Synonyms of making out

making out

verb

present participle of make out

1

as in coping

to meet one's day-to-day needs

we're not rich, but we're making out all right

Synonyms & Similar Words

• coping
• doing
• making do
• getting along
• getting on
• getting by
• managing
• making ends meet
• making shift
• surviving
• fending for oneself
• shifting
• carrying on
• scraping (by or through)
• faring
• affording
• scraping (out)
• eking out
• lasting
• scrounging
• contriving
• squeezing
• wringing
• swinging
• wresting

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• falling short
• failing
• collapsing
• floundering
• declining
• giving up
• waning
• slumping
• petering (out)
• fizzling

2

as in knowing

to have a clear idea of

I can't quite make out what she is trying to say

Synonyms & Similar Words

• knowing
• understanding
• deciphering
• seeing
• recognizing
• tumbling (to)
• comprehending
• grasping
• appreciating
• catching on (to)
• getting
• picking up on
• realizing
• sensing
• perceiving
• cottoning (to or on to)
• discerning
• making
• conceiving
• decoding
• taking in
• digging
• beholding
• assimilating
• seizing
• apprehending
• cognizing
• savvying
• registering
• intuiting
• catching
• compassing
• twigging
• grokking
• absorbing
• digesting
• fathoming
• penetrating
• piercing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• missing
• misunderstanding
• misinterpreting
• mistaking
• misreading
• misconstruing
• misperceiving
• misconceiving
• misapprehending

3

as in pretending

to take on a false or deceptive appearance

he tried to make out that he didn't mind losing his job, but friends suspected he was desperately worried

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pretending
• making believe
• making a show
• letting on
• making a pretense
• putting on an act
• putting up a front
• posing
• dissembling
• acting
• putting on
• playing
• dissimulating
• simulating
• masquerading
• affecting
• feigning
• impersonating
• assuming
• playacting
• concealing
• faking
• masking
• shamming
• professing
• counterfeiting
• camouflaging
• disguising
• bluffing
• feinting

4

as in deriving

to form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information

as best as I can make out, the police were informed of the incident but didn't think it was worth investigating

Synonyms & Similar Words

• deriving
• understanding
• deciding
• concluding
• reasoning
• drawing a conclusion
• inferring
• thinking
• extrapolating
• judging
• deducing
• guessing
• assuming
• speculating
• reading
• gathering
• ascertaining
• supposing
• finding out
• interpreting
• doping (out)
• construing
• contemplating
• rationalizing
• surmising
• conjecturing
• philosophizing