| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| VERB: | think about1. To have an opinion: believe, consider, deem, hold, opine. Informal : figure, judge. Idioms: be of the opinion. See OPINION. 2. To view in a certain way: believe, feel, hold, sense. See OPINION. 3. To form mental images of: conceive, envisage, envision, fancy, fantasize, image, imagine, picture, see, vision, visualize. Informal : feature. See THOUGHTS. 4. To think or think about carefully and at length: chew on or (over), cogitate, consider, contemplate, deliberate, entertain, excogitate, meditate, mull, muse1, ponder, reflect, revolve, ruminate, study, think out, think over, think through, turn over, weigh. Idioms: cudgel one's brains, put on one's thinking cap, rack one's brain. See THOUGHTS. 5. To renew an image or thought in the mind: bethink, mind, recall, recollect, remember, reminisce, retain, revive. Idioms: bring to mind. See REMEMBER. 6. To regard in an appraising way: believe, repute, suppose. See BELIEF. 7. To use the powers of the mind, as in conceiving ideas, drawing inferences, and making judgments: cerebrate, cogitate, deliberate, ratiocinate, reflect, speculate. Idioms: put on one's thinking cap, use one's head. See THOUGHTS. | | PHRASAL VERB: | think of To receive (an idea) and take it into consideration: consider, entertain, hear of. See THOUGHTS. think of To care enough to keep (someone) in mind: remember, think about. See REMEMBER. think out To think or think about carefully and at length: chew on or (over), cogitate, consider, contemplate, deliberate, entertain, excogitate, meditate, mull, muse1, ponder, reflect, revolve, ruminate, study, think, think over, think through, turn over, weigh. Idioms: cudgel one's brains, put on one's thinking cap, rack one's brain. See THOUGHTS. think over To think or think about carefully and at length: chew on or (over), cogitate, consider, contemplate, deliberate, entertain, excogitate, meditate, mull, muse1, ponder, reflect, revolve, ruminate, study, think, think out, think through, turn over, weigh. Idioms: cudgel one's brains, put on one's thinking cap, rack one's brain. See THOUGHTS. think through To think or think about carefully and at length: chew on or (over), cogitate, consider, contemplate, deliberate, entertain, excogitate, meditate, mull, muse1, ponder, reflect, revolve, ruminate, study, think, think out, think over, turn over, weigh. Idioms: cudgel one's brains, put on one's thinking cap, rack one's brain. See THOUGHTS. think up To use ingenuity in making, developing, or achieving: concoct, contrive, devise, dream up, fabricate, formulate, hatch, invent, make up. Informal : cook up. Idioms: come up with. See MAKE.
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