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Synonyms for find
faɪnd
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Princeton's WordNet
discovery, breakthrough, find(noun)
a productive insight
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uncovering, breakthrough, discoveryAntonyms:
losediscovery, find, uncovering(verb)
the act of discovering something
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discovery, uncovering, husking, denudation, breakthrough, baring, strippingAntonyms:
losefind, happen, chance, bump, encounter(verb)
come upon, as if by accident; meet with
"We find this idea in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day"
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line up, detect, recover, kick downstairs, find oneself, befall, take chances, get, get hold, run across, gamble, demote, fall out, pass off, retrieve, hazard, knock, rule, notice, meet, chance, determine, see, find out, come about, come up, play, take a chance, encounter, materialize, happen, go on, receive, feel, occur, risk, pass, incur, take place, come across, bechance, observe, run into, adventure, witness, dislodge, run a risk, ascertain, relegate, bump, take on, hap, break, regain, obtain, materialise, discoverAntonyms:
losedetect, observe, find, discover, notice(verb)
discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of
"She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water"; "We found traces of lead in the paint"
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line up, detect, recover, chance upon, follow, strike, let out, find oneself, get wind, get, get hold, reveal, keep an eye on, attain, let on, acknowledge, retrieve, get word, fall upon, rule, notice, disclose, divulge, chance, abide by, determine, see, find out, keep, key, come up, remark, bring out, celebrate, watch over, comment, take note, honor, identify, name, encounter, learn, come upon, happen, watch, receive, happen upon, feel, describe, point out, chance on, incur, come across, expose, observe, get a line, distinguish, witness, honour, mention, pick up, give away, ascertain, mark, maintain, unwrap, break, respect, bump, light upon, regain, obtain, discover, key out, note, hearAntonyms:
losefind, regain(verb)
come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost
"Did you find your glasses?"; "I cannot find my gloves!"
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encounter, happen, notice, ascertain, witness, bump, retrieve, recover, detect, get hold, feel, observe, find oneself, receive, determine, chance, rule, line up, get, regain, find out, discover, obtain, incur, come up, seeAntonyms:
losedetermine, find, find out, ascertain(verb)
establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study
"find the product of two numbers"; "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize"
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influence, detect, recover, settle, ensure, square up, find oneself, hear, shape, get, get hold, fix, retrieve, get word, square off, rule, notice, regulate, determine, see, find out, get wind, come up, define, specify, line up, assure, control, encounter, happen, watch, receive, feel, incur, mold, observe, get a line, see to it, make up one's mind, witness, decide, catch out, pick up, ascertain, obtain, bump, limit, set, learn, regain, chance, discover, insure, checkAntonyms:
losefind, feel(verb)
come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds
"I feel that he doesn't like me"; "I find him to be obnoxious"; "I found the movie rather entertaining"
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experience, encounter, happen, notice, ascertain, witness, bump, retrieve, recover, detect, get hold, feel, observe, finger, find oneself, receive, determine, chance, rule, line up, get, regain, find out, discover, palpate, obtain, incur, come up, see, senseAntonyms:
losewitness, find, see(verb)
perceive or be contemporaneous with
"We found Republicans winning the offices"; "You'll see a lot of cheating in this school"; "The 1960's saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions"; "I want to see results"
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line up, detect, recover, take in, figure, date, go out, find oneself, look, get, examine, get hold, run across, see to it, view, go steady, retrieve, get word, control, construe, rule, notice, meet, check, chance, determine, see, find out, reckon, project, come up, visualize, realise, fancy, encounter, escort, assure, envision, happen, watch, receive, visit, feel, run into, regard, incur, take care, come across, observe, get a line, go through, image, picture, witness, get wind, ensure, attend, pick up, understand, experience, ascertain, catch, bump, visualise, consider, interpret, learn, realize, regain, obtain, discover, insure, hearAntonyms:
loseline up, get hold, come up, find(verb)
get something or somebody for a specific purpose
"I found this gadget that will serve as a bottle opener"; "I got hold of these tools to fix our plumbing"; "The chairman got hold of a secretary on Friday night to type the urgent letter"
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line up, detect, recover, queue up, rise, dress, notice, get, get hold, muster, scratch, uprise, retrieve, feel, come on, rule, go up, surface, rally, lift, chance, encounter, arise, see, find out, come up, scrape up, scrape, bob up, adjust, determine, find oneself, ascend, happen, go on, muster up, summon, incur, observe, align, move up, witness, receive, aline, ascertain, come, bump, queue, rise up, regain, obtain, discoverAntonyms:
losediscover, find(verb)
make a discovery, make a new finding
"Roentgen discovered X-rays"; "Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle"
