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| Main Entry: | thought |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | formation of mental objects |
| Synonyms: | anticipation, attention, cogitation, cognition, consideration, considering, contemplation, deduction, deliberation, discerning, heed, hope, introspection, intuition, judging, knowing, logic, meditation, musing, perceiving, realizing, reasoning, reflection, regard, scrutiny, seeing, speculation, study, thinking, understanding, apprehending, brainwork, cerebration, concluding, deducing, deriving, ideation, inducing, inferring, rationalization, rationalizing, rumination, theorization |
| Antonyms: | vacancy, vacuity |
| Main Entry: | thought |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | idea, concept |
| Synonyms: | aim, anxiety, appreciation, aspiration, assessment, assumption, belief, brainstorm*, compassion, conception, concern, conclusion, conjecture, conviction, design, dream, drift, estimation, expectation, fancy, feeling, guess, hope, hypothesis, image, inference, intention, intuition, judgment, kindness, knowledge, notion, object, opinion, plan, premise, prospect, purpose, regard, reverie, solicitude, supposition, sympathy, theory, thinking, understanding, view, worry, attentiveness, brainchild, caring |
| Antonyms: | concrete, thing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | breast |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feelings, conscience |
| Synonyms: | being, bosom, character, core, heart, mind, psyche, soul, spirit, emotions, essential nature, seat of affections, sentiments, thoughts |
| Main Entry: | mind |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | memory |
| Synonyms: | attention, cognizance, concentration, head, mark, note, notice, observance, observation, recollection, regard, remark, remembrance, subconscious, thinking, thoughts |
| Antonyms: | amnesia |
| Main Entry: | mind |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inclination, tendency; belief |
| Synonyms: | attitude, bent, conviction, desire, determination, disposition, eye, fancy, feeling, humor, impulse, intention, judgment, leaning, liking, mood, notion, opinion, outlook, persuasion, pleasure, point of view, purpose, sentiment, strain, temper, temperament, tone, urge, vein, view, will, wish, thoughts, way of thinking |
| Antonyms: | disbelief, disinclination |
| Main Entry: | apprehension |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | understanding |
| Synonyms: | awareness, comprehension, grasp, idea, intellect, intelligence, judgment, ken, knowledge, notion, perception, perspicacity, thought |
| Antonyms: | misunderstanding, imperception |
| Main Entry: | attention |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | concentration |
| Synonyms: | absorption, application, consideration, contemplation, debate, deliberation, diligence, heed, industry, mind, scrutiny, study, thinking, thought, thoughtfulness, assiduity, engrossment, heedfulness, immersion, intentness |
| Antonyms: | disregard, ignorance, neglect, negligence |
| Main Entry: | calculation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | forethought |
| Synonyms: | caution, contrivance, deliberation, discretion, foresight, planning, precaution, prudence, thought, canniness, circumspection |
| Main Entry: | caprice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sudden change of behavior |
| Synonyms: | bee*, caper*, crotchet, fad, fancy, freak, gag*, humor, impulse, inconsistency, jerk, kink, mood, notion, peculiarity, put on*, quirk, rib*, temper, thought, vagary, vein, whim, whimsy, changeableness, contrariety, fickleness, fitfulness, fool notion, inconstancy, perversity |
| Antonyms: | constancy, constant, dependability, steadfastness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | care |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | carefulness, attention to detail |
| Synonyms: | alertness, caution, concentration, concern, conscientiousness, consideration, diligence, direction, discrimination, effort, enthusiasm, exactness, exertion, forethought, heed, interest, management, nicety, precaution, prudence, regard, solicitude, thought, trouble, vigilance, wariness, watchfulness, circumspection, fastidiousness, meticulousness, pains, particularity, scrupulousness |
| Antonyms: | carelessness, neglect, negligence, omission, oversight |
| Main Entry: | concept |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | idea |
| Synonyms: | abstraction, apprehension, approach, conceit, conception, consideration, hypothesis, image, impression, notion, perception, slant, supposition, theory, thought, twist, view, wrinkle, big idea, brain wave, brainchild, conceptualization, fool notion, intellection |
