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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something understood, planned, or |
| Synonyms: | aim, approximation, belief, believed abstraction, brainstorm*, clue, concept, conception, conclusion, conviction, design, doctrine, end, essence, estimate, fancy, feeling, flash*, form, guess, hint, hypothesis, import, impression, inkling, intention, interpretation, intimation, judgment, meaning, notion, object, objective, opinion, pattern, perception, plan, purpose, reason, scheme, sense, significance, solution, suggestion, suspicion, teaching, theory, thought, understanding, view, viewpoint |
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| Main Entry: | thought |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | idea, concept |
| Synonyms: | aim, anxiety, appreciation, aspiration, assessment, assumption, attentiveness, belief, brainchild, brainstorm*, caring, 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 |
| Antonyms: | concrete, thing |
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| Main Entry: | significancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | idea |
| Synonyms: | abstraction, aim, approximation, belief, brainstorm*, clue, concept, conception, conclusion, conviction, design, doctrine, end, essence, estimate, fancy, feeling, flash*, form, guess, hint, hypothesis, import, impression, inkling, intention, interpretation, intimation, judgment, meaning, notion, object, objective, opinion, pattern, perception, plan, point, purport, purpose, reason, scheme, sense, significance, solution, suggestion, suspicion, teaching, theory, thought, understanding, view, viewpoint |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | cause |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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aboriginal, agnogenic, ambiotic, cacestogenous, causal, connate, efficacious, embryonic, embryotic, germinal, original, originated, primary, primitive, primordial, princeps, radical, seminal, subjacent
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| Main Entry: | plan |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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| Main Entry: | thought |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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alembicated, catoptric, cogitabund, contemplative, deep, idiotropic, in the mind, introspective, lost in thought, meditative, museful, pensive, philosophastering, philosophical, platonic, reflective, refrangible, sedate, specular, speculative, studious, subvocal, thinking, thought of, thoughtful, under consideration, uppermost in the mind, wistful
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| Concept: | [Constant antecedent] Cause. |
| Category: | 1. CONSTANCY OF SEQUENCE IN EVENTS |
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cause, origin, source, principle, element; occasioner, prime mover, primum mobile; vera causa; author (producer); mainspring; agent; leaven; groundwork, foundation (support)., spring, fountain, well, font; fountainhead, spring head, wellhead; fons et origo, genesis; descent (paternity); remote cause; influence., pivot, hinge, turning point, lever, crux, fulcrum; key; proximate cause, causa causans; straw that breaks the camel's back., ground; reason, reason why; why and wherefore, rationale, occasion, derivation; final cause (intention); les dessous des cartes; undercurrents., rudiment; egg, germ, embryo, bud, root, radix, radical, etymon, nucleus, seed, stem, stock, stirps, trunk, tap-root, gemmule, radicle, semen, sperm., nest, cradle, nursery, womb, nidus, birthplace, hotbed., causality, causation; origination; production.
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| Antonyms: | effect |
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| Concept: | [Object of thought.] Idea. |
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idea, notion, conception, thought, apprehension, impression, perception, image, eidolon, sentiment, reflection, observation, consideration; abstract idea; archetype, formative notion; guiding conception, organizing conception; image in the mind, regulative principle., view (opinion); theory; conceit, fancy; phantasy (imagination)., point of view (aspect); field of view.
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| Concept: | Plan. |
| Category: | 1. Conceptional volition |
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plan, scheme, design, project; proposal, proposition, suggestion; resolution, motion; precaution (provision); deep-laid plan (premeditated) [more];, system (order),[more]; organization (arrangement); germ (cause)., sketch, skeleton, outline, draught, draft, ebauche, brouillon; rough cast, rough draft, draught, draught copy; copy; proof, revise., forecast, program(me), prospectus; carte du pays; card; bill, protocol; order of the day, list of agenda; bill of fare (food); base of operations; platform, plank, slate [U. S.], ticket [U. S.]., role; policy (line of conduct)., contrivance, invention, expedient, receipt, nostrum, artifice, device; pipelaying [U.S.]; stratagem (cunning); trick (deception); alternative, loophole; shift (substitute); last shift (necessity)., measure, step; stroke, stroke of policy; master stroke; trump card, court card; cheval de bataille, great gun; coup, coup d'etat; clever stroke, bold stroke, good move, good hit, good stroke; bright thought, bright idea., intrigue, cabal, plot, conspiracy, complot, machination; underplot, counterplot., schemer, schemist, schematist; strategist, machinator; projector, artist, promoter, designer; conspirator; intrigant (cunning).
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