Synonyms for perspective
pərˈspɛk tɪvper·spec·tive

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.0 / 17 votes

1. position, view, perspectivenoun

   a way of regarding situations or topics etc.

   "consider what follows from the positivist view"

   Synonyms:
   stance, prospect, billet, berth, lieu, place, spot, locating, aspect, purview, view, linear perspective, post, vista, survey, thought, position, spatial relation, opinion, status, positioning, scene, sentiment, posture, panorama, eyeshot, horizon, military position, attitude, placement, emplacement, sight, stead, situation, side, location, office, persuasion

2. perspective, linear perspectivenoun

   the appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer

   Synonyms:
   linear perspective, position, view

Matched Categories

1. • Appearance
   • Orientation

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. mindset

   the view from which you register the world around.

   his perspective of the situation is all wrong....

   Submitted by JP03 on November 24, 2014  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:1.7 / 3 votes

1. perspectivenoun

   Synonyms:
   vista, prospect, view

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1. List of paraphrases for "perspective":

   prospect, perspectives, prospects, outlook, angle, standpoint, viewpoint, view, vision, optical, context, approach, viewpoints, insight, dimension, light, views, lens, optics, mainstreaming, aspect

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How to use perspective in a sentence?

1. Shireen Santosham:

   It is very impactful from a climate change perspective, eighty to 90 % of water used around the world is for agriculture. Because we grow our plants using precise nutrient recipes, we can use a very small solution of water.

2. Hal Klepak:

   Very quickly when I looked at it from a historical perspective it was pretty obvious that this was an amazing story which for some reason had never been told.

3. Read MoreBiden:

   Let's put this in perspective. [ The ] inflation rate month-to-month was just an inch, hardly at all.

4. Guericke The meteoric rise:

   I often hear from people that ‘oh LinkedIn is ugly,’ or ‘LinkedIn isn’t for young people.’ It’s all about cosmetic things and their ideas revolve around those cosmetics. Or sometimes people go for specific functional groups, or look at it from the sales and marketing perspective. Well, that doesn’t really work.

5. Jamie Raskin:

   Having somebody talking about what happened from a personal perspective will be a dramatic debut for the committee.