Definition for Follow:

• To accept as authority; to adopt the opinions of; to obey; to yield to; to take as a rule of action; as, to follow good advice.

Synonyms for Follow:

• n.

  •
  • supplant,
  • replace,
  • adhere to,
  • keep to,
  • go behind.
  •
  • emulate,
  • string along,
  • match,
  • reflect,
  • mimic,
  • attend to,
  • conform,
  • harmonize,
  • accord,
  • mirror.
  •
  • support,
  • afterthought,
  • serve,
  • alternate.
  •
  • establish,
  • regard.
  •
  • comprehend,
  • understand,
  • grasp.
  •
  • know,
  • bird dog,
  • get the idea,
  • work out,
  • shadow.
  •
  • start,
  • accept,
  • set about,
  • carry out,
  • begin,
  • mind.
  •
  • come to pass,
  • model,
  • unfold,
  • pattern.
  •
  • supervene,
  • believe,
  • profess,
  • practice.
  •
  • carry on,
  • flow.
  •
  • dig,
  • twig,
  • ken,
  • sense,
  • read,
  • compass,
  • conceive,
  • fathom,
  • apprehend,
  • savvy.
  •
  • continue,
  • pay attention.
  •
  • manage,
  • room.
  •
  • spy on.
  •follow (noun)
  • espouse,
  • observe,
  • accompany,
  • travel along,
  • succeed,
  • take after,
  • comply,
  • come after,
  • keep an eye on,
  • keep up,
  • be,
  • postdate,
  • pursue,
  • conform to,
  • stick with,
  • abide by,
  • survey,
  • watch,
  • come,
  • adopt,
  • keep abreast,
  • stick to,
  • watch over,
  • trace.
  •follow through (noun)
  • see through,
  • conclude,
  • pursue,
  • continue.
  •follow up (noun)
  • continue,
  • pursue,
  • check out,
  • investigate,
  • consolidate,
  • reinforce,
  • look into.

• v.

