Antonyms for hark
hɑrkhark

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hark

   Between listen and hear is a difference like that between the words look and see. (Compare synonyms for LOOK.) To hear is simply to become conscious of sound, to listen is to make a conscious effort or endeavor to hear. We may hear without listening, as words suddenly uttered in an adjoining room; or we may listen without hearing, as to a distant speaker. In listening the ear is intent upon the sound; in attending the mind is intent upon the thought, tho listening implies some attention to the meaning or import of the sound. To heed is not only to attend, but to remember and observe. Harken is nearly obsolete.

   Antonyms:
   be deaf to, ignore, neglect, scorn, slight

   Synonyms:
   attend, harken, hear, heed, list, listen

   Preposition:
   We listen for what we expect or desire to hear; we listen to what we actually do hear; listen for a step, a signal, a train; listen to the debate.

Matched Categories

1. • Listen

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hark, harken, hearkenverb

   listen; used mostly in the imperative

   Synonyms:
   hearken, harken

How to use hark in a sentence?

1. Edward Blackwell:

   Hark, a knock at the door!

2. Bhartrihari:

   Hark! here the sound of lute so sweet, And there the voice of wailing loud; Here scholars grave in conclave meet, There howls the brawling drunken crowd; Here, charming maidens full of glee, There, tottering, withered dames we see. Such light! Such shade! I cannot tell, If here we live in heaven or hell.

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