When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
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Seek
//siːk//
Synonyms for "seek" (126 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (26)
Strong matches (37)
Related words (63)
Related word relations
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More general
10 entriesAntonyms
1 entriesSynonyms
3 entriesRelated terms
2 entriesderived
25 entriesShowing 16 of 25 words.
etymologically related_to
1 entrieshas context
2 entriesis a
1 entriesmanner of
3 entriesrelated to
31 entriesShowing 16 of 31 words.
Translations
182 translations across 100 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- soek verb (to try to find)
Albanian
1 entries- kërkoj verb (to try to find)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ζητέω verb (to try to find)
Ao
2 entries- aeim verb (to try to find)
- bushi verb (to try to find)
Arabic
3 entries- بَحَثَ verb (to try to find)
- دور verb (to try to find)
- طَلَبَ verb (to try to find)
Armenian
1 entries- փնտրել verb (to try to find)
Aromanian
2 entries- caftu (roa-rup) verb (to try to find)
- tser verb (to try to find)
Asturian
2 entries- buscar verb (to try to find)
- guetar verb (to try to find)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- aramaq verb (to try to find)
- axtarmaq verb (to try to find)
Bangi
1 entries- tombo verb (to try to find)
Belarusian
1 entries- шука́ць verb (to try to find)
Bengali
1 entries- খোঁজা verb (to try to find)
Bulgarian
4 entries- искам verb (to ask for)
- стремя се verb (to try to reach or come to)
- тараша verb (to try to find)
- тъ́рся verb (to try to find)
Burmese
1 entries- ရှာ verb (to try to find)
Catalan
3 entries- buscar verb (to try to find)
- cercar verb (to try to find)
- voler aconseguir verb (to ask for)
Chechen
1 entries- леха verb (to try to find)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᎤᏲᎭ verb (to try to find)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 搵 /揾 verb (to try to find)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 尋找 /寻找 verb (to try to find)
- 找 verb (to try to find)
- 找尋 /找寻 verb (to try to find)
- 搜索 verb (to try to find)
Chuvash
1 entries- шыра verb (to try to find)
Czech
1 entries- hledat verb (to try to find)
Danish
1 entries- søge verb (to try to find)
Dutch
2 entries- nastreven verb (to try to find)
- zoeken verb (to try to find)
Esperanto
3 entries- peti verb (to ask for)
- provi verb (to attempt, endeavour, try)
- serĉi verb (to try to find)
Estonian
1 entries- otsima verb (to try to find)
Even
1 entries- гэлэт verb (to try to find)
Evenki
1 entries- гэлэ verb (to try to find)
Faroese
1 entries- søkja verb (to try to find)
Finnish
4 entries- anella verb (to ask for)
- anoa verb (to ask for)
- etsiä verb (to try to find)
- etsiä verb (to try to acquire or gain)
French
2 entries- chercher verb (to try to find)
- quérir verb (to ask for)
Friulian
1 entries- cirî verb (to try to find)
Galician
1 entries- buscar verb (to try to find)
Georgian
1 entries- ძებნა verb (to try to find)
German
2 entries- suchen verb (to try to find)
- sueche verb (to try to find)
Gothic
2 entries- 𐌱𐌹𐍃𐌰𐌹𐍈𐌰𐌽 verb (to try to find)
- 𐍃𐍉𐌺𐌾𐌰𐌽 verb (to try to find)
Greek
1 entries- ζητώ verb (to try to find)
Hebrew
1 entries- חִפֵּשׂ verb (to try to find)
Hindi
3 entries- खोजना verb (to try to find)
- ढूँढना verb (to try to find)
- ढूँढ़ना verb (to try to find)
Hungarian
2 entries- keres verb (to try to find)
- kutat verb (to try to find)
Icelandic
1 entries- leita verb (to try to find)
Ido
1 entries- serchar verb (to try to find)
Indonesian
2 entries- mencari verb (to try to find)
- mencari-cari verb (to try to find)
Ingush
1 entries- лаха verb (to try to find)
Italian
4 entries- cercare verb (to try to find)
- chiedere verb (to ask for)
- chierere verb (to ask for)
- ricercare verb (to try to find)
Japanese
2 entries- 探し回る verb (to try to find)
- 探す verb (to try to find)
Javanese
1 entries- golèk verb (to try to find)
Karakhanid
2 entries- اِرْتاماكْ verb (to try to find)
- اِسْتاماكْ verb (to try to find)
