Read

English

Noun

Read (plural Reads)

1. A reading or an act of reading, especially an actor's part of a play.

Verb

Read (third-person singular simple present reads, present participle reading, simple past read, past participle read or (archaic or dialect) readen)

1. Simple past tense and past participle of read.
2. (transitive or intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
3. (transitive or intransitive) To speak aloud words or other information that is written. Often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object.
4. (transitive) To interpret or infer a meaning, significance, etc.
5. To consist of certain text.
6. (intransitive) Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.
7. (transitive) To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); used to introduce an emendation of a text.
8. (transitive, telecommunications) To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
9. (transitive, UK) To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.
10. (transitive, transgenderism) to recognise (someone) as being transgender

Synonyms

• (look at and interpret letters or other information): interpret, make out, make sense of, understand
• (speak aloud words or other information that is written): read aloud, read out, read out loud, speak
• (be able to hear): hear, receive
• (make a study of): learn, study

Antonyms

• (to be recognised as transgender): pass

Adverbs for Read

omnivorously; perpetually; insipidly; profoundly; nonchalantly; listlessly; attentively; extensively; drowsily; assiduously; advisedly; monotonously; genially; voraciously; habitually; casually; industriously; stimulatingly; desultorily; promiscuously; surreptitiously; haltingly; sporadically; judiciously.

Thesaurus

absorb, announce, appreciate, apprehend, assign to, assimilate, be with one, bone, catch, catch on, comprehend, con, conceive, construe, contemplate, correct copy, debate, decipher, declaim, define, deliver, demagogue, describe, diagnose, dig, digest, drill, elocute, elucubrate, examine, fathom, feel out, fly a kite, follow, get, get hold of, get the drift, get the idea, get the picture, go in for, go over, grasp, grind, harangue, have, have it taped, hold forth, impute to, indicate, interpret, ken, know, learn, look over, lucubrate, major in, mark, master, minor in, mouth, orate, out-herod Herod, perorate, peruse, plunge into, pore over, practice, present, probe, proofread, rabble-rouse, rant, read for, read into, read law, realize, recite, record, regard studiously, register, restudy, review, rodomontade, savvy, say, scan, seize, seize the meaning, sense, skim, sound, sound out, specialize in, spiel, spout, study, study for, study to be, swot, take, take in, take it that, take to mean, tub-thump, understand, understand by, vet, wade through