  •act in accordance with (verb)
  • keep,
  • match,
  • support,
  • watch,
  • adhere to,
  • harmonize,
  • accord,
  • regard,
  • keep an eye on,
  • follow suit,
  • hold fast,
  • do like,
  • be guided by,
  • comply,
  • reflect,
  • serve,
  • heed,
  • keep abreast of,
  • mind,
  • note,
  • take after,
  • copy,
  • take as an example,
  • be in keeping,
  • be devoted to,
  • be consistent with,
  • adopt,
  • cultivate,
  • mimic,
  • conform,
  • observe,
  • emulate,
  • give allegiance to,
  • live up to,
  • be interested in,
  • obey,
  • pattern oneself upon,
  • imitate,
  • model on,
  • mirror,
  • abide by.
  •comply (verb)
  • conform.
  •conform (verb)
  • comply with.
  •ensue (verb)
  • develop,
  • impend,
  • approach,
  • ensue,
  • destine,
  • result,
  • eventuate.
  •follow (verb)
  • descend,
  • lag.
  •imitate (verb)
  • emulate.
  •occur (verb)
  • befall,
  • arise,
  • transpire,
  • occur,
  • happen.
  •pursue (verb)
  • endeavor,
  • tail,
  • strive,
  • chase,
  • hunt,
  • aspire,
  • harry,
  • trail,
  • dog,
  • seek,
  • stalk,
  • pursue,
  • intend,
  • aim,
  • undertake,
  • track,
  • quest,
  • sleuth,
  • search.
  •sequence (verb)
  • link,
  • concatenate,
  • rank,
  • array,
  • progress,
  • sort,
  • arrange,
  • chain,
  • succeed,
  • order,
  • queue,
  • string,
  • thread,
  • align,
  • sequence.
  •take the place of (verb)
  • go after,
  • spring from,
  • proceed from,
  • displace,
  • pursue,
  • come after,
  • postdate,
  • come next,
  • ensue,
  • supervene,
  • come from,
  • result,
  • replace,
  • chase,
  • go next,
  • be subsequent to,
  • succeed,
  • supplant,
  • supersede.
  •trail, pursue physically (verb)
  • attend,
  • dog,
  • hound,
  • give chase,
  • spook,
  • shag,
  • stalk,
  • shadow,
  • concatenate,
  • hunt,
  • persecute,
  • search,
  • come with,
  • tail,
  • stick to,
  • Onto,
  • accompany,
  • tag along,
  • take out after,
  • convoy,
  • go with,
  • seek,
  • freeze,
  • track,
  • escort,
  • Draggle,
  • tailgate,
  • put a tail on,
  • tag,
  • catenate,
  • dog the footsteps of,
  • schlepp along,
  • bring up the rear,
  • string along,
  • tag after.
  •understand (verb)
  • catch on,
  • apprehend,
  • grasp,
  • dig,
  • catch,
  • comprehend,
  • appreciate,
  • get,
  • see,
  • accept,
  • fathom,
  • realize,
  • get the picture.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • manage,
  • adhere to,
  • understand,
  • heed,
  • string along,
  • listen,
  • submit,
  • keep to,
  • resemble,
  • hearken,
  • model on,
  • come of,
  • knuckle under,
  • mind.
  •
  • fathom,
  • reproduce,
  • reflect,
  • alternate,
  • listener,
  • dictate,
  • read,
  • replace,
  • join,
  • afterthought,
  • twig,
  • teach,
  • bird dog,
  • grasp.
  •
  • come from,
  • believe,
  • serve,
  • ken,
  • comprehend,
  • profess.
  •
  • apprehend,
  • hear.
  •
  • list,
  • conceive,
  • shadow,
  • practice,
  • mimic.
  •
  • copy.
  •
  • abide,
  • room.
  •
  • accept,
  • dig.
  •accompany
  • stick to,
  • come with,
  • keep company,
  • tag along,
  • look after,
  • coincide with,
  • tailgate.
  •be
  • be.
  •chase
  • take out after.
  •conform
  • fall in with,
  • follow the crowd,
  • be guided by.
  •court
  • go with,
  • pay court to,
  • spark.
  •ensue
  • come after,
  • come next,
  • be subsequent to.
  •ferret out
  • sniff out,
  • hunt down,
  • smell out,
  • nose out.
  •give back
  • reflect.
  •happen
  • become of.
  •heed
  • pay attention,
  • watch over,
  • watch out.
  •imitate
  • model after,
  • copy,
  • be like,
  • look like.
  •line
  • line,
  • queue.
  •look at
  • watch.
  •obey
  • play second fiddle,
  • act upon,
  • bow to,
  • hold fast,
  • give way,
  • obey.
  •observe
