Synonyms of the word

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.

attest

• v. To affirm to be correct, true, or genuine.
• v. To certify by signature or oath.
• v. To certify in an official capacity.
• v. To supply or be evidence of.
• v. To put under oath.
• v. To call to witness; to invoke.

cerebrate

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

certify

• v. (transitive) to attest to as the truth or meeting a standard.

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.

demonstrate

• v. To display the method of using an object.
• v. To show the steps taken to create a logical argument or equation.
• v. To participate in or organize a demonstration.
• v. To show, display, present.

emit

• v. (transitive) To send out or give off.

evidence

• n. Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
• n. (law) Anything admitted by a court to prove or disprove alleged matters of fact in a trial.
• n. One who bears witness.
• v. (transitive) To provide evidence for, or suggest the truth of.

excogitate

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

indicate

• v. To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known.
• v. To show or manifest by symptoms; to point to as the proper remedies.
• v. To signal in a vehicle the desire to turn right or left.
• v. To investigate the condition or power of, as of steam engine, by means of an indicator.

manifest

• adj. Evident to the senses, especially to the sight; apparent; distinctly perceived.
• adj. Obvious to the understanding; apparent to the mind; easily apprehensible; plain; not obscure or hidden.
• adj. (rare, used with "of") Detected; convicted.
• n. (obsolete) A public declaration; an open statement; a manifesto or manifestation.
• n. A list or invoice of the passengers or goods being carried by a commercial vehicle or ship.
• n. (computing) A file containing metadata describing other files.
• v. To show plainly; to make to appear distinctly, usually to the mind; to put beyond question or doubt; to…
• v. To exhibit the manifests or prepared invoices of; to declare at the customhouse.

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.

point

• n. A discrete division of something.
• n. A sharp extremity.
• n. (heraldry) One of the several different parts of the escutcheon.
• n. (nautical) A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.
• n. (historical) A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.
• n. Lace worked by the needle.
• n. (US, slang, dated) An item of private information; a hint; a tip; a pointer.
• n. The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.
• n. (falconry) The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
• n. The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.
• n. The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.
• n. (medicine, obsolete) A vaccine point.
• n. In various sports, a position of a certain player, or, by extension, the player occupying that position.
• v. (intransitive) To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or…
• v. (intransitive) To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.
• v. (intransitive) To face in a particular direction.
• v. (transitive) To direct toward an object; to aim.
• v. To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.
• v. (intransitive) To indicate a probability of something.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, masonry) To repair mortar.
• v. (transitive, masonry) To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or…
• v. (stone-cutting) To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
• v. (transitive) To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.
• v. (transitive) To mark with diacritics.
• v. (dated) To supply with punctuation marks; to punctuate.
• v. (transitive, computing) To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location…
• v. (transitive, Internet) To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that…
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail close to the wind.
• v. (intransitive, hunting) To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting…
• v. (medicine, of an abscess) To approximate to the surface; to head.
• v. (obsolete) To appoint.
• v. (dated) To give particular prominence to; to designate in a special manner; to point out.

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.

reverberate

• v. (intransitive) to ring with many echos.
• v. (intransitive) to have a lasting effect.
• v. (intransitive) to repeatedly return.
• v. To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat.
• v. To send or force back; to repel from side to side.
• v. To fuse by reverberated heat.
• v. (intransitive) to rebound or recoil.
• v. (intransitive) to shine or reflect (from a surface, etc.).
• v. (obsolete) to shine or glow (on something) with reflected light.
• adj. reverberant.
• adj. Driven back, as sound; reflected.

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…

shine

• v. (intransitive) To emit light.
• v. (intransitive) To reflect light.
• v. (intransitive) To distinguish oneself; to excel.
• v. (intransitive) To be effulgent in splendour or beauty.
• v. (intransitive) To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers.
• v. (intransitive) To be immediately apparent.
• v. (transitive) To create light with (a flashlight, lamp, torch, or similar).
• v. (transitive) To cause to shine, as a light.
• v. (US, transitive) To make bright; to cause to shine by reflected light.
• n. Brightness from a source of light.
• n. Brightness from reflected light.
• n. Excellence in quality or appearance.
• n. Shoeshine.
• n. Sunshine.
• n. (slang) Moonshine.
• n. (cricket) The amount of shininess on a cricket ball, or on each side of the ball.
• n. (slang) A liking for a person; a fancy.
• n. (archaic, slang) A caper; an antic; a row.
• v. (transitive) To cause (something