Synonyms of cooked

cooked 1 of 2

adjective

as in baked

Related Words

• baked
• boiled
• grilled
• roasted
• fried
• sautéed
• heated
• broiled
• burned
• braised
• scorched
• charred
• well-done
• overdone

Dissimilar Words

• raw
• uncooked
• rare
• unheated

cooked

2 of 2

verb

past tense of cook

1

as in distorted

to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of

it turns out the pharmaceutical researcher had cooked her data

Synonyms & Similar Words

• distorted
• misrepresented
• twisted
• colored
• falsified
• perverted
• complicated
• misinterpreted
• fudged
• obscured
• misstated
• slanted
• garbled
• warped
• censored
• confused
• bent
• misrelated
• disguised
• mistook
• camouflaged
• masked
• mistranslated
• lied
• dissembled
• whitewashed
• veiled
• misspoke
• glossed (over)
• misdescribed
• mystified
• mixed (up)
• belied
• bowdlerized
• confounded
• equivocated
• paltered
• prevaricated
• fibbed

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• explained
• interpreted
• illustrated
• clarified
• cleared (up)
• spelled out
• illuminated
• deciphered

2

as in happened

to take place

wondered what was cooking when several police cars pulled up to their neighbor's house

Synonyms & Similar Words

• happened
• was
• came
• occurred
• did
• came down
• came to pass
• went on
• passed
• transpired
• came about
• went down
• came off
• befell
• chanced
• developed
• happed
• betided
• rose
• shaped (up)
• arose
• intervened
• came up
• cropped (up)
• proceeded
• materialized
• resulted
• turned out
• followed
• fell out
• sprang (up)
• went off
• broke

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of cooked

Adjective

True to its title, the formula stars rice water—a natural growth-booster created from the starchy remains of cooked rice. — Sophie Wirt, InStyle, 25 July 2026

In place of the couscous, use 2 cups of cooked white or brown rice. — Martha Stewart, 24 July 2026

Verb

Food does matter in Tony, especially in the exuberant sequence where Tony and the chef and half the town take advantage of a run of striped bass and afterward eat some fish cooked on a fire on the beach. — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2026

That’s when 72-year-old Leidis Rodríguez frantically cooked beans after the lights switched on this week following hours of uninterrupted blackouts. — Andrea Rodriguez, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2026