found

The word “found” has 1 syllable: found

It's pronounced as /faʊnd/


What is synonym and antonym for found?

In the thesaurus, “found” has 65 synonyms and 30 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for found along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for found

  • arrange
  • author
  • begin
  • bottom
  • build
  • commence
  • conceive
  • concoct
  • constitute
  • construct
  • contrive
  • create
  • develop
  • devise
  • endow
  • enlarge
  • erect
  • establish
  • expand
  • fabricate
  • fashion
  • father
  • finance
  • fix
  • form
  • fund
  • get going
  • ground
  • inaugurate
  • initiate
  • innovate
  • institute
  • introduce
  • invent
  • launch
  • make up
  • manufacture
  • organize
  • originate
  • pioneer
  • plant
  • predicate
  • produce
  • put up
  • raise
  • rear
  • refound
  • reinitiate
  • reinstitute
  • relaunch
  • rest
  • ring in
  • root
  • set up
  • settle
  • settle up
  • start
  • start the ball rolling
  • start up
  • stay
  • subsidize
  • support
  • sustain
  • systematize
  • systemize

Antonyms for found

  • abolish
  • annihilate
  • annul
  • break
  • cease
  • complete
  • conclude
  • confuse
  • decrease
  • demolish
  • destroy
  • die
  • disestablish
  • disorder
  • disorganize
  • end
  • finish
  • halt
  • ignore
  • neglect
  • nullify
  • phase out
  • raze
  • ruin
  • stop
  • terminate
  • unsettle
  • upset
  • wind up
  • wrap up

Meanings of found

  • verb
    1. To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon.
    2. To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.
    3. (ditransitive) To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end.
    4. To gain, as the object of desire or effort.
    5. To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
    6. To point out.
    7. (ditransitive) To decide that, to discover that, to form the opinion that.
    8. To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish.
    9. To supply; to furnish.
    10. To provide for.
    11. To determine or judge.
    12. To discover game.
    13. To start (an institution or organization).
    14. To begin building.
    15. To melt, especially of metal in an industrial setting.
    16. To form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mould; to cast.
  • noun
    1. Food and lodging; board.
    2. A thin, single-cut file for comb-makers.

Example Sentences

  • She found a wallet lying on the sidewalk.
  • They found the missing keys under the couch.
  • He found her story hard to believe.
  • We found a great place to eat near the beach.
  • The researchers found a new species in the rainforest.

On this page you'll find 95 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to found, such as: abolish, annihilate, annul, arrange, author, begin, bottom.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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  • unconditional
  • undying
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  • unrestricted
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  • utter
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  • veritable
  • very
  • visibly
  • vitally
  • vituperated
  • voodooed
  • way
  • whacking
  • wholly
  • wicked
  • wildly

fabricate

  • ad-lib
  • assemble
  • begin
  • beguile
  • brainstorm
  • build
  • carpenter
  • cobble up
  • coin
  • combine
  • come up with
  • compose
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  • cook up
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  • daydream
  • deceive
  • defame
  • delude
  • design
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  • dissemble
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  • distort
  • dream
  • dream up
  • drum up
  • dupe
  • envisage
  • envision
  • equivocate
  • erect
  • establish
  • excogitate
  • extemporize
  • fake
  • falsify
  • fantasize
  • fashion
  • father
  • feign
  • fib
  • fit together
  • fool
  • foreswear
  • forge
  • form
  • formulate
  • forswear
  • found
  • frame
  • fudge
  • garble
  • generate
  • gull
  • hammer
  • handcraft
  • hatch
  • head trip
  • hew
  • hoax
  • hoodwink
  • imagine
  • improvise
  • inaugurate
  • initiate
  • innovate
  • institute
  • invent
  • jerry-build
  • jive
  • join
  • kid
  • knock out
  • knock together
  • libel
  • lie
  • make
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  • mint
  • misguide
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  • misstate
  • mix
  • mold
  • organize
  • originate
  • palter
  • perjure
  • picture
  • piece
  • piece together
  • prefab
  • prefabricate
  • pretend
  • prevaricate
  • produce
  • put together
  • put up
  • raise
  • rear
  • reassemble
  • rebuild
  • reconstruct
  • redevelop
  • reedify
  • refashion
  • remake
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  • retrofit
  • set up
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  • slander
  • snow
  • structure
  • take in
  • think up
  • throw together
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  • unite
  • vision
  • visualize
  • whip up
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IDed

  • betrayed
  • checked
  • determined
  • diagnosed
  • disclosed
  • discovered
  • distinguished
  • examined
  • fingered
  • found
  • identified
  • inspected
  • investigated
  • located
  • noticed
  • observed
  • picked out
  • pinpointed
  • placed
  • recognized
  • revealed
  • scrutinized
  • spotted

identified

  • IDed
  • accepted
  • achieved
  • admitted
  • alike
  • allowed
  • apposite
  • approved
  • articulate
  • ascertained
  • associated
  • assured
  • authenticated
  • betrayed
  • bustling
  • busy
  • caught
  • certain
  • checked
  • closed
  • coincident
  • compared
  • compatible
  • comprehensible
  • concluded
  • confirmed
  • connected
  • consistent
  • convertible
  • correlated
  • correspondent
  • corresponding
  • corroborated
  • crowded
  • customary
  • demonstrated
  • detected
  • determined
  • diagnosed
  • disclosed
  • discovered
  • disinterred
  • distinguished
  • endorsed
  • equal
  • equated
  • espied
  • examined
  • explored
  • exposed
  • famous
  • fingered
  • found
  • found out
  • grouped
  • guaranteed
  • happened upon
  • identical
  • inspected
  • intelligible
  • interchangeable
  • invented
  • investigated
  • joined
  • known
  • learned
  • like
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  • linked
  • located
  • logical
  • lucid
  • meaningful
  • noticed
  • objectified
  • observed
  • one and the same
  • opened
  • orderly
  • organized
  • originated
  • perceived
  • picked out
  • pinpointed
  • placed
  • presented
  • proved
  • rational
  • real
  • realized
  • reasoned
  • recalled
  • recognized
  • related
  • remembered
  • revealed
  • same
  • sanctioned
  • scrutinized
  • searched out
  • shown
  • sighted
  • similar
  • sound
  • spotted
  • substantiated
  • sure
  • swarming
  • synonymic
  • systematic
  • tantamount
  • teeming
  • thronging
  • traveled
  • travelled
  • trod
  • trodden
  • undeniable
  • unearthed
  • unlocked
  • unveiled
  • upheld
  • valid
  • validated
  • verified
  • well-known

named

  • accepted
  • adjudged
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  • adopted
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  • anointed
  • appellated
  • appointed
  • approved
  • arbitrated
  • arranged
  • assigned
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  • baptised
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  • branded
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  • certified
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  • code-named
  • cogitated
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  • crowned
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  • debated
  • decided
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  • deputed
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  • detailed
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  • entitled
  • entrusted
  • espoused
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  • favored
  • figured
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  • found
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  • implied
  • inaugurated
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  • infiltrated
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  • installed
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  • interjected
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  • made
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  • mentioned
  • miscalled
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  • nominated
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  • pegged
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  • resolved
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  • signaled
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  • stigmatized
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  • surnamed
  • tabbed
  • tagged
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  • throned
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  • took
  • umpired
  • vested
  • weighed
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