227 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ sˈiːkɪŋ], [ sˈiːkɪŋ], [ s_ˈiː_k_ɪ_ŋ]

Similar words for seeking:

• looking for (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• pursuing (adjective)
• searching (adjective)
• act (noun)
• hunt (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• pursuit (noun)
• quest (noun)
• soliciting (noun)
• petitioning (verb)
• pursuing (verb)
• questioning (verb)
• requesting (verb)
• searching (verb)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words (noun)

Paraphrases for seeking

Homophones for seeking

Hyponyms for seeking

Synonyms for Seeking:

• adj.

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

• Other Related

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

Homophones for Seeking:

• simonize, Shawnee Cake, sing-kwa, someways, sagaciousness, snack, sonsy, seneca, sneak away, shaking, skink, snow goose, synoecious, sonchus, swansea, smug, sunk, simoniz, sinning, ski mask, squeezing, sannyasi, sang, symons, siemens, singe, swinish, snooze, sizing, sacking, synge, soaking, senesce, siamese, sync, sung, synonymous, squinch, synizesis, snick, swan-neck, smash, seasoning, swooning, sea change, snake, Shun Giku, sousing, saying, session cookie, schmegegge, synezesis, sanies, sumach, snazzy, shocking, sneaky, seismic, shank, shining, sewing, smoggy, sinus, shmuck, synagogue, seizing, skiing, sensuous, sucking, sanious, skanky, shmoose, sassenach, sequence, socinus, shagginess, smock, sango, signing, sauciness, summoning, scanning, snaky, sangay, schmuck, shanghai, sea snake, swingy, synanceja, schumann-heink, samekh, shang, squeaking, sunchoke, sissiness, sickness, sex change, schnoz, sinuous, synoicous, swishing, smoke, Soochong, skewness, science, squeamish, sneak, summons, smack, smooch, seeming, shamanise, San Jose, soughing, songhai, swinge, soissons, so much, sumac, sneeze, synechia, smog, shmooze, sogginess, snog, scenic, shnook, seasickness, song, sing, Sean O'Casey, shumac, sanyasi, skinniness, schmoose, schmooze, shunning, sens, shenyang, sink, Souchong, scincus, sassing, sessions, saneness, seagoing, sneezy, seance, swank, skank, Sanchez, smokehouse, sickening, samosa, shyness, sexiness, signage, sayanci, smoky, shamanize, soon enough, schinus, swing, shakiness, sunniness, succinic, showing, snowshoe, senecio, seeing, snook, snag, schnook, snake eyes, swimming, swanneck, shamash, scheming, senega, sinningia, sea king, swimming kick, sea moss, skimming, siamang, swanky, skunk, sonsie, showiness, sea mouse, shmegegge, shininess, Simonise, sonic, sagging, sense, shamus, snug, sconce, sameness.

Hyponym for Seeking:

• n.

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