What does "read [someone]" mean?
Native speaker’s answer
Rebecca
To "read [someone]" means to understand someone's thoughts and motives, to have a sense of what they're feeling or trying to say. It's also possible to "read" a situation and understand the dynamics of something happening without it being clearly said. Ex: I always struggled to read her when we had a conversation. Ex: He reads me so well and always knows what to say. Ex: I read the situation entirely wrong. I thought you were hitting on me.