thought

Plural: thoughts

Noun

• An idea or opinion produced by thinking.
• the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
  • "the thought never entered my mind"
• the process of using your mind to consider something carefully
  • "she paused for thought"
• the organized beliefs of a period or group or individual
  • "19th century thought"
  • "Darwinian thought"
• a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty
  • "what are your thoughts on Haiti?"
• A representation created in the mind without the use of one's faculties of vision, sound, smell, touch, or taste; an instance of thinking.
• The operation by which mental activity arise or are manipulated; the process of thinking; the agency by which thinking is accomplished.
• A way of thinking (associated with a group, nation or region).
• Anxiety, distress.
• The careful consideration of multiple factors; deliberation.
• A very small amount, distance, etc.; a whit or jot.

Verb

• judge or regard; look upon; judge
• expect, believe, or suppose
  • "I thought to find her in a bad state"
• use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments
• recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
• imagine or visualize
• focus one's attention on a certain state
• have in mind as a purpose
  • "We thought to return early that night"
• 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
  • "think good thoughts"
• be capable of conscious thought
• bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation
  • "She thought herself into a state of panic over the final exam"
• simple past and past participle of think

Examples

• After much thought, I have decided to stay.
• Every THOUGHT in Scrabble centers on maximizing points from the rack.
• Hi! I thought I’d come over and introduce myself. My name’s Chema.
• I hate the thought of going back to work Monday morning.
• I'd previously been thought to be a thorough fool.
• The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
• Traditional eastern thought differs markedly from that of the west.
• Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom, and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

Synonyms

believe, call back, call up, cerebrate, cerebration, cogitate, conceive, consider, guess, idea, imagine, intellection, intend, mean, mentation, opine, opinion, persuasion, recall, reckon, recollect, remember, retrieve, sentiment, suppose, think, thinking, thought process, view, cogitation, contemplation, deliberation, meditation, mulling, musing, pondering, reconsideration, reflection, rethinking, rumination, thinking#Noun, thought

Antonyms

forget