Synonyms for research
rɪˈsɜrtʃ, ˈri sɜrtʃre·search

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:2.0 / 7 votes

1. researchnoun

   Synonyms:
   investigation, exploration, examination, study, researches, inquiry, scrutiny

2. researchnoun

   To search or examine with continued care; to seek diligently.

   Synonyms:
   investigation, researches, exploration, examination, study, inquiry, scrutiny

3. researchverb

   To make an extensive investigation into.

   Synonyms:
   scrutiny, examination, study, inquiry, investigation, exploration, researches

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.7 / 3 votes

1. research

   Synonyms:
   investigation, inquiry, scrutiny, examination, exploration, learning, lore, discovery, elaboration, elimination

   Antonyms:
   ignorance, superficiality, sciolism, misinvestigation, shallowness, oversight, inobservance

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.8 / 5 votes

1. researchnoun

   systematic investigation to establish facts

   Synonyms:
   enquiry, inquiry

2. inquiry, enquiry, researchverb

   a search for knowledge

   "their pottery deserves more research than it has received"

   Synonyms:
   enquiry, inquiry, interrogation, query, question

3. researchverb

   attempt to find out in a systematically and scientific manner

   "The student researched the history of that word"

   Synonyms:
   search, explore

4. research, search, exploreverb

   inquire into

   "the students had to research the history of the Second World War for their history project"; "He searched for information on his relatives on the web"; "Scientists are exploring the nature of consciousness"

   Synonyms:
   seek, search, explore, look, look for

Matched Categories

1. • Investigate
   • Investigation

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. researchnoun

   Synonyms:
   investigation, inquiry, scrutiny, examination, exploration, study, careful search

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "research":

   search, investigation, study, investigations, recherche, studies, inquiry, searches, searching, researches, investigative, recherches, researching, investigational, researchers, quest, ricerca, r, investigación, studying, finding, investigaciones, forschung, looking, retrieval, fact-finding, researcher, investigatorship, investigate, enquiry, seeking, pursuit, investigating, pesquisa, studied, examine, onderzoek, investigatory, research-based, inquiries

How to pronounce research?

How to say research in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency

How to use research in a sentence?

1. Mitch Prinstein:

   Our species is uniquely and remarkably attuned to our social position because many years ago we relied on each other for safety, research now reveals that social rejection activates the same regions of the brain that are known to respond to physical pain, and also expresses dormant DNA to prepare our bodies for imminent injury. Unfortunately, this response is no longer necessary, so the expression of these genes leaves us more vulnerable to viral infections and more likely to suffer from inflammation-related illnesses.

2. Isabel Morales-Munoz:

   We want to highlight that this is a very novel finding and this has not been reported before, thus there is no previous evidence to support these findings, and further research examining the specific stages of sleep development in childhood are needed, however, these findings might be explained by the fact that sleep highly varies in early childhood( compared to later stages, such as adolescence and adulthood), and that specific sleep patterns might have different significance and effects at specific stages of the child ´ s development.

3. Eric Reif:

   It requires us to do some more research and have an understanding of who these audiences are -- what types of music are they listening to, what types of TV shows are they watching.

4. Cheryl Rosner:

   Our research shows that the consumer does n’t understand naturally which company is owned by someone else. But what they see is the same price everywhere, whether the site is owned by Priceline or Expedia, we only use metadata as a starting point for negotiating, so the consumer always knows that there will always be a better price if one can be negotiated.

5. Raul Grijalva:

   Too many people have spent their careers pretending that climate change is a hoax perpetrated by shadowy environmental groups and Machiavellian research scientists, the American public knows full well that's not the case.