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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | think about |
| Synonyms: | cerebrate, chew*, cogitate, consider, contemplate, deliberate, meditate, mull over, muse, ponder, reason, ruminate, speculate, stew, study, think, weigh, wonder |
| Antonyms: | disregard, ignore |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | speculate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | think about deeply and theorize |
| Synonyms: | beat one's brains, brainstorm*, build castles in air, call it, call the turn, cerebrate, chew over, cogitate, conjecture, consider, contemplate, deliberate, dope out, dope*, excogitate, figure, figure out*, guess, guesstimate, have a hunch, hazard a guess, head trip, hypothesize, kick around, meditate, muse, pipe-dream, psych out, read, read between lines, reason, reflect, review, ruminate, run it up flagpole, scheme, size up, study, suppose, surmise, suspect, weigh, wonder |
| Antonyms: | ignore, neglect |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | turn over |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | think about seriously |
| Synonyms: | consider, contemplate, deliberate, give thought to, meditate, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect on, revolve, roll, ruminate, think over, wonder about |
| Antonyms: | ignore |
| Main Entry: | vomit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | disgorge |
| Synonyms: | be seasick, be sick, bring up*, dry heave, eject, emit, expel, gag, heave, hurl, puke, regurgitate, retch, ruminate, spew, spit up, throw up, upchuck |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | chew the cud |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | to ruminate |
| Synonyms: | chew the fat, converse, digest, meditate, mull something over, muse, ponder over, ruminate, think about, think over |
| Main Entry: | ratiocinate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | think |
| 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, put on one's thinking cap, 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, use one's head, weigh |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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