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thought
noun as in formation of mental objects
Strongest matches
attention, hope, logic, reflection, speculation, thinking, understanding
Strong matches
anticipation, apprehending, cerebration, cogitation, cognition, concluding, consideration, considering, contemplation, deducing, deduction, deliberation, deriving, discerning, heed, ideation, inducing, inferring, introspection, intuition, judging, knowing, meditation, musing, perceiving, rationalization, rationalizing, realizing, reasoning, regard, rumination, scrutiny, seeing, study, theorization
Weak match
noun as in idea, concept
Strongest matches
anxiety, assessment, belief, concern, conclusion, dream, expectation, feeling, hope, image, intention, judgment, knowledge, notion, opinion, plan, prospect, theory, thinking, understanding, view, worry
Strong matches
aim, appreciation, aspiration, assumption, attentiveness, brainchild, brainstorm, caring, compassion, conception, conjecture, conviction, design, drift, estimation, fancy, guess, hypothesis, inference, intuition, kindness, object, premise, purpose, regard, reverie, solicitude, supposition, sympathy
Example Sentences
He says in the documentary he thought he was always going to play gangsters.
“They thought I was radiant, so I didn’t have to put on makeup,” he said.
“I thought it was a good call and every call that’s made in certain situations — I am making those,” Foster said.
Kendall told the BBC that she believed there were people who can work but refused to do so, but said she thought these people were "in the minority" of benefit claimants.
What are your thoughts about the significance of these individual discoveries and how the average news consumer should internalize them in terms of their larger relevance?
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When To Use
What are other ways to say thought?
The noun thought, which reflects its primary emphasis on the mental process, may denote any concept except the more weighty and elaborate ones: I welcomed his thoughts on the subject. A thought came to him. Idea, although it may refer to thoughts of any degree of seriousness or triviality, is commonly used for mental concepts considered more important or elaborate: We pondered the idea of the fourth dimension. The idea of his arrival frightened me. Conception suggests a thought that seems complete, individual, recent, or somewhat intricate: The architect’s conception delighted them. Notion suggests a fleeting, vague, or imperfect thought: a bare notion of how to proceed.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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