SEEK (OUT) Synonyms: 37 Similar and Opposite Words

seek (out)

verb

Definition of seek (out)

as in to look up

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Relevance

Dissimilar Words

as in to cast about

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Verb

But things would look up when Sabrina Popo made her entrance.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026
Both teams come into the contest with a 3-2 record and are looking up at the division leader.

— OutKick, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of look up

Verb

Next came an exhibition around a creepy Howdy Doody-ish figure that met countless violent fates while being cast about mechanistically on chains in 2016.

— Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 20 Aug. 2026
Meriwether’s video comes after comments from the show’s cast about a reunion.

— Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of cast about

Verb

The company’s Club for the Future nonprofit has reached nearly 700,000 Florida students and 65,000 educators since 2019.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
Attackers use it to control who reaches their malicious content while showing something harmless to other visitors.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of reach

Verb

To do this, the team of researchers used fossils and knowledge of mosasaurs' most recent living relatives – snakes and lizards like the komodo dragon – to recreate the hunting behavior of mosasaurs.

— October 16, NPR, 16 Oct. 2026
Iceland's notoriously changeable weather and frequent cloud cover can make aurora hunting challenging.

— Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of hunt

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