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Main Entry:
recall [v. ri-kawl; n. ri-kawl, ree-kawl ree-kawl ]
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: remember
Synonyms: arouse, awaken, bethink, bring to mind, call to mind, call up, cite, come to one, educe, elicit, evoke, extract, flash, flash on, look back, mind, nail it down, recollect, reestablish, reinstate, reintroduce, remind, reminisce, renew, retain, retrospect, revive, ring a bell, rouse, stir, strike a note, summon, think back, think of, waken
Antonyms: forget
Main Entry: remember
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: keep in mind; summon into mind
Synonyms: bear in mind, bethink, brood over, call to mind, call up, cite, commemorate, conjure up, dig into the past, dwell upon, educe, elicit, enshrine, extract, fix in the mind, flash on, get, go back, have memories, hold dear, keep forever, know by heart, learn, look back, memorialize, memorize, mind, nail down, recall, recognize, recollect, refresh memory, relive, remind, reminisce, retain, retrospect, revive, revoke, ring a bell, strike a note, summon up, think back, treasure
Antonyms: disregard, forget
Main Entry: reminisce
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: go over in one's memory
Synonyms: bethink, call up, cite, hark back, live in the past, look back, mind, muse over, recall, recollect, remember, remind, retain, retrospect, review, revive, think back
Antonyms: forget, repress
Main Entry: call to mind
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: to recollect
Synonyms: bear in mind, conjure up, dig into the past, have memories, look back, recall, recollect, refresh memory, remember, summon up, to remember
Related Words
Main Entry: regret
Part of Speech: noun, verb
Related
Adjectives:
contrite, homesick, lamentable, languorous, much to be regretted, oikotropic, regretful, regrettable, regretted, regretting
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Regret.
Category: 1. Passive Affections
Synonyms:
-nouns
regret, repining; homesickness, nostalgia; maldu pays, maladie; lamentation; penitence., bitterness, heartburning., laudator temporis acti (discontent).
-verbs
regret, deplore; bewail (lament); repine, cast a longing lingering look behind; rue, rue the day; repent; infandum renovare dolorem., prey on the mind, weigh on the mind, have a weight on the mind; leave an aching void.
-adjectives
regretting; regretful; homesick., regretted; much to be regretted, regrettable; lamentable (bad).
-phrases
'tis pity, 'tis too true; "sig'd and look'd and sigh'd again" [Dryden].
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