Synonyms for read
Another word for read is say, scan or take. Below are 11 synonyms and 30 related words across 12 senses.
Also searched as: readd, readded, readding, reads.
1. noun: something that is read
2. verb: interpret something that is written or printed
3. verb: have or contain a certain wording or form
4. verb: look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed
5. verb: obtain data from magnetic tapes or other digital sources
- scan synonyms
6. verb: interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; also of human behavior
7. verb: interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression
8. verb: be a student of a certain subject
- take synonyms
- study synonyms
- learn synonyms
9. verb: indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments
- show synonyms
- record synonyms
- register synonyms
10. verb: audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role
11. verb: to hear and understand
12. verb: make sense of a language
- understand synonyms
- translate synonyms
- interpret 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.
- publication
- speech-read
- trace synonyms
- lip-read
- dip into
- skim over
- skim synonyms
- decipher synonyms
- reread
- anagram
- construe
- lipread
- anagrammatize
- anagrammatise
- feature synonyms
- call synonyms
- talk synonyms
- speak synonyms
- mouth synonyms
- utter synonyms
- dictate
- verbalize
- numerate
- verbalise
- misread
- promise synonyms
- predict synonyms
- anticipate synonyms
- foretell
- scry
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Questions people ask
What is another word for read?
You can say say, scan, take, study or learn instead of read. Which one fits depends on the sense; the first sense above means "something that is read".
What is the opposite of read?
WordNet lists no direct antonym for read; the nearest opposites depend on which sense you mean.
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