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line up, detect, distinguish, chance upon, find oneself, get, bring out, get hold, reveal, disclose, attain, let on, describe, get word, retrieve, fall upon, rule, strike, come up, chance, determine, see, find out, key, expose, give away, regain, break, encounter, learn, happen, receive, happen upon, feel, divulge, identify, incur, come across, key out, observe, get a line, notice, witness, name, pick up, recover, ascertain, obtain, bump, unwrap, hear, come upon, light upon, get wind, chance on, discover, let outAntonyms:
losediscover, find(verb)
make a discovery
"She found that he had lied to her"; "The story is false, so far as I can discover"
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line up, detect, distinguish, chance upon, find oneself, get, bring out, get hold, reveal, disclose, attain, let on, describe, get word, retrieve, fall upon, rule, strike, come up, chance, determine, see, find out, key, expose, give away, regain, break, encounter, learn, happen, receive, happen upon, feel, divulge, identify, incur, come across, key out, observe, get a line, notice, witness, name, pick up, recover, ascertain, obtain, bump, unwrap, hear, come upon, light upon, get wind, chance on, discover, let outAntonyms:
losefind(verb)
obtain through effort or management
"She found the time and energy to take care of her aging parents"; "We found the money to send our sons to college"
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encounter, happen, notice, ascertain, witness, bump, retrieve, recover, detect, get hold, feel, observe, find oneself, receive, determine, chance, rule, line up, get, regain, find out, discover, obtain, incur, come up, seeAntonyms:
loserule, find(verb)
decide on and make a declaration about
"find someone guilty"
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line up, detect, recover, find oneself, get, get hold, predominate, rein, dominate, retrieve, rule, notice, chance, reign, determine, see, find out, govern, come up, decree, encounter, happen, receive, feel, harness, incur, observe, witness, ascertain, bump, prevail, regain, obtain, discoverAntonyms:
losereceive, get, find, obtain, incur(verb)
receive a specified treatment (abstract)
"These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"; "His movie received a good review"; "I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions"
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pick up, make, mystify, experience, develop, draw, have, find oneself, become, sustain, receive, retrieve, scram, prevail, amaze, stimulate, sire, drive, engender, hold, go, rule, fix, stick, pay back, regain, happen, suffer, feel, beat, set about, get down, get under one's skin, incur, contract, bring forth, grow, dumbfound, stupefy, start, welcome, arrest, meet, witness, bring, bewilder, see, mother, chance, take, buzz off, catch, let, come up, obtain, beget, puzzle, flummox, invite, ascertain, get, generate, capture, baffle, produce, get hold, start out, pose, vex, aim, induce, find out, perplex, recover, bump, notice, gravel, begin, fetch, father, determine, commence, discover, encounter, arrive, set out, convey, acquire, come, line up, pay off, detect, bugger off, cause, take in, observe, nonplusAntonyms:
losefind(verb)
perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place
"I found myself in a difficult situation"; "When he woke up, he found himself in a hospital room"
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encounter, happen, notice, ascertain, witness, bump, retrieve, recover, detect, get hold, feel, observe, find oneself, receive, determine, chance, rule, line up, get, regain, find out, discover, obtain, incur, come up, seeAntonyms:
loserecover, retrieve, find, regain(verb)
get or find back; recover the use of
"She regained control of herself"; "She found her voice and replied quickly"
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line up, detect, go back, find oneself, recoup, get, get hold, recollect, recuperate, reclaim, rule, notice, convalesce, call up, chance, determine, see, find out, come up, think, encounter, happen, retrieve, feel, incur, observe, recall, witness, call back, recover, ascertain, bump, remember, regain, obtain, discover, receiveAntonyms:
losefind(verb)
succeed in reaching; arrive at
"The arrow found its mark"
Synonyms:
encounter, happen, notice, ascertain, witness, bump, retrieve, recover, detect, get hold, feel, observe, find oneself, receive, determine, chance, rule, line up, get, regain, find out, discover, obtain, incur, come up, seeAntonyms:
losefind oneself, find(verb)
accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation
"My son went to Berkeley to find himself"
Synonyms:
encounter, happen, notice, ascertain, witness, bump, retrieve, recover, detect, get hold, feel, observe, find oneself, receive, determine, chance, rule, line up, get, regain, find out, discover, incur, obtain, come up, seeAntonyms:
lose
Wiktionary
English Synonyms and Antonyms
find
Of human actions or character, detect is used, almost without exception, in a bad sense; discover may be used in either the good or the bad sense, oftener in the good; he was detected in a fraud; real merit is sure to be discovered. In scientific language, detect is used of delicate indications that appear in course of careful watching; as, a slight fluttering of the pulse could be detected. We discover what has existed but has not been known to us; we invent combinations or arrangements not before in use; Columbus discovered America; Morse invented the electric telegraph. Find is the most general word for every means of coming to know what was not before certainly known. A man finds in the road some stranger's purse, or finds his own which he is searching for. The expert discovers or detects an error in an account; the auditor finds the account to be correct. Compare DISCERN.
