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| Main Entry: | think |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | believe; anticipate |
| Synonyms: | assume, comprehend, conceive, conclude, consider, credit, deem, determine, envisage, envision, esteem, estimate, expect, fancy, feature, feel, foresee, gather, guess, hold, image, imagine, judge, presume, project, realize, reckon, regard, see, sense, suppose, surmise, suspect, take, understand, vision, visualize, be convinced, plan for |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | think |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | remember |
| Synonyms: | call to mind, recall, recollect, reminisce |
| Antonyms: | forget |
| Main Entry: | apprehend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | understand |
| Synonyms: | absorb, accept, appreciate, believe, catch, comprehend, conceive, digest, fathom, get, grasp, have, imagine, know, perceive, read, realize, recognize, sense, think, get the picture |
| Antonyms: | misunderstand |
| Main Entry: | assume |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | believe, take for granted |
| Synonyms: | accept, ascertain, conclude, conjecture, consider, deduce, deem, divine, estimate, expect, fall for, fancy, find, gather, guess, imagine, infer, judge, postulate, predicate, presume, presuppose, speculate, suppose, surmise, suspect, theorize, think, understand, be afraid, be inclined to think, count upon, get the idea, have a hunch, have sneaking suspicion, hypothesize, posit |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | believe |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | trust, rely on |
| Synonyms: | accept, accredit, admit, affirm, attach weight to, be certain of, be convinced of, be credulous, be of the opinion, buy*, conceive, conclude, consider, count on, credit, deem, fall for*, give credence to, have, have faith in, have no doubt, hold, keep the faith, lap up, place confidence in, posit, postulate, presume true, presuppose, reckon on, regard, rest assured, suppose, swallow*, swear by, take as gospel, take at one's word, take for granted, take it, think, trust, understand |
| Antonyms: | disbelieve, distrust |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | believe |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | assume or suppose |
| Synonyms: | conjecture, consider, credit, deem, expect, feel, gather, guess, hold, imagine, judge, maintain, postulate, presume, reckon, sense, speculate, suppose, suspect, take, think, understand |
| Main Entry: | brainstorm |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | problem-solve |
| Synonyms: | analyze, conceive, conceptualize, conjure up, create, deliberate, dream up, invent, plan, ponder, think, put heads together, rack brains, share ideas |
| Main Entry: | call |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | estimate, consider |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, approximate, augur, forecast, foretell, guess, judge, place, portend, predict, presage, prognosticate, prophesy, put, reckon, regard, think, make rough guess, vaticinate |
| Antonyms: | ignore |
| Main Entry: | conjecture |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | speculate |
| Synonyms: | assume, believe, conceive, conclude, deem, estimate, expect, fancy, feel*, figure, gather, glean, guess, imagine, infer, judge, presume, pretend, suppose, surmise, suspect, theorize, think, guesstimate, hazard a guess, hypothesize, take a shot, take a stab, take for granted |
| Antonyms: | prove |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | consider |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | regard a certain way |
| Synonyms: | analyze, appraise, bear in mind, believe, count, credit, deem, estimate, feel, hold, judge, reflect, remember, respect, sense, suppose, take into account, think, view, care for, hold an opinion, keep in view, look upon, make allowance for, reckon with, set down, take for, think of |
| Antonyms: | abandon, dismiss, disregard, ignore, leave, reject |
| Main Entry: | count |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | consider, deem |
| Synonyms: | await, esteem, expect, hope, impute, judge, look, rate, regard, think, look upon |
| Antonyms: | disregard, ignore |
| Main Entry: | credit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | believe, depend on |
| Synonyms: | accept, bank on, buy, consider, deem, fall for*, feel, hold, sense, swallow*, think, trust, hand it to one, have faith in, pat on back, rely on, take as gospel truth, take stock in |
| Antonyms: | disbelieve, mistrust, not buy, not subscribe |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deem |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | regard, consider |
| Synonyms: | account, allow, appraise, assume, believe, calculate, conceive, conjecture, credit, divine, esteem, estimate, expect, feel, guess, hold, imagine, judge, know, presume, reckon, sense, suppose, surmise, suspect, think, understand, view, be afraid, daresay, set store by |
| Main Entry: | dream |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | conjure up scenario |
| Synonyms: | brainstorm, conceive, concoct, cook up*, crave, create, daydream, devise, envisage, fancy, fantasize, formulate, hallucinate, hanker*, hatch*, hunger, idealize, imagine, invent, long, lust, make up, picture, pine, sigh, sublimate, think, thirst, visualize, be delirious, be moonstruck, be up in clouds, build castles in air, have a flash, have a nightmare, have a notion, have a vision, search for pot of gold, stargaze, think up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | esteem |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | consider, believe |
| Synonyms: | account, calculate, deem, estimate, hold, judge, rate, reckon, regard, think, view |
| Antonyms: | deride, disbelieve, disregard, disrespect |
| Main Entry: | estimate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | guess, try to value |
| Synonyms: | account, appraise, assay, assess, believe, budget, cast, cipher, class, classify, compute, conjecture, consider, count, decide, deduce, determine, enumerate, evaluate, examine, expect, figure, gauge, guess, judge, look into, number, outline, plan, predict, prophesy, rank, rate, reason, reckon, regard, scheme, sum, suppose, surmise, suspect, tax, think, calculate roughly, form opinion, guesstimate, look upon, run over, set a figure, size up*, think through* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | expect |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | believe strongly; anticipate |
| Synonyms: | apprehend, assume, await, bargain for, calculate, conjecture, contemplate, count on, divine, envisage, feel, figure, forecast, foresee, gather, hope, imagine, look, predict, presume, presuppose, reckon, sense, suppose, surmise, suspect, take, think, trust, understand, bargain on, be afraid, foreknow, hope for, in the cards, look ahead to, look for, look forward to, see coming, wait for, watch for |
| Main Entry: | fancy |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | imagine, create |
| Synonyms: | be inclined to think, believe, conceive, conjecture, dream up, envisage, envision, fantasize, feature*, guess, head trip, image, infer, make up, make up off top of one's head, phantom, picture, realize, reckon, spark, spitball, suppose, surmise, think, think likely, think up, trump up, vision, visualize |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | feel |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | believe |
| Synonyms: | assume, conclude, conjecture, consider, credit, deduce, deem, esteem, gather, guess, hold, infer, judge, know, presume, sense, suppose, surmise, suspect, think, be convinced, be of the opinion, have a hunch, have the impression, intuit, repute |
| Antonyms: | disbelieve |
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