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seek has 6 distinct synonyms spread across 2 of its 6 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.
try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of
“The police are searching for clues”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for seek come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
go to or towards
“a liquid seeks its own level”
inquire for
“seek directions from a local”
the movement of a read/write head to a specific data track on a disk