We plan to elicit opinions from the public.
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Elicit
//ɪˈlɪsɪt//
Synonyms for "elicit" (74 found)
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Closest matches (15)
Strong matches (22)
Related words (37)
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9 entriesSynonyms
3 entriesderived
6 entrieshas context
1 entriesmanner of
1 entriesrelated to
11 entriesTranslations
128 translations across 21 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- يُهَيِّج verb (to evoke, educe)
- يُوْقِظ verb (to evoke, educe)
Bulgarian
4 entries- изведен adj (Translations)
- извлечен adj (Translations)
- заключа verb (to use logic to arrive at truth)
- заключавам verb (to use logic to arrive at truth)
Catalan
2 entries- deduir verb (to use logic to arrive at truth)
- inferir verb (to use logic to arrive at truth)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 引出 verb (to evoke, educe)
- 推斷 /推断 verb (to use logic to arrive at truth)
- 推理 verb (to use logic to arrive at truth)
Czech
4 entries- vygenerovat verb (to evoke, educe)
- vyprovokovat verb (to evoke, educe)
- vyvolat verb (to evoke, educe)
- získat verb (to evoke, educe)
Danish
4 entries- fremkalde verb (to evoke, educe)
- få frem verb (to evoke, educe)
- ræsonnere verb (to use logic to arrive at truth)
- slutte verb (to use logic to arrive at truth)
Dutch
4 entries- afleiden verb (to use logic to arrive at truth)
- onthullen verb (to draw out, bring out)
- ontlokken verb (to evoke, educe)
- oproepen verb (to evoke, educe)
Finnish
4 entries- herättää verb (to evoke, educe)
- houkutella verb (to draw out, bring out)
- johtaa verb (to use logic to arrive at truth)
- nostattaa verb (to evoke, educe)
French
4 entries- causer verb (to draw out, bring out)
- déduire verb (to use logic to arrive at truth)
- obtenir verb (to draw out, bring out)
- raisonner verb (to use logic to arrive at truth)
German
4 entries- auslösen verb (to evoke, educe)
- enthüllen verb (to draw out, bring out)
- entlocken verb (to draw out, bring out)
- erzeugen verb (to evoke, educe)
Hungarian
3 entries- előhív verb (to draw out, bring out)
- kivált verb (to evoke, educe)
- kivált verb (to draw out, bring out)
Italian
2 entries- provocare verb (to evoke, educe)
- suscitare verb (to evoke, educe)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- avstedkomme verb (to evoke, educe)
- fremkalle verb (to evoke, educe)
- påkalle verb (to evoke, educe)
- resonnere verb (to use logic to arrive at truth)
Portuguese
4 entries- conseguir verb (to draw out, bring out)
- deduzir verb (to use logic to arrive at truth)
- inferir verb (to use logic to arrive at truth)
- levantar verb (to draw out, bring out)
Russian
4 entries- вы́звать verb (to evoke, educe)
- вы́явить verb (to use logic to arrive at truth)
- вызыва́ть verb (to evoke, educe)
- выявля́ть verb (to use logic to arrive at truth)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- evocirati verb (to evoke, educe)
- izazvati verb (to evoke, educe)
- izvesti verb (to draw out, bring out)
- izvući verb (to evoke, educe)
Slovak
4 entries- vygenerovať verb (to evoke, educe)
- vyprovokovať verb (to evoke, educe)
- vyvolať verb (to evoke, educe)
- získať verb (to evoke, educe)
Spanish
4 entries- elícito (DEA) adj (Translations)
- deducir verb (to use logic to arrive at truth)
- educir verb (to evoke, educe)
- elicitar (DPD) verb (to evoke, educe)
Swedish
4 entries- framkalla verb (to evoke, educe)
- få fram verb (to evoke, educe)
- få fram verb (to draw out, bring out)
- locka fram verb (to evoke, educe)
Turkish
4 entries- (bilgi) edinmek verb (to evoke, educe)
- (bilgi) temin etmek verb (to evoke, educe)
- (bir şeye) neden olmak verb (to evoke, educe)
- (bir şeye) yol açmak verb (to evoke, educe)
Ukrainian
3 entries- ви́тягнути verb (to draw out, bring out)
- витя́гувати verb (to draw out, bring out)
- витяга́ти verb (to draw out, bring out)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
Tom tried to elicit a response from Mary.
Source: tatoeba (1027863)
Most native patterns, presented to most native speakers, would elicit: "I've never heard that."
Source: tatoeba (2024265)
Everyone knows that luck and wealth elicit envy.
Source: tatoeba (5222076)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.