Synonyms of the word

contemplate

• v. To look at on all sides or in all its aspects; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard…
• v. To consider as a possibility.

cerebrate

• v. To think or cogitate; especially so as to make inferences or decisions or to solve problems.

cogitate

• v. (intransitive) To meditate, to ponder, to think deeply.
• v. (transitive) To consider, to devise.

consider

• v. (transitive) To think about seriously.
• v. (transitive) To think of doing.
• v. (ditransitive) To assign some quality to.
• v. (transitive) To look at attentively.
• v. (transitive) To take up as an example.
• v. (transitive, parliamentary procedure) To debate or dispose of a motion.
• v. To have regard to; to take into view or account; to pay due attention to; to respect.

deal

• n. (obsolete) A division, a portion, a share.
• n. (often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).
• v. (transitive) To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
• v. (transitive) To administer or give out, as in small portions.
• v. To distribute cards to the players in a game.
• v. (baseball) To pitch.
• v. (intransitive) To have dealings or business.
• v. (intransitive) To conduct oneself, to behave.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To take action; to act.
• v. (intransitive) To trade professionally (followed by in).
• v. (transitive) To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.
• v. (intransitive) To be concerned with.
• v. (intransitive) To handle, to manage, to cope.
• n. (archaic in general sense) An act of dealing or sharing.
• n. The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.
• n. A particular instance of buying or selling, a transaction.
• n. Specifically, a transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
• n. An agreement between parties; an arrangement.
• n. (informal) A situation, occasion, or event.
• n. (informal) A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.
• n. (uncountable) Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir).
• n. (countable) A plank of softwood (fir or pine board).
• n. (countable, archaic) A wooden board or plank, usually between 12 or 14 feet in length, traded as a commodity…
• adj. Made of deal.

excogitate

• v. To think over something carefully; to consider fully; cogitate.
• v. To come to a conclusion through reason or careful thought.

meditate

• v. (intransitive) To contemplate; to keep the mind fixed upon something; to study.
• v. (intransitive) To sit or lie down and come to a deep rest while still remaining conscious.

mull

• v. To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate; usually with over.
• v. To powder; to pulverize.
• v. To chop marijuana so that it becomes a smokable form.
• v. To heat and spice something, such as wine.
• v. To join two or more individual windows at mullions.
• v. To dull or stupefy.
• n. A thin, soft muslin.
• n. (uncountable) Marijuana that has been chopped to prepare it for smoking.
• n. A stew of meat, broth, milk, butter, vegetables, and seasonings, thickened with soda crackers.
• n. The gauze used in bookbinding to adhere a text block to a book's cover.
• n. An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger.
• n. (Scotland) A promontory.
• n. A snuffbox made of the small end of a horn.
• n. dirt; rubbish.

muse

• n. A source of inspiration.
• n. (archaic) A poet; a bard.
• v. (intransitive) To become lost in thought, to ponder.
• v. (transitive) To say (something) with due consideration or thought.
• v. (transitive) To think on; to meditate on.
• v. (transitive) To wonder at.
• n. An act of musing; a period of thoughtfulness.
• n. A gap or hole in a hedge, fence, etc. through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset.

ponder

• v. To wonder, to think of deeply.
• v. To consider (something) carefully and thoroughly; to chew over, to mull over.
• v. (obsolete) To weigh.
• n. (colloquial) A period of deep thought.

reflect

• v. (transitive) To bend back (light, etc.) from a surface.
• v. (intransitive) To be bent back (light, etc.) from a surface.
• v. (transitive) To mirror, or show the image of something.
• v. (intransitive) To be mirrored.
• v. (transitive) To agree with; to closely follow.
• v. (transitive) To give evidence of someone's or something's character etc.
• v. (intransitive) To think seriously; to ponder or consider.

