SINGLE (OUT) Synonyms: 71 Similar and Opposite Words

single (out)

verb

Definition of single (out)

as in to select

to decide to accept (someone or something) from a group of possibilities she quickly singled out the most qualified candidate from the pool of the applicants

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

as in to identify

to find out or establish the identity of through careful reasoning and the process of elimination, neighbors singled her out as the writer of the anonymous letter

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Verb

Fatherland, directed and co-written by Paweł Pawlikowski (Ida), has been selected by the Polish selection committee as its official submission for Best International Feature Film at the Academy Awards.

— Patrick Hipes, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2026
Canal Edge, a company controlled by billionaire Justin Ishbia, a minority owner of the White Sox who could purchase majority ownership in the near future, was selected to develop Amtrak’s new facility.

— Brian J. Rogal, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of select

Verb

In another part of Chicago, a 48-year-old man named Jose — who only wanted to be identified by his first name — remains afraid to leave home.

— Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2026
French military policy in Lebanon prohibits identifying soldiers by first names for security reasons.

— Diego Ibarra Sánchez, NPR, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of identify

Verb

Eve is designed to complement, not replace, a wheelchair, offering another mobility option for moments when users choose to be upright.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2026
Merz could, at least in theory, choose to turn over the task of managing his party to someone else and concentrate on running the country.

— ABC News, ABC News, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of choose

Verb

The following books refuse to treat breakups as a singular ending or distinguish the breakup from the inevitable awakening.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026
The new analysis used the MagLab’s 21-tesla Fourier-transform ion cyclotron resonance (FT-ICR) mass spectrometer, which can distinguish an enormous number of compounds within extremely complex mixtures.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of distinguish

Verb

My mother picks me up off the floor, pulling me across the hall, into my bedroom, into bed.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026
Cellphone camera footage broadcast by CBS Los Angeles shows the snake on a beach at night and someone trying to use what appears to be the base of a palm frond to pick it up and toss it back into the water.

— Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of pick

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singleness

single (out)

singles

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