  • comply with.
  •research
  • look for.
  •resemble
  • bring to mind,
  • correspond to,
  • appear like,
  • sounds like,
  • seem like,
  • sound like,
  • smack of,
  • remind one of,
  • come near.
  •respect
  • defer to.
  •serve
  • subserve.
  •succeed
  • postdate,
  • go next.
  •take
  • look upon,
  • take.
  •take after
  • follow in the footsteps of.
  •trail
  • make after.
  •Other relevant words:
  • find,
  • tag,
  • join,
  • hold water,
  • knuckle under,
  • peculiarly,
  • see,
  • hearken,
  • accede to,
  • copy,
  • come after,
  • exercise,
  • hap,
  • discipline,
  • specialize,
  • harmonize,
  • come on,
  • subserve,
  • specialize in,
  • dictate,
  • appraise,
  • squire,
  • decree,
  • fall out,
  • come up,
  • take-in,
  • survey,
  • even up,
  • carry on,
  • equal,
  • unite,
  • searching,
  • supersede,
  • simulate,
  • friendly,
  • sound like,
  • look up,
  • consummate,
  • prowl after,
  • lag behind,
  • engaging,
  • do like,
  • heed,
  • bear in mind,
  • by,
  • deputy,
  • continue,
  • mouldy,
  • namely,
  • practises,
  • conduct,
  • agreeable,
  • proceed with,
  • be vigilant,
  • com,
  • equate with,
  • eyeball,
  • replace,
  • bind,
  • independently,
  • be like,
  • be consistent with,
  • carry out,
  • satisfy,
  • look like,
  • From,
  • dramatise,
  • flow,
  • live up to,
  • freeze,
  • agree to,
  • hold good,
  • quest for,
  • canon,
  • favour,
  • velocity,
  • prolong,
  • chivy,
  • Because,
  • sweetheart,
  • track down,
  • grateful,
  • equable,
  • swain,
  • follow the crowd,
  • succumb,
  • fix,
  • consent,
  • compare,
  • fix upon,
  • support,
  • conceive,
  • come short,
  • cost,
  • have,
  • offset,
  • evolve,
  • respect,
  • individually,
  • counterfeit,
  • sense,
  • near,
  • go along with,
  • rival,
  • discover,
  • product,
  • keep abreast,
  • embody,
  • endure,
  • attend,
  • delighted,
  • come to pass,
  • look upon,
  • mimic,
  • accompany,
  • shadow,
  • chivvy,
  • stick with,
  • come out,
  • discharge,
  • comfortable,
  • reproduce,
  • establish,
  • hook up with,
  • confine,
  • sniff out,
  • admire,
  • submit to,
  • figure out,
  • perceive,
  • emerge,
  • stay with,
  • run,
  • stick by,
  • show,
  • get along,
  • limit,
  • proceed,
  • apply,
  • call up,
  • delightful,
  • realign,
  • take to,
  • savvy,
  • consider,
  • persecute,
  • go into,
  • glad,
  • mirror,
  • follow suit,
  • press on,
  • esquire,
  • add up,
  • reiterate,
  • precisely,
  • docile,
  • chaperon,
  • effectiveness,
  • fill,
  • Upon,
  • travel along,
  • see through,
  • forward,
  • escort,
  • stack up with,
  • prize,
  • fare,
  • linger,
  • issue forth,
  • rotate,
  • meet,
  • find out,
  • nose out,
  • preoccupy,
  • make out,
  • bow to,
  • exist,
  • try to find,
  • but,
  • spring from,
  • bring to mind,
  • embrace,
  • preserve,
  • look at,
  • model after,
  • listen to,
  • collect,
  • have a looksee,
  • Equidistance,
  • heir,
  • observe,
  • ask for,
  • genial,
  • Unto,
  • realise,
  • appreciate,
  • savor of,
  • start,
  • tag after,
  • connect,
  • constitute,
  • acquiesce,
  • take,
  • collaborate,
  • restrict,
  • toe the line,
  • terminate,
  • see daylight,
  • heel,
  • take out after,
  • reconnoitre,
  • suit,
  • hear,
  • spy on,
  • honor,
  • ordinarily,
  • fail,
  • nail down,
  • remark,
  • dig for,
  • in accordance with,
  • per,
  • maintain,
  • truckle,
  • hang back,
  • favor,
  • follow-up,
  • equate,
  • accede,
  • make good,
  • persist,
  • employ,
  • lock on,
  • compass,
  • pattern,
  • major in,
  • chevy,
  • run to earth,
  • surrender,
  • be watchful,
  • go after,
  • get the picture,
  • spook,
  • keep up,
  • follow one's nose,
  • bend,
  • hunting,
  • adapt,
