Synonyms for meet
Another word for meet is fitting, just or sports meeting. Below are 27 synonyms and 30 related words across 12 senses.
Also searched as: meeter, meets.
1. adjective: being precisely fitting and right
- fitting synonyms
- just synonyms
2. noun: a meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held
- sports meeting
3. verb: come together
- see synonyms
- run into synonyms
- come across synonyms
- run across synonyms
- encounter synonyms
- gather synonyms
- assemble synonyms
- forgather
- foregather
4. verb: get together socially or for a specific purpose
- get together synonyms
5. verb: be adjacent or come together
- converge synonyms
- contact synonyms
- touch synonyms
- adjoin
6. verb: fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction
- fit synonyms
- fill synonyms
- satisfy synonyms
- fulfill synonyms
- fulfil synonyms
- conform to synonyms
7. verb: collect in one place
- gather synonyms
- assemble synonyms
- forgather
- foregather
- see synonyms
- run into synonyms
- come across synonyms
- run across synonyms
- encounter synonyms
8. verb: get to know; get acquainted with
9. verb: meet by design; be present at the arrival of
10. verb: contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle
- take on synonyms
- play synonyms
- encounter synonyms
11. verb: experience as a reaction
- receive synonyms
- encounter synonyms
12. verb: undergo or suffer
- suffer 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.
- track meet
- race meeting
- swimming meet
- swim meet
- athletic competition
- athletic contest
- athletics synonyms
- regatta
- gymkhana
- find synonyms
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- act synonyms
- chance synonyms
- happen synonyms
- cross synonyms
- bump synonyms
- intersect
- call synonyms
- call in synonyms
- pick up synonyms
- visit synonyms
- join synonyms
- celebrate synonyms
- reunite
- rendezvous
- fete
- come synonyms
- arrive synonyms
- breast synonyms
- live up to
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Questions people ask
What is another word for meet?
You can say fitting, just, sports meeting, see or run into instead of meet. Which one fits depends on the sense; the first sense above means "being precisely fitting and right".
What is the opposite of meet?
WordNet lists no direct antonym for meet; the nearest opposites depend on which sense you mean.
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