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Synonyms for inspect
ɪnˈspɛktin·spect
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
inspect
To see is simply to become conscious of an object of vision; to look is to make a conscious and direct endeavor to see. To behold is to fix the sight and the mind with distinctness and consideration upon something that has come to be clearly before the eyes. We may look without seeing, as in pitch-darkness, and we may see without looking, as in case of a flash of lightning. To gaze is to look intently, long, and steadily upon an object. To glance is to look casually or momentarily. To stare is to look with a fixed intensity such as is the effect of surprise, alarm, or rudeness. To scan is to look at minutely, to note every visible feature. To inspect is to go below the surface, uncover, study item by item. View and survey are comprehensive, survey expressing the greater exactness of measurement or estimate. Watch brings in the element of time and often of wariness; we watch for a movement or change, a signal, the approach of an enemy, etc. Compare APPEAR.
Synonyms:
behold, contemplate, descry, discern, gaze, glance, look, regard, scan, see, stare, survey, view, watch
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
inspect
Synonyms:
scrutinize, examine, investigate, search, overhaul, look into, superviseAntonyms:
overlook, connive, dismiss, glance, misobserve, misinvestigate, pretermit
Princeton's WordNet
inspectverb
look over carefully
"Please inspect your father's will carefully"
Synonyms:
scrutinize, scrutinise, audit, visitvisit, inspectverb
come to see in an official or professional capacity
"The governor visited the prison"; "The grant administrator visited the laboratory"
Synonyms:
confab, natter, bring down, impose, claver, chat, call in, scrutinize, confabulate, chew the fat, jaw, chatter, chit-chat, audit, visit, gossip, call, chitchat, scrutinise, inflict, travel to, shoot the breeze, chaffer, seeaudit, scrutinize, scrutinise, inspectverb
examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification
"audit accounts and tax returns"
Synonyms:
audit, scrutinise, take stock, size up, scrutinize, visit
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
inspectverb
Synonyms:
examine, scrutinize, investigate, look into, pry intoinspectverb
Synonyms:
superintend, oversee
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
inspectverb
Synonyms:
examine
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "inspect":
check, inspecting, inspected, review, inspection, verify, revise, inspectorate
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#41 | search | |
#64 | see | |
#79 | view | |
#171 | review | |
#272 | check | |
#374 | call | |
#399 | visit | |
#446 | look | |
#871 | watch | |
#962 | chat | |
#1288 | survey | |
#3437 | inspection | |
#3586 | audit | |
#3876 | regard | |
#3956 | scan | |
#4440 | glance | |
#4675 | verify | |
#5064 | examine | |
#6166 | investigate | |
#9152 | gossip | |
#9781 | impose | |
#12629 | revise | |
#13099 | inspect | |
#14248 | behold | |
#14387 | jaw | |
#15203 | inspected | |
#16957 | gaze | |
#17937 | stare | |
#18697 | supervise | |
#18842 | chatter | |
#19455 | overhaul | |
#26968 | discern | |
#27578 | contemplate | |
#29524 | inspecting | |
#34028 | inflict | |
#37080 | inspectorate | |
#55667 | scrutinize | |
#97431 | scrutinise | |
#101001 | chitchat | |
#122207 | natter | |
#122461 | confab | |
#189313 | claver | |
#274347 | descry | |
#319135 | chaffer |
How to use inspect in a sentence?
We will thoroughly inspect these units in person to determine the cause of the matter.
In the future, farmers could send machines into their fields to inspect the crops, workers on manufacturing floors could direct robots to one side of the warehouse to collect items, then quickly direct them to another area if the need changes.
An archaeological committee was assigned to inspect the mask and beard in order to write a detailed report on the mask's condition.
We don't have, in the World Health Organization, the power to go and inspect beyond what countries tell us.
The Keys are basically connected by a series of bridges so officials will have to inspect all of those bridges to make sure that they are still structurally sound for people to actually be able to come back to the Keys.
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