think cerebrate cogitate reason reflect speculate These verbs mean to use the powers of the mind, as in conceiving ideas or drawing inferences: thought before answering; sat in front of the fire cerebrating; cogitates about business problems; reasons clearly; took time to reflect before deciding; speculates on what will happen. Search Thesaurus Another word for think verb think about To think or think about carefully and at length: chew on (or over cogitate, consider, contemplate, deliberate, entertain, excogitate, meditate, mull, muse1, ponder, reflect, revolve, ruminate, study, think out, think over, think through, turn over, weigh. Idioms: cudgel one's brains, put on one's thinking cap, rack one's brain. See thoughts To use the powers of the mind, as in conceiving ideas, drawing inferences, and making judgments: cerebrate, cogitate, deliberate, ratiocinate, reflect, speculate. Idioms: put on one's thinking cap, use one's head. See thoughts To view in a certain way: believe, feel, hold, sense. See opinion To regard in an appraising way: believe, repute, suppose. See belief To have an opinion: believe, consider, deem, hold, opine. ( Informal) figure, judge. Idiom: be of the opinion. See opinion To renew an image or thought in the mind: bethink, mind, recall, recollect, remember, reminisce, retain, revive. Idiom: bring to mind. See remember To form mental images of: conceive, envisage, envision, fancy, fantasize, image, imagine, picture, see, vision, visualize. ( Informal) feature. See thoughts phrasal verb think about To care enough to keep (someone) in mind: remember, think of. See remember phrasal verb think of phrasal verb think out To think or think about carefully and at length: chew on (or over cogitate, consider, contemplate, deliberate, entertain, excogitate, meditate, mull, muse1, ponder, reflect, revolve, ruminate, study, think, think over, think through, turn.
think O. E. þencan conceive in the mind, think, consider, intend (past tense þohte, p.p. geþoht probably originally cause to appear to oneself, from P. Gmc. *thankjan (cf. O. Fris. thinka, O. S. thenkian, O. H. G. denchen, Ger. denken, O. N. þekkja, Goth. þagkjan O. E. þencan is the causative form of the distinct O. E. verb þyncan to seem or appear (past tense þuhte, pp. geþuht from P. Gmc. *thunkjan (cf. Ger. dünken, däuchte). Both are from PIE *tong- to think, feel which also is the root of thought and thank. The two meanings.converged in M. E. and þyncan to seem was absorbed, except for archaic methinks it seems to me. Jocular pp. thunk (not historical, but by analogy of drink, sink, etc.) is recorded from 1876. Think-tank is 1959 as research institute (first ref. is to Center for Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, Calif. it had been colloquial for the brain since 1905. EXPAND.
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