| Main Entry: | interpretation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | understanding |
Synonyms: |
analysis, apprehension, assimilation, awareness, clarification, comprehension, discernment, explanation, grasp, grip, insight, judgment, knowing, meaning, perception, reading, slant, translation |
| Main Entry: | interpretation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
cosignificative, epexegetic, equivalent, exegematic, exegetical, explanatory, explicative, explicatory, exponible, expository, glozing, idiographic, literal, metaphrastic, paraphrastic, polyglot, synonymous
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| Main Entry: | analysis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | statement of results from examination |
Synonyms: |
estimation, evaluation, finding, interpretation, judgment, opinion, outline, reasoning, report, study, summary |
| Notes: | analysis is breaking down or taking apart; synthesis is bringing together |
| Main Entry: | annotation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | explanatory note |
Synonyms: |
comment, commentary, definition, elucidation, exegesis, explanation, explication, footnote, gloss, glossary, illustration, interpretation, note, observation |
Antonyms: |
blank |
| Main Entry: | answer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reply; reaction |
Synonyms: |
acknowledgment, antiphon, back talk, backcap, band-aid, close, comeback, comment, cooler, counterclaim, crack, defense, disclosure, echo, elucidation, explanation, feedback, guff, interpretation, justification, key, lip, observation, parting shot, pay dirt, plea, quick fix, rebuttal, refutation, rejoinder, remark, repartee, report, resolution, response, result, retort, return, rhetorical question, riposte, sign, solution, statement, thank-you note, the ticket, topper, vindication, wisecrack |
Antonyms: |
question |
| Main Entry: | arrangement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | musical adaptation |
Synonyms: |
chart, composition, instrumentation, interpretation, lead sheet, orchestration, score, version |
| Main Entry: | clarification |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | explanation |
Synonyms: |
description, elucidation, exposition, illumination, interpretation, resolution, simplification, solution, unravelment, vivification |
Antonyms: |
complication, misunderstanding, muddle |
| Main Entry: | conception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | understanding; idea |
Synonyms: |
apperception, appreciation, apprehension, clue, cogitating, cognition, communing, comprehension, conceit, concentrating, concept, consideration, considering, deliberating, design, dreaming, envisaging, explanation, exposition, fancy, fancying, image, imagining, impression, inkling, intellection, interpretation, meditating, meditation, mental grasp, musing, notion, perception, philosophizing, picture, plan, realization, representation, speculating, speculation, thought, version |
Antonyms: |
being, concrete |
| Main Entry: | construction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | explanation |
Synonyms: |
apprehension, construal, definition, exegesis, explication, exposition, exposé, inference, interpretation, reading, rendering, rendition, translation, version |
| Main Entry: | definition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | description |
Synonyms: |
analogue, annotation, answer, characterization, clarification, clue, comment, commentary, cue, delimitation, delineation, demarcation, denotation, determination, diagnosis, drift, elucidation, exemplification, explanation, explication, exposition, expounding, fixing, formalization, gloss, individuation, interpretation, key, outlining, rationale, rendering, rendition, representation, settling, signification, solution, statement of meaning, terminology, translation |
Antonyms: |
ambiguity, nonsense, vagueness |