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| Main Entry: |
think
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| 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: | 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 |
Example Sentences
- They probably did the maximum that could be done with intuitive thinking.
- Thinking in spatial terms is essential to knowing and applying geography.
- They lean toward thinking that some students are naturally smart and others are not, but that's not it.
| 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 |
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