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

No date marking was labeled on a container of cooked chicken nuggets or on raw chicken and raw beef inside the walk-in cooler. — Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 29 June 2026

Anissa likens the texture of mafrükeh to risotto, or a cooked version of tabouleh. — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2026

Verb

Skewered chicken cooked over high heat and served straight on the stick is a dish that feels like summer. — Kate Williams, AJC.com, 6 July 2026

For lunch, Greenfield-Turk recommends Lac Canh, more than 40 years old, for its famous marinated beef cooked on a charcoal grill. — Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 5 July 2026