Word Meanings - EXPLORE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To seek for or after; to strive to attain by search; to look wisely and carefully for. Explores the lost, the wandering sheep directs. Pope. 2. To search through or into; to penetrate or range over for discovery; to examine thoroughly; as, to

Additional info about word: EXPLORE

1. To seek for or after; to strive to attain by search; to look wisely and carefully for. Explores the lost, the wandering sheep directs. Pope. 2. To search through or into; to penetrate or range over for discovery; to examine thoroughly; as, to explore new countries or seas; to explore the depths of science. "Hidden frauds explore." Dryden.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EXPLORE)

• Examine
• Weigh
• ponder
• investigate
• perpend
• test
• scrutinize
• criticize
• prove
• study
• discuss
• inquire
• search
• explore
• inspect
• Probe
• Prove
• verify
• examine
• silt
• Ransack
• Rummage
• rifle
• pillage
• ravage
• overhaul
• Search Inspect
• seek
• Spy #N/A
• espy
• discern
• discover
• view

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of EXPLORE)

• Spare
• conserve
• preserve
• indemnify
• Pretermit
• disregard
• abandon
• misinvestigate

Related words: (words related to EXPLORE)

• PROVENTRIULUS
  The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop.
• PROVERBIAL
  1. Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial. In case of excesses, I take the German proverbial cure, by a hair of the same beast, to be the worst. Sir
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• DISCERNANCE
  Discernment.
• PONDEROUS
  1. Very heavy; weighty; as, a ponderous shield; a ponderous load; the ponderous elephant. The sepulcher . . . Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws. Shak. 2. Important; momentous; forcible. "Your more ponderous and settled project." Shak. 3.
• PROVENCAL
  Of or pertaining to Provence or its inhabitants.
• INSPECTOR
  One who inspects, views, or oversees; one to whom the supervision of any work is committed; one who makes an official view or examination, as a military or civil officer; a superintendent; a supervisor; an overseer. Inspector general , a staff
• RUMMAGER
  A person on shipboard whose business was to take charge of stowing the cargo; -- formerly written roomager, and romager. The master must provide a perfect mariner, called a romager, to range and bestow all merchandise. Hakluyt (more info) 1. One
• PONDERARY
  Of or pertaining to weight; as, a ponderary system. M'Culloch.
• PROBE
  1. To examine, as a wound, an ulcer, or some cavity of the body, with a probe. 2. Fig.: to search to the bottom; to scrutinize or examine thoroughly. Dryden. The growing disposition to probe the legality of all acts, of the crown. Hallam.
• SEARCHLESS
  Impossible to be searched; inscrutable; impenetrable.
• PERPENDICULAR
  At right angles to a given line or surface; as, the line ad is perpendicular to the line bc. Perpendicular style , a name given to the latest variety of English Gothic architecture, which prevailed from the close of the 14th century to the early
• PONDERAL
  Estimated or ascertained by weight; -- distinguished from numeral; as, a ponderal drachma. Arbuthnot.
• PONDEROUSLY
  In a ponderous manner.
• WEIGHTINESS
  The quality or state of being weighty; weight; force; importance; impressiveness.
• WEIGHTILY
  In a weighty manner.
• DISCOVERTURE
  A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. (more info) 1. Discovery.
• RAVAGER
  One who, or that which, ravages or lays waste; spoiler.
• INSPECTORSHIP
  1. The office of an inspector. 2. The district embraced by an inspector's jurisdiction.
• RAVAGE
  Desolation by violence; violent ruin or destruction; devastation; havoc; waste; as, the ravage of a lion; the ravages of fire or tempest; the ravages of an army, or of time. Would one think 't were possible for love To make such ravage in a noble
• EQUIPONDERANCE; EQUIPONDERANCY
  Equality of weight; equipoise.
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• CROSS-EXAMINER
  One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination.
• APPROVEDLY
  So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• DISAPPROVE
  1. To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others. 2. To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline
• TRIFLE
  trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong
• PREPONDERATINGLY
  In a preponderating manner; preponderantly.
• WELTERWEIGHT
  1. A weight of 28 pounds (one of 40 pounds is called a heavy welterweight) sometimes imposed in addition to weight for age, chiefly in steeplechases and hurdle races. 2. A boxer or wrestler whose weight is intermediate between that