Synonyms for solve
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Unravel — to find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out
unravel, riddle, decipher, re-solve, explain, interpret, clear up, elucidate, expound formal, unfold, unriddle rare, ravel dated, uncipher dated
2. Puzzle out
work out, puzzle out, work, find out, figure out informal, sleuth, lick
Definitions
- v. 1
To find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out.
- v. 2
to find out the perpetrator, the motive etc (of crime)
to solve a murder to solve a crime
Forms
- Past participle
- solved
e.g. solved → unraveled, riddled, deciphered, re-solved…
Example sentences
- explain Explain to him the difficult situation you are in.
- riddle How much we still have to pay for peace is a riddle.
- unravel You can't unravel all of life's little mysteries.
- decipher Investigators are trying to decipher what happened.
- sleuth The sleuth gave Mennad his card before he left.
By length
- 4 letters
- work1, lick1
- 5 letters
- clear1, guess1, ravel2
- 6 letters
- unfold2, riddle2, sleuth1
- 7 letters
- explain2, unravel3, expound2
- 8 letters
- decipher3, unriddle, uncipher
- 9 letters
- interpret3, elucidate4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (ravel2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- solutionner
- Català
- solucionar