figure out
verb
figured out; figuring out; figures out
transitive verb
1
: discover, determine
try to figure out a way to do it
2
: solve, fathom
figure out a problem
Synonyms
- answer
- break
- crack
- dope (out)
- puzzle (out)
- resolve
- riddle (out)
- solve
- unravel
- unriddle
- work
- work out
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Example Sentences
a book of brainteasers that even a really clever person won't have an easy time figuring out
Word History
First Known Use
1600, in the meaning defined at sense 1
figure out
verb
as in to solve
to find an answer for through reasoning a book of brainteasers that even a really clever person won't have an easy time figuring out Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- solve
- answer
- unravel
- resolve
- work out
- work
- puzzle (out)
- iron out
- decipher
- riddle (out)
- crack
- dope (out)
- conclude
- reason
- judge
- decide
- unriddle
- deduce
- gather
- guess
- break
- infer
- assume
- presume
- straighten (out)
- divine
- speculate
- untie
- conjecture
- untangle
- clear (up)
- unscramble
- decode
- indurating
- induration
- indurations
- indurative
- indurite
- indus
- induses
- indusia
- indusial
- indusium
- indusses
- industrial
- industrial accession
- industrial accident
- industrial accident and health insurance
- industrial action
- industrial alcohol
- industrial archaeologist
- industrial archaeology
- industrial art
- industrial arts
- industrial bank
- industrial carrier
- industrial center
- industrial chemistry