Synonyms for Ascertain:

v.
• ascertain
- double check
• assume
- am afraid
- are afraid
- are inclined think
- are inclined to think
- art afraid
- art inclined think
- art inclined to think
- be inclined think
- being afraid
- being inclined think
- being inclined to think
- count up on
- de duce
- de duces
- de-duce
- de-duces
- gat idea
- gat the idea
- get idea
- gets idea
- gets the idea
- getting idea
- getting the idea
- got idea
- got the idea
- gotten idea
- gotten the idea
- had a hunch
- had hunch
- had sneaking suspicion
- haddest a hunch
- haddest hunch
- haddest sneaking suspicion
- hadst a hunch
- hadst hunch
- hadst sneaking suspicion
- has hunch
- has sneaking suspicion
- hast a hunch
- hast hunch
- hast sneaking suspicion
- hath a hunch
- hath hunch
- hath sneaking suspicion
- having a hunch
- having hunch
- having sneaking suspicion
- is inclined think
- is inclined to think
- pre suppose
- pre supposed
- pre supposes
- pre supposing
- pre-suppose
- pre-supposed
- pre-supposes
- pre-supposing
- sur mise
- sur mises
- sur-mise
- sur-mises
- under stand
- under standing
- under stands
- under stood
- under-stand
- under-standing
- under-stands
- under-stood
- was afraid
- was inclined think
- was inclined to think
- wast afraid
- wast inclined think
- wast inclined to think
- were afraid
- were inclined think
- were inclined to think
- wert afraid
- wert inclined think
- wert inclined to think
• certify
- pro fess
- pro fesses
- pro-fess
- pro-fesses
- re assure
- re assured
- re assures
- re-assure
- re-assured
- re-assures
- re-assuring
- rubber-stamped
- rubber-stamping
- rubberstamped
- rubberstamping
- rubberstamps
• check
- balanced account
- balances account
- balancing account
- enquired about
- enquires about
- enquiring about
- keeping account
- keeps account
- kept account
- looked see
- looking see
- looks over
- looks see
- makes sure
- making sure
- over look
- over looked
- over looks
- over-look
- over-looking
- over-looks
- pro bed
- pro-bed
- re view
- re viewed
- re viewing
- re views
- re-view
- re-viewed
- re-views
- scouted out
- scouting out
- scouts out
- takes stock
- taking stock
- took stock
• cognition
- ascertain
• define
- Re-present
- call a spade spade
- call spade a spade
- call spade spade
- called a spade a spade
- called a spade spade
- called spade a spade
- called spade spade
- calling a spade spade
- calling spade spade
- calls a spade a spade
- calls a spade spade
- calls spade a spade
- calls spade spade
- de fine
- de fined
- de fines
- de fining
- de lineate
- de lineated
- de nominate
- de nominated
- de nominates
- de nominating
- de note
- de noted
- de notes
- de noting
- de scribe
- de scribed
- de scribes
- de scribing
- de tail
- de tailed
- de tailing
- de tails
- de-fine
- de-fined
- de-fines
- de-fining
- de-lineate
- de-lineated
- de-nominate
- de-nominated
- de-nominates
- de-nominating
- de-note
- de-noted
- de-notes
- de-noting
- de-scribe
- de-scribed
- de-scribes
- de-scribing
- de-tail
- de-tailed
- de-tailing
- de-tails
- ex plain
- ex plained
- ex plaining
- ex plains
- ex pound
- ex pounded
- ex pounding
- ex pounds
- ex-plain
- ex-plained
- ex-plaining
- ex-plains
- ex-pound
- ex-pounded
- ex-pounding
- ex-pounds
- laid it out
- laying it out
- lays it out
- nailed it down
- nailing down
- nailing it down
- nails down
- nails it down
- pre scribe
- pre scribes
- pre scribing
- pre-scribe
- pre-scribed
- pre-scribes
- pre-scribing
- re present
- re presented
- re presenting
- re presents
- re-presented
- re-presenting
- re-presents
- trans late
- trans-late
- trans-lated
• detect
- digged up
- dis close
- dis closed
- dis closes
- dis closing
- dis-close
- dis-closed
- dis-closes
- dis-closing
- ex pose
- ex posed
- ex-pose
- ex-posed
- ex-posing
- hit up on
- hits on
- hits up on
- hits upon
- hitting on
- hitting up on
- hitting upon
- meeting with
- meets with
- nosed out
- noses out
- nosing out
- re cognize
- re cognized
- re cognizes
- re cognizing
- re veals
- re-cognized
- re-cognizing
- re-veal
- re-veals
- smelled out
- smelling out
- smells out
- smelt out
- smoked out
- smokes out
- smoking out
- stumbled on
- stumbles on
- stumbling on
- tumble in to
- tumbled in to
- tumbled into
- tumbles in to
- tumbles into
- tumbling in to
- tumbling into
- un cover
- un covered
- un covering
- un covers
- un mask
- un masked
- un masking
- un masks
- un-cover
- un-covering
- un-covers
- un-mask
- un-masked
- un-masking
- un-masks
- wised to
- wised up to
- wises to
- wises up to
- wising to
- wising up to
• determine
- boiled down to
- boiling down to
- boils down to
- catches on
- catching on
- figures out
- sized up
- sizes up
• discern
- Secerning
- be holding
- be holds
- be-held
- be-hold
- be-holding
- be-holds
- dis cern
- dis criminate
- dis criminated
- dis criminates
- dis criminating
- dis-cern
- dis-criminate
- dis-criminated
- dis-criminates
- dis-criminating
- discrepated
- discrepates
- discrepating
- fore saw
- fore see
- fore seeing
- fore seen
- fore sees
- fore-saw
- fore-see
- fore-seeing
- fore-seen
- fore-sees
- gat a load of
- gat load of
- gat picture
- gat the picture
- gat wise to
- get load of
- get picture
- gets a load of
- gets load of
