Definition of sought

"sought" in the verb sense

1. seek

try to get or reach

"seek a position"

"seek an education"

"seek happiness"

2. search, seek, look for

try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of

"The police are searching for clues"

"They are searching for the missing man in the entire county"

3. try, seek, attempt, essay, assay

make an effort or attempt

"He tried to shake off his fears"

"The infant had essayed a few wobbly steps"

"The police attempted to stop the thief"

"He sought to improve himself"

"She always seeks to do good in the world"

4. seek

go to or towards

"a liquid seeks its own level"

5. seek

inquire for

"seek directions from a local"

"sought" in the adjective sense

1. sought

that is looked for

"the long sought relatives"

2. sought, sought-after

being searched for

"the most sought-after item was the silver candelabrum"

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Quotations for sought

The soul too soft its ills to bear.
Has left our mortal hemisphere.
And sought in better world the meed
To blameless life by heaven decreed. [ Scott ]

Many have sought roses and found thorns.

No naked man is sought after to be rifled. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The dancing pair, that simply sought renown,
By holding out, to tire each other down. [ Goldsmith ]

Good is to be sought out, and evil attended. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He trudged along, unknowing what he sought,
And whistled as he went, for want of thought. [ John Dryden ]

Long while I sought to what I might compare
Those powerful eyes, which light my dark spirit;
Yet found I nought on earth, to which I dare
Resemble the image of their goodly light.
Not to the sun, for they do shine by night;
Nor to the moon, for they are changed never;
Nor to the stars, for they have purer sight;
Nor to the fire, for they consume not ever;
Nor to the lightning, for they still persevere;
Nor to the diamond, for they are more tender;
Nor unto crystal, for nought may they sever;
Nor unto glass, such baseness might offend her;
Then to the Maker's self the likest be;
Whose light doth lighten all that here we see. [ Spenser ]

A daring pilot in extremity;
Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high
He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit,
Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Great wits are sure to madness near allied,
And thin partitions do their bounds divide; [ Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel ]

He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one;
Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading;
Lofty and sour to them that loved him not;
But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer. [ William Shakespeare, Henry VIII ]

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. [ William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act III. Sc.1 ]

Love's arms were wreathed about the neck of Hope,
And Hope kiss'd Love, and Love drew in her breath
In that close kiss and drank her whispered tales.
They say that Love would die when Hope was gone.
And Love mourned long, and sorrowed after Hope;
At last she sought out Memory, and they trod
The same old paths where Love had walked with Hope,
And Memory fed the soul of Love with tears. [ Tennyson ]

Truth, when not sought after, sometimes comes to light. [ Menander ]

The spoil that is sought by many hands quickly accumulates. [ Ovid ]

He sought to have that by practice which he could not by prayer. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Money must be sought for in the first instance; virtue after riches. [ Horace ]

Within yourselves deliverance must be sought: Each man his prison makes. [ Edwin Arnold ]

Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned. [ Cicero ]

If the mother had not been in the oven, she had never sought her daughter there. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The new novel is sought more eagerly, and devoured more greedily, than the New Testament. [ Guthrie ]

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, wealth may seek us; but wisdom must be sought. [ Young ]

As soon as beauty is sought, not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Truth, such as is necessary to the regulation of life, is always found where it is honestly sought. [ Johnson ]

We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error. [ Seneca ]

I always had an aversion to your apostles of freedom; each but sought for himself freedom to do what he liked. [ Goethe ]

Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace: and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest. [ Landor ]

To escape from arrangements that tortured me, my heart sought refuge in the world of ideas, when as yet I was unacquainted with the world of realities, from which iron bars excluded me. [ Schiller at his training-school ]

Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a defect of intellect as well as of heart. And even the cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

There are jilts in friendship, as well as in love; and by the behavior of some men in both, one would almost imagine that they industriously sought to gain the affections of others with the view only of making the parties miserable. [ Fielding ]

Renown is not to be sought, and all pursuit of it is vain. A person may, indeed, by skillful conduct and various artificial means, make a sort of name for himself: but if the inner jewel is wanting, all is vanity, and will not last a day. [ Goethe ]

When the desire of wealth is taking hold of the heart, let us look round and see how it operates upon those whose industry or fortune has obtained it. When we find them oppressed with their own abundance, luxurious with out pleasure, idle without ease, impatient and querulous in themselves, and despised or hated by the rest of mankind, we shall soon be convinced that if the real wants of our condition are satisfied, there remains little to be sought with solicitude or desired with eagerness. [ Dr. Johnson ]

sought in Scrabble®

The word sought is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters sought:

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SOUGHT
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sought in Words With Friends™

The word sought is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 11

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Words within the letters of sought

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3 letter words in sought (13 words)

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sought + 1 blank (5 words)

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Longer words containing sought

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