Definition for Seeking:

• trying to obtain; " profit- seeking producers"; " people seeking happiness"

Synonyms for Seeking:

• adj.

  •looking for (adjective)
  • probing.
  •pursuing (adjective)
  • appetent,
  • Exploring,
  • appealing.
  •searching (adjective)
  • fact-finding,
  • exploratory.

• n.

  •act (noun)
  • seeking.
  •hunt (noun)
  • inter-rogations,
  • pursuances,
  • inter rogation,
  • pryings,
  • look-sees,
  • re searches,
  • in-quest,
  • houndings,
  • sportings,
  • in quest,
  • trailings,
  • coursings,
  • pursuings,
  • looksee,
  • snoopings,
  • in quests,
  • inter-rogation,
  • friskings,
  • inter rogations,
  • in-quests,
  • looksees,
  • look sees,
  • re search.
  •pursuit (noun)
  • reachings,
  • Pursual,
  • trackings,
  • going all out,
  • pursuits.
  •quest (noun)
  • ex-aminations,
  • delvings,
  • pilgrimmages,
  • ex aminations,
  • ex amination.
  •soliciting (noun)
  • invitings,
  • requestings,
  • petitionings,
  • canvassings,
  • approachings.

• v.

  •petitioning (verb)
  • Claiming,
  • Hoping,
  • Applying,
  • competing.
  •pursuing (verb)
  • undertaking,
  • questing,
  • tracking,
  • Endeavoring,
  • Aiming,
  • trailing,
  • following,
  • Chasing,
  • aspiring,
  • tailing,
  • striving,
  • dogging,
  • sleuthing,
  • Intending,
  • stalking,
  • Harrying.
  •questioning (verb)
  • Interpolating,
  • catechizing,
  • Disputing,
  • Quizzing,
  • Interrogating,
  • Examining,
  • challenging,
  • Polling,
  • asking,
  • Delving,
  • Debating,
  • canvassing,
  • investigating,
  • Cross-examining,
  • surveying,
  • Contemplating.
  •requesting (verb)
  • questioning,
  • wishing,
  • Desiring,
  • demanding,
  • inviting,
  • wanting,
  • Petitioning,
  • inquiring,
  • urging,
  • requisitioning,
  • bidding,
  • summoning,
  • Querying,
  • pleading.
  •searching (verb)
  • rifling,
  • winnowing,
  • looking for,
  • Peering,
  • prying,
  • Rummaging,
  • scouring,
  • combing,
  • peeking,
  • foraging.

• Other synonyms:

  •Other relevant words:
  • hue and cry,
  • follow,
  • difficult,
  • apply,
  • tough,
  • challenge,
  • piercingly,
  • try to find,
  • find,
  • pursue,
  • shadowing,
  • require,
  • cast about,
  • get,
  • fastidious,
  • inquiry,
  • inquire,
  • hardly,
  • career,
  • hard,
  • chase,
  • harshly,
  • entreat,
  • interrogation,
  • ask,
  • quest for,
  • profoundly,
  • woo,
  • return,
  • call,
  • solicit,
  • after,
  • expect,
  • implore,
  • piscatory,
  • employment,
  • inquisitively,
  • beg,
  • inquiringly,
  • penetratingly,
  • business,
  • intently,
  • scrounge,
  • call on,
  • hunt for,
  • cuttingly,
  • beseech,
  • search for,
  • thoroughly,
  • investigation,
  • persecution,
  • fulfillment,
  • prowl,
  • quiz,
  • seek,
  • implementation,
  • pray,
  • appear,
  • job,
  • scout about,
  • probe,
  • finicky,
  • for,
  • invoke,
  • interest,
  • trenchantly,
  • severe,
  • closely,
  • exhaustively,
  • performance,
  • strenuous,
  • searchingly,
  • rigorously,
  • investigate,
  • explore,
  • acutely,
  • look around,
  • fishing,
  • dispute,
  • buck for,
  • aspire,
  • look for,
  • curiously,
  • looking after,
  • look out,
  • seem,
  • crave,
  • in search of,
  • examination,
  • look up,
  • look.

