makes out

The phrase “makes out” has 2 syllables: makes out

It's pronounced as /meɪks aʊt/


What is synonym and antonym for makes out?

In the thesaurus, “makes out” has 113 synonyms and 18 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for makes out

  • absorbs
  • acts
  • affects
  • affords
  • appreciates
  • apprehends
  • ascertains
  • assimilates
  • assumes
  • beholds
  • bluffs
  • camouflages
  • carries on
  • catches
  • cognizes
  • compasses
  • comprehends
  • conceals
  • conceives
  • concludes
  • conjectures
  • construes
  • contemplates
  • contrives
  • copes
  • counterfeits
  • decides
  • deciphers
  • decodes
  • deduces
  • derives
  • digests
  • digs
  • discerns
  • disguises
  • dissembles
  • dissimulates
  • does
  • draws a conclusion
  • ekes out
  • extrapolates
  • fakes
  • fares
  • fathoms
  • feigns
  • feints
  • fends for oneself
  • finds out
  • gathers
  • gets
  • gets along
  • gets by
  • gets on
  • grasps
  • groks
  • guesses
  • impersonates
  • infers
  • interprets
  • intuits
  • judges
  • knows
  • lasts
  • lets on
  • makes
  • makes a pretense
  • makes a show
  • makes believe
  • makes do
  • makes ends meet
  • makes shift
  • manages
  • masks
  • masquerades
  • penetrates
  • perceives
  • philosophizes
  • picks up on
  • pierces
  • playacts
  • plays
  • poses
  • pretends
  • professes
  • puts on
  • puts on an act
  • puts up a front
  • rationalizes
  • reads
  • realizes
  • reasons
  • recognizes
  • registers
  • savvies
  • scrounges
  • sees
  • seizes
  • senses
  • shams
  • shifts
  • simulates
  • speculates
  • squeezes
  • supposes
  • surmises
  • survives
  • swings
  • takes in
  • thinks
  • twigs
  • understands
  • wrests
  • wrings

Antonyms for makes out

  • collapses
  • declines
  • fails
  • falls short
  • fizzles
  • flounders
  • gives up
  • misapprehends
  • misconceives
  • misconstrues
  • misinterprets
  • misperceives
  • misreads
  • misses
  • mistakes
  • misunderstands
  • slumps
  • wanes

Example Sentences

  • They often makes out during romantic movies, lost in the moment.
  • She squinted in the distance, trying to see if she makes out her friend waving.
  • The artist makes out the shapes on the canvas before adding color.
  • He makes out a plan to surprise her on her birthday.
  • As the sun set, they makes out on the beach, enjoying the peaceful atmosphere.

On this page you'll find 131 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to makes out, such as: absorbs, acts, affects, affords, appreciates, apprehends, ascertains.

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

Related Words

keeps up

  • abides
  • bears up
  • bides
  • carries on
  • carries through
  • conserves
  • continues
  • copes
  • cures
  • defends
  • draws out
  • endures
  • fares
  • fixes
  • gets along
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  • gets on
  • goes
  • guards
  • hangs in
  • hangs on
  • heals
  • holds on
  • holds out
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  • husbands
  • lasts
  • lingers
  • maintains
  • makes out
  • manages
  • mends
  • patches
  • perdures
  • perseveres
  • persists
  • preserves
  • prevails
  • protects
  • rebuilds
  • reconstructs
  • rehabilitates
  • rejuvenates
  • remains
  • remedies
  • restores
  • runs on
  • safeguards
  • saves
  • screens
  • services
  • shields
  • stays
  • sticks around
  • stretches
  • supports
  • survives
  • sustains
  • tarries

observes

  • abides by
  • allows
  • articulates
  • attends
  • beholds
  • bird-dogs
  • blesses
  • catches
  • celebrates
  • commemorates
  • commentates
  • comments
  • conjectures
  • consecrates
  • considers
  • contemplates
  • daresays
  • descries
  • discerns
  • distinguishes
  • editorializes
  • espies
  • examines
  • expresses
  • eyes
  • falls in with
  • fetes
  • follows
  • gapes
  • gawks
  • gazes
  • gets a load of
  • glances
  • glares
  • glimpses
  • goggles
  • guards
  • guesses
  • hears
  • heeds
  • honors
  • identifies
  • inspects
  • keeps
  • keeps to
  • lauds
  • lays eyes on
  • looks
  • looks on
  • makes out
  • marks
  • memorializes
  • minds
  • monitors
  • mulls
  • notes
  • notices
  • obeys
  • opines
  • peeks
  • peeps
  • peers
  • perceives
  • picks out
  • picks up
  • ponders
  • praises
  • reflects
  • regards
  • remarks
  • remembers
  • respects
  • rubbernecks
  • sanctifies
  • says
  • scans
  • scrutinizes
  • sees
  • sets eyes on
  • sights
  • solemnizes
  • speaks
  • speculates
  • spies
  • spots
  • stares
  • states
  • studies
  • supposes
  • surmises
  • surveys
  • takes
  • talks
  • tells
  • utters
  • verbalizes
  • views
  • vocalizes
  • wakes
  • wards
  • watches
  • weighs
  • weighs in
  • witnesses