  • Against,
  • coincide with,
  • acquire,
  • mould,
  • retrogress,
  • comply with,
  • celebrate,
  • catch,
  • fall behind,
  • give in,
  • give chase,
  • come through,
  • beat about,
  • frequently,
  • displace,
  • mark,
  • defer to,
  • delineate,
  • broadly,
  • surveil,
  • follow in the footsteps of,
  • During,
  • take note,
  • adhere to,
  • conjoin,
  • fall,
  • settle,
  • acknowledge,
  • connect with,
  • link up,
  • use,
  • tally,
  • directly,
  • shadowing,
  • conform,
  • get the idea,
  • ferret out,
  • realize,
  • punctually,
  • look after,
  • ascertain,
  • consequence,
  • Toward,
  • continuous,
  • Of,
  • still hunt,
  • keep abreast of,
  • serenade,
  • superintend,
  • persist in,
  • inquire,
  • usher,
  • look,
  • obey,
  • gun for,
  • shape,
  • develop into,
  • be,
  • live,
  • keep up with,
  • ken,
  • back up,
  • issue,
  • unfold,
  • watch,
  • entertaining,
  • hold to,
  • rectify,
  • check up on,
  • imitate,
  • strictly,
  • gaze,
  • fall short,
  • see to,
  • sweep up,
  • record,
  • keep under surveillance,
  • bird dog,
  • go behind,
  • pan out,
  • dog the footsteps of,
  • convoy,
  • come of,
  • efficiency,
  • notice,
  • dawdle,
  • listen,
  • because of,
  • assume,
  • adjust,
  • be guided by,
  • spark,
  • make conform,
  • collimate,
  • around,
  • dig,
  • pursuance,
  • act upon,
  • manage,
  • put a tail on,
  • cultivate,
  • moulder,
  • figure,
  • comprehend,
  • pattern oneself upon,
  • fish for,
  • determine,
  • comply,
  • contented,
  • perform,
  • severally,
  • note,
  • set about,
  • enrol,
  • following,
  • alternate,
  • comprise,
  • serve,
  • evoke,
  • personally,
  • investigate,
  • go with,
  • lay siege to,
  • bond,
  • make after,
  • engage,
  • augment,
  • stack up,
  • get a handle on,
  • consolidate,
  • duplicate,
  • practice,
  • stick to,
  • call to mind,
  • definitely,
  • be consistent,
  • parallel,
  • smack of,
  • watch out,
  • know,
  • dramatize,
  • tall,
  • correspond with,
  • ply,
  • make up,
  • haste,
  • decipher,
  • eligible,
  • read,
  • result from,
  • keep,
  • adhere,
  • effect,
  • take off after,
  • seek out,
  • be devoted to,
  • correspond to,
  • smell,
  • accurately,
  • agree with,
  • pass,
  • look into,
  • fit,
  • embark on,
  • echo,
  • go along,
  • secondary,
  • check out,
  • trail behind,
  • sounds like,
  • arrive,
  • view,
  • seem,
  • practise,
  • watch over,
  • trace,
  • be agreeable to,
  • haunt,
  • come with,
  • accommodate,
  • bring home to,
  • listener,
  • chaperone,
  • spy,
  • take over,
  • play second fiddle,
  • act on,
  • bedog,
  • be inferior,
  • come from,
  • learn,
  • quest after,
  • understand,
  • amount,
  • enter,
  • pursuit,
  • Onto,
  • have a case,
  • go over,
  • tally with,
  • experiment,
  • tag along,
  • rightly,
  • DO,
  • conform to,
  • believe in,
  • come forth,
  • adopt,
  • lock,
  • assimilate,
  • afterwards,
  • hail,
  • teach,
  • give allegiance to,
  • lagging,
  • attend to,
  • clinch,
  • roll,
  • not make it,
  • go next,
  • apply oneself to,
  • cleave to,
  • catch on,
  • vet,
  • go back,
  • give way,
  • buttress,
  • personify,
  • line,
  • Draggle,
  • come near,
  • work at,
  • supplant,
  • come,
  • ape,
  • entourage,
  • derive,
  • take on,
  • hound,
  • gather,
  • go backwards,
  • draw,
  • tracking,
  • be found wanting,
  • mind,
  • ensure,
  • reconnoiter,
  • rule,
  • suggest,
  • pay attention,
  • go out for,
  • pay attention to,
  • end,
  • audit,
  • keep an eye on,
  • keep to,
  • minor in,
  • compliance,
  • separately,
  • favourable,
  • accord,
  • take after,
  • look out,
  • fall back,
  • dangle,
  • profess,
  • under,
  • resemble,
  • be interested in,
