Synonyms for visit
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Chat
chat, conversation, gossip, chit-chat, natter, confab, jaw, chatter, chew the fat informal, claver UK, chaffer, shoot the breeze slang US, confabulate rare
2. Bring down
Definitions
- v. 1
To habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
- v. 2
To go and meet (a person) as an act of friendliness or sociability.
She decided to visit her grandparents for Christmas.
- v. 3
Of God: to appear to (someone) to comfort, bless, or chastise or punish them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
Related words
- Word family
- visitation visitor
- Phrases
- conjugal visit flying visit pay a visit state visit working visit
Forms
- Past participle
- visited
e.g. visited → chatted, conversationed, gossiped, chit-chatted…
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To avenge is to visit some offense with punishment, in order to vindicate the righteous, or to uphold and illustrate the right by the suffering or destruction of the wicked.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- conversation Politics was the main topic of their conversation.
- inspect You should inspect the car well before you buy it.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| visit | rising | |
| conversation | rising | |
| natter | falling | |
| confab | rising | |
| inspect | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- see1, jaw1
- 4 letters
- call1, chat1
- 5 letters
- smite
- 6 letters
- gossip2, impose2, avenge2, natter2, confab, claver
- 7 letters
- inspect2, chatter2, inflict2, chaffer
- 11 letters
- confabulate
- 12 letters
- conversation4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (gossip2 = 2 syllables).