Synonyms for find
Another word for find is discovery, breakthrough or uncovering. Below are 32 synonyms and 30 related words across 12 senses, with antonyms.
Also searched as: finds.
1. noun: a productive insight
- discovery synonyms
- breakthrough
2. noun: the act of discovering something
- discovery synonyms
- uncovering synonyms
3. verb: come upon, as if by accident; meet with
- chance synonyms
- happen synonyms
- encounter synonyms
- bump synonyms
4. verb: discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes
- notice synonyms
- discover synonyms
- observe synonyms
- detect
5. verb: come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost
- regain synonyms
- recover synonyms
- retrieve synonyms
Antonyms
- lose synonyms
6. verb: establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study
- find out synonyms
- determine synonyms
- ascertain synonyms
- see synonyms
- watch synonyms
- check synonyms
- learn synonyms
- discover synonyms
7. verb: come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds
- feel synonyms
- rule synonyms
8. verb: perceive or be contemporaneous with
- see synonyms
- witness synonyms
- find out synonyms
- get a line synonyms
- hear synonyms
- get word synonyms
- learn synonyms
- pick up synonyms
- get wind synonyms
- discover synonyms
9. verb: get something or somebody for a specific purpose
- come up synonyms
- line up synonyms
- get hold
10. verb: make a discovery, make a new finding
- discover synonyms
- find out synonyms
- notice synonyms
- determine synonyms
- observe synonyms
- detect
- ascertain synonyms
11. verb: obtain through effort or management
- regain synonyms
12. verb: decide on and make a declaration about
- rule synonyms
- feel synonyms
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.
- insight synonyms
- brainstorm
- brainwave
- act synonyms
- human action
- finding
- human activity
- self-discovery
- catching synonyms
- determination synonyms
- detection synonyms
- deed synonyms
- spying synonyms
- tracing
- spotting synonyms
- rediscovery
- espial
- run into synonyms
- meet synonyms
- come across synonyms
- run across synonyms
- make out synonyms
- sense synonyms
- pick out synonyms
- spot synonyms
- catch out
- tell apart synonyms
- sight synonyms
- recognize synonyms
- spy synonyms
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Questions people ask
What is another word for find?
You can say discovery, breakthrough, uncovering, chance or happen instead of find. Which one fits depends on the sense; the first sense above means "a productive insight".
What is the opposite of find?
The opposite of find is lose.
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