| Main Entry: | think |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | believe; anticipate |
Synonyms: |
assume, be convinced, comprehend, conceive, conclude, consider, credit, deem, determine, envisage, envision, esteem, estimate, expect, fancy, feature, feel, foresee, gather, guess, hold, image, imagine, judge, plan for, presume, project, realize, reckon, regard, see, sense, suppose, surmise, suspect, take, understand, vision, visualize |
Antonyms: |
disbelieve, disregard, excogitate |
| Main Entry: | think |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | contemplate |
Synonyms: |
analyze, appraise, appreciate, brood, cerebrate, cogitate, comprehend, conceive, consider, deduce, deliberate, estimate, evaluate, examine, figure out, have in mind, ideate, imagine, infer, intellectualize, judge, logicalize, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, rack one's brains, rationalize, reason, reflect, resolve, revolve, ruminate, sort out, speculate, stew, stop to consider, study, take under consideration, turn over, use one's head, weigh |
Antonyms: |
forget, ignore, neglect |
| Main Entry: | think |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | remember |
Synonyms: |
call to mind, recall, recollect, reminisce |
Antonyms: |
forget |
| Main Entry: | thinking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rational |
Synonyms: |
bright, intelligent, reasonable, reasoning, studious |
Antonyms: |
brainless, dumb, irrational, stupid, unintelligent, vacuous |
| Main Entry: | thinking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thoughtful |
Synonyms: |
absorbed, cogitative, contemplative, deliberating, deliberative, engrossed, introspective, meditative, pensive, philosophical, reflective, ruminating, ruminative |
| Main Entry: | thinking |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | thought |
Synonyms: |
cerebration, cogitation, cognition, contemplation, deliberation, idea, ideation, introspection, judgment, logic, meditation, musing, opinion, rationalization, reason, reasoning, reflection, rumination, study, understanding |
| Main Entry: | thinking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pertaining to thought |
Synonyms: |
bright, cogitative, contemplative, deliberating, engrossed, introspective, meditating, pensive, rational, reasonable, reflective, studious |
| Main Entry: | abstraction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of being lost in thought |
Synonyms: |
absorption, aloofness, brooding, cogitation, consideration, contemplation, daydreaming, detachment, engrossment, entrancement, musing, pensiveness, pondering, preoccupation, reflecting, reflection, remoteness, reverie, ruminating, thinking, trance |
| Main Entry: | apprehend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | understand |
Synonyms: |
absorb, accept, appreciate, believe, catch, comprehend, conceive, digest, fathom, get, get the picture, grasp, have, imagine, know, perceive, read, realize, recognize, sense, think |
Antonyms: |
misunderstand |
| Main Entry: | assume |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | believe, take for granted |
Synonyms: |
accept, ascertain, be afraid, be inclined to think, conclude, conjecture, consider, count upon, deduce, deem, divine, estimate, expect, fall for, fancy, find, gather, get the idea, guess, have a hunch, have sneaking suspicion, hypothesize, imagine, infer, judge, posit, postulate, predicate, presume, presuppose, speculate, suppose, surmise, suspect, theorize, think, understand |
| Notes: | assume means 'suppose to be the case, without proof; take for granted'; presume means 'suppose that something is the case on the basis of probability; take for granted that something exists or is the case' |
Antonyms: |
doubt, not believe |