Synonyms of interpreting

interpreting

verb

present participle of interpret

1

as in explaining

to make plain or understandable

a biblical passage that scholars haven't been able to interpret to everyone's satisfaction

Synonyms & Similar Words

• explaining
• clarifying
• illustrating
• demonstrating
• simplifying
• illuminating
• construing
• elucidating
• explicating
• analyzing
• expounding
• spelling out
• defining
• clearing (up)
• demystifying
• deciphering
• resolving
• getting across
• solving
• specifying
• decoding
• unriddling
• disentangling
• unraveling
• annotating
• untangling
• undoing
• glossing
• breaking down
• unscrambling
• commentating

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• obscuring
• clouding
• confusing
• confounding
• obfuscating
• befogging

2

as in playing

to present a portrayal or performance of

interpreted the role of Fletcher Christian in a challengingly new way

Synonyms & Similar Words

• playing
• performing
• portraying
• depicting
• doing
• representing
• acting
• impersonating
• enacting
• rendering
• dramatizing
• imitating
• acting out
• mimicking
• masquerading
• taking on
• pantomiming
• posing (as)
• role-playing
• aping
• clowning
• miming
• underplaying
• playacting
• overplaying
• coacting
• starring (in)
• hamming
• overacting
• costarring

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of interpreting

One of this country’s greatest gifts has always been its claim to interpreting the past to promise a more glorious future, a new history. — Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 2 July 2026

Those offer valuable clues to how a document was drafted and how its creators thought, but recovering and interpreting them is painstaking, specialized work. — Steven Melendez, Scientific American, 2 July 2026

But interpreting the ancient language is another project entirely. — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 26 June 2026

Those two truths are core to our mission of researching, collecting, preserving, and interpreting Black art, history, and culture. — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 29 June 2026

The authors recommended that the US government and its commercial and international partners establish benchmarks for interpreting hostile behavior in space. — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 29 June 2026

The Digital Thread Will Become More Intelligent While today’s digital thread connects data, the next phase focuses on interpreting that data. — John Clemons, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026

Is gathering information fundamentally different from interpreting it? — Rhoda Feng, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026

Federica Nicolardi, assistant professor in papyrology at the University of Naples Federico II, has led a team of papyrologists in creating machine learning models and interpreting the text from the scrolls. — Lianne Kolirin, CNN Money, 26 June 2026