research

Speech parts

1. research - Noun

2. research - Verb

Meaning

Diligent inquiry or examination in seeking facts or principles; laborious or continued search after truth; as, researches of human wisdom.

To search or examine with continued care; to seek diligently.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

inquiry investigation examination scrutiny study exploration test analysis enquiry search testing review survey explore probe
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Antonyms

believe accept assume ignore acknowledge ignorance
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Hypernyms

investigation investigate investigating look into problem solving

Hyponyms

heraldry refer experiment investigation poll probe

Phrases with the word

Investment Research Research Institute research and development conduct research area of research further research

Anagrams

searcher

Examples

Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing. Wernher von Braun

Research is to see what everybody has seen and think what nobody has thought. Albert Szent-Györgyi

When you take stuff from one author, it's plagiarism if you take it from many writers, it's research. Wilson Mizner

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?' Sigmund Freud

The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before. Thorstein Veblen

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. Konrad Lorenz

Close letter words and terms

resealably resealant resealer research activity research agency research and development