Synonyms of unriddles

unriddles

verb

present tense third-person singular of unriddle

1

as in solves

to find an answer for through reasoning

I managed to unriddle the novel's central mystery before the main character did

Synonyms & Similar Words

• solves
• unravels
• answers
• figures out
• resolves
• works out
• riddles (out)
• puzzles (out)
• works
• dopes (out)
• cracks
• concludes
• deciphers
• straightens (out)
• breaks
• reasons
• judges
• decides
• infers
• irons out
• clears (up)
• deduces
• gathers
• presumes
• guesses
• assumes
• speculates
• unties
• divines
• conjectures
• unscrambles
• decodes
• untangles

2

as in explains

to make plain or understandable

the all-encompassing genius of Leonardo da Vinci is something that no biographer could ever hope to unriddle

Synonyms & Similar Words

• explains
• illustrates
• demonstrates
• clarifies
• simplifies
• illuminates
• spells out
• interprets
• clears (up)
• gets across
• construes
• elucidates
• explicates
• expounds
• demystifies
• analyzes
• defines
• specifies
• resolves
• solves
• decodes
• breaks down
• deciphers
• unravels
• undoes
• unscrambles
• glosses
• disentangles
• annotates
• untangles
• commentates

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• obscures
• clouds
• confuses
• befogs
• confounds
• obfuscates