Synonyms of the word

consult

• n. (obsolete) The act of consulting or deliberating; consultation.
• n. (obsolete) the result of consultation; determination; decision.
• n. (obsolete) A council; a meeting for consultation.
• n. (obsolete) Agreement; concert.
• n. (US) A visit, e.g. to a doctor; a consultation.
• v. (intransitive) To seek the opinion or advice of another; to take counsel; to deliberate together; to confer.
• v. (intransitive) To advise or offer expertise.
• v. (intransitive) To work as a consultant or contractor rather than as a full-time employee of a firm.
• v. (transitive) To ask advice of; to seek the opinion of (a person).
• v. (transitive) To refer to (something) for information.
• v. (transitive) To have reference to, in judging or acting; to have regard to; to consider; as, to consult…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To deliberate upon; to take for.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To bring about by counsel or contrivance; to devise; to contrive.

advise

• v. (transitive) To give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed.
• v. (transitive) To give information or notice to; to inform or counsel; — with of before the thing communicated.
• v. (intransitive) To consider, to deliberate.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To look at, watch; to see.

ask

• v. To request (information, or an answer to a question).
• v. To put forward (a question) to be answered.
• v. To interrogate or enquire of (a person).
• v. To request or petition; usually with for.
• v. To request permission to do something.
• v. To require, demand, claim, or expect, whether by way of remuneration or return, or as a matter of necessity.
• v. To invite.
• v. To publish in church for marriage; said of both the banns and the persons.
• v. (figuratively) To take (a person's situation) as an example.
• n. An act or instance of asking.
• n. Something asked or asked for; a request.
• n. An asking price.
• n. (Britain dialectal and Scotland) An eft; newt.
• n. (Britain dialectal) A lizard.

confab

• v. To speak casually with; to chat.
• n. A casual talk or chat.

confabulate

• v. (intransitive) To speak casually with; to chat.
• v. (intransitive) To confer.
• v. (intransitive, transitive, psychology) To fabricate memories in order to fill gaps in one's memory.

confer

• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To compare.
• v. (intransitive) To talk together, to consult, discuss; to deliberate.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To bring together; to collect, gather.
• v. (transitive) To grant as a possession; to bestow.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To contribute; to conduce.

counsel

• n. The exchange of opinions and advice especially in legal issues; consultation.
• n. Exercise of judgment; prudence.
• n. Advice; guidance.
• n. Deliberate purpose; design; intent; scheme; plan.
• n. (obsolete) A secret opinion or purpose; a private matter.
• n. A lawyer, as in Queen's Counsel (QC).
• v. To give advice, especially professional advice.
• v. To recommend.

discuss

• v. (obsolete, transitive) To drive away, disperse, shake off; said especially of tumors.
• v. (transitive) To converse or debate concerning a particular topic.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To communicate, tell, or disclose (information, a message, etc.).
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To break to pieces; to shatter.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To deal with, in eating or drinking.
• v. (transitive, law) To examine or search thoroughly; to exhaust a remedy against, as against a principal…

enquire

• v. (intransitive) To make an enquiry.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To ask about (something).

inquire

• v. (US) To ask (about something).
• v. To make an inquiry or an investigation.

rede

• n. (archaic) Help, advice, counsel.
• n. (archaic) Decision, a plan.
• v. (transitive, archaic or Britain dialectal) To govern, protect.
• v. (transitive, archaic or Britain dialectal) To discuss, deliberate.
• v. (transitive, archaic or Britain dialectal) To advise.
• v. (transitive, archaic or Britain dialectal) To interpret (a riddle or dream); explain.

refer

• v. (transitive) To direct the attention of.
• v. (transitive) To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere.
• v. (transitive) To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause,…
• v. (intransitive, construed with to) To allude to, make a reference or allusion to.
• v. (grammar) to be referential to another element in a sentence.
• v. (computing) To address a specific location in computer memory.

research

• n. (uncountable) Diligent inquiry or examination to seek or revise facts, principles, theories, applications,…
• n. (countable) A particular instance or piece of research.
• v. (transitive) To search or examine with continued care; to seek diligently.
• v. (intransitive) To make an extensive investigation into.
• v. (transitive) To search again.