What is the synonym for the word determine

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  • decide

    action, demand

  • ascertain

    find out, activity

  • settle

    decide, choose

  • learn

    settle, verify

  • fix

    choose, specify

  • resolve

    decide, choose

  • discover

    find out, settle

  • establish

    choose, settle

  • define

    assign, decide

  • find out

    settle, verify

  • limit

    dictate, effect

  • check

    settle, ascertain

  • set

    assign, specify

  • control

    affect, dictate

  • find

    teach

  • see

    perception, ascertain

  • specify

    assign, appoint

  • shape

    affect, control

  • conclude

    decide, action

  • govern

    affect, control

  • judge

    action, decide

  • detect

    discover, describe

  • designate

    specify, allocation

  • influence

    affect, dictate

  • regulate

    affect, control

  • choose

    specify, solve

  • measure

    dictate, limited

  • condition

    control, set

  • verify

    activity, discover

  • rule

    control, dictate

  • assign

    appoint, specify

  • figure

    choose, compute

  • figure out

    discover

  • elect

    resolve, decide on

  • decree

    demand

  • direct

    demand, align

  • end

    conclude, stop

  • ordain

    decree, conclude

  • certify

    activity, ascertain

  • calculate

    compute, find out

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  • complete
  • regulate
  • resolve
  • rule
  • actuate
  • arbitrate
  • cinch
  • clinch
  • dispose
  • drive
  • end
  • figure
  • finish
  • halt
  • impel
  • incline
  • induce
  • move
  • opt
  • ordain
  • persuade
  • predispose
  • settle
  • tap
  • terminate
  • call the shots
  • fix upon
  • nail down
  • pin down
  • take a decision
  • ultimate
  • wind up
  • wrap up
  • ascertain
  • check
  • demonstrate
  • detect
  • establish
  • figure out
  • learn
  • see
  • tell
  • verify
  • work out
  • certify
  • divine
  • figure
  • hear
  • tumble
  • unearth
  • add up to
  • boil down to
  • catch on
  • have a hunch
  • make out
  • size up
  • elect
  • establish
  • fix
  • resolve
  • destine
  • doom
  • fate
  • finger
  • foreordain
  • predestine
  • predetermine
  • preform
  • preordain
  • purpose
  • settle
  • make up mind
  • affect
  • control
  • decide
  • impose
  • influence
  • limit
  • measure
  • rule
  • shape
  • bound
  • circumscribe
  • command
  • condition
  • delimit
  • devise
  • direct
  • impel
  • incline
  • induce
  • invent
  • lead
  • manage
  • modify
  • plot
  • mark off

On this page you’ll find 290 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to determine, such as: complete, regulate, resolve, rule, actuate, and arbitrate.

  • confuse
  • disprove
  • invalidate
  • miss
  • overlook
  • begin
  • doubt
  • hesitate
  • start
  • waver
  • destroy
  • ignore
  • unsettle
  • begin
  • doubt
  • hesitate
  • miss
  • overlook
  • start
  • waver
  • let go
  • follow
  • mismanage
  • neglect
  • begin
  • doubt
  • hesitate
  • miss
  • overlook
  • start
  • waver

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What are other ways to say determine?

To determine is to arrive at a conclusion after reasoning or observation: He determined that there was no available path to victory. To resolve is to show firmness of purpose: He resolved to ask for a promotion. To decide is to make up one’s mind as to what shall be done and the way to do it: He decided to go today.

