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senses - 20 thesaurus results
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
Main Entry: sense
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: feeling of animate being
Synonyms: faculty, feel, function, hearing, impression, sensation, sensibility, sensitivity, sight, smell, taste, touch, kinesthesia
Main Entry: sense
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: point, meaning
Synonyms: advantage, bottom line*, burden, core, definition, drift, gist, good, heart, implication, import, interpretation, logic, matter, meat*, meat and potatoes*, message, name of the game*, nitty-gritty*, nuance, nub, nuts and bolts*, punch line*, purport, purpose, reason, short, significance, stuff, substance, thrust, understanding, upshot, use, value, worth, acceptation, denotatiton, intendment, nature of the beast, significancy, signification
Main Entry: mother wit
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: innate intelligence
Synonyms: commonsense, faculties, innate common sense, intellectual gifts, nous, senses, wits
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: amount
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: whole effect
Synonyms: body, burden, core, import, matter, purport, result, sense, significance, substance, thrust, upshot, value, full 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, 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: 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
Main Entry: body
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: main part of written work
Synonyms: argument, burden, core, discourse, dissertation, evidence, exposition, gist, heart, material, meat, pith, sense, substance, text, thesis, treatise, upshot
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: cleverness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: brightness, ingenuity
Synonyms: ability, adroitness, astuteness, calculation, dexterity, discernment, flair, gift, gumption, intelligence, quickness, sagacity, sense, shrewdness, skill, talent, wisdom, wit, brains, canniness, quick wit, resourcefulness, sharpness, smartness
Antonyms: foolishness, ignorance, stupidity, naievety, senselessness
Main Entry: common sense
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: sound judgment
Synonyms: acumen, cool, experience, gumption, horse sense*, horse sense, intelligence, logic, mother wit, practicality, prudence, reason, sense, sound judgment, soundness, wisdom, wit, good reasoning, good sense, levelheadedness, rationality, reasonableness, sensibleness, sound sense, sweet reason, wits
Antonyms: foolishness, impracticality, insanity, unreasonableness
Main Entry: comprehension
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: understanding
Synonyms: apprehension, awareness, capacity, cognizance, conception, discernment, double take*, grasp, intelligence, judgment, ken, knowledge, perception, realization, sense, take*, aha, apperception, prehension, slow take
Antonyms: mistake, misunderstanding, incomprehension, misinterpretation
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
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
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