Synonyms for Distinguish:

n.
- fall/fit into place
- have a feel for something
- make sense of something
- work out
- be nothing like
• differentiate
- differentiate
• distinguish
- separate
v.
• aggrandize
- ex tend
- ex tended
- ex tending
- ex tends
- ex-tend
- ex-tended
- ex-tending
- ex-tends
- hiked up
- hikes up
- hiking up
- hyping
- in crease
- in creases
- in creasing
- in-crease
- in-creased
- in-creases
- jacked up
- jacking up
- jacks up
- multi plied
- multi plying
- multi-plied
- multi-plying
• behold
- be holding
- be holds
- be-held
- be-hold
- be-holding
- be-holds
- feast eyes
- feast one eyes
- feast ones eyes
- feasted eyes
- feasted one eyes
- feasted one's eyes
- feasted ones eyes
- feasting eyes
- feasting one eyes
- feasting one's eyes
- feasting ones eyes
- feasts eyes
- feasts one eyes
- feasts one's eyes
- feasts ones eyes
- re gards
- re-gard
• classify
- brake down
- breaks down
- broke down
- buttoned down
- buttoning down
- buttons down
- co ordinate
- co ordinates
- dis pose
- dis posed
- dis posing
- dis tribute
- dis tributes
- dis-pose
- dis-posed
- dis-posing
- dis-tribute
- dis-tributes
- in corporate
- in corporates
- in-corporate
- in-corporates
- puts down as
- puts down for
- putting down as
- putting down for
- ranked out
- ranking out
- ranks out
- sized up
- sizes up
- take one measure
- take ones measure
- takes measure
- takes one measure
- takes one's measure
- takes ones measure
- taking measure
- taking one measure
- taking one's measure
- taking ones measure
- took measure
- took one measure
- took one's measure
- took ones measure
- typecasts
• communication
- distinguish
• contrast
- am a foil to
- am contrary to
- am dissimilar
- am diverse
- am unlike
- am variable
- are a foil to
- are contrary to
- are dissimilar
- are diverse
- are foil to
- are unlike
- are variable
- art a foil to
- art contrary to
- art foil to
- art unlike
- art variable
- be foil to
- being a foil to
- being contrary to
- being dissimilar
- being diverse
- being foil to
- being unlike
- being variable
- de part
- de parted
- de parting
- de parts
- de-part
- de-parted
- de-parting
- de-parts
- dis agree
- dis agreed
- dis agreeing
- dis agrees
- dis-agree
- dis-agreed
- dis-agreeing
- dis-agrees
- held a candle to
- held candle to
- hold candle to
- holding a candle to
- holding candle to
- holds a candle to
- holds candle to
- is a foil to
- is contrary to
- is dissimilar
- is diverse
- is foil to
- is unlike
- is variable
- matches up
- matching up
- mis match
- mis matched
- mis matches
- mis matching
- mis-match
- mis-matches
- mis-matching
- set opposition
- sets in opposition
- sets off
- sets opposition
- setting in opposition
- setting opposition
- stack against
- stacked against
- stacked up against
- stacking against
- stacking up against
- stacks against
- stacks up against
- was a foil to
- was contrary to
- was dissimilar
- was diverse
- was foil to
- was unlike
- was variable
- wast a foil to
- wast contrary to
- wast dissimilar
- wast diverse
- wast foil to
- wast unlike
- wast variable
- were a foil to
- were contrary to
- were dissimilar
- were diverse
- were foil to
- were unlike
- were variable
- wert a foil to
- wert contrary to
- wert dissimilar
- wert diverse
- wert foil to
- wert unlike
- wert variable
• define
- de fine
- de fined
- de fines
- de fining
- de lineate
- de lineated
- de-fine
- de-fined
- de-fines
- de-fining
- de-lineate
- de-lineated
- fences in
- fencing in
- marked out
- marks out
- sets bounds to
- setting bounds to
- staked out
- stakes out
- sur rounded
- sur rounding
- sur-rounded
- sur-rounding
- walled in
- walling in
- walls in
• describe
- Re-present
- conveyed image
- conveying image
- conveys image
- de pict
- de picts
- de scribe
- de scribed
- de scribes
- de scribing
- de tail
- de tailed
- de tailing
- de tails
- de-pict
- de-picts
- de-scribe
- de-scribed
- de-scribes
