Synonyms of cottoned (to or on to)

cottoned (to or on to)

verb

past tense of cotton (to or on to)

as in understood

to have a clear idea of

failed to cotton on to the fact that her senatorial campaign was going nowhere

Synonyms & Similar Words

• understood
• knew
• deciphered
• recognized
• tumbled (to)
• saw
• comprehended
• grasped
• appreciated
• caught on (to)
• picked up on
• perceived
• realized
• got
• conceived
• sensed
• discerned
• beheld
• made out
• registered
• made
• assimilated
• apprehended
• decoded
• savvied
• seized
• dug
• caught
• cognized
• compassed
• twigged
• intuited
• grokked
• absorbed
• digested
• took in
• fathomed
• penetrated
• pierced

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• missed
• misunderstood
• misinterpreted
• misconstrued
• misread
• mistook
• misconceived
• misperceived
• misapprehended