Get about

Synonyms for get about
verb flow

travel
rotate
actuate
wander

gyrate
mobilize
radiate
circle

revolve
go about
fly about
get around

mill around
move around
set off

Antonyms for get about

block

stay

stop

Synonyms
verb be friendly at gatherings

entertain
mingle
league
fraternize
associate
club

consort
mix
join
hobnob
get together
go out

get around
chum with
hang around with
hang out
keep company
make advances

make the rounds
pal around
run with
tie up with

Antonyms

disassociate
disconnect
disjoin
dissociate

exclude
shun
disagree
divide

separate
sever

Synonyms
verb socialize

league
mingle
associate
club
fraternize
consort

mix
entertain
join
hobnob
get together
go out

communalize
chum with
get around
hang around with
hang out
keep company

make advances
make the rounds
pal around
run with
tie up with

Antonyms

disassociate
disjoin
disconnect

dissociate
divide
separate

sever
disagree

Usage Notes

For nearly 400 years, forms of get have been used with a following past participle to form the passive voice: She got engaged when she was 19. He won’t get accepted with those grades. This use of get rather than of forms of to be in the passive is found today chiefly in speech and informal writing. In British English got is the regular past participle of get, and gotten survives only in a few set phrases, such as ill-gotten gains. In American English gotten, although occasionally criticized, is an alternative standard past participle in most senses, especially in the senses “to receive” or “to acquire”: I have gotten (or got) all that I ever hoped for. Have or has got in the sense “must” has been in use since the early 19th century; often the have or has is contracted: You’ve got to carry your passport at all times. The use of have (or has) got in the sense of “to possess” goes back to the 15th century; it is also frequently contracted: She’s got a master’s degree in biology. These uses are occasionally criticized as redundant on the grounds that have alone expresses the meaning adequately, but they are well established and fully standard in all varieties of speech and writing. In some contexts in American English, substituting gotten for got produces a change in meaning: She’s got (possesses) a new job. She’s gotten (has aquired) a new job. He’s got to (must) attend the wedding. He’s gotten to (has been allowed or enabled to) attend. The children have got (are suffering from) the measles. The children have gotten (have caught) the measles. The use of got without have or has to mean “must” (I got to buy a new suit) is characteristic of the most relaxed, informal speech and does not occur in edited writing except in representations of speech. Gotta is a pronunciation spelling representing this use.