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WORDS RELATED TO DETERMINE

  • adjudicate
  • arbitrate
  • award
  • consider
  • decide
  • decree
  • determine
  • rate
  • referee
  • rule
  • settle
  • adjudge
  • arbitrate
  • decide
  • determine
  • mediate
  • referee
  • settle
  • umpire
  • anatomize
  • break up
  • cut up
  • decompose
  • decompound
  • determine
  • disintegrate
  • dissect
  • dissolve
  • divide
  • electrolyze
  • hydrolyze
  • lay bare
  • parse
  • part
  • resolve
  • separate
  • assays
  • beats a dead horse
  • chews over
  • confabs
  • considers
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  • figures
  • figures out
  • gets down to brass tacks
  • hashes
  • inspects
  • interprets
  • investigates
  • judges
  • kicks around
  • rehashes
  • resolves
  • scrutinizes
  • sort out
  • spells out
  • studies
  • talk game
  • tests
  • thinks through
  • accredit
  • allot
  • assign
  • choose
  • command
  • commission
  • decree
  • delegate
  • designate
  • determine
  • direct
  • elect
  • enjoin
  • establish
  • finger
  • fix
  • install
  • name
  • nominate
  • ordain
  • select
  • set
  • settle
  • tap
  • adjudge
  • adjudicate
  • adjust
  • bring to terms
  • come to school
  • come to terms
  • conciliate
  • decide
  • determine
  • hammer out a deal
  • interpose
  • intervene
  • judge
  • make a deal
  • mediate
  • meet halfway
  • negotiate
  • parley
  • pass judgment
  • placate
  • play ball
  • reconcile
  • referee
  • settle
  • smooth
  • soothe
  • step in
  • straighten out
  • strike happy medium
  • trade off
  • umpire
  • work out a deal

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How does the verb determine differ from other similar words?

Some common synonyms of determine are decide, resolve, rule, and settle. While all these words mean «to come or cause to come to a conclusion,» determine implies fixing the identity, character, scope, or direction of something.

determined the cause of the problem

When is it sensible to use decide instead of determine?

The words decide and determine are synonyms, but do differ in nuance. Specifically, decide implies previous consideration of a matter causing doubt, wavering, debate, or controversy.

she decided to sell her house

When might resolve be a better fit than determine?

The synonyms resolve and determine are sometimes interchangeable, but resolve implies an expressed or clear decision or determination to do or refrain from doing something.

he resolved to quit smoking

When would rule be a good substitute for determine?

The meanings of rule and determine largely overlap; however, rule implies a determination by judicial or administrative authority.

the judge ruled that the evidence was inadmissible

When can settle be used instead of determine?

Although the words settle and determine have much in common, settle implies a decision reached by someone with power to end all dispute or uncertainty.

the dean’s decision settled the campus alcohol policy

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 7 votes

  1. determine

    Synonyms:
    assure, calculate, demonstrate, establish, insure, make sure, prove, settle, warrant

    Antonyms:
    augur, betoken, bode, divine, forebode, foretell, portend, predict, presage, prognosticate, prophesy

Princeton’s WordNetRate these synonyms:4.0 / 2 votes

  1. determine, find, find out, ascertainverb

    establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study

    «find the product of two numbers»; «The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize»

    Synonyms:
    influence, detect, recover, settle, ensure, square up, find oneself, hear, shape, get, get hold, fix, find, retrieve, get word, square off, rule, notice, regulate, see, find out, get wind, come up, define, specify, line up, assure, control, encounter, happen, watch, receive, feel, incur, mold, observe, get a line, see to it, make up one’s mind, witness, decide, catch out, pick up, ascertain, obtain, bump, limit, set, learn, regain, chance, discover, insure, check

  2. determine, shape, mold, influence, regulateverb

    shape or influence; give direction to

    «experience often determines ability»; «mold public opinion»

    Synonyms:
    mildew, settle, baffle, square up, work, shape, fix, find, square off, forge, modulate, regulate, see, find out, govern, cast, form, define, specify, mould, regularize, watch, regularise, mold, tempt, charm, make up one’s mind, decide, ascertain, influence, limit, act upon, learn, set, model, order, check

  3. determine, setverb

    fix conclusively or authoritatively

    «set the rules»

    Synonyms:
    settle, go under, square up, dress, place, prepare, mark, put, localize, congeal, fix, find, fructify, gear up, go down, square off, jell, make up one’s mind, regulate, see, find out, coif, arrange, define, specify, position, lay, correct, countersink, coiffe, plant, coiffure, do, watch, lay out, mold, ready, set up, decide, shape, sic, ascertain, influence, limit, learn, set, typeset, adjust, rig, pose, localise, check