ruminate

• v. (intransitive) To chew cud. (Said of ruminants.) Involves regurgitating partially digested food from the…
• v. (intransitive) To meditate or reflect.
• v. (transitive) To meditate or ponder over; to muse on.
• adj. (botany) Having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg…

speculate

• v. (intransitive) To think, meditate or reflect on a subject; to consider, to deliberate or cogitate.
• v. (intransitive) To make an inference based on inconclusive evidence; to surmise or conjecture.
• v. (intransitive, business, finance) To make a risky trade in the hope of making a profit; to venture or…

study

• v. (usually academic) To review materials already learned in order to make sure one does not forget them,…
• v. (academic) To take a course or courses on a subject.
• v. To acquire knowledge on a subject.
• v. To look at minutely.
• v. To fix the mind closely upon a subject; to dwell upon anything in thought; to muse; to ponder.
• v. To endeavor diligently; to be zealous.
• n. (obsolete) A state of mental perplexity or worried thought.
• n. (archaic) Thought, as directed to a specific purpose; one's concern.
• n. Mental effort to acquire knowledge or learning.
• n. The act of studying or examining; examination.
• n. Any particular branch of learning that is studied; any object of attentive consideration.
• n. A room in a house intended for reading and writing; traditionally the private room of the male head of…
• n. An artwork made in order to practise or demonstrate a subject or technique.
• n. (music) A piece for special practice; an étude.

take

• v. (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
• v. (transitive) To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
• v. (transitive) To remove.
• v. (transitive) To have sex with.
• v. (transitive) To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
• v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
• v. (transitive) To select or choose; to pick.
• v. (transitive) To adopt (select) as one's own.
• v. (transitive) To carry or lead (something or someone).
• v. (transitive) To use as a means of transportation.
• v. (obsolete) To visit; to include in a course of travel.
• v. (transitive) To obtain for use by payment or lease.
• v. (transitive) To consume.
• v. (transitive) To experience, undergo, or endure.
• v. (transitive) To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
• v. (transitive) To regard in a specified way.
• v. (transitive) To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
• v. (transitive) To understand (especially in a specified way).
• v. (transitive) To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
• v. (transitive) To believe, to accept the statements of.
• v. (transitive) To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
• v. (transitive) To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
• v. (transitive) To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
• v. (transitive) To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
• v. (transitive) To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
• v. (transitive) To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
• v. (transitive, of cloth, paper, etc) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to…
• v. (transitive, of a ship) To let in (water).
• v. (transitive) To require.
• v. (transitive) To proceed to fill.
• v. (transitive) To fill, to use up (time or space).
• v. (transitive) To avail oneself of.
• v. (transitive) To perform, to do.
• v. (transitive) To assume or perform (a form or role).
• v. (transitive) To bind oneself by.
• v. (transitive) To move into.
• v. (transitive) To go into, through, or along.
• v. (transitive) To have or take recourse to.
• v. (transitive) To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
• v. (transitive) To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
• v. (transitive) To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
• v. (transitive, dated) To take a picture, photograph, etc of (a person, scene, etc).
• v. (transitive) To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
• v. (transitive, now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
• v. (transitive) To deal with.
• v. (transitive) To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow…
• v. (transitive, grammar) To have an be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
• v. (intransitive) To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
• v. (intransitive) To engage, take hold or have effect.
• v. (intransitive) To become; to be affected in a specified way.
• v. (intransitive, possibly dated) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
• v. (intransitive, dialectal, proscribed) An intensifier.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To deliver, give (something) to (someone).
• v. (transitive, obsolete outside dialects and slang) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or…
• n. The or an act of taking.
• n. Something that is taken; a haul.
• n. An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective.
• n. An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
• n. (film) A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a…
• n. (music) A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
• n. A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response…
• n. (medicine) An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
• n. (rugby, cricket) A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
• n. (printing) The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.

think

• v. (transitive) To ponder, to go over in one's head.
• v. (intransitive) To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.
• v. (intransitive) To conceive of something or someone (usually followed by of; infrequently, by on).
• v. (transitive) To be of the opinion (that).
• v. (transitive) To guess; to reckon.
• v. (transitive) To consider, judge, regard, or look upon (something) as.
• v. To plan; to be considering; to be of a mind (to do something).
• v. To presume; to venture.
• n. (chiefly Britain) An act of thinking; consideration (of something).
• v. (obsolete except in methinks) To seem, to appear.

view

• n. (physical) Visual perception.
• n. A picture, drawn or painted; a sketch.
• n. (psychological) Opinion, judgement, imagination.
• n. (computing, databases) A virtual or logical table composed of the result set of a query in relational…
• n. (computing, programming) The part of a computer program which is visible to the user and can be interacted…
• n. A wake.
• v. (transitive) To look at.
• v. (transitive) To regard in a stated way.