Synonyms for show
Another word for show is display, appearance or present. Below are 24 synonyms and 30 related words across 12 senses, with antonyms.
Also searched as: showed, shows.
1. noun: an act or social event involving a public performance or entertainment
2. noun: something intended to communicate a particular impression
- display synonyms
3. noun: pretending that something is the case in order to make a good impression
- appearance synonyms
4. verb: give an exhibition of to an interested audience
- present synonyms
- demonstrate synonyms
- exhibit synonyms
- demo synonyms
5. verb: establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment
- prove synonyms
- establish synonyms
- demonstrate synonyms
- shew
6. verb: provide evidence for
- evidence synonyms
- prove synonyms
- bear witness synonyms
- testify synonyms
7. verb: make visible or noticeable
Antonyms
- hide synonyms
8. verb: show in, or as in, a picture
- picture synonyms
- render synonyms
- depict synonyms
9. verb: give expression to
- express synonyms
- evince
10. verb: indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively
- point synonyms
- indicate synonyms
- designate synonyms
11. verb: be or become visible or noticeable
- show up
12. verb: indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments
- read synonyms
- record synonyms
- register 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.
- play synonyms
- program synonyms
- performance synonyms
- road show
- dog show
- fair synonyms
- ice show
- showing synonyms
- floor show
- variety synonyms
- variety show
- entertainment
- programme synonyms
- shadow show
- big stick
- demonstration synonyms
- pomp
- gaudery
- pretending
- simulation synonyms
- pretense synonyms
- pretence
- feigning
- bring home
- find synonyms
- find out synonyms
- support synonyms
- determine synonyms
- confirm synonyms
- sustain synonyms
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Questions people ask
What is another word for show?
You can say display, appearance, present, demonstrate or exhibit instead of show. Which one fits depends on the sense; the first sense above means "an act or social event involving a public performance or entertainment".
What is the opposite of show?
The opposite of show is hide.
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