Meanings
present singular third person reappears · participle present reappearing · participle past reappeared · past reappeared
- To appear again.
Day after day it reappears / Night after night my heartbeat shows the fear / Ghosts appear and fade away
1983, Men At Work, “Overkill”, in Cargo1 more example
After the slumber of the year / The woodland violets re-appear, / All things revive in field or grove, […]
a. 1823 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “To ——”, in Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, editor, Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John and Henry L[eigh] Hunt, […], published 1824, →OCLC, stanza 3, page 205
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Italic*wre-
- Latinre-
- Old Frenchre-
- Middle Englishre-
- Englishre-
- Englishappear
- Englishreappear
Translations
Bulgarian появявам се отново
- появявам се отново (pojavjavam se otnovo)to appear again
Catalan reaparèixer
- reaparèixerto appear again
Esperanto reaperi
- reaperito appear again
French reparaître, réapparaître
- reparaîtreto appear again
- réapparaîtreto appear again
Hungarian előkerül, újra megjelenik
- előkerülto appear again
- újra megjelenikto appear again
Latin revideor
- revideorto appear again
Spanish reaparecer, remanecer
- reaparecerto appear again
- remanecerto appear again
Rhymes & wordplay
Anagrams
Cite this entry
reappear. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reappear
“reappear.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reappear. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “reappear,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reappear.
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