Find definition

Find as a verb

1. come upon, as if by accident; meet with

   "We find this idea in Plato"

   Same sense: chance, happen, encounter, bump

2. discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes

   Same sense: notice, discover, observe, detect

3. come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost

   "Did you find your glasses?"

   Same sense: regain

4. establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study

   "find the product of two numbers"

   Same sense: find out, determine, ascertain

5. come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds

   "I find him to be obnoxious"

   Same sense: feel

6. perceive or be contemporaneous with

   Same sense: see, witness

7. get something or somebody for a specific purpose

   Same sense: come up, line up, get hold

8. make a discovery, make a new finding

   Same sense: discover

9. obtain through effort or management

10. decide on and make a declaration about

    "find someone guilty"

    Same sense: rule

11. receive a specified treatment (abstract)

    "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"

    Same sense: get, receive, obtain, incur

12. perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place

13. get or find back; recover the use of

    Same sense: recover, regain, retrieve

14. succeed in reaching; arrive at

15. accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation

    "My son went to Berkeley to find himself"

    Same sense: find oneself

Find as a noun

16. a productive insight

    Same sense: discovery, breakthrough

17. the act of discovering something

    Same sense: discovery, uncovering

Synonyms and antonyms

• chance definition
• happen definition
• encounter
• bump
• notice
• discover
• observe
• detect
• regain
• find out
• determine
• ascertain
• feel definition
• see definition
• witness
• come up
• line up
• get hold
• rule
• get definition
• receive
• obtain
• incur
• recover

Opposite: lose.

All synonyms of find, sense by sense

How to say find

Find has 1 syllable and rhymes with kind. Syllable counts and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.

Words that rhyme with find

• kind
• mind
• behind
• designed
• signed
• wind
• combined
• defined
• blind
• assigned
• remind
• declined

All 62 words that rhyme with find

FIND in word games

Scrabble

8

Words With Friends

9

Anagrams

0

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