Synonyms for ask
Another word for ask is inquire, enquire or expect. Below are 16 synonyms and 30 related words across 7 senses.
Also searched as: asked, asker, asks.
1. verb: make a request or demand for something to somebody
2. verb: direct or put; seek an answer to
- inquire synonyms
- enquire
3. verb: consider obligatory; request and expect
- expect synonyms
- require synonyms
4. verb: address a question to and expect an answer from
- inquire synonyms
- enquire
5. verb: require as useful, just, or proper
- need synonyms
- take synonyms
- call for synonyms
- demand synonyms
- require synonyms
- involve synonyms
- necessitate
- postulate
- claim synonyms
- exact synonyms
6. verb: make a date
- take out synonyms
- ask out
- invite out
7. verb: require or ask for as a price or condition
Related words
Broader, narrower and sibling terms from the same WordNet tree. They aren't interchangeable, but one of them is often the word you wanted.
- ask for
- request synonyms
- quest synonyms
- solicit synonyms
- bespeak
- word synonyms
- give voice
- phrase synonyms
- articulate synonyms
- formulate synonyms
- call synonyms
- question synonyms
- communicate synonyms
- consult synonyms
- query synonyms
- confer with
- pry synonyms
- interrogate
- intercommunicate
- come to synonyms
- use up synonyms
- turn on synonyms
- cost synonyms
- touch synonyms
- touch on synonyms
- ride synonyms
- draw synonyms
- bear on synonyms
- concern synonyms
- cry for
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What is another word for ask?
You can say inquire, enquire, expect, require or need instead of ask. Which one fits depends on the sense; the first sense above means "make a request or demand for something to somebody".
What is the opposite of ask?
WordNet lists no direct antonym for ask; the nearest opposites depend on which sense you mean.
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