- de-scribing
- de-tail
- de-tailed
- de-tailing
- de-tails
- ex plicate
- ex plicated
- ex plicates
- ex plicating
- ex pound
- ex pounded
- ex pounding
- ex pounds
- ex press
- ex pressed
- ex pressing
- ex-plicate
- ex-plicated
- ex-plicates
- ex-plicating
- ex-pound
- ex-pounded
- ex-pounding
- ex-pounds
- ex-press
- ex-pressing
- made apparent
- made sense of
- made vivid
- makes apparent
- makes clear
- makes sense of
- makes vivid
- making apparent
- making sense of
- making vivid
- out line
- out lined
- out lines
- out lining
- out-line
- out-lined
- out-lines
- out-lining
- re cite
- re cited
- re cites
- re citing
- re counted
- re counting
- re counts
- re hearse
- re hearses
- re late
- re ported
- re porting
- re present
- re presented
- re presenting
- re presents
- re-cite
- re-cited
- re-cites
- re-citing
- re-counted
- re-counting
- re-counts
- re-hearse
- re-hearses
- re-lated
- re-ported
- re-porting
- re-presented
- re-presenting
- re-presents
- writ up
- writes up
- writing up
- wrote up
• 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 veals
- 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
• diagnose
- de terminate
- de terminated
- de terminates
- de terminating
- de-terminate
- de-terminated
- de-terminates
- de-terminating
- determinated
- determinating
- diagnosticated
• dignify
- pro moting
- pro-mote
- pro-motes
- pro-moting
- sub lime
- sub limed
- sub limes
- sub liming
- sub-lime
- sub-limed
- sub-limes
- sub-liming
- up rear
- up reared
- up rearing
- up rears
- up-rear
- up-reared
- up-rearing
- up-rears
• discern
- Secerning
- dis cern
- dis criminate
- dis criminated
- dis criminates
- dis criminating
- dis-cern
- dis-criminate
- dis-criminated
- dis-criminates
- dis-criminating
- discrepated
- discrepates
- discrepating
- figures out
- 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
- un earth
- un earthed
- un earthing
- un earths
- un-earth
- un-earthed
- un-earthing
- un-earths
• exalt
- ex tolled
- ex tolling
- ex-tolled
- ex-tolling
- paid homage to
- paid tribute to
- payed homage to
- payed tribute to
- paying homage to
- paying tribute to
- pays homage to
- pays tribute to
- set pedestal
- sets on pedestal
- sets pedestal
- setting on pedestal
- setting pedestal
- trans figure
- trans figured
- trans figures
- trans figuring
- trans-figure
- trans-figured
- trans-figures
- trans-figuring
- up grade
- up graded
- up grades
- up grading
- up-grade
- up-graded
- up-grades
- up-grading
• find
- arrives at
- bump in to
- chance up on
- chanced up on
- chanced upon
- chances up on
- chances upon
- chancing up on
- chancing upon
- fall with
- falling in with
- falling with
- falls in with
- falls with
- fell in with
- fell with
- happen up on
- happened up on
- happening up on
- happening upon
- happens up on
- happens upon
- laid fingers on
- laying fingers on
- lays fingers on
- ran across
- ran in to
- re cover
- re covered
- re covering
- re covers
- re-covered
- re-covering
- re-covers
- run in to
- running across
- running in to
- runs across
- runs in to
- scared up
- scares up
- scaring up
- stumble up on
- stumbled up on
- stumbled upon
- stumbles up on
- stumbles upon
- stumbling up on
- tripped on
- tripping on
- trips on
• grace
- Laureated
- Laureating
- be deck
- be decked
- be decking
- be decks
- be-deck
- be-decked
- be-decking
- be-decks
• honor
- am faithful
- am true
- are faithful
- are true
- art true
- being faithful
- being true
- gave glad hand
- gave key city
- gave key to city
- give key city
- gives glad hand
- gives key city
- gives key to city
- giving glad hand
- giving key city
- giving key to city
- is faithful
- live to
- lived to
- lived up to
- lives to
- lives up to
- living to
- living up to
- looked to
- looked up to
- looking up to
- looks to
- looks up to
- rolled out red carpet
- rolling out red carpet
- rolls out red carpet
- was faithful
