HEAR Synonyms: 56 Similar and Opposite Words

hear

verb

ˈhir

Definition of hear

as in to realize

to come to an awareness of I heard your sister is home from the hospital

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as in to listen

to pay attention especially through the act of hearing at least hear what I have to say before you start disagreeing

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Recent Examples of hear But these court cases don’t just appear out of thin air, especially when they are heard in the a school's backyard. — Trey Wallace Outkick, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2026 The Planning and Zoning Commission is expected to hear the application in November. — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 14 Oct. 2026 If everyone feels comfortable to share ideas and to collaborate and feel like they’re heard, that’s just the best way to make movies. — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2026 Murmurs about the power of politicians and unfair advantages of the rich were heard as participants warmed up to each other. — Lina Abascal, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for hear

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Verb

What to read next After nearly 30 years, NASA realized this near-Earth asteroid is actually a comet.

— Joe Rao, Space.com, 13 Oct. 2026
But kidding aside, AI used in the right way can make people smarter about their health, more so than most realize.

— Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of realize

Verb

Yet their willingness to talk, listen, and imagine what had seemed impossible helped lay the groundwork for historic nuclear arms reductions.

— Halla Tómasdóttir, Time, 16 Oct. 2026
The poetry world in the city is multifarious and energetic, with waves of practitioners reading, listening to, and publishing one another.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of listen

Verb

But the spring 2027 shows also saw a focus on more than those two accessories categories.

— Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2026
Expect to see rare bottles pulled from the shelves and all manner of weird and wonderful concoctions offered up from the menu and from their encyclopedic knowledge of drinks.

— Condé Nast, cntraveler.com, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of see

Verb

They are discovered well beyond the bounds of the strategic map, where the winds shift, the old answers sink, and the pilot must find the way by dead reckoning.

— Jeff DeGraff, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2026
After a five-and-a-half-year absence, Tom Cotton has recently discovered a state called Arkansas.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of discover

Verb

The story centers on two ex-lovers who come back into each other’s lives after spending decades apart, only to find old feelings stirring with messy and mixed results.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026
Hall found that forecasting future consumer spending is virtually impossible.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 13 Oct. 2026

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