
   hearken, eavesdrop, auscultate

   Antonyms:
   disregard, ignore, scorn

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1. List of paraphrases for "listen":

   look, hear, listening, listens, iisten, heed, -listen

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How to use listen in a sentence?

1. Vincent Van Gogh:

   It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to. . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

2. Jemiah Johnson:

   I mentor the students. Basically I got hired because how good I was, how excellent I was, how they seen me progress, and not just the girls, the males too. Because some of the males, they listen to me. I tell them not to do this. You do that. I want to see them graduate. I want to see them become better men. I want them out of the streets. I don't want to see them on the news, them in jail. I don't want to see them like that. I want to see them graduate, succeed with life.

3. American Indian Proverb:

   Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.

4. Joe Biden:

   He should stop talking and start to listen to the medical experts who talk about having an economic crisis, you want an economic crisis ? Watch this spike. Watch the number of dead go up. Watch the number of people, who in fact, connect with this virus.

5. Mark Richards:

   They’re under a tremendous amount of pressure. Many of them if not all of them knew that going into it once they knew the case that they had been summoned for. The answers that they gave back in chambers late in the voir dire process, one woman that made the final 12, you know, flat out said, no matter what we decide, half of the United States is going to be mad at us. So they had that in their minds, had to be I think at the forefront. I give them a huge amount of credit for being able to put that aside, not listen to the people who were outside screaming and yelling to hang Kyle and do what I think the evidence warranted.