See synonyms for HIDE.
Synonyms:
ascertain, descry, detect, discern, disclose, discover, expose, ferret out, find out, invent
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
Dictionary of English Synonymes
find(v. a.)
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discover, fall upon, light upon, meet with, fall in withfind(v. a.)
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supply, furnish, contribute, providefind(v. a.)
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supply with foodfind(v. a.)
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(Law.) determine judicially, declare by verdictfind(v. n.)
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(Law.) declare a verdict, determine an issue
How to use find in a sentence?
I was too scared to go home and the police came to the hospital to talk to me. Many people were helping me find a safe place to live, and I knew it was Jesus, and soon, the police called to tell me that they had uncovered a plot in which my abusive husband had planned to kidnap the children back to Iran. After that, we moved to Sweden, and the policeman told me that I have an angel on my shoulder.
You don't find grab bars in bathrooms, the appropriate lighting and broader hallways and ramps.
...we pay for the activities that already exists in their community that they pick as their personal outlet. So we have done things like surfing, baking lessons, swimming lessons... Taekwondo and martial arts, as long as it’s a fun event and it has a coach or instructor component to it, we are going to find a way to say yes.
I have no issues with nudity, especially in a lot of European cinema that I adore, but I find that in American cinema, the idea of nudity has always bothered me, i realized why : For me, I ’m uncomfortable with nudity when it feels like it’s not the person’s decision to be naked, when it’s something that has been put upon them. In a way, I see that as like a victimization.
Imagine trying to find a mate when Lisa Kenney have disfigurement, or scars, or even infertility, survivor clinics help them not only find some support and information about effects, but they may not know about correct surveillance or screening tests that are recommended, or risk for other cancers due to treatment effects.
Translations for find
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- vindAfrikaans
- وجد, لقى, اكتشافArabic
- tapmaq, bulmaqAzerbaijani
- знаходзіць, знайсціBelarusian
- изчислявам, намиране, убеждавам се, находка, решавам, намирамBulgarian
- kavoutBreton
- trobarCatalan, Valencian
- nalézt, najít, objevit, nacházet, nalézat, pokládat zaCzech
- dømme, udpege, træffe, finde, fundDanish
- Fund, findenGerman
- βρίσκωGreek
- trovaĵo, trovi, trovitaĵo, juĝiEsperanto
- creer, encontrar, determinar, hallazgo, juzgar, hallarSpanish
- leidmaEstonian
- topatu, aurkituBasque
- نمایاندن, یافتن, پیدا کردنPersian
- osoittaa, löytö, löytäminen, pitää, löytääFinnish
- finnaFaroese
- trouver, trouvailleFrench
- treffe, fineWestern Frisian
- aimsigh, faighIrish
- lorg, amais, faighScottish Gaelic
- atopar, encontrar, achado, achar, toparGalician
- מצא, מציאה, הצביעHebrew
- पानाHindi
- lelet, találHungarian
- գտնելArmenian
- trovarInterlingua
- menemukanIndonesian
- fundur, finnaIcelandic
- scoperta, trovare, sottolineare, puntualizzare, chicca, evidenziareItalian
- 評決, 指摘, 見つけるJapanese
- პოვნა, მითითება, მიგნება, ჩვენებაGeorgian
- табуKazakh
- រកឃើញKhmer
- 찾다Korean
- табууKyrgyz
- invenīre, arbitrare, designare, arbitror, decernere, nanciscor, inventusLatin
- ບອກLao
- surastiLithuanian
- rast, atrastLatvian
- констатира, востановува, наоѓање, утврдува, пронаоѓа, наоѓа, наодMacedonian
- олохMongolian
- vondst, vinden, achten, van mening zijn, ontdekken, aantreffenDutch
- finne, funnNorwegian
- znaleźć, znalezisko, znajdowaćPolish
- achado, determinar, encontrar, achar, encontro, julgarPortuguese
- tariyQuechua
- găsi, descoperireRomanian
- находка, находить, найти, выискиватьRussian
- naći, наћиSerbo-Croatian
- සොයා ගන්නවාSinhala, Sinhalese
- nájsťSlovak
- najtiSlovene
- gjejAlbanian
- konstatera, hitta, utröna, uppdaga, fynd, finna, upptäckaSwedish
- пайдо кардан, ёфтанTajik
- พบ, หา, เจอThai
- tapmakTurkmen
- bulmakTurkish
- табаргаTatar
- знаходити, знайтиUkrainian
- topmoqUzbek
- tìmVietnamese
- tuvönVolapük
- troverWalloon
- געפֿינעןYiddish
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