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Synonyms for reach

51 synonyms
1 antonym
5 meanings

verb
noun

Most common

get hold of contact get in touch extend place pound

Synonyms by meaning

Verb

1. Contact — to make contact with

get, get to, make, get through informal, get at, contact, get hold of, get in touch, extend, come to, come at, turn over, penetrate, give, arrive, run, pass, pass on, hand, fetch, thrust

2. Attain

attain, achieve, accomplish

3. Hit

hit, arrive at, gain

4. Strive

Other

touch, place, strike, pound

Noun

1. Range — extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope

range, grasp, distance, spread, capacity, scope, extent, space, orbit, extension, ambit, amplitude, compass dated

Other

stretch, capability, span, pull-up, link-up

Antonyms

All antonyms of reach →

Definitions

v. 1
To make contact with.
I tried to reach you all day.
v. 2
To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).
He reached for his shoe with his legs.
v. 3
To give to someone by stretching out a limb, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another person; to hand over.
n. 1
Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.

Related words

Word family: reachable reach-me-down
Phrases: reach out within reach reach for reach past reach rock bottom within arm's reach head reach

Forms

Plural: reaches → ranges, grasps, distances, spreads…
Past participle: reached
e.g. reached → getten, contacted, extended, penetrated…

Choose the right word

Reach, Come To or Reaches?

To reach, in the sense here considered, is to come to by motion or progress. To reach is to come to from a distance that is actually or relatively considerable; to stretch the journey, so to speak, across the distance, as, in its original meaning, one reaches an object by stretching out the hand.

J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)

Example sentences

contact If I drop out of contact, let the police know, OK?
extend I want to extend my stay here for a few more days.
place Yoshino is a place famous for its cherry blossoms.
pound An ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept.

Popularity over time

Word	1850 → 2019	Trend
reach		steady
contact		steady
extend		falling
place		steady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters: get¹, run¹, hit¹
4 letters: make¹, give¹, hand¹, pass¹, gain¹, span¹
5 letters: place¹, space¹, range¹, touch¹, pound¹, scope¹, grasp¹, orbit², fetch¹, ambit
6 letters: spread¹, strike¹, extent², arrive², extend², strain¹, thrust¹, strive¹, attain²
7 letters: contact², achieve², stretch¹, compass²
8 letters: distance², capacity⁴
9 letters: extension³, penetrate³, amplitude³
10 letters: capability⁵, accomplish³

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (orbit² = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français: atteindre
Español: alcanzar