Paraphrases for Seeking:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    seek, seeks.
  • Noun, plural
    seek, seeks.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, plural
    searches.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    urges, wants, pushes, Measures, looks, makes, sought, searching.
  • Noun, plural
    seekers, searchers, discussions, Studies, LINEs, searching.
  • Verb, past tense
    Argued.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    seeing, ask, Attempting, Proposing, applications, investigating, requisitioning, endeavouring, Securing, setting, using, serving, urging, trying, Exploring, Suggesting, candidates, encouraging, Discovering, Obtaining, Restoring, issuing, actively, Petitioning, Possessing, locating, exercising, accessing, opposing, struggling, Selecting, sending, Intending, wish, wishing, Presenting, pressing, collecting, Advocating, Prosecuting, Invoking, Facilitating, devising, asserting, insisting, browsing, Necessitating, Chasing, testing, Furthering, Ascertaining, Contemplating, Guaranteeing, arranging, strike, striking, Establishing, arriving, candidate, speaking, inviting, invites, stressing, please, Endeavoring, Extracting, selling, Resorting, applicant, practicing, Eliciting, Authorizing, Initiating, filing, Retrieving, foraging, Indicating, Assessing, Envisaged, Submitting, undertaking, Receiving, Considering, understanding, causing, pushing, mobilising, Employing, Mobilizing, commissioning, wanting, deriving, coming, continuing, posing, contributing, Overseeing, Recruiting, yearning, accelerating, analysing, Providing, resulting, Responding, Arousing, Consulting, Introducing, Utilizing, Purporting, Generating, Reclaiming, Managing, Reversing, revising, Harnessing, hope, Hoping, Promoting, appealing, Examining, stealing, being, Sourcing, Expecting, expects, wandering, waiting, protecting, following, fostering, tackling, apportioning, expanding, Reiterating, recovering, target, competing, moving, Producing, Discussing, Capturing, contact, conducting, politics, fleeing, raising, Creating, questioning, Translating, Acceding, pleading, pending, financing, working, Analyzing, Garnering, Appointing, assuring, compiling, taking, governing, Divorcing, grappling, Realizing, Formulating, leverage, leveraging, benefiting, investing, Hiring, Involving, approaching, Relying, framework, political, Mustering, reaching, Attracting, phase, Claiming, listening, focusing, focussing, Preparing, performing, challenging, determining, Extending, Pertaining, detecting, pretending, tending, forging, Stating, gain, Gaining, designing, Marshalling, Treating, learning, entering, reference, directing, tracking, Evolving, wondering, develop, developing, Avoiding, fighting, Praying, wrangling, prompting, operating, becoming, bring, bringing, helping, Lobbying, surrounding, tempting, Needing, attending, ending, fencing, Debating, Consisting, yielding, opening, Begging, defining, Prohibiting, upcoming, Earning, Charging, Favouring, advancing, missing, Awaiting, Delivering, functioning, facing, handling, Adopting, threatening, catering, vacuuming, wearing, Granting, project, picking, treaty, Having, drafting, regarding, regards, covering, hitting, contracting, holding, building, tring, know, knowing, reviewing, knocking, keeping, propelling, Forming, digging, living, saying, flying, feeling, Placing, laying, plan, planning, joining, leading, -, changing, talking, watch, watching, close, Levying, paying, D, bearing, calls, return, returning, Relating, hearing, playing, winning, launching, brooding, heading, dealing, buying, mounting, banning, drawing, thinking, counting, acting, accounting, making, meaning, means, turning, going, putting, funding, getting, running, pulling, Doing, searching.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    attempts.
  • Verb, base form
    explore, look, want.

• Other Related

  • Verb, past tense
    pursued.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    pursuing, Desiring, aspiring, enlisting, Scrambling, gathering, acquiring, Soliciting, Persecuting, Achieving, Procuring, engaging, implementing, identifying, canvassing, Attaining, fetching, Instructing, ordering, Assisting, Referring, proceeding.
  • Verb, base form
    identify.

Seeking Sentence Examples:

• He is seeking Brant's treasure, and he knows that we have its secret.

• His enemies were seeking him far and wide.

Homophones for Seeking:

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Hyponym for Seeking:

• n.

  • act
    endeavour, attempt, hunt, hunting, effort, try, search, endeavor.