SHOWN Synonyms: 198 Similar and Opposite Words

shown

verb

variants or showed

past participle of show

as in displayed

to present so as to invite notice or attention fishing for compliments, the neighbors showed their new SUV to everyone on the block

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as in revealed

to make known (something abstract) through outward signs the actor's expressive face shows his every thought and emotion clearly

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as in proved

to gain full recognition or acceptance of that shows we're right

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as in taught

to give advice and instruction to (someone) regarding the course or process to be followed showed me how to play the guitar

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as in directed

to point out the way for (someone) especially from a position in front showed them the way to get home

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as in appeared

to come into view another car showed just as we were thinking we'd have the whole place to ourselves

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Recent Examples of shown The latest poll by the Datafolha Institute published Sunday showed Flavio Bolsonaro with 46 percent of voter intentions compared to 45 percent for Lula in a potential runoff. —

CBS News, 14 Apr. 2026 Video footage showed dozens of students running out of the school toward the gate and onto the street. —

ABC News, 14 Apr. 2026 Exports grew at their slowest pace in six months, Chinese customs data showed Wednesday. —

Leonie Kidd, CNBC, 14 Apr. 2026 Ship-tracking data showed traffic through the Strait of Hormuz thinning hours before the blockade began. —

Cnn Staff, CNN Money, 13 Apr. 2026 The suspension resulted from a September 2023 incident outside BMO Stadium, in which witness video obtained by The Times showed Urías pulling his wife’s hair and shoving her against a fence. —

Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2026 Jazzlyn Johnson, director of communications for the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office, said in a news release Monday that the apartment’s video surveillance footage allegedly showed Spears discussing a marijuana sale with Crowell in the parking lot that afternoon. —

Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 7 Apr. 2026 Horner showed investigators where to find her body, which was recovered two days later at a site along the Trinity River less than 10 miles from her father’s house, authorities have said. —

Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Apr. 2026 Epstein helped one of her daughters with her college applications, showed her around New York and secured her an appointment at the glamorous New York salon owned by his associate, celebrity hairstylist Frédéric Fekkai. —

Shirsho Dasgupta, Miami Herald, 7 Apr. 2026

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During one of the drug busts in the Bronx, officials said an NYPD narcotics detection dog named Mulk displayed symptoms of fentanyl exposure.

— Jennifer Bisram, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2026
Between the 2023-24 and 2024-25 school years, public schools displayed an overall decline in coverage, whereas private and parochial/religious increased coverage between the two years, yet have greater variation in coverage across schools.

— Kar-Hai Chu, The Conversation, 10 Apr. 2026