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Synonyms for inspect
ɪnˈspɛktin·spect

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English Synonyms and Antonyms1.8 / 6 votes

  1. 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 Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. inspect

    Synonyms:
    scrutinize, examine, investigate, search, overhaul, look into, supervise

    Antonyms:
    overlook, connive, dismiss, glance, misobserve, misinvestigate, pretermit

Princeton's WordNet3.0 / 2 votes

  1. inspectverb

    look over carefully

    "Please inspect your father's will carefully"

    Synonyms:
    scrutinize, scrutinise, audit, visit

  2. visit, 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, see

  3. audit, 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 Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. inspectverb

    Synonyms:
    examine, scrutinize, investigate, look into, pry into

  2. inspectverb

    Synonyms:
    superintend, oversee

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words2.7 / 3 votes

  1. inspectverb

    Synonyms:
    examine

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "inspect":

    check, inspecting, inspected, review, inspection, verify, revise, inspectorate

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#41search
#64see
#79view
#171review
#272check
#374call
#399visit
#446look
#871watch
#962chat
#1288survey
#3437inspection
#3586audit
#3876regard
#3956scan
#4440glance
#4675verify
#5064examine
#6166investigate
#9152gossip
#9781impose
#12629revise
#13099inspect
#14248behold
#14387jaw
#15203inspected
#16957gaze
#17937stare
#18697supervise
#18842chatter
#19455overhaul
#26968discern
#27578contemplate
#29524inspecting
#34028inflict
#37080inspectorate
#55667scrutinize
#97431scrutinise
#101001chitchat
#122207natter
#122461confab
#189313claver
#274347descry
#319135chaffer

How to use inspect in a sentence?

  1. Samsung Electronics:

    We will thoroughly inspect these units in person to determine the cause of the matter.

  2. Georgia Tech:

    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.

  3. Mahmoud El-Halwagi:

    An archaeological committee was assigned to inspect the mask and beard in order to write a detailed report on the mask's condition.

  4. David Nabarro:

    We don't have, in the World Health Organization, the power to go and inspect beyond what countries tell us.

  5. Steve Travis:

    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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