| Main Entry: |
ponder |
| Part of Speech: |
verb |
| Definition: |
think about seriously |
Synonyms: |
appraise,
brood, build castles in air, cerebrate,
cogitate, consider, contemplate,
daydream,
debate, deliberate,
dwell,
evaluate,
examine,
excogitate, figure, give thought to, meditate,
mind,
moon*, mull, mull over, muse, noodle around, perpend, pipe dream, put on thinking cap, puzzle over, reason, reflect,
revolve,
roll, ruminate, speculate,
study, think out, think over, turn over, weigh, woolgather
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Antonyms: |
forget, ignore, neglect
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* = informal/non-formal usage
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