ballyhoos

  • acclaims
  • ados
  • advances
  • advertises
  • alarums and excursions
  • announces
  • applauds
  • asserts
  • avers
  • barks
  • blares
  • blathers
  • blazes
  • blazons
  • blows up
  • bluster
  • bobberies
  • boosts
  • bothers
  • brawls
  • broadcasts
  • bustles
  • cacophonies
  • claims
  • clamors
  • clatters
  • clutters
  • coils
  • commends
  • commotions
  • compliments
  • corroborees
  • cracks up
  • cries up
  • declares
  • dins
  • disorders
  • disturbances
  • dithers
  • dos
  • endorses
  • eruptions
  • eulogizes
  • extolls
  • extols
  • fevers
  • flare-ups
  • flurries
  • flutters
  • foofaraws
  • fracas
  • fracases
  • frays
  • frets
  • fun
  • furores
  • furors
  • fusses
  • glorifies
  • hails
  • hassles
  • helter-skelters
  • heralds
  • hoo-hahs
  • hoo-has
  • hooplas
  • howls
  • hubble-bubbles
  • hubbubs
  • hue and cries
  • hullabaloos
  • hurlies
  • hurly-burlies
  • hurricanes
  • hurry-scurries
  • hurry-skurries
  • hypes
  • indorses
  • kerfuffles
  • lathers
  • lauds
  • lays down
  • magnifies
  • makes out
  • melees
  • merchandises
  • merchandizes
  • moils
  • noises
  • offers
  • outbreaks
  • outbursts
  • outcries
  • pandemoniums
  • pitches
  • plugs
  • pothers
  • praises
  • proclaims
  • promotes
  • pronounces
  • publicizes
  • publishes
  • pushes
  • rackets
  • recommends
  • reviews
  • roars
  • rows
  • ruckuses
  • ructions
  • rumpuses
  • scuffles
  • sells
  • shindies
  • shindys
  • splores
  • squalls
  • stews
  • stirs
  • storms
  • talks up
  • tizzies
  • to-dos
  • touts
  • trumpets
  • tub-thumps
  • tumults
  • turmoils
  • upheavals
  • uproars
  • welters
  • whirls
  • williwaws
  • zoos

gathers

  • accretes
  • accrues
  • accumulates
  • affiliates
  • agglutinates
  • allies
  • amasses
  • archives
  • arranges
  • ascertains
  • assembles
  • associates
  • assumes
  • bags
  • balls
  • bands
  • banks
  • batches
  • boosts
  • brigades
  • builds up
  • bunches
  • captures
  • caucuses
  • clams
  • clubs
  • clumps
  • clusters
  • collaborates
  • collates
  • collects
  • combines
  • compiles
  • concenters
  • concentrates
  • concludes
  • confederates
  • conglomerates
  • congregates
  • conjectures
  • conjoins
  • connects
  • consolidates
  • consorts
  • constellates
  • construes
  • contemplates
  • convenes
  • converges
  • cooperates
  • corrals
  • couples
  • crops
  • cuts
  • decides
  • deduces
  • derives
  • draws a conclusion
  • drifts
  • educes
  • elevates
  • elicits
  • enhances
  • enlarges
  • enriches
  • evokes
  • excites
  • expands
  • extends
  • extrapolates
  • federates
  • finds out
  • fishes
  • flocks
  • forages
  • foregathers
  • forgathers
  • gains
  • gangs up
  • garners
  • gets together
  • gets up
  • gleans
  • groups
  • grows
  • guesses
  • harvests
  • hays
  • heaps
  • herds
  • hives
  • huddles
  • hunts
  • infers
  • interprets
  • joins
  • judges
  • links
  • lumps
  • makes out
  • masses
  • maximizes
  • meets
  • merges
  • mounts
  • mows
  • musters
  • nets
  • organizes
  • packs
  • philosophizes
  • picks
  • picks up
  • piles
  • pools
  • presses
  • raises
  • rallies
  • rationalizes
  • re-collects
  • reads
  • reaps
  • reasons
  • reassembles
  • reconvenes
  • regathers
  • regroups
  • remeets
  • rendezvouses
  • ridges
  • rounds up
  • seals
  • shrimps
  • snares
  • speculates
  • stacks
  • steps up
  • stimulates
  • summons
  • supposes
  • surmises
  • swarms
  • systematizes
  • thinks
  • throngs
  • traps
  • understands
  • unites
  • whales

lasts

  • abides
  • bears up
  • bides
  • carries on
  • carries through
  • close
  • completion
  • conclusion
  • continues
  • copes
  • draws out
  • ending
  • endures
  • fares
  • finale
  • finis
  • finish
  • gets along
  • gets by
  • gets on
  • goes
  • hangs in
  • hangs on
  • holds on
  • holds out
  • holds up
  • keeps up
  • lingers
  • makes out
  • manages
  • omega
  • perdures
  • perseveres
  • persists
  • prevails
  • remains
  • runs on
  • stays
  • sticks around
  • stretches
  • survives
  • tarries
  • termination

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