Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Interpretation

Nouns
  • interpretation, definition
  • explanation, explication
  • solution, answer
  • rationale
  • plain interpretation, simple interpretation, strict interpretation
  • meaning etc. [Idea to be conveyed.] Meaning [Thing signified.]. translation
  • rendering, rendition
  • redition
  • literal translation, free translation
  • key
  • secret
  • clew etc. (indication) Indication
  • clavis, crib, pony, trot [U.S.]. exegesis
  • expounding, exposition
  • hermeneutics
  • comment, commentary
  • inference etc. (deduction) Judgment [Conclusion.]
  • illustration, exemplification
  • gloss, annotation, scholium, note
  • elucidation, dilucidation
  • semiology, semeiology, semiotics
  • metoposcopy, physiognomy
  • paleography etc. (philology) Language
  • oneirology acception, acceptation, acceptance
  • light, reading, lection, construction, version. equivalent, equivalent meaning etc. [Idea to be conveyed.] Meaning [Thing signified.]
  • synonym
  • paraphrase, metaphrase
  • convertible terms, apposition
  • dictionary etc. Word
  • polyglot.
Verbs
  • interpret, explain, define, construe, translate, render
  • do into, turn into
  • transfuse the sense of. find out etc. Judgment [Conclusion.].Existence the meaning of, c. [Idea to be conveyed.] Meaning [Thing signified.] read
  • spell out, make out
  • decipher, unravel, disentangle
  • find the key of, enucleate, resolve, solve
  • read between the lines. account for
  • find the cause, tell the cause of etc. [Constant antecedent]. Cause
  • throw light upon, shed light upon, shed new light upon, shed fresh light upon
  • clear up, clarify, elucidate. illustrate, exemplify
  • unfold, expound, comment upon, annotate
  • popularize etc. (render intelligible) Intelligibility. take in a particular sense, understand in a particular sense, receive in a particular sense, accept in a particular sense
  • understand by, put a construction on, be given to understand.
Adjectives
Adverbs
  • in explanation etc. n.
  • that is to say, id est, videlicet, to wit, namely, in other words. literally, strictly speaking
  • in plain, in plainer terms, in plainer words, in plainer English
  • more simply.