Synonyms of sensed

sensed

verb

past tense of sense

1

as in felt

to have a vague awareness of

the deer seemed to sense danger

Synonyms & Similar Words

• felt
• saw
• noticed
• smelled
• heard
• perceived
• tasted
• realized
• expected
• noted
• discerned
• discovered
• anticipated
• learned
• remarked
• scented
• observed
• witnessed
• ascertained
• looked (at)
• suspected
• spied
• viewed
• guessed
• regarded
• beheld
• foresaw
• assumed
• sighted
• surmised
• distinguished
• supposed
• eyed
• presumed
• espied
• speculated
• found out
• descried
• divined
• conjectured
• caught on (to)
• foreknew

2

as in understood

to have a clear idea of

I did not sense the full meaning of his cryptic warning until much later

Synonyms & Similar Words

• understood
• knew
• recognized
• saw
• deciphered
• grasped
• comprehended
• appreciated
• realized
• discerned
• perceived
• got
• conceived
• apprehended
• seized
• intuited
• beheld
• made
• assimilated
• registered
• dug
• decoded
• caught
• twigged
• made out
• cognized
• tumbled (to)
• caught on (to)
• picked up on
• grokked
• compassed
• savvied
• absorbed
• cottoned (to or on to)
• digested
• fathomed
• penetrated
• took in
• pierced

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• missed
• misunderstood
• misinterpreted
• misread
• mistook
• misconstrued
• misconceived
• misapprehended
• misperceived

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of sensed

Reaching mainstream heights was once unthinkable for this radical, uncompromising act, but Paul sensed new horizons in the recording studio. — Steve Appleford, SPIN, 20 July 2026

Fiji had never beaten Scotland at Murrayfield but would have sensed the chance of making history by halftime. — ABC News, 18 July 2026

The island was beautiful, lush with flowering crepe myrtle, rimmed by pale sand, but the guests sensed a feral undercurrent. — Shyla Watson, PEOPLE, 13 July 2026

The four-time All-Star sensed the frustration Baldwin was carrying. — Jesús Cano, New York Times, 10 July 2026

Leviticus writer-director Adrian Chiarella sensed a shift in the world’s acceptance and tolerance toward the LGBTQIA+ community. — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 22 June 2026

This remark by a North Carolina journalist in 1848 neatly distilled what many sensed was overtaking American life. — David S. Reynolds, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2026

But the immune system has sensed that something is wrong, and spurs a more brute force reaction. — Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 2 June 2026

Light bounces off the pothos and strikes the phone’s sensor, which records numbers representing the color the phone sensed. — Douglas Goodwin, The Conversation, 1 June 2026