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arrived at
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | generally agreed upon |
| Synonyms: | accustomed, acknowledged, allowed, approved, arrived at, authorized, card-carrying, chosen, confirmed, conventional, credited, current, customary, endorsed, established, fashionable, in vogue, kosher*, legit, normal, okayed, orthodox, passed, popular, preferred, received, recognized, regular, sanctioned, standard, straight*, time-honored, touted, universal, unopposed, usual, welcomed |
| Antonyms: | irregular, questionable, unconventional, unorthodox |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | find |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | catch sight of, lay hands on |
| Synonyms: | arrive at, bring to light, bump into, chance upon, collar, come across, come up with*, come upon, corral, descry, detect, dig up, discern, discover, distinguish, encounter, espy, expose, fall in with, ferret out, happen upon, hit upon, identify, lay fingers on, light upon, locate, make out, meet, notice, observe, perceive, pinpoint, recognize, recover, run across, run into, scare up, sight, smoke out, spot, strike, stumble upon, track down, trip on, turn up, uncover, unearth |
| Notes: | a find (noun) is a discovery or productive insight - find (verb) means to come upon or discover something; fined means punished by the imposition of a penalty |
| Antonyms: | fail, lose, miss, pass by |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fix |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | determine, decide |
| Synonyms: | agree on, appoint, arrange, arrive at, conclude, define, establish, limit, name, resolve, set, settle, solve, specify, work, work out |
| Antonyms: | disturb, ignore, neglect |
| Main Entry: | hit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | accomplish |
| Synonyms: | achieve, affect, arrive at, attain, gain, influence, leave a mark, occur, overwhelm, reach, secure, strike, touch |
| Antonyms: | fail, lose |
| Main Entry: | infer |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | conclude |
| Synonyms: | arrive at, ascertain, assume, believe, collect, conjecture, construe, deduce, derive, draw, draw inference, figure, figure out, gather, glean, guess, induce, interpret, intuit, judge, presume, presuppose, reach conclusion, read between lines, read into, reason, reckon, speculate, suppose, surmise, think, understand |
| Notes: | a speaker or writer implies, a hearer or reader infers, and implications are incorporated in statements while inferences are deduced from statements; imply means 'suggest indirectly that something is true' while infer means 'conclude or deduce something is true' and, further, to imply is to suggest or throw out a suggestion while to infer is to include or take in a suggestion infer means 'to deduce, reason' and imply means 'to hint at, suggest' |
| Antonyms: | misconceive, misunderstand |
| Main Entry: | make |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | arrive, aim at |
| Synonyms: | advance, arrive at, arrive in time, attain, bear, break for, catch, get to, go, head, light out, meet, move, proceed, progress, reach, set out, strike out, take off |
| Antonyms: | fail |
| Main Entry: | reach |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | attain; rise |
| Synonyms: | accomplish, achieve, amount to, arrive at, climb to, come to, drop, fall, gain, move, rack up, realize, score, sink, win |
| Antonyms: | fail, lose |
| Main Entry: | return |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | answer |
| Synonyms: | announce, arrive at, bring in, come back, come in, come to, communicate, declare, deliver, pass, rejoin, render, reply, report, respond, retort, state, submit |
| Antonyms: | ask, request |
| Main Entry: | strike |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | find, discover |
| Synonyms: | achieve, arrive at, attain, catch, chance upon, come across, come upon, dig up, effect, encounter, happen upon, hit upon, lay bare, light upon, open up, reach, seize, stumble across, take, turn up, uncover, unearth |
| Notes: | to put up a tent is to pitch it; to take down a tent is to strike it |
| Antonyms: | lose, miss |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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