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
figuring out
verb
as in solving
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
- solving
- unraveling
- answering
- working out
- resolving
- riddling (out)
- doping (out)
- puzzling (out)
- working
- unriddling
- ironing out
- cracking
- deciphering
- concluding
- deciding
- reasoning
- breaking
- gathering
- straightening (out)
- judging
- clearing (up)
- inferring
- deducing
- guessing
- assuming
- speculating
- untying
- untangling
- presuming
- decoding
- divining
- conjecturing
- unscrambling
- untieing