Synonyms for experience
ɪkˈspɪər i əns

Princeton's WordNet(2.50 / 6 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. experience(noun)

   the accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities

   "a man of experience"; "experience is the best teacher"

   Antonyms:
   inexperience, rawness

2. experience(noun)

   the content of direct observation or participation in an event

   "he had a religious experience"; "he recalled the experience vividly"

   Antonyms:
   inexperience, rawness

3. experience(verb)

   an event as apprehended

   "a surprising experience"; "that painful experience certainly got our attention"

   Antonyms:
   rawness, inexperience

4. experience, see, go through(verb)

   go or live through

   "We had many trials to go through"; "he saw action in Viet Nam"

   Synonyms:
   date, get word, figure, implement, go out, follow out, look, get, put through, consume, know, see to it, devour, find, view, go steady, take in, go through, live, have, meet, down, examine, carry out, construe, determine, see, receive, reckon, fancy, picture, visualize, go across, realise, control, encounter, escort, learn, envision, watch, visit, feel, run into, pass, run across, assure, come across, understand, get a line, follow through, image, take care, witness, find out, ensure, attend, pick up, regard, ascertain, catch, work through, visualise, follow up, consider, interpret, hear, run through, realize, get wind, project, discover, insure, check

   Antonyms:
   inexperience, rawness

5. know, experience, live(verb)

   have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations

   "I know the feeling!"; "have you ever known hunger?"; "I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict"; "The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare"; "I lived through two divorces"

   Synonyms:
   dwell, have intercourse, have a go at it, subsist, have sex, recognise, get, populate, bed, hold out, know, get laid, make love, endure, go through, bonk, have, acknowledge, cognise, survive, exist, love, last, inhabit, see, receive, be, live, sleep together, do it, go, eff, hold up, feel, lie with, make out, be intimate, recognize, jazz, sleep with, hump, screw, have it off, have it away, get it on, cognize, bang, live on, roll in the hay

   Antonyms:
   rawness, inexperience

6. experience, receive, have, get(verb)

   go through (mental or physical states or experiences)

   "get an idea"; "experience vertigo"; "get nauseous"; "receive injuries"; "have a feeling"

   Synonyms:
   take, pick up, make, mystify, develop, draw, have, hold, become, sustain, receive, scram, invite, consume, go, stimulate, sire, drive, engender, pay off, fix, pay back, stick, suffer, feel, beat, set about, get down, arrive, incur, deliver, contract, bring forth, grow, dumbfound, stupefy, start, set out, birth, live, welcome, arrest, meet, give, bring, bewilder, see, mother, induce, buzz off, catch, let, feature, obtain, beget, flummox, get, generate, capture, have got, find, amaze, go through, baffle, start out, pose, vex, give birth, aim, throw, perplex, gravel, begin, fetch, father, bear, get under one's skin, encounter, puzzle, know, produce, convey, own, acquire, come, accept, possess, bugger off, cause, ingest, take in, nonplus, commence

   Antonyms:
   rawness, inexperience

7. feel, experience(verb)

   undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind

   "She felt resentful"; "He felt regret"

   Synonyms:
   see, get, know, find, go through, sense, have, live, palpate, finger, receive, feel

   Antonyms:
   inexperience, rawness

8. have, experience(verb)

   undergo

   "The stocks had a fast run-up"

   Synonyms:
   get, throw, see, feature, suffer, accept, ingest, cause, give, feel, go through, hold, let, sustain, have, give birth, take in, birth, receive, consume, own, deliver, possess, take, live, bear, know, have got, induce, make, stimulate

   Antonyms:
   rawness, inexperience

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. experience(noun)

   Antonyms:
   inexperience

2. experience(noun)

   : To observe certain events; undergo a certain feeling or process; or perform certain actions that may alter one or contribute to one's knowledge, opinions, or skills.

   It was an experience he would not soon forget.

   Antonyms:
   inexperience

3. experience(noun)

   Antonyms:
   inexperience

4. experience(noun)

   Antonyms:
   inexperience

5. experience(noun)

   Antonyms:
   inexperience

English Synonyms and Antonyms(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

1. experience

   Acquaintance between persons supposes that each knows the other; we may know a public man by his writings or speeches, and by sight, but can not claim acquaintance unless he personally knows us. There may be pleasant acquaintance with little companionship; and conversely, much companionship with little acquaintance, as between busy clerks at adjoining desks. So there may be association in business without intimacy or friendship. Acquaintance admits of many degrees, from a slight or passing to a familiar or intimate acquaintance; but acquaintance unmodified commonly signifies less than familiarity or intimacy. As regards persons, familiarity is becoming restricted to the undesirable sense, as in the proverb, "Familiarity breeds contempt;" hence, in personal relations, the word intimacy, which refers to mutual knowledge of thought and feeling, is now uniformly preferred. Friendship includes acquaintance with some degree of intimacy, and ordinarily companionship, though in a wider sense friendship may exist between those who have never met, but know each other only by word and deed. Acquaintance does not involve friendship, for one may be well acquainted with an enemy. Fellowship involves not merely acquaintance and companionship, but sympathy as well. There may be much friendship without much fellowship, as between those whose homes or pursuits are far apart. There may be pleasant fellowship which does not reach the fulness of friendship. Compare ATTACHMENT; FRIENDSHIP; LOVE. As regards studies, pursuits, etc., acquaintance is less than familiarity, which supposes minute knowledge of particulars, arising often from long experience or association.

   Synonyms:
   acquaintance, association, companionship, familiarity, fellowship, friendship, intimacy, knowledge

   Antonyms:
   ignorance, ignoring, inexperience, unfamiliarity

   Preposition:
   Acquaintance with a subject; of one person with another; between persons.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. experience(v)

   Synonyms:
   try, feel, undergo, encounter, endure

   Antonyms:
   evade, escape, miss, lose

2. experience(n)

   Synonyms:
   experiment, trial, test, proof, habit, knowledge

Editors Contribution(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. erlebnisse

   plural of erlebnis

   Submitted by rinat on August 15, 2019  

Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. experience(n.)

   Synonyms:
   trial, proof, test, practice

2. experience(n.)

   Synonyms:
   knowledge (gained from trial or practice), experimental knowledge, practical wisdom

3. experience(v. a.)

   Synonyms:
   try, feel, undergo, endure, put to the proof (of one's own sensations), prove by trial, have practical acquaintance with

PPDB, the paraphrase database(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. List of paraphrases:

   experiences, experiment, expertise, lessons, experiments, experienced, khabrat, khabra, experimentation, learned

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How to use experience in a sentence?

1. Steve King:

   I hope to get to a position to endorse but I know from experience that it has to be a conviction. And so I'm working to get to a conviction.

2. Joe Sestak:

   What Americans most want today is someone who is accountable to them, above self, above party, above any special interest... a president who has the depth of global experience to restore Americas leadership in the world to protect our American Dream at home... and one who is trusted to restructure policies where too many see only the growth of inequity not of the economy.

3. H.W. Mann:

   Spiritual awareness. You don’t know what you don’t know. Until you do. And then you will never be the same again. We realize we are not a human being trying to have a spiritual experience. We are a spiritual being temporarily in the human condition. We are a human being. The human part is the mind-body. The being part is our spiritual essence. We are a spiritual being – being human. The being human is the temporary part. The mind-body will eventually expire, but the spirit is immortal.

4. Vernon Law:

   Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lessons afterwards.

5. Cofounder Micah Tapman:

   We need better entrepreneurs, better skills -- MBAs, JDs, people with years of experience at Fortune 500 companies.

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