size up

Verb

Meaning

to look at critically or searchingly, or in minute detail

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

size-up

Synonyms

scrutinize take stock scrutinise rate size study value find research view judge measure determine consider eye
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Antonyms

hedge skirt equivocate lead astray mix up shake up
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Hypernyms

see examine

Examples

I talk as I sketch, too, in order to keep their minds off what I'm doing so I'll get the most natural expression I can from them. Also, the talking helps to size up the subject's personality, so I can figure out better how to portray him. Norman Rockwell

You size up someone physically in less than one second - too tall, too short, too fat, too thin, too old, too young, too stuffy, too scruffy. Helen Fisher

It didn't require a Sherlock Holmes to size up the situation. Edwin Lefèvre

[Institutional entrepreneurs must] size up the condition of the organizational field and figure out what kinds of action make sense. Neil Fligstein

First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes. Elliott Abrams

he scrutinized his likeness in the mirror Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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