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Synonyms for read
rɛdread

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Wiktionary0.0 / 0 votes

  1. readverb

    Synonyms:
    understand, make out, learn, make sense of, interpret, study

    Antonyms:
    pass

  2. readverb

    To speak aloud words or other information that is written. Often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object.

    Synonyms:
    read out, speak

  3. readverb

    To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.

    Do you read me?

    Synonyms:
    receive, hear

English Synonyms and Antonyms3.0 / 2 votes

  1. read

    Synonyms:
    elaborated, premeditated, prepared, recited, studied, written

    Antonyms:
    extemporaneous, extemporary, extempore, impromptu, improvised, offhand, unpremeditated

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms3.0 / 1 vote

  1. read

    Synonyms:
    peruse, interpret, decipher, unravel, discover, recognize, learn

    Antonyms:
    misread, misinterpret, overlook, misobserve

Princeton's WordNet5.0 / 1 vote

  1. readverb

    something that is read

    "the article was a very good read"

  2. readverb

    interpret something that is written or printed

    "read the advertisement"; "Have you read Salman Rushdie?"

    Synonyms:
    take, translate, say, study, show, scan, understand, register, learn, record, interpret

  3. read, sayverb

    have or contain a certain wording or form

    "The passage reads as follows"; "What does the law say?"

    Synonyms:
    enunciate, sound out, aver, scan, say, record, state, enounce, register, learn, interpret, articulate, translate, study, pronounce, enjoin, allege, understand, take, tell, order, suppose, show

  4. readverb

    look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed

    "The King will read the proclamation at noon"

    Synonyms:
    take, translate, say, study, show, scan, understand, register, learn, record, interpret

  5. read, scanverb

    obtain data from magnetic tapes

    "This dictionary can be read by the computer"

    Synonyms:
    take, run down, glance over, translate, say, study, show, skim, scan, understand, register, learn, rake, record, interpret

  6. readverb

    interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; also of human behavior

    "She read the sky and predicted rain"; "I can't read his strange behavior"; "The fortune teller read his fate in the crystal ball"

    Synonyms:
    take, translate, say, study, show, scan, understand, register, learn, record, interpret

  7. take, readverb

    interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression

    "I read this address as a satire"; "How should I take this message?"; "You can't take credit for this!"

    Synonyms:
    take on, demand, take in, shoot, get, call for, exact, take, pack, bring, acquire, involve, register, make, scan, lease, guide, engage, lead, hire, necessitate, select, have, record, occupy, strike, study, get hold of, train, use up, assume, admit, pick out, need, say, adopt, subscribe to, deal, take aim, translate, show, postulate, claim, ingest, hold, carry, contract, aim, require, fill, film, charter, drive, direct, ask, choose, subscribe, convey, submit, understand, conduct, interpret, take up, rent, take away, consider, accept, learn, withdraw, consume, contain, look at, remove

  8. learn, study, read, takeverb

    be a student of a certain subject

    "She is reading for the bar exam"

    Synonyms:
    require, pick up, occupy, interpret, rent, withdraw, make, lead, ingest, get word, take on, carry, watch, assume, meditate, scan, memorise, subscribe to, hold, choose, learn, fill, instruct, necessitate, discover, pick out, examine, register, con, have, hit the books, consider, need, study, get a line, say, get wind, contract, deal, adopt, film, remove, ascertain, translate, lease, train, check, consume, take up, larn, bring, analyze, strike, use up, select, take, engage, drive, find out, see, claim, demand, get, get hold of, exact, take away, pack, canvas, call for, take in, analyse, submit, canvass, take aim, shoot, aim, contemplate, direct, charter, hear, postulate, contain, determine, subscribe, convey, involve, acquire, look at, record, hire, accept, understand, guide, admit, teach, show, memorize, ask, conduct

  9. read, register, show, recordverb

    indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments

    "The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"; "The gauge read `empty'"

    Synonyms:
    express, demo, register, show, testify, establish, depict, evidence, put down, take, exhibit, point, indicate, say, record, picture, memorialize, cross-file, shew, file, immortalize, usher, scan, designate, memorialise, render, study, evince, prove, tape, present, demonstrate, understand, interpret, enter, commemorate, translate, immortalise, learn, show up, bear witness

  10. readverb

    audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role

    "He is auditioning for `Julius Caesar' at Stratford this year"

    Synonyms:
    take, translate, say, study, show, scan, understand, register, learn, record, interpret

  11. readverb

    to hear and understand

    "I read you loud and clear!"

    Synonyms:
    take, translate, say, study, show, scan, understand, register, learn, record, interpret

  12. understand, read, interpret, translateverb

    make sense of a language

    "She understands French"; "Can you read Greek?"

    Synonyms:
    construe, infer, scan, say, represent, sympathise, transform, show, empathize, rede, register, learn, interpret, sympathize, translate, study, record, empathise, take, realise, realize, render, see, understand

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. readverb

    Synonyms:
    peruse

  2. readverb

    Synonyms:
    interpret, decipher, unravel, make out, understand

  3. readverb

    Synonyms:
    practise reading, be studious in books

  4. readverb

    Synonyms:
    be read, appear in reading

  5. readadjective

    Synonyms:
    learned, versed in books

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. readverb

    Synonyms:
    peruse

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "read":

    reading, follows, lu, lea, dsl, lis, bed, maltese, lus, leer, read-, leen, lira, interpreted, see, lean, lee, lire, readout, afl

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How to use read in a sentence?

  1. Mark Milley:

    It’s important actually for those of us in uniform to be open-minded and be widely read, i want to understand White rage.

  2. Stephen Leacock, 1912:

    Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects.

  3. Brandon Van Grack:

    I was just trying to determine the benefit and the generosity of the government, don't read too much into the questions I ask.

  4. Carolyn Maloney:

    To those who still claim there are' no delays' and that these reports are just' conspiracy theories,' I hope this new data causes them to re-think their position and support our urgent legislation today, we have all seen the headlines from every corner of our country, we have read the stories and seen pictures, we have heard directly from our constituents, and these new documents show that the delays are far worse than we were told.

  5. Oliver Pursche:

    We’re still effectively at all-time highs, so I wouldn’t read much into today’s market action, the bond market is reflecting that the probability of there being material inflation over a long period of time is very unlikely, and that’s the fear that had been driving yields higher.


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