think

Plural: thinks

Noun

• an instance of deliberate thinking
  • "I need to give it a good think"
• An act of thinking; consideration (of something).

Verb

Verb Forms: thought, thinking, thinks

• To form or have an idea or judgment in one's mind.
• judge or regard; look upon; judge
  • "I think he is very smart"
  • "I think that he is her boyfriend"
• expect, believe, or suppose
  • "he didn't think to find her in the kitchen"
• use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments
  • "I've been thinking all day and getting nowhere"
• recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
  • "I can't think what her last name was"
• imagine or visualize
  • "Just think--you could be rich one day!"
  • "Think what a scene it must have been!"
• focus one's attention on a certain state
  • "Think big"
  • "think thin"
• have in mind as a purpose
  • "She didn't think to harm me"
• decide by pondering, reasoning, or reflecting
  • "Can you think what to do next?"
• ponder; reflect on, or reason about
  • "Think the matter through"
  • "Think how hard life in Russia must be these days"
• dispose the mind in a certain way
  • "Do you really think so?"
• have or formulate in the mind
  • "think good thoughts"
• be capable of conscious thought
  • "Man is the only creature that thinks"
• bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation
• To ponder, to go over in one's mind.
• To have (some statement) in one's mind; to say to oneself mentally.
• To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.
• To conceive of something or someone (usually followed by of; infrequently, by on).
• To be of opinion (that); to consider, judge, regard, or look upon (something) as.
• To guess; to reckon; to believe while admittedly being uncertain.
• To plan; to be considering; to be of a mind (to do something).
• To presume; to venture.
• Ellipsis of think so.
• To seem, to appear.

Examples

• "I should phone my mother," I thought.
• Boxing is thought to be a dangerous sport.
• He had to THINK strategically to place his ’X’ for maximum Scrabble points.
• I don't think it worth complaining about the leak in the roof, is it?
• I hope you won’t think me stupid if I ask you what that means.
• I tend to think of her as rather ugly.
• I think she is pretty, contrary to most people.
• I thought for three hours about the problem and still couldn’t find the solution.
• I'll have a think about that and let you know.
• Idly, the detective thought what his next move should be.
• It was thought that I was the mole in the company.
• She thought it pointless starting before four o'clock.
• These plants are dead. Uh, you think?
• We should/would have thought she could've washed her hands before, at least.

Synonyms

believe, call back, call up, cerebrate, cogitate, conceive, consider, guess, imagine, intend, mean, opine, recall, reckon, recollect, remember, retrieve, suppose, deem, guess See Thesaurus:suppose, have opinion, ponder, think

Antonyms

forget

Related Words

forthink, have opinion, suppose, thank, thought, thunk