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| Main Entry: | sense |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become aware of |
| Synonyms: | anticipate, appreciate, apprehend, believe, catch, consider, credit, deem, dig*, discern, divine, feel, grasp, hold, know, notice, observe, perceive, pick up, read, realize, savvy*, suspect, take in, think, understand, apperceive, be with it, catch on, catch the drift, feel in bones, feel in gut, get the drift, get the idea, get the impression, get the picture, get vibes, have a feeling, have a hunch |
| Antonyms: | overlook, be numb, be unaware |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wise |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intelligent, reasonable |
| Synonyms: | astute, aware, calculating, careful, clever, contemplative, crafty, cunning, discerning, discreet, educated, enlightened, erudite, experienced, grasping, informed, insightful, intuitive, judicious, keen, knowing, knowledgeable, perceptive, perspicacious, politic, prudent, rational, reflective, sagacious, sage, sane, sapient, scholarly, sensible, sharp, shrewd, smart, sound, tactful, taught, thoughtful, understanding, wary, well-informed, witty, cogitative, foresighted, sensing, sophic |
| Antonyms: | foolish, ignorant, stupid, unintelligent, unreasonable, unwise |
| Main Entry: | discovery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | finding, uncovering |
| Synonyms: | analysis, calculation, detection, determination, diagnosis, discernment, disclosure, distinguishing, empiricism, encounter, exploration, exposition, exposure, feeling, hearing, identification, introduction, invention, learning, locating, location, origination, perception, revelation, strike, verification, ascertainment, authentication, certification, espial, experimentation, sensing, sighting, unearthing |
| Antonyms: | loss, miss |
| Main Entry: | absorb |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mentally take in information |
| Synonyms: | assimilate, comprehend, digest, follow, get, grasp, incorporate, learn, sense, take in, understand, get into, latch onto, soak up |
| Antonyms: | misunderstand, not get |
| Main Entry: | apprehend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | understand |
| Synonyms: | absorb, accept, appreciate, believe, catch, comprehend, conceive, digest, fathom, get, grasp, have, imagine, know, perceive, read, realize, recognize, sense, think, get the picture |
| Antonyms: | misunderstand |
| Main Entry: | assimilate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | absorb mentally |
| Synonyms: | comprehend, digest, grasp, incorporate, ingest, learn, sense, take in, take up, understand, osmose, soak up |
| Antonyms: | misunderstand, reject, unlearn |
| Main Entry: | believe |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | assume or suppose |
| Synonyms: | conjecture, consider, credit, deem, expect, feel, gather, guess, hold, imagine, judge, maintain, postulate, presume, reckon, sense, speculate, suppose, suspect, take, think, understand |
| Main Entry: | catch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hear and understand |
| Synonyms: | accept, apprehend, comprehend, discern, feel, follow, get, grasp, perceive, recognize, see, sense, take in, understand |
| Main Entry: | consider |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | regard a certain way |
| Synonyms: | analyze, appraise, bear in mind, believe, count, credit, deem, estimate, feel, hold, judge, reflect, remember, respect, sense, suppose, take into account, think, view, care for, hold an opinion, keep in view, look upon, make allowance for, reckon with, set down, take for, think of |
| Antonyms: | abandon, dismiss, disregard, ignore, leave, reject |
| Main Entry: | credit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | believe, depend on |
| Synonyms: | accept, bank on, buy, consider, deem, fall for*, feel, hold, sense, swallow*, think, trust, hand it to one, have faith in, pat on back, rely on, take as gospel truth, take stock in |
| Antonyms: | disbelieve, mistrust, not buy, not subscribe |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deem |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | regard, consider |
| Synonyms: | account, allow, appraise, assume, believe, calculate, conceive, conjecture, credit, divine, esteem, estimate, expect, feel, guess, hold, imagine, judge, know, presume, reckon, sense, suppose, surmise, suspect, think, understand, view, be afraid, daresay, set store by |
| Main Entry: | discover |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | find, uncover |
