Synonyms for explore
ɪkˈsplɔr, -ˈsploʊrex·plore

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1. exploreverb

   Synonyms:
   research, delve

2. exploreverb

   To seek for something or after someone.

   Synonyms:
   research, delve

3. exploreverb

   To examine or investigate something systematically.

   The committee has been exploring alternative solutions to the problem at hand.

   Synonyms:
   research, delve

4. exploreverb

   To travel somewhere in search of discovery.

   It was around that time that the expedition began exploring the Arctic Circle.

   Synonyms:
   delve, research

5. exploreverb

   To examine diagnostically.

   Synonyms:
   delve, research

6. exploreverb

   To (seek) experience first hand.

   It is normal for a boy of this age to be exploring his sexuality.

   Synonyms:
   research, delve

7. exploreverb

   To be engaged exploring in any of the above senses.

   He was too busy exploring to notice his son needed his guidance

   Synonyms:
   delve, research

8. exploreverb

   To wander without any particular aim or purpose.

   The boys explored all around till cold and hunger drove them back to the campfire one by one

   Synonyms:
   delve, research

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. research, search, exploreverb

   inquire into

   "the students had to research the history of the Second World War for their history project"; "He searched for information on his relatives on the web"; "Scientists are exploring the nature of consciousness"

   Synonyms:
   seek, search, look, look for, research

2. exploreverb

   travel to or penetrate into

   "explore unknown territory in biology"

   Synonyms:
   search, research

3. exploreverb

   examine minutely

   Synonyms:
   search, research

4. exploreverb

   examine (organs) for diagnostic purposes

   Synonyms:
   search, research

Matched Categories

1. • Diagnose
   • Investigate
   • Medicine

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:3.5 / 2 votes

1. exploreverb

   Synonyms:
   examine, scrutinize, investigate, search into, inquire into, pry into

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1. List of paraphrases for "explore":

   explorer, exploring, exploration, explored, explores, examine, consider, study, browse, investigate, explorations, exploit, studying, discover, discuss, analyse, review, analyze, seek, navigate

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How to use explore in a sentence?

1. H. Jackson Brown Jr.:

   Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

2. Rabindranath Tagore:

   In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth.

3. Judy Kuriansky:

   I would love to have him on the couch to explore how some of his early childhood behavior led to this need to [allegedly] dominate women and the difficulty with intimacy.

4. John Krasinski:

   I think this set of circumstances and the fact that people are living through exactly what this family lived through, it's kind of a world you can explore and re-explore and re-explore.

5. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.