cast about

1. 1.

   search anxiously

   Synonymsbeat aboutcast around

   Broaderresearch

Questions about cast about

What does cast about mean?

cast about means "search anxiously".

What is another word for cast about?

Close synonyms include beat about, cast around. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cast about a common word?

cast about is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.