Synonyms of figuring out

figuring out

verb

present participle of figure out

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

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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of figuring out

The first step to brighter-looking underarms is figuring out what might be irritating them in the first place. — Glamour, 2 Oct. 2026

Shuter is reporting that this isn’t just about figuring out what happened, but about real accountability. — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 2 Oct. 2026

Speaking out After his first two weeks in Mexico, Sanchez-Corona is figuring out what comes next in a new country. — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 25 Sep. 2026

Schools say most graduates ultimately are getting jobs, although increasingly, the employers hiring aren’t tech giants but smaller businesses looking for help figuring out what to do with AI. — Heather Hollingsworth, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2026

Of course, figuring out an email address isn’t particularly difficult. — Alex Ritman, Variety, 18 Sep. 2026

For a Miami business hiring its first employee in Bogota or Mexico City, that structure can remove most of the legal exposure that would otherwise come with figuring out a foreign country’s employment law from scratch. — Ethan Stone, Miami Herald, 18 Sep. 2026

That makes the research less like searching a catalog for the right material and more like figuring out the rules for building one. — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2026

The biggest point of contention was figuring out what to pack for the plane. — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2026