Synonyms and Antonyms of pick up

synonym (synonym of pick up)

antonym (antonym of pick up)

hypernym (pick up IS A KIND OF .... relation)

  • buy casually or spontaneously (verb.possession)
    buy, purchase
    obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction (verb.possession)
     
  • eat by pecking at, like a bird (verb.consumption)
    eat
    take in solid food (verb.consumption)
     
  • fill with high spirits; fill with optimism (verb.emotion)
    excite, shake, shake up, stimulate, stir
    stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of (verb.emotion)
     
  • gain or regain energy (verb.body)
    convalesce, recover, recuperate
    get over an illness or shock (verb.body)
     
  • gather or collect (verb.possession)
    acquire, get, acquire, get
    come into the possession of something concrete or abstract (verb.possession)
     
  • give a passenger or a hitchhiker a lift (verb.motion)
    transport
    move something or somebody around; usually over long distances (verb.motion)
     
  • improve significantly; go from bad to good (verb.change)
    ameliorate, better, improve, meliorate
    get better (verb.change)
     
  • lift out or reflect from a background (verb.change)
    bring out, set off
    direct attention to, as if by means of contrast (verb.change)
     
  • meet someone for sexual purposes (verb.social)
    get together, meet
    get together socially or for a specific purpose (verb.social)
     
  • register (perceptual input) (verb.perception)
    comprehend, perceive
    to become aware of through the senses (verb.perception)
     
  • take and lift upward (verb.motion)
    bring up, elevate, get up, lift, raise
    raise from a lower to a higher position (verb.motion)
     
  • take into custody (verb.contact)
    clutch, prehend, seize
    take hold of; grab (verb.contact)
     
  • take up by hand (verb.contact)
    touch
    make physical contact with, come in contact with (verb.contact)
     

hyponym (.... IS A KIND OF pick up relation)

  • fill with high spirits; fill with optimism (verb.emotion)
    beatify
    make blessedly happy (verb.emotion)
     
  • (verb.emotion)
    puff
    make proud or conceited (verb.emotion)
     
  • (verb.emotion)
    beatify, exalt, exhilarate, inebriate, thrill, tickle pink
    fill with sublime emotion (verb.emotion)
     
  • get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally (verb.cognition)
    get the goods
    discover some bad or hidden information about (verb.cognition)
     
  • (verb.cognition)
    wise up
    get wise to (verb.cognition)
     
  • (verb.cognition)
    catch, trip up
    detect a blunder or misstep (verb.cognition)
     
  • (verb.cognition)
    ascertain
    learn or discover with certainty (verb.cognition)
     
  • (verb.cognition)
    discover, find
    make a discovery (verb.cognition)
     
  • register (perceptual input) (verb.perception)
    hear
    receive a communication from someone (verb.perception)
     

cause (cause to relations of pick up)

  • fill with high spirits; fill with optimism (verb.emotion)
    joy, rejoice
    feel happiness or joy (verb.emotion)
     

verb group (pick up is verb group of ....)

  • get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally (verb.cognition)
    find, see, witness
    perceive or be contemporaneous with (verb.perception)
     

derivation (.... is derived from pick up)

  • buy casually or spontaneously (verb.possession)
    pickup, pickup
    the act or process of picking up or collecting from various places (noun.act)
     
  • eat by pecking at, like a bird (verb.consumption)
    beak, bill, neb, nib, pecker
    horny projecting mouth of a bird (noun.animal)
     
  • fill with high spirits; fill with optimism (verb.emotion)
    elation, high spirits, lightness
    a feeling of joy and pride (noun.feeling)
     
  • (noun.feeling)
    intoxication
    excitement and elation beyond the bounds of sobriety (noun.feeling)
     
  • (noun.state)
    elation
    an exhilarating psychological state of pride and optimism; an absence of depression (noun.state)
     
  • gain or regain energy (verb.body)
    pick-me-up, pickup
    anything with restorative powers (noun.artifact)
     
  • get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally (verb.cognition)
    discovery, find, uncovering
    the act of discovering something (noun.act)
     
  • (noun.cognition)
    breakthrough, discovery, find
    a productive insight (noun.cognition)
     
  • (noun.communication)
    discovery
    something that is discovered (noun.communication)
     
  • register (perceptual input) (verb.perception)
    receiver, receiving system
    set that receives radio or tv signals (noun.artifact)
     
  • (noun.body)
    receptor, sense organ, sensory receptor
    an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation (noun.body)
     
  • (adj.all)
    centripetal, receptive, sensory
    of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system (adj.all)
     
  • take into custody (verb.contact)
    apprehension, arrest, catch, collar, pinch, taking into custody
    the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal) (noun.act)
     
  • (noun.communication)
    pickup
    a warrant to take someone into custody (noun.communication)
     
  • (noun.person)
    apprehender
    a person who seizes or arrests (especially a person who seizes or arrests in the name of justice) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    bull, cop, copper, fuzz, pig
    uncomplimentary terms for a policeman (noun.person)
     

domain category (pick up is domain category of ....)

  • buy casually or spontaneously (verb.possession)
    commerce, commercialism, mercantilism
    transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services) (noun.act)
     
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