| Synonyms: | ascertain, bring to light, catch, come across, come upon, conceive, contrive, debunk, design, detect, determine, devise, discern, disclose, distinguish, elicit, espy, explore, ferret out*, glimpse, hear, identify, invent, learn, locate, look up, notice, observe, originate, perceive, pioneer, realize, recognize, reveal, see, sense, spot, turn up, unearth, dig up, get wind of, get wise to, light upon, nose out*, pick up on, smoke out, think of |
| Notes: | The word discover goes back to Latin dis- and cooperire, meaning 'to remove the covering; completely uncover.' By 1553, it was used to mean 'seeing or gaining knowledge of something previously unknown' and 'finding out; bringing to light.' You discover ('uncover') something that is already there, something that has existed but is generally unknown - but you invent something that has never existed before. |
| Antonyms: | lose, miss, pass by |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | expect |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | believe strongly; anticipate |
| Synonyms: | apprehend, assume, await, bargain for, calculate, conjecture, contemplate, count on, divine, envisage, feel, figure, forecast, foresee, gather, hope, imagine, look, predict, presume, presuppose, reckon, sense, suppose, surmise, suspect, take, think, trust, understand, bargain on, be afraid, foreknow, hope for, in the cards, look ahead to, look for, look forward to, see coming, wait for, watch for |
| Main Entry: | feel |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | touch, stroke |
| Synonyms: | caress, clasp, clutch, explore, finger, fondle, frisk, fumble, grapple, grasp, grip, grope, handle, manipulate, maul, paw, perceive, pinch, ply, poke, press, sense, squeeze, test, tickle, try, wield, apperceive, palm, palpate, run hands over, thumb, twiddle |
| Main Entry: | feel |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | experience |
| Synonyms: | accept, acknowledge, appear, appreciate, comprehend, discern, encounter, endure, enjoy, exhibit, get*, go through*, have, know, meet, note, notice, observe, perceive, receive, remark, resemble, savor, see, seem, sense, suffer, suggest, taste, undergo, understand, welcome, be affected, be aware of, be excited, be impressed, be sensible of, be sensitive, be turned on to, get in touch, get vibes, have a hunch, have funny feeling, have vibes, take to heart |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | feel |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | believe |
| Synonyms: | assume, conclude, conjecture, consider, credit, deduce, deem, esteem, gather, guess, hold, infer, judge, know, presume, sense, suppose, surmise, suspect, think, be convinced, be of the opinion, have a hunch, have the impression, intuit, repute |
| Antonyms: | disbelieve |
| Main Entry: | hold |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | believe |
| Synonyms: | assume, aver, bet bottom dollar, buy*, consider, credit, cross one's heart, deem, entertain, esteem, feel, have hunch, have sneaking suspicion, judge, lap up, lay money on, maintain, okay, presume, reckon, regard, sense, set store by, swear by, swear up and down, take as gospel truth, take stock in, think, view |
| Antonyms: | abandon, disbelieve, forsake |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | perceive |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | notice, see |
| Synonyms: | apprehend, behold, descry, discern, discover, distinguish, divine, espy, feel, grasp, identify, look, make out, mark, mind, note, observe, realize, recognize, regard, remark, seize, sense, spot, spy, take, apperceive, be aware of |
| Antonyms: | miss, neglect, overlook |
| Main Entry: | perceive |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | understand |
| Synonyms: | appreciate, apprehend, comprehend, conclude, copy, deduce, distinguish, feature, feel, flash*, gather, get, grasp, know, learn, pin*, read, realize, recognize, see, sense, track, get the message, get the picture |
| Antonyms: | misinterpret, misunderstand |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | presage |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | predict or have a feeling |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, announce, augur, betoken, bode, divine, feel, forebode, forecast, foresee, foreshadow, foretell, forewarn, harbinger, herald, omen, portend, prognosticate, promise, prophesy, sense, signify, warn, forerun, foreshow, foretoken, intuit, point to, preindicate, soothsay, vaticinate |
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