Thesaurus:listen

Thesaurus

listen

English

Verb

Sense: to pay attention to a sound

Synonyms

• attend
• be all ears
• behear
• give ear
• hark (archaic)
• harken
• heed
• lend an ear
• list    [⇒ thesaurus] (archaic)
• listen close
• mind
• note

Antonyms

• disregard
• ignore    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

• auscultate

Hypernyms

• hear    [⇒ thesaurus]
• pay attention    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• Thesaurus:obey
• Thesaurus:sound

Further reading

• Appendix:Roget's thesaurus classification

  4 Class III. Words Relating to Matter

  4.1 Division III. Organic Matter

  Section 2. Sensation

  Subsection 2. Special Sensation

  Category 5. Sound

  Subcategory (iv). Perception of Sound

  418. “hearing” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.

  Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties

  Division I. Formation of Ideas

  Section II. Precursory Conditions and Operations

  457. “attention” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.

• “listen” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.