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experience

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of experience

1 knowledge gained by actually doing or living through something

  • the hospital is looking for nurses with operating-room experience
Synonyms of experience

chops, expertise, know-how, moxie, proficiency, savvy, skills
Words Related to experience

background

command, mastery

acquaintance, conversance, familiarity, intimacy
Near Antonyms of experience

ignorance, unawareness, unfamiliarity
Antonyms of experience

inexperience

2 an exciting or noteworthy event that one experiences firsthand

  • related in a book his experiences as a roving correspondent for network TV news
Synonyms of experience

adventure, emprise, exploit, gest (or geste), happening, time
Words Related to experience

escapade, lark, ploy

act, action, deed, doing, feat

episode, occasion

baptism, ordeal, test, trial, tribulation

enterprise, risk, venture

expedition, exploration, mission, performance, quest, stunt
Near Antonyms of experience

bore, bummer, bust, downer, drag

experience

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of experience

to come to a knowledge of (something) by living through it

  • eventually we all have to experience the loss of a loved one
Synonyms of experience

endure, feel, have, know, pass, see, suffer, sustain, taste, undergo, witness
Words Related to experience

encounter, meet

accept, receive

assimilate, digest
Phrases Synonymous with experience

go through

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