| Consult 1. (v. i.) To seek the opinion or advice of another; to take counsel; to deliberate together; to confer. 2. (v. t.) To ask advice of; to seek the opinion of; to apply to for information or instruction; to refer to; as, to consult a physician; to consult a dictionary. 3. (v. t.) To have reference to, in judging or acting; to have regard to; to consider; as, to consult one's wishes. 4. (v. t.) To deliberate upon; to take for. 5. (v. t.) To bring about by counsel or contrivance; to devise; to contrive. 6. (n.) The act of consulting or deliberating; consultation; also, the result of consultation; determination; decision. 7. (n.) A council; a meeting for consultation. 8. (n.) Agreement; concert Thesaurus Entries GO, advise, advise with, bargain, blow, call in, cast away, cogitate, collogue, compare notes, confab, confabulate, confer, confer with, consider, consult with, counsel, deliberate, devour, discuss, discuss with, dissipate, drivel, eat, examine, exchange observations, exchange views, exhaust, expend, feed on, finish, fritter, have conversations, hold conference, huddle, ingest, inquire of, interrogate, look up, meal, negotiate, palaver, parley, partake of, powwow, put heads together, question, reason with, refer to, run through, sit down together, sit down with, spend, squander, take, take counsel, take counsel with, take up with, talk over, throw away, treat, trifle away, use up, wash up |