recollect

1. 1.

   recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection

   “I can't remember saying any such thing”

   “I can't think what her last name was”

   “can you remember her phone number?”

   “Do you remember that he once loved you?”

   “call up memories”

   Synonymsrememberretrieverecallcall backcall upthink

   Narrowerknowrecognizereview

Other forms of recollect

past tense

recollected·

present participle

recollecting·

third person

recollects·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about recollect

What does recollect mean?

recollect means "recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection".

How many syllables are in recollect?

recollect has 3 syllables: rec-ol-lect. The stress falls on "lect". In IPA it is /ˌɹɛkəˈlɛkt/.

What is another word for recollect?

Close synonyms include remember, retrieve, recall, call back, call up. 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 recollect a common word?

recollect is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with recollect?

6 words rhyme with recollect. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.