| Main Entry: | sense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feeling of animate being |
Synonyms: |
faculty, feel, function, hearing, impression, kinesthesia, sensation, sensibility, sensitivity, sight, smell, taste, touch |
| Main Entry: | sense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | awareness, perception |
Synonyms: |
ability, appreciation, atmosphere, aura, brains, capacity, clear-headedness, cleverness, cognizance, common sense, consciousness, discernment, discrimination, feel, feeling, gumption*, imagination, impression, insight, intellect, intelligence, intuition, judgment, knowledge, mentality, mind, premonition, presentiment, prudence, quickness, reason, reasoning, recognition, sagacity, sanity, sentiment, sharpness, smarts, soul, spirit, tact, thought, understanding, wisdom, wit |
| Main Entry: | sense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | point, meaning |
Synonyms: |
acceptation, advantage, bottom line, burden, core, definition, denotatiton, drift, gist, good, heart, implication, import, intendment, interpretation, logic, matter, meat and potatoes, meat*, message, name of the game, nature of the beast, nitty-gritty, nuance, nub, nuts and bolts, punch line, purport, purpose, reason, short, significance, significancy, signification, stuff, substance, thrust, understanding, upshot, use, value, worth |
| Main Entry: | sense |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become aware of |
Synonyms: |
anticipate, apperceive, appreciate, apprehend, be with it, believe, catch, catch on, catch the drift, consider, credit, deem, dig*, discern, divine, feel, feel in bones, feel in gut, get the drift, get the idea, get the impression, get the picture, get vibes, grasp, have a feeling, have a hunch, hold, know, notice, observe, perceive, pick up, read, realize, savvy*, suspect, take in, think, understand |
Antonyms: |
be numb, be unaware, overlook |
| Main Entry: | absorb |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mentally take in information |
Synonyms: |
assimilate, comprehend, digest, follow, get, get into, grasp, incorporate, latch onto, learn, sense, soak up, take in, understand |
Antonyms: |
misunderstand, not get |
| Main Entry: | amount |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | whole effect |
Synonyms: |
body, burden, core, full value, import, matter, purport, result, sense, significance, substance, thrust, upshot, value |
| Notes: | use 'amount' with things that cannot be counted but 'number' with things that can be counted number is regularly used with count nouns, while amount is mainly used with mass nouns: number of mistakes, amount of money |
| Main Entry: | apprehend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | understand |
Synonyms: |
absorb, accept, appreciate, believe, catch, comprehend, conceive, digest, fathom, get, get the picture, grasp, have, imagine, know, perceive, read, realize, recognize, sense, think |
Antonyms: |
misunderstand |
| Main Entry: | assimilate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | absorb mentally |
Synonyms: |
comprehend, digest, grasp, incorporate, ingest, learn, osmose, sense, soak up, take in, take up, understand |
Antonyms: |
misunderstand, reject, unlearn |
| Main Entry: | atmosphere |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | general feeling or mood |
Synonyms: |
air, ambience, aura, background, character, climate, color, environment, feel, feeling, flavor, impression, local color, medium, mood, place, property, quality, scene, semblance, sense, space, spirit, surroundings, taste, tone |
| 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 |