Synonyms for discuss
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Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Talk about — to converse or debate concerning a particular topic
talk about, examine, debate, consider, investigate, treat, argue, reason, dispute, moot, handle, ventilate, sift, canvass, deliberate, descant, agitate dated, treat of dated, bespeak formal dated, betalk rare
3. Fragment — to break to pieces; to shatter
Definitions
- v. 1
To converse or debate concerning a particular topic.
I don't wish to discuss this further.
- v. 2
To communicate, tell, or disclose (information, a message, etc.).
- v. 3
To break to pieces; to shatter.
- v. 4
To examine or search thoroughly; to exhaust a remedy against, as against a principal debtor before proceeding against the surety.
Related words
- Word family
- discussion discussive
- Is a kind of
- speak
Forms
- Past participle
- discussed
e.g. discussed → examined, debated, considered, investigated…
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arguo, show) is to make a matter clear by reasoning; to discuss (L. Reason is a neutral word, not, like argue, debate, discuss, etc., naturally or necessarily implying contest.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- consider I do not consider her choice of music a happy one.
- debate The matter of his successor is still under debate.
- examine We dissected a frog to examine its internal organs.
By length
- 4 letters
- moot1, sift1
- 5 letters
- speak1, treat1, argue2
- 6 letters
- reason2, handle2, debate2, confer2, impart2, betalk
- 7 letters
- dispute2, examine3, canvass2, agitate3, apprise2, descant, bespeak2
- 8 letters
- consider3, fragment2, splinter2, toshiver
- 9 letters
- discourse2, criticize3, criticise, ventilate3, busticate
- 10 letters
- deliberate4
- 11 letters
- investigate4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (argue2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- discuter
- Italiano
- questionare
- Español
- discutir
- Català
- xarrar