Khmer
1 entries- ស្វែងរក verb (to try to find)
Korean
2 entries- 찾다 verb (to try to find)
- 추구하다 verb (to try to find)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- издөө verb (to try to find)
Ladino
1 entries- bushkar verb (to try to find)
Lao
3 entries- ຊອກ verb (to try to find)
- ຊອກຫາ verb (to try to find)
- ຫາ verb (to try to find)
Latin
3 entries- quaerō verb (to try to find)
- quaerō verb (to ask for)
- volō obtinēre verb (to ask for)
Latvian
1 entries- meklēt verb (to try to find)
Lingala
1 entries- tombo verb (to try to find)
Lithuanian
1 entries- ieškoti verb (to try to find)
Low German
1 entries- söken verb (to try to find)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- pytaś verb (to try to find)
Macedonian
2 entries- бара verb (to try to find)
- трага verb (to try to find)
Malay
1 entries- mencari verb (to try to find)
Malayalam
3 entries- തിരയുക verb (to try to find)
- തേടുക verb (to try to find)
- നോക്കുക verb (to try to find)
Maltese
1 entries- fittex verb (to try to find)
Mongolian
2 entries- хайх verb (to try to find)
- эрэх verb (to try to find)
Māori
4 entries- auhaha verb (to try to find)
- haha verb (to try to find)
- hāhau verb (to try to find)
- kimi verb (to try to find)
Nepali
1 entries- खोज्नु verb (to try to find)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- lete verb (to try to find)
- søke verb (to try to find)
Occitan
2 entries- boscar verb (to try to find)
- cercar verb (to try to find)
Old English
2 entries- nēosian verb (to try to find)
- sēċan verb (to try to find)
Old Spanish
1 entries- buscar verb (to try to find)
Papiamentu
1 entries- buska verb (to try to find)
Persian
2 entries- جستجو کردن verb (to try to find)
- جستن verb (to try to find)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- sieekjen no verb (to try to find)
Polish
2 entries- poszukiwać verb (to try to find)
- szukać verb (to try to find)
Portuguese
2 entries- pedir verb (to ask for)
- procurar verb (to try to find)
Quechua
4 entries- ashiy verb (to try to find)
- aşii verb (to try to find)
- maskai verb (to try to find)
- maskhay verb (to try to find)
Romanian
1 entries- căuta verb (to try to find)
Russian
3 entries- иска́ть verb (to try to find)
- пыта́ться найти́ verb (to try to find)
- разы́скивать verb (to try to find)
Scottish Gaelic
3 entries- iarr verb (to try to find)
- lorg verb (to try to find)
- sir verb (to try to find)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- trážiti verb (to try to find)
- тра́жити verb (to try to find)
Slovak
1 entries- hľadať verb (to try to find)
Slovene
1 entries- iskati verb (to try to find)
Southern Altai
1 entries- истеер verb (to try to find)
Spanish
4 entries- buscar verb (to try to find)
- buscar verb (to attempt, endeavour, try)
- pedir verb (to ask for)
- pretender verb (to attempt, endeavour, try)
Swahili
1 entries- kutafuta verb (to try to find)
Swedish
2 entries- leta verb (to try to find)
- söka verb (to try to find)
Tabaru
1 entries- tike verb (to try to find)
Tajik
1 entries- ҷустуҷӯ кардан verb (to try to find)
Ternate
1 entries- tike verb (to try to find)
Thai
1 entries- มองหา verb (to try to find)
Turkish
1 entries- aramak verb (to try to find)
Turkmen
1 entries- agtarmak verb (to try to find)
Ukrainian
1 entries- шука́ти verb (to try to find)
Urdu
1 entries- ڈھونڈھنا verb (to try to find)
Uzbek
2 entries- axtarmoq verb (to try to find)
- qidirmoq verb (to try to find)
Venetan
1 entries- risercar verb (to try to find)
Vietnamese
2 entries- tìm verb (to try to find)
- tìm kiếm verb (to try to find)
Walloon
1 entries- cweri verb (to try to find)
Welsh
1 entries- chwilio am verb (to try to find)
West-Frisian
1 entries- sykje verb (to try to find)
ǃXóõ
1 entries- ǃxáa verb (to try to find)
Sample sentences
26 total sentences available.
Some Blacks seek more radical solutions.
Source: tatoeba (27235)
And they would play hide and go seek.
Source: tatoeba (50819)
Now you have come of age, you should seek a living for yourself.
Source: tatoeba (237667)
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