- gets picture
- gets the picture
- gets wise to
- getting a load of
- getting load of
- getting picture
- getting the picture
- getting wise to
- got a load of
- got load of
- got picture
- got the picture
- got wise to
- gotten a load of
- gotten load of
- gotten picture
- gotten the picture
- gotten wise to
- made distinction
- makes distinction
- making distinction
- re mark
- re marked
- re marking
- re marks
- re-marked
- re-marking
- re-marks
- saw light
- saw the light
- saw through
- secerns
- seeing light
- seeing the light
- sees light
- sees the light
- sees through
- severalized
- severalizes
- severalizing
• discover
- bring light
- come up on
- de bunk
- de bunked
- de bunking
- de bunks
- de sign
- de signed
- de signing
- de signs
- de vise
- de vised
- de vising
- de-bunk
- de-bunked
- de-bunking
- de-bunks
- de-sign
- de-signed
- de-signing
- de-signs
- de-vise
- de-vised
- de-vising
- dis cover
- dis covered
- dis covering
- dis covers
- dis-cover
- dis-covered
- dis-covering
- dis-covers
- gat wind of
- gets wind of
- getting wind of
- gotten wind of
- in vent
- in vented
- in venting
- in vents
- in-vent
- in-vented
- in-venting
- in-vents
- light up on
- lighted up on
- lighted upon
- lighting up on
- lights up on
- lights upon
- lit up on
- lit upon
- pick upon
- picked up on
- picked upon
- picking upon
- picks on
- picks up on
- picks upon
- thinks of
• distinguish
- de terminate
- de terminated
- de terminates
- de terminating
- de-terminate
- de-terminated
- de-terminates
- de-terminating
- determinated
- determinating
- diagnosticated
- marks off
- sets off
- singles out
- sorts out
- telling apart
- telling between
- telling from
- tells apart
- tells between
- tells from
- told between
- told from
• establish
- Circumstantiating
- circumstantiates
- de cree
- de creed
- de crees
- de-cree
- de-creed
- de-crees
- disambiguated
- disambiguates
- disambiguating
- re sting
- re-sting
• ferret out
- am on to
- am to
- are on to
- are to
- art to
- be to
- being on to
- being to
- chased down
- chases down
- chasing down
- digged out
- digging out
- digs out
- drave out
- drove out
- dug out
- ex tract
- ex-tract
- ex-tracts
- hunted down
- hunting down
- hunts down
- is on to
- is to
- rooted out
- roots out
- searches out
- sniffed out
- sniffing out
- sniffs out
- was on to
- was to
- wast on to
- wast to
- were on to
- were to
- wert on to
- wert to
- wormed out
- worming out
- worms out
• gauge
- guesstimates
- guesstimating
- had number
- had one number
- had one's number
- had ones number
- haddest number
- haddest one number
- haddest one's number
- haddest ones number
- hadst number
- hadst one number
- hadst one's number
- hadst ones number
- has number
- has one number
- has one's number
- has ones number
- hast number
- hast one number
- hast one's number
- hast ones number
- hath number
- hath one number
- hath one's number
- hath ones number
- have number
- have one number
- have ones number
- having number
- having one number
- having one's number
- having ones number
- quantitates
- takes account of
- taking account of
- took account of
• get at
- gaining access
- gains access
- gat hold of
- gets hold of
- gotten hold of
- re ached
- re aching
- re-ached
- re-aching
• glean
- re aped
- re-aped
- re-aping
• hear
- am advised
- am led believe
- am led to believe
- am told of
- are advised
- are informed
- are led believe
- are led to believe
- are told of
- art advised
- art informed
- art led believe
- art led to believe
- art told of
- be led believe
- being advised
- being informed
- being led believe
- being led to believe
- being told of
- had good authority
- had on good authority
- haddest good authority
- haddest on good authority
- hadst good authority
- hadst on good authority
- has good authority
- has on good authority
- hast good authority
- hast on good authority
- hath good authority
- hath on good authority
- have good authority
- having good authority
- having on good authority
- is advised
- is informed
- is led believe
- is led to believe
- is told of
- was advised
- was informed
- was led believe
- was led to believe
- was told of
- wast advised
- wast informed
- wast led believe
- wast led to believe
- wast told of
- were advised
- were informed
- were led believe
- were led to believe
- were told of
- wert advised
- wert informed
- wert led believe
- wert led to believe
- wert told of
• infer
- arrives at
- be lieve
- be-lieve
- de rive
- de rived
- de rives
- de riving
- de-rive
- de-rived
- de-rives
- de-riving
- drawing inference
- draws inference
- drew inference
- in duce
- in duces
- in-duce
- in-duces
- reached conclusion
- reaches conclusion
- reaching conclusion
- read in to
- reading between lines
- reading in to
- reading into
- reads between lines
- reads in to
- reads into
• judge
- de duct
- de ducted
- de ducting
- de ducts
- de-duct
- de-ducted
- de-ducting
- de-ducts
- gave a hearing
- gave hearing
- give hearing
- gives a hearing
- gives hearing
- giving a hearing
- giving hearing
- pronounced sentence
- pronounces sentence
- pronouncing sentence
- re solve
- re solves
- re-solve
- re-solved
- re-solves
- re-solving
• learn
- study atlearn
Other synonyms:

