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noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of review

1 a usually critical look at a past event
  • A review of yesterday's football game gave us a lot of good ideas on how to improve for the next one.
Synonyms of review

reappraisal, reconsideration, reexamination, retrospect, retrospection
Words Related to review

recap, recapitulation, rehash
Near Antonyms of review

preview
2 a close look at or over someone or something in order to judge condition
  • Jess took the car to her mechanic for a complete mechanical review before she decided to sell it.
Synonyms of review

audit, check, checkup, examination, going-over, inspection, look-see, scan, scrutiny, survey, view
Words Related to review

analysis, assay, close-up, deconstruction, dissection

exploration, investigation, probe, research, study

inquisition, interrogation

once-over, perusal

observation, surveillance, watch

checkout, test-drive, trial run
3 a publication that appears at regular intervals
  • Our son had his poetry published in a literary review.
Synonyms of review

bulletin, gazette, journal, mag, magazine, newspaper, organ, paper, periodical, rag, serial, zine
Words Related to review

annual, bimonthly, biweekly, daily, monthly, quarterly, semimonthly, semiweekly, triweekly, weekly, yearbook

digest, little magazine

fanzine

pictorial, slick

newsletter, newsmagazine, newsweekly
4 an essay evaluating or analyzing something
  • a harsh movie review of an expected summer blockbuster
Synonyms of review

criticism, critique, notice
Words Related to review

column, commentary, editorial, punditry

appraisal, assessment, evaluation

analysis, examination, opinion, outline, study, survey
5 the act, process, or result of making different
  • The company decided that the 100-year-old office building could use a review.
Synonyms of review

alteration, change, difference, modification, redoing, refashioning, remaking, remodeling, revamping, revise, revision, reworking, variation
Words Related to review

amendment, correction, rectification, reform

conversion, deformation, distortion, metamorphosis, mutation, transfiguration, transformation

fluctuation, oscillation, shift

displacement, replacement, substitution

adjustment, modulation, regulation, tweak

redesign, redo
Antonyms of review

fixation, stabilization

review

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of review

1 to consider again especially with the possibility of change or reversal
  • Since we can't follow that plan, we'll have to review our options and decide on something else.
Synonyms of review

readdress, reanalyze, reconceive, reconsider, redefine, reevaluate, reexamine, reexplore, rethink, revisit, reweigh
Words Related to review

rehear

reconceptualize, reenvision, reimagine

reappraise, reassess, reinvestigate, restudy

amend, correct, emend, rectify, reform, remedy, revise
Phrases Synonymous with review

change one's mind (about), go over, think better of
Near Antonyms of review

assert, defend, maintain, uphold
2 to look over closely (as for judging quality or condition)
  • A consultant was brought in to review our security procedures.
Synonyms of review

audit, check (out), con, examine, inspect, overlook, oversee, scan, scrutinize, survey, view
Words Related to review

notice, observe, watch

comb, peruse, pore (over)

analyze, dissect, parse

delve (into), explore, investigate, plumb, probe, research, study
Phrases Synonymous with review

go over
Near Antonyms of review

skim

glance (at or over)

miss, overlook

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