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adjective
Pleasing to the eye or mind
Synonyms: engaging, fetching, winning, attractive, bewitching, enchanting, enticing, fascinating, refreshing, glamorous, lovely, prepossessing, pretty, sweet, tempting, gracious, winsome
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adjective
Capable of transmission by infection
Synonyms: catching, communicable, contagious, infectious
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noun
The act of someone who picks up or takes something
Synonyms: catching, grabbling, pickings, stealing
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verb
To cheat
Synonyms: swindling, tricking, defrauding
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verb
Interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression
Synonyms: reading, observing, studying, interpreting, learning, sensing, construing
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verb
To travel
Synonyms: journeying, touring
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verb
Head into a specified direction
Synonyms: withdrawing, making, attending, removing, conducting
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verb
Assume, as of positions or roles
Synonyms: exercising, occupying, working, running, operating, going, exerting, functioning, filling
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verb
Take something or somebody with oneself somewhere
Synonyms: leading, conveying, transporting, piloting, fetching, bringing, conducting, steering, carrying, guiding, directing, bearing
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verb
Lay claim to; as of an idea
Synonyms: exacting, mating, coupling, claiming, copulating, bedding
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verb
Take into one's possession
Synonyms: stinging, filching, sticking, gypping, doing, diddling, trimming, chiselling, victimizing, purloining, swindling, rooking, mulcting, gulling, defrauding, cozening, cheating, misappropriating, bilking
Antonyms: offering, giving, disclaiming
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verb
To grow
Synonyms: seizing, striking, germinating, catching
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verb
Have with oneself; have on one's person
Synonyms: adopting, assuming, packing, usurping, seizing, preempting, acquiring, commandeering, appropriating, arrogating, utilizing, carrying
Antonyms: rejecting, refusing, disallowing
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verb
Understand
Synonyms: understanding, grasping, perceiving, kenning, twigging, digging, sensing, seeing, reading, apprehending, getting, following, fathoming, conceiving, comprehending, compassing, catching, accepting
Antonyms: discontinuing, misunderstanding, dodging, refusing, stopping, rejecting, avoiding, misconceiving
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verb
Be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
Synonyms: getting, sickening, contracting, developing, catching
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verb
Receive willingly something given or offered
Synonyms: accepting, welcoming, gaining, subscribing, procuring, embracing
Antonyms: rejecting, refusing
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verb
Engage for service under a term of contract
Synonyms: renting, chartering, hiring, subtracting, engaging, rebating, leasing, discounting, deducting
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verb
Admit into a group or community
Synonyms: receiving, welcoming, admitting, accepting
Antonyms: receiving, giving
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verb
Require as useful, just, or proper
Synonyms: demanding, requiring, needing, involving, occupying, necessitating, asking, entailing, postulating
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verb
To enjoy
Synonyms: pulling, relishing, magnetizing, luring, enticing, drawing, attracting, appealing, alluring
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verb
Be capable of holding or containing
Synonyms: considering, holding, dealing, containing, regarding
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verb
Make a film or photograph of something
Synonyms: catching, capturing, nailing, shooting, grabbing, bagging, securing, netting, getting, filming, seizing
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verb
Accept or undergo, often unwillingly
Synonyms: bearing, submitting, suffering, tolerating
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verb
Proceed along in a vehicle
Synonyms: driving, catching, delivering, boarding, conveying
Antonyms: holding, maintaining, keeping
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verb
Win; be successful
Synonyms: beating, triumphing, prevailing
Antonyms: losing, failing
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verb
Point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards
Synonyms: preferring, withstanding, tolerating, swallowing, stomaching, lumping, directing, winning, usurping, enduring, understanding, trying, trapping, transporting, touching, swiping, swindling, subtracting, submitting, striking, stealing, snatching, snaring, sharing, choosing, selecting, sequestering, seizing, securing, rooting, requiring, removing, purloining, sustaining, profiting, procuring, bearing, preempting, pocketing, plundering, supporting, pilfering, obtaining, netting, needing, nabbing, kidnapping, inferring, suffering, hauling, gypping, grossing, accepting, gripping, grasping, grabbing, getting, training, fascinating, extracting, engaging, enchanting, embezzling, drawing, standing, detracting, derogating, deriving, defrauding, deducting, deducing, deceiving, going, conveying, contracting, confiscating, conducting, commandeering, clutching, clasping, cheating, charming, catching, carrying, capturing, brooking, captivating, buying, borrowing, bilking, belittling, availing, attracting, attempting, attaining, attacking, attaching, assuming, arrogating, appropriating, apprehending, affirming, adopting, accompanying, absorbing, aiming, abiding
Antonyms: adding
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verb
To captivate
Synonyms: overwhelming, hitting, surprising, delighting, charming, catching
Antonyms: repulsing, disenchanting
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verb
Make use of or accept for some purpose
Synonyms: reaping, getting, accepting, drawing, deriving
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verb
To record
Synonyms: registering, noting
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verb
Occupy or take on
Synonyms: striking, pocketing, swallowing, ingesting, consuming, appropriating, assuming
Antonyms: abstaining
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verb
To acquire
Synonyms: winning, copping, securing, attaining, getting, gaining, capturing