| Notes: | a concept is a more definite, more unitary, more complete type of notion than is a conception, which is more of an ideational structure with a potential for realization (rather like a schema) |
| Antonyms: | being, concrete |
| Main Entry: | conception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | understanding; idea |
| Synonyms: | appreciation, apprehension, clue, cognition, comprehension, conceit, concept, consideration, considering, design, dreaming, explanation, exposition, fancy, image, impression, inkling, interpretation, meditation, musing, notion, perception, picture, plan, realization, representation, speculation, thought, version, apperception, cogitating, communing, concentrating, deliberating, envisaging, fancying, imagining, intellection, meditating, mental grasp, philosophizing, speculating |
| Antonyms: | being, concrete |
| Main Entry: | consideration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental analysis |
| Synonyms: | application, attention, cogitation, concentration, contemplation, debate, deliberation, discussion, examination, forethought, heed, reflection, regard, review, scrutiny, study, thinking, thought |
| Antonyms: | disregard, disrespect, failure, ignorance, neglect, negligence, omission, thoughtlessness, heedlessness |
| Main Entry: | consideration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | concern; something mentally examined |
| Synonyms: | development, difficulty, emergency, estate, evidence, exigency, extent, factor, fancy, idea, incident, issue, judgment, magnitude, minutiae, notion, occasion, occurrence, plan, point, problem, proposal, puzzle, scope, situation, state, thought, trouble, items, particulars, perplexity |
| Antonyms: | omission |
| Main Entry: | content |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | essence, meaning |
| Synonyms: | burden, composition, constitution, gist, idea, matter, significance, subject, subject matter, substance, text, thought |
| Main Entry: | deduction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conclusion, understanding |
| Synonyms: | answer, assumption, cogitation, consequence, consideration, contemplation, corollary, deliberation, derivation, finding, inference, judgment, meditation, musing, opinion, reasoning, reflection, result, speculation, thinking, thought, concluding, illation, inferring, mulling, pondering, ratiocination, rumination, sequitur |
| Antonyms: | confusion |
| Main Entry: | design |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intention |
| Synonyms: | action, aim, angle, animus, big picture*, brainchild, child*, conation, conspiracy, deliberation, end, enterprise, game plan*, gimmick, goal, intendment, intrigue, lay of the land, machination, meaning, notion, object, objective, picture, pitch, plan, play, plot, point, project, proposition, purport, purpose, recipe, reflection, scenario, scene, schema, scheme, setup, story, target, thinking, thought, trick, undertaking, view, volition, what's cooking, will |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dream |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illusion, vision |
| Synonyms: | bubble*, castle in the air*, chimera, daydream, delusion, fancy, fantasy, hallucination, head trip, idea, image, imagination, impression, incubus, nightmare, pie in the sky*, pipe dream*, rainbow, reverie, specter, speculation, thought, trance, vagary, wraith, mental picture |
| Antonyms: | actuality, certainty, existence, fact, reality, substance, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | estimate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | approximate calculation; educated guess |
| Synonyms: | appraisal, assay, assessment, ballpark figure*, belief, conclusion, conjecture, estimation, evaluation, guess, impression, judgment, measure, measurement, mensuration, opinion, point of view, projection, rating, reckoning, stock, surmise, survey, thought, valuation, appraisement, gauging, guesstimate, sizing up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | impulse, urge |
| Synonyms: | caprice, conceit, conception, contrariness, creation, cup of tea*, desire, druthers, flash, fool's paradise, groove*, humor, idea, image, imagination, impression, inclination, irrationality, liking, mind, notion, perverseness, pleasure, thing*, thought, vagary, velleity, visualization, weakness for, whim, will |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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