  4. specify, set, determine, define, fix, limitverb

    decide upon or fix definitely

    «fix the variables»; «specify the parameters»

    Synonyms:
    specialise, particularise, localize, restore, make, gear up, fructify, doctor, sterilise, coiffure, cook, mend, delimitate, delimit, mold, peg down, put, fixate, regulate, do, unsex, posit, condition, place, learn, fix, countersink, arrange, make up one’s mind, desexualise, set up, define, desexualize, pay back, lay, plant, coif, dress, ready, trammel, localise, ascertain, mark, circumscribe, go under, square up, check, specify, correct, secure, nail down, repair, delineate, particularize, set, position, decide, touch on, find out, see, sic, square off, limit, jell, restrict, prepare, destine, situate, coiffe, find, throttle, deposit, furbish up, get, pose, pin down, influence, typeset, rig, sterilize, qualify, bound, narrow, set apart, desex, narrow down, watch, go down, congeal, intend, assign, confine, fasten, pay off, bushel, stipulate, restrain, shape, settle, lay out, specialize, adjust, designate

  5. decide, make up one’s mind, determineverb

    reach, make, or come to a decision about something

    «We finally decided after lengthy deliberations»

    Synonyms:
    influence, square off, ascertain, adjudicate, see, set, watch, square up, settle, learn, define, mold, resolve, specify, make up one’s mind, fix, find out, check, find, regulate, shape, limit, decide

  6. determineverb

    fix in scope; fix the boundaries of

    «the tree determines the border of the property»

    Synonyms:
    influence, square off, ascertain, see, set, watch, square up, settle, learn, shape, define, mold, specify, make up one’s mind, fix, find out, check, find, regulate, limit, decide

  7. settle, square off, square up, determineverb

    settle conclusively; come to terms

    «We finally settled the argument»

    Synonyms:
    settle, descend, shape, make up, patch up, nail down, sink, find, square, settle down, go down, square off, subside, regulate, root, see, find out, steady down, go under, specify, reconcile, fall, finalise, ensconce, watch, define, get back, adjudicate, conciliate, even up, make up one’s mind, decide, square up, set, resolve, locate, influence, limit, ascertain, learn, finalize, fix, jog, take root, mold, check

  8. determine, check, find out, see, ascertain, watch, learnverb

    find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort

    «I want to see whether she speaks French»; «See whether it works»; «find out if he speaks Russian»; «Check whether the train leaves on time»

    Synonyms:
    encounter, ensure, take, read, hold in, jibe, look out, look, experience, tick off, visualise, square up, watch, gibe, assure, image, hold, run across, moderate, look on, learn, checker, condition, check out, run into, discover, regulate, escort, keep an eye on, stop, examine, pick up, memorize, visit, hear, chequer, observe, fix, mold, consider, study, con, tally, come across, regard, define, get a line, suss out, instruct, get wind, check off, check over, take care, watch out, match, check up on, control, look into, ascertain, mark, insure, attend, date, realize, go over, train, check, hold back, specify, interpret, meet, go out, witness, memorise, set, fancy, catch, decide, construe, find out, see, discipline, square off, limit, visualize, picture, find, catch out, go through, take in, correspond, curb, view, influence, project, watch over, fit, arrest, check into, follow, contain, get word, envision, larn, make up one’s mind, retard, crack, turn back, go steady, figure, acquire, see to it, break, understand, delay, teach, reckon, shape, settle, tick, realise, agree, mark off

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

  1. determineverb

    Synonyms:
    settle, decide, adjust, conclude, end, fix

  2. determineverb

    Synonyms:
    ascertain, certify, verify, find out, make out, fix upon

  3. determineverb

    Synonyms:
    influence, lead, induce, give direction to

  4. determineverb

    Synonyms:
    (Law.) bring to an end, put an end to, cause to terminate

  5. determineverb

    Synonyms:
    conclude, decide, resolve

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  1. List of paraphrases for «determine»:

    determining, identify, decide, ascertain, establish, identifying, determination, assess, define, determined, determines, calculate, identification, set, evaluate, ascertaining, assessing, deciding, decided, verify, defining, déterminer, specify, establishing

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  1. Clackamas County Sheriff -RRB-:

    Ive been told that there were numerous weapons, swords, things of that nature in the residence, the investigators are trying to determine what exactly was used to kill each person.

