thinking

Plural: thinkings

Noun

• The process of using one's mind; an opinion or judgment.
• the process of using your mind to consider something carefully
  • "thinking always made him frown"
• Thought; gerund of think.

Verb

• judge or regard; look upon; judge
• expect, believe, or suppose
• 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
• imagine or visualize
• focus one's attention on a certain state
• have in mind as a purpose
• decide by pondering, reasoning, or reflecting
• ponder; reflect on, or reason about
• dispose the mind in a certain way
• have or formulate in the mind
• be capable of conscious thought
• bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation
• present participle and gerund of think

Adjective Satellite

• endowed with the capacity to reason

Examples

• His strategic THINKING led to a seven-letter word that clinched the Scrabble victory.
• I'm thinking about inventing a new perpetual-motion machine.
• What is your thinking on this subject?

Synonyms

believe, call back, call up, cerebrate, cerebration, cogitate, conceive, consider, guess, imagine, intellection, intelligent, intend, mean, mentation, opine, reasoning, recall, reckon, recollect, remember, retrieve, suppose, think, thought, thought process

Antonyms

forget

Related Words

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