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read has 11 distinct synonyms spread across 6 of its 12 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role
“He is auditioning for `Julius Caesar' at Stratford this year”
to hear and understand
“I read you loud and clear!”
make sense of a language
“She understands French”
something that is read
“the article was a very good read”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for read come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.