  2. Martin Slumbers:

    The big uncertainty for us is clarity with the government and health authorities around social distancing, and that will determine what the atmosphere will be like at the The Open, we are building the infrastructure as we would normally build, so there’s the big grandstands going around the 18th and around the first, and we’re building them in a way that we can adapt for social distancing depending on what the rules are going to be.

  3. Wilson White:

    While the law has not yet been passed, we worry that the rushed process hasn’t allowed for enough analysis of the negative impact of this legislation on Korean consumers and app developers, if passed, we will review the final law when available and determine how best to continue providing App Store developers with the tools App Store developers need to build successful global businesses while delivering a safe and trustworthy experience for consumers.

  4. Daniel Plotkin:

    It can be very difficult to determine.

  5. Cindy Owyoung:

    Over time, it became increasingly clear that our employees were happiest and did their best work when they had the flexibility to determine where and when they work best.


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  • حددArabic
  • определя́м, установя́вамBulgarian
  • determinarCatalan, Valencian
  • určitCzech
  • bestemmeDanish
  • eingrenzen, festlegen, bestimmenGerman
  • καθορίσειGreek
  • determinarSpanish
  • määrama, piiritlema, selgitamaEstonian
  • مشخص کردنPersian
  • ottaa selville, määrittää, päättää, ottaa selvääFinnish
  • déterminerFrench
  • निर्धारित करेंHindi
  • menentukanIndonesian
  • ákveðaIcelandic
  • 決する, 決定, 定めるJapanese
  • утврдува, востано́вува, опреде́лува, устано́вува, одре́дуваMacedonian
  • vaststellen, bepalenDutch
  • fastslåNorwegian
  • ustalaćPolish
  • determinarPortuguese
  • determinaRomanian
  • определи́ть, устана́вливать, установи́ть, определя́тьRussian
  • bestämma, avgöraSwedish
  • กำหนดThai
  • belirlemekTurkish
  • визначитиUkrainian
  • mục đíchVietnamese
  • 確定Chinese

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1    arbitrate, conclude, decide, end, finish, fix upon, ordain, regulate, settle, terminate  

2    ascertain, certify, check, detect, discover, find out, learn, verify, work out  

3    choose, decide, elect, establish, fix, make up one’s mind, purpose, resolve  

4    affect, condition, control, decide, dictate, direct, govern, impel, impose, incline, induce, influence, lead, modify, regulate, rule, shape  

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determine

     ( determines    3rd person present)   ( determining    present participle)   ( determined    past tense & past participle  )

1       verb   If a particular factor determines the nature of a thing or event, it causes it to be of a particular kind.  
FORMAL  
(=dictate)  

The size of the chicken pieces will determine the cooking time…      V n  
What determines whether you are a career success or a failure?      V wh  

  determination      n-uncount   with supp  
…the gene which is responsible for male sex determination.     

2       verb   To determine a fact means to discover it as a result of investigation.  
FORMAL  
(=identify)  

The investigation will determine what really happened…      V wh  
Testing needs to be done to determine the long-term effects on humans…      V n  
Science has determined that the risk is very small.      V that  

3       verb   If you determine something, you decide it or settle it.  
The Baltic people have a right to determine their own future…      V n  
My aim was first of all to determine what I should do next.      V wh, Also V that, V wh-to-inf  

  determination     ( determinations    plural)    n-count   usu sing, usu the N of n  
We must take into our own hands the determination of our future.     

4       verb   If you determineto do something, you make a firm decision to do it.  
FORMAL   He determined to rescue his two countrymen…      V to-inf  
I determined that I would ask him outright.      V that  

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