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| Main Entry: |
excogitative
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thoughtful |
| Synonyms: | cogitative, contemplative, contrivable, deliberative, devisable, meditative, probing, reflective, ruminative, speculative, thinking |
| Main Entry: | lucubration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | advisement |
| Synonyms: | application, attention, calculation, cogitation, concentration, consideration, contemplation, debate, deliberation, discussion, examination, forethought, heed, reflection, regard, review, scrutiny, study, thinking, thought |
| Main Entry: | psychical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mental |
| Synonyms: | brainy, cerebral, clairvoyant, deep, heavy*, ideological, imaginative, immaterial, inner, intellective, intellectual, mysterious, phrenic, psychic, psychological, rational, reasoning, spiritual, subconscious, subjective, subliminal, telepathic, thinking, thoughtful, unreal |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | regardfulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | attention |
| Synonyms: | absorption, application, assiduity, attentiveness, concentration, consideration, contemplation, debate, deliberation, diligence, engrossment, heed, heedfulness, immersion, industry, intentness, mind, scrutiny, study, thinking, thought, thoughtfulness |
| Main Entry: | rumination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | thought |
| Synonyms: | anticipation, apprehending, attention, brainwork, cerebration, cogitation, cognition, concluding, consideration, considering, contemplation, deducing, deduction, deliberation, deriving, discerning, excogitation, heed, hope, ideation, inducing, inferring, introspection, intuition, judging, knowing, logic, meditation, musing, perceiving, rationalization, rationalizing, realizing, reasoning, reflection, regard, scrutiny, seeing, speculation, study, theorization, thinking, understanding |
| Main Entry: | ruminative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thoughtful |
| Synonyms: | absorbed, analytical, attentive, brainy, calculating, cerebral, cogitative, contemplative, deep, deliberative, discerning, earnest, engrossed, excogitative, farsighted, grave, in a brown study, intellectual, intent, keen, levelheaded, logical, lost in thought, meditative, melancholy, museful, musing, pensive, philosophic, pondering, preoccupied, rapt, rational, reasonable, reasoning, reflecting, reflective, retrospective, serious, sober, speculative, studious, subjective, thinking, wise*, wistful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
| 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
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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