  • gradually,
  • mention,
  • examine,
  • discuss,
  • do justice to,
  • represent,
  • course,
  • yield,
  • get,
  • go,
  • feature,
  • take advice,
  • agreement,
  • dogging,
  • monitor,
  • hue and cry,
  • delectable,
  • Into,
  • import,
  • consent to,
  • law,
  • apprehend,
  • catenate,
  • followup,
  • nose,
  • study,
  • case,
  • favorable,
  • straggle,
  • iterate,
  • work out,
  • hunt down,
  • come next,
  • compose,
  • according to,
  • partake of,
  • wed,
  • prove,
  • proceed from,
  • bring up the rear,
  • cute,
  • smell out,
  • correspondence,
  • footwear,
  • harmonise,
  • keep track of,
  • approximate,
  • digest,
  • engage in,
  • narrow,
  • suggest itself,
  • begin,
  • afterthought,
  • wage,
  • prosecution,
  • wait upon,
  • become of,
  • address,
  • want,
  • deliver the goods,
  • regress,
  • demonstrate,
  • bear,
  • eye,
  • straighten,
  • companion,
  • grasp,
  • ancestry,
  • be received,
  • usually,
  • correct,
  • back,
  • see after,
  • normally,
  • outcome,
  • take as an example,
  • get the drift,
  • scout,
  • And,
  • set at rest,
  • train,
  • concur,
  • derivation,
  • beau,
  • bolster,
  • model,
  • hunt up,
  • fulfill,
  • origin,
  • schlepp along,
  • pattern after,
  • keep pace with,
  • drop behind,
  • appear like,
  • abide,
  • correspond,
  • agree,
  • attach to,
  • scan,
  • seize,
  • reflect,
  • list,
  • detect,
  • pay court to,
  • supervene,
  • move behind,
  • follow the example of,
  • win,
  • hang about,
  • model on,
  • keep in view,
  • balance,
  • come in,
  • go on,
  • remind one of,
  • submit,
  • check,
  • emulate,
  • string along,
  • angle for,
  • delve for,
  • compare with,
  • tackle,
  • sue,
  • woo,
  • correctly,
  • conclude,
  • adjust to,
  • revert,
  • room,
  • get hitched with,
  • abide by,
  • persevere,
  • felicitous,
  • even off,
  • be after,
  • solder,
  • pan,
  • oversee,
  • get hold of,
  • get through one's head,
  • hunt for,
  • generally,
  • come about,
  • ascending,
  • incline,
  • conformity,
  • be redolent of,
  • hold fast,
  • reinforce,
  • discern,
  • keep company,
  • search for,
  • keep faith,
  • fathom,
  • extend,
  • company,
  • espouse,
  • tailgate,
  • seem like,
  • keep in sight,
  • play along,
  • importance,
  • twig,
  • shag,
  • look on,
  • match,
  • fall in with,
  • sustain,
  • content,
  • assimilate to,
  • regard,
  • along,
  • loiter,
  • prosecute,
  • go in for,
  • make,
  • believe,
  • absorb,
  • go ahead,
  • reconcile,
  • postdate,
  • retrace,
  • stalking,
  • describe,
  • master,
  • come close,
  • be into,
  • be in keeping,
  • mold,
  • perfectly,
  • inherit,
  • trailing,
  • chased,
  • accept,
  • parallelize,
  • exactly,
  • locate,
  • look for,
  • repeat,
  • Guards,
  • court,
  • get married,
  • fix on,
  • intention,
  • borrow,
  • be subsequent to,
  • commonly,
  • act up to,
  • root for,
  • supervise,
  • cinch,
  • toady.

Antonyms for Follow:

• v.

  • act in accordance with
    disobey, deny, reject, clash, disagree, release, fight, overlook, oppose, refuse, be original, differ.
  • motion
    precede.
  • take the place of
    neglect, disregard, slight, avoid, misunderstand, go before, pass over, scorn, precede, shun, not get, lead.
  • trail, pursue physically
    run away, ignore, let go, leave alone.
  • understand
    lose.
  • Other antonyms:
    pilot, fight, discount, buck, scorn, withstand, dare, guide, Gloze, wink, challenge, direct, mutiny, brush off, combat, brush, violate, oppose, contest, head, neglect, revolt, disoblige, dismiss, rebel, renounce, gloss, pooh-pooh, dispute, deride, flout, repudiate, refuse, overlook, break, breach, resist, shrug off, blink, snub, slight, disregard, scoff, pass over, mock.