Synonyms of reads

reads

verb

present tense third-person singular of read

1

as in scans

to go over and mentally take in the content of

he always reads the newspaper in the morning as he eats breakfast

Synonyms & Similar Words

• scans
• peruses
• skims
• reviews
• studies
• pores (over)
• sees
• deciphers
• browses
• rereads
• devours
• dips (into)
• turns over
• proofreads
• understands
• thumbs (through)
• comprehends
• leafs (through)
• gobbles (up)
• wades (through)
• speed-reads
• grasps
• perceives
• gets
• slogs (through)
• apprehends
• tumbles (to)
• makes out
• makes

2

as in predicts

to tell of or describe beforehand

the psychic claimed to be able to read his future

Synonyms & Similar Words

• predicts
• anticipates
• warns
• announces
• calls
• foretells
• presages
• prophesies
• forecasts
• augurs
• prognosticates
• promises
• declares
• vaticinates
• foresees
• proclaims
• alerts
• cautions
• forewarns
• portends
• bodes
• forebodes
• divines
• foreknows
• heralds

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• describes
• tells
• reports
• relates
• recites
• recounts
• narrates

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of reads

Then Anna fails Room 7 and winds up back in Room 8, where Becca swaps the players’ table positions, so Ify reads the win condition as well and leaves. — Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 14 July 2026

Sit still for hours, and blood flow to your brain dips slightly, but your brain notices the shortfall of oxygen and reads it as tiredness. — Angela Haupt, Time, 14 July 2026

The show reads as a curious experiment in intra-museum diplomacy, tucked into four modest rooms that bridge the Islamic and European galleries. — Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 13 July 2026

In one scene, a psychic named Solitaire (Jane Seymour), reads a tarot deck. — Literary Hub, 13 July 2026

Not to mention, the design choice lends outfits an ease that reads as strong, collected, and together in an Olivia Wilde- and Katie Holmes-type way. — Irene Richardson, InStyle, 12 July 2026

Once charming, this trend now reads as impersonal and mass-produced. — Angelika Pokovba, Martha Stewart, 12 July 2026

As the employee leaves her daughter with the urns, the young girl reads the names of the deceased in two urns — one of which is Ellie Bixler. — Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026

Scott Ries was killed in the line of duty, the joint statement reads. — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 6 July 2026