to get through

Examples

• All

• Francesca had labored to explain Yeats to the Winters students but never got through to most of them.

  Fiction book (1992)

• Did my message get through?" Dad answered quietly and firmly, "Son, I heard you.

  Fiction book (1992)

• i thought maybe i was getting through to you.

  National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 (1993)

• I know my words are getting through.

  Hard to Kill (1990)

• Maybe he can get through to her.

  The Master Gunfighter (1975)

• I mean, is it is your message getting through to your colleagues?

  ReasonTV

• She really got through to him.

  Octaman (1971)

• I don't know how I'm going to get through to him.

  Fiction book (2000)

• "I don't know if I got through to them," I told Elaine.

  Fiction book (1994)

• "I'm going to make an effort to get through to Derrick," Mallory told her.

  Fiction book (1996)

Synonyms

C

to click

vsto get through

87 3.4

Suddenly become clear and easy to understand in your mind

also covers slow acceptance and emotional impact not only sudden clarity

C

to come home

vsto get through

• Informal

82 5.0

An idea or fact finally feels very clear and real to someone

is used for communicating success not only deep emotional realization

C

to come through

vsto get through

73 3.3

To be heard or read clearly

is about a message becoming understood or accepted by a person

G

to get across

vsto get through

67 3.0

Make an idea or message clear so other people understand it

also includes being accepted or emotionally felt not just understood

S

to sink in

vsto get through

• Informal

59 4.1

To slowly understand and accept something

emphasizes success in communicating immediately or by impression as well

D

to dawn

vsto get through

57 3.6

To begin to be understood and become clear

focuses on successful communication or making an impression not just beginning

P

to penetrate

vsto get through

36 6.4

Understand the true meaning or nature of something

is broader and includes simple understanding without deep analysis or feeling

G

to get it through someone's head

vsto get through

• Informal

1 5.5

To make someone understand or accept something after many tries

is about ideas reaching others without focusing on repeated effort

G

to get through one's head

vsto get through

• Informal

7.4

To finally understand or accept something difficult

covers both being understood and also being emotionally felt or accepted

Antonyms

C

to confuse

266 1.9

Make someone unable to think clearly or make something hard to understand

M

to misinterpret

23 4.2

To understand something in the wrong way

How Understood

to hit home

26 5.5

to sink in

• Informal

59 4.1

to get through

74 3.1

to get across

67 3.0

to register

48 3.4

to go over someone's head

• Informal

1 8.1

to miss

518 1.7

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology