Synonyms of the word

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.

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.

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.

excogitate

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

germ

• n. (biology) The small mass of cells from which a new organism develops; a seed, bud or spore.
• n. A pathogenic microorganism.
• n. The embryo of a seed, especially of a seed used as a cereal or grain. See Wikipedia article on cereal…
• n. (figuratively) The origin of an idea or project.
• n. (mathematics) An equivalence class that includes a specified function defined in an open neighborhood.
• v. To germinate.
• v. (slang) To grow, as if parasitic.

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.

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…

seed

• n. (countable) A fertilized grain, initially encased in a fruit, which may grow into a mature plant.
• n. (countable, botany) A fertilized ovule, containing an embryonic plant.
• n. (uncountable) An amount of fertilized grain that cannot be readily counted.
• n. (uncountable) Semen.
• n. (countable) A precursor.
• n. (countable) The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the…
• n. (now rare) Offspring, descendants, progeny.
• n. Race; generation; birth.
• v. (transitive) To plant or sow an area with seeds.
• v. To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
• v. (transitive) To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.
• v. (sports, gaming) To allocate a seeding to a competitor.
• v. (Internet, transitive) To leave (files) available for others to download through BitTorrent.
• v. To be able to compete (especially in a quarter-final/semi-final/final).
• v. To ejaculate inside the penetratee during intercourse, especially in the rectum.
• v. (dialectal) simple past tense and past participle of see.

source

• n. The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
• n. Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which…
• n. A reporter's informant.
• n. (computing) Source code.
• n. (electronics) The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
• v. (chiefly US) To obtain or procure: used especially of a business resource.
• v. (transitive) To find information about (a quotation)'s source (from which it comes): to find a citation…

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…

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.