- was true
- wast faithful
- wast true
- were faithful
- were true
- wert faithful
- wert true
• identify
- catalogged
- catalogging
- put one finger on
- put ones finger on
- puts finger on
- puts one finger on
- puts one's finger on
- puts ones finger on
- putting finger on
- putting one finger on
- putting one's finger on
- putting ones finger on
- singles out
• intuit
- feel bones
- feel in one bones
- feel in ones bones
- feel one bones
- feel one's bones
- feel ones bones
- gat vibrations
- gets vibrations
- getting vibrations
- got vibrations
- gotten vibrations
• judge
- de cree
- de creed
- de crees
- de duct
- de ducted
- de ducting
- de ducts
- de rive
- de rived
- de rives
- de riving
- de-cree
- de-creed
- de-crees
- de-duct
- de-ducted
- de-ducting
- de-ducts
- de-rive
- de-rived
- de-rives
- de-riving
- 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 view
- re viewed
- re viewing
- re views
- re-solve
- re-solved
- re-solves
- re-solving
- re-view
- re-viewed
- re-views
• know
- am acquainted
- am cognizant
- am conversant in
- am learned
- am master of
- am read
- am schooled
- am versed
- are acquainted
- are cognizant
- are conversant in
- are informed
- are learned
- are read
- are schooled
- are versed
- art acquainted
- art cognizant
- art conversant in
- art informed
- art learned
- art master of
- art read
- art schooled
- art versed
- being acquainted
- being cognizant
- being conversant in
- being informed
- being learned
- being master of
- being read
- being schooled
- being versed
- cognized
- cognizes
- cognizing
- feeling certain
- felt certain
- 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 information
- had knowledge of
- haddest down pat
- haddest information
- haddest knowledge of
- hadst down pat
- hadst information
- hadst knowledge of
- has information
- has knowledge of
- hast down pat
- hast information
- hast knowledge of
- hath down pat
- hath information
- hath knowledge of
- having information
- having knowledge of
- is acquainted
- is conversant in
- is informed
- is learned
- is master of
- is read
- is schooled
- is versed
- keep upon
- keeping on
- keeping up on
- keeping upon
- keeps on
- keeps up on
- keeps upon
- kept on
- kept up on
- kept upon
- onned top of
- onning top of
- ons top of
- un derwent
- un-derwent
- under going
- under gone
- under went
- under-going
- under-gone
- under-went
- was acquainted
- was cognizant
- was conversant in
- was informed
- was learned
- was master of
- was read
- was schooled
- was versed
- wast acquainted
- wast cognizant
- wast conversant in
- wast informed
- wast learned
- wast master of
- wast read
- wast schooled
- wast versed
- were acquainted
- were cognizant
- were conversant in
- were informed
- were learned
- were master of
- were read
- were schooled
- were versed
- wert acquainted
- wert cognizant
- wert conversant in
- wert informed
- wert learned
- wert master of
- wert read
- wert schooled
- wert versed
• mark
- be spake
- be speak
- be speaking
- be speaks
- be spoke
- be spoken
- be token
- be tokened
- be tokening
- be tokens
- be-spake
- be-speak
- be-speaking
- be-speaks
- be-spoke
- be-spoken
- be-token
- be-tokened
- be-tokening
- be-tokens
- de note
- de noted
- de notes
- de noting
- de-note
- de-noted
- de-notes
- de-noting
- marks off
- ostended
- ostending
- ostends
- paid heed
- payed attention
- payed heed
- paying heed
- pays attention
- pays heed
- pointed up
- points up
- pro claim
- pro claimed
- pro claiming
- pro claims
- pro-claiming
- pro-claims
- writ down
- writes down
- wrote down
• note
- gat an eyeful
- gat eyeful
- get eyeful
- gets an eyeful
- gets eyeful
- getting an eyeful
- getting eyeful
- got eyeful
- gotten an eyeful
- gotten eyeful
- jotting down
- re cord
- re corded
- re cording
- re cords
- re-cord
- re-corded
- re-cording
- re-cords
• notice
- flashed on
- flashes on
- flashing on
Other synonyms:

•

collide
vary

•

sense
stick out

•

acute
remark

•

elevate

Other relevant words:

• categorize

classify

• contrast

• diagnose

• discover

• judge

• know

• look at

view

• observe

• place

set in context

• praise

• see

• stress

italicize

• taste

• Other relevant words (adjective):

comparison

• Other relevant words (transitive noun):

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Equivalence
- Proper noun, singular
  distinguishing.
Independent
- Verb, past tense
  characterised, characterized, Typified.
- Verb, 3rd person singular present
  honours, sets, classifies, separates, isolates, differs, defines, specifies.
- Verb, base form
  characterise, characterize, classify, define, delimit, delineate, demarcate, designate, detect, differ, disassociate, discriminate, discrimination, disperse, dissociate, divide, establish, highlight, indicate, individualize, isolate, lay, recognise, recognize, separate, spot, tell, decouple, differences.
Other Related
- Verb, past tense
  identified, marked.
- Verb, 3rd person singular present
  identifies, differentiates.
- Verb, base form
  ascertain, determine, difference, discern, discerning, disentangle, distinction, identify, segregate.

What are the hypernyms for Distinguish?

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hypernyms for distinguish (as verbs)
- communication
  singularize, singularise.

What are the hyponyms for Distinguish?

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

hyponyms for distinguish (as verbs)
- communication
  mark.

What are the opposite words for distinguish?

Antonyms for the word "distinguish" can be defined as words that have the opposite meaning of this term. The opposite of distinguishing is to confuse, blur, or blend. Words like undifferentiated, indistinct, indistinguishable, homogeneous, and uniform can be used as antonyms of distinguishing. These words refer to things that lack distinction or differentiation in some way. The term "indistinct" means lacking clarity or sharpness, and "indistinguishable" means impossible to tell apart. In contrast, the word "distinguish" means to make clear the differences between things or to recognize the unique qualities of something. By understanding the antonyms of this term, we can better appreciate its meaning and usage in different contexts.

What are the antonyms for Distinguish?

adj.
• noun
- complicate
v.
• discern, identify
- misinterpret
- neglect
- pass by
• make famous
- condemn
- denounce
- disgrace
- disregard
- reproach
- shame
• noun
- add
- camouflage
- combine
- complete
- conceal
- conjoin
- counterfeit
- disarrange
- disguise
- feign
- fill up
- hide
- ignore
- increase
- jumble
- lump
- mingle
- miss
- mistake
- mistype
- mix
- overlook
- overpass
- pass over
- restore
- scramble
- sham
- simulate
- strengthen
- unite
• tell the difference
- allow
- confuse
- connect
- join
- link
- lose
- misunderstand
- mix up
v. t.
• noun
- implicate
Other relevant words:

identify

Usage examples for Distinguish

Stas soon could not distinguish from where the sounds came, as the echoes repeated them in the ravine; rock sent them back to rock, they ascended and descended, filling the forest and the jungle, and the entire darkness with thunder and fear.

"In Desert and Wilderness"

Henryk Sienkiewicz

At moments her speed relaxed, as if to breathe her horse; and twice she pulled up short, to listen and distinguish between the sound of thunder and the crashing noise of rocks rolling from the mountain.

"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"

Charles James Lever

We could distinguish the young only by their greater activity and their ceaseless curiosity.

"My Attainment of the Pole"

Frederick A. Cook

Famous quotes with Distinguish

In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.

Mortimer Adler
In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.

Samuel Alexander
It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.

Samuel Alexander
There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with which he can reply to criticisms he may think undeservedly severe.

Charles Babbage
Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at all seasons, madam: that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.

Pierre Beaumarchais

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n.

v.

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