Synonyms for interpret
ɪnˈtɜr prɪtin·ter·pret

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1. interpretverb

   Synonyms:
   solve, translate, explain, expound, elucidate, render, unfold, decipher, unravel

2. interpretverb

   To explain or tell the meaning of; to expound; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms; to decipher; to define; -- applied especially to language, but also to dreams, signs, conduct, mysteries, etc.; as, to interpret the Hebrew language to an Englishman; to interpret an Indian speech.

   Synonyms:
   elucidate, expound, unravel, unfold, translate, render, decipher, solve, explain

3. interpretverb

   To apprehend and represent by means of art; to show by illustrative representation; as, an actor interprets the character of Hamlet; a musician interprets a sonata; an artist interprets a landscape.

   Synonyms:
   explain, unravel, decipher, unfold, elucidate, render, translate, expound, solve

4. interpretverb

   To act as an interpreter.

   Synonyms:
   elucidate, translate, decipher, render, unfold, expound, solve, explain, unravel

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. interpret

   Synonyms:
   translate, render, construe, explain, expound, expone, represent, declare, understand, elucidate, decipher, solve

   Antonyms:
   misinterpret, misunderstand, mistake, misconceive, falsify, distort, misdeclare, misrepresent

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1. interpret, construe, seeverb

   make sense of; assign a meaning to

   "What message do you see in this letter?"; "How do you interpret his behavior?"

   Synonyms:
   date, take in, figure, experience, go out, look, reckon, go through, read, run across, find, view, go steady, get word, meet, examine, construe, rede, determine, see, find out, see to it, fancy, picture, translate, visualize, realise, control, encounter, escort, learn, envision, watch, run into, represent, render, assure, come across, understand, get a line, image, take care, witness, get wind, ensure, attend, pick up, regard, ascertain, catch, visualise, consider, hear, realize, project, visit, discover, insure, check

2. rede, interpretverb

   give an interpretation or explanation to

   Synonyms:
   see, translate, read, counsel, understand, advise, render, construe, rede, represent

3. interpret, renderverb

   give an interpretation or rendition of

   "The pianist rendered the Beethoven sonata beautifully"

   Synonyms:
   furnish, construe, deliver, represent, give, fork out, rede, turn in, try, fork up, hand over, translate, supply, picture, fork over, depict, show, generate, return, understand, provide, read, yield, render, see, submit

4. represent, interpretverb

   create an image or likeness of

   "The painter represented his wife as a young girl"

   Synonyms:
   stage, act, construe, typify, play, be, represent, stand for, lay out, rede, defend, comprise, symbolise, translate, map, exemplify, present, understand, make up, correspond, read, symbolize, render, see, constitute

5. translate, interpret, renderverb

   restate (words) from one language into another language

   "I have to translate when my in-laws from Austria visit the U.S."; "Can you interpret the speech of the visiting dignitaries?"; "She rendered the French poem into English"; "He translates for the U.N."

   Synonyms:
   furnish, construe, deliver, represent, transform, give, fork out, rede, turn in, try, fork up, hand over, translate, supply, picture, fork over, depict, show, generate, return, understand, provide, read, yield, render, see, submit

6. understand, read, interpret, translateverb

   make sense of a language

   "She understands French"; "Can you read Greek?"

   Synonyms:
   construe, infer, scan, say, represent, sympathise, transform, show, empathize, rede, register, learn, sympathize, translate, study, record, empathise, take, realise, read, realize, render, see, understand

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1. • Art
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   • Performing Arts
   • Re-create
   • Understand

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1. interpretverb

   Synonyms:
   explain, expound, decipher, elucidate, unfold, define, make out, make clear, explain the meaning of

2. interpretverb

   Synonyms:
   construe, translate, render

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1. interpretverb

   Synonyms:
   construe, translate, render

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1. List of paraphrases for "interpret":

   interpreting, interpretation, construe, explain

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1. Robert Boston:

   Answers in Genesis started to say that to work there you had to have certain religious beliefs, you had to agree with them on how to interpret the Bible, you had to agree with them on creationism, you even had to agree with their views on homosexuality.

2. Susan Sontag:

   I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.

3. Kahlil Gibran:

   No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver.

4. Justice Samuel Alito:

   Given the way the confirmation process -- the interviews of senators that occur immediately upon the announcement of the nomination -- I think it would be very difficult for somebody who has not been dealing with the whole breadth of federal law that may come before the Supreme Court to be ready for those interviews, or at least to have thought about how you interpret the Constitution, how do you interpret the statutes, what do you think about precedents -- issues like that, you will be hit with all of that immediately once the nomination has been announced.

5. Judge Kavanaugh:

   My judicial philosophy is straightforward, a judge must be independent and must interpret the law, not make the law. A judge must interpret statutes as written. A judge must interpret the Constitution as written, informed by history and tradition and precedent.