•

sort out

•

abstract

Other relevant words:

• discover

• distinguish

• ferret out

• gauge

• get at

• hear

• judge

• learn

• make sure

• see

Experiencing
get the drift

• Other relevant words (noun):

perception

• Other relevant words (transitive noun):

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Independent
- Adjective
  established.
- Verb, non-3rd person singular present
  find.
- Verb, base form
  adjudicate, affirm, appreciate, articulate, assign, authenticate, certify, characterize, collect, cross-check, delineate, detect, developing, diagnose, entertain, explain, find, guarantee, infer, inform, lay, measure, obtain, oversee, pinpoint, publicize, quantify, reaffirm, realise, reassure, reconfirm, seeing, solicit, stipulate, substantiate, tell, testify, uncover, validate, Asses, reviewing, double-check.
Other Related
- Adjective
  determining, identify, ensuring.
- Proper noun, singular
  determining, identify.
- Noun, singular or mass
  identify, Ascertaining, ensuring.
- Adverb
  determining, identify.
- Verb, past tense
  tested, Examined, Investigated.
- Verb, non-3rd person singular present
  determining, identify, insure.
- Verb, base form
  acknowledge, acquaint, appraise, assert, attest, capture, confirming, convince, decided, deciding, determining, discern, distinguish, elucidate, enquire, gather, gauge, identify, inquire, insure, note, prove, satisfy, scrutinise, trace, understand, evaluating, ensures.

What are the hypernyms for Ascertain?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

hypernyms for ascertain (as verbs)
- cognition
  price.
- communication
  enumerate, gauge, translate, count, locate, situate, redetermine, sequence, rectify, numerate, test, admeasure, number, refract.

What are the hyponyms for Ascertain?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.

hyponyms for ascertain (as verbs)
- cognition
  find out, get word, discover, hear, learn, pick up, get wind, get a line, see.

What are the opposite words for ascertain?

Ascertain means being able to determine the truth, accuracy or existence of something. Its antonyms, however, refer to situations where one is unable to fully comprehend, understand or confirm a fact. Words like doubt, confuse, deny, dispute and question express opposite meanings to ascertain. If you doubt something, you cannot ascertain it. If you are confused, you are unable to ascertain the truth. Denial is the refusal to accept what is ascertainable. To dispute is to argue or contradict what has been ascertained, and finally, a question is a call for verification or more information to ascertain what is suspected.

What are the antonyms for Ascertain?

v.
• make sure
- aid
- assist
- confuse
- destroy
- disprove
- help
- ignore
- invalidate
- look away
- miss
- misunderstand
- neglect
- overlook
- unsettle
• noun
- Misset
- blanket
- blot out
- cloak
- conceal
- cover
- curtain
- disregard
- enshroud
- forget
- hide
- lose
- mask
- mislay
- misplace
- occult
- pass over
- screen
- shroud
- unlearn
- veil
v. t.
• noun
- imagine

Usage examples for Ascertain

It was meant to help them to understand their own purposes, and to ascertain what they expected in following Jesus.

"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"

Marcus Dods

The Bedouins and Gebhr understood that something must have frightened him, but staring at each other and desiring to ascertain what it could be, they proceeded farther.

"In Desert and Wilderness"

Henryk Sienkiewicz

It was imperative to ascertain this.

"In Desert and Wilderness"

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Famous quotes with Ascertain

Putin has a lot at stake here and restoring the relationship with the United States, and there are already signs as Sandy mentioned that he's moving in the right direction to begin to ascertain that their trade with Iran is not used for the production of nuclear weapons.

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When I consider what it was that moved me to join the Communist Party, I have to cast my mind back for more than a quarter of a century to try and ascertain what precisely my motives at that time were.

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It is impossible to devise a scientific experiment to describe the creation process, or even to ascertain whether such a process can take place. The Creator does not create at the whim of a scientist.

Henry M. Morris
Present law has a process to ascertain whether or not a patient is in a persistent vegetative state, and it should not matter what politicians think.

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We may ascertain the worth of the human race, since for its sake God's Only-begotten Son became man, and thereby ennobled the nature that he took upon him.

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