Synonyms for glimpse
glɪmpsglimpse

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1. glimpseverb

   Synonyms:
   notice, perceive, catch sight of, spot, detect

2. glimpseverb

   To see or view briefly or incompletely.

   I have only begun to glimpse the magnitude of the problem.

   Synonyms:
   notice, catch sight of, detect, spot, perceive

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 6 votes

1. glimpse

   Synonyms:
   sight, inkling, glance, glimmering, survey

   Antonyms:
   observation, scrutiny, investigation, inspection, analysis, examination, exposure

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.8 / 6 votes

1. glance, glimpse, coup d'oeilnoun

   a quick look

   Synonyms:
   glance, coup d'oeil

2. glimpsenoun

   a brief or incomplete view

   "from the window he could catch a glimpse of the lake"

   Synonyms:
   glance, coup d'oeil

3. glimpseverb

   a vague indication

   "he caught only a glimpse of the professor's meaning"

   Synonyms:
   glance, coup d'oeil

4. glimpseverb

   catch a glimpse of or see briefly

   "We glimpsed the Queen as she got into her limousine"

Matched Categories

1. • See
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Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. glimpsenoun

   Synonyms:
   glance, glimmering, GLINT, transitory view, rapid look, momentary perception

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1. glimpsenoun

   Synonyms:
   glance, flash, inkling

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1. List of paraphrases for "glimpse":

   overview, glimmer, refresher, chronic

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How to use glimpse in a sentence?

1. Jailson Correia:

   We are just getting a glimpse of the dimension of a problem likely to remain with us for years to come.

2. Sigmund Freud:

   We are certainly getting ahead if I am Moses, then you are Joshua and will take possession of the promised land of psychiatry, which I shall only be able to glimpse from afar.

3. Ronald David Laing:

   We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world -- mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt.

4. Joel Leja:

   This is our first glimpse back this far, so it’s important that we keep an open mind about what we are seeing, while the data indicates they are likely galaxies, I think there is a real possibility that a few of these objects turn out to be obscured supermassive black holes. Regardless, the amount of mass we discovered means that the known mass in stars at this period of our universe is up to 100 times greater than we had previously thought. Even if we cut the sample in half, this is still an astounding change.

5. Joe Keenan:

   There are, however, people in this world who seldom pick up a newspaper, people who, when watching television, sneer in displeasure and change channels at the first glimpse of an anchorperson. While such willfully uninformed citizens are rare, emerging from seclusion only to serve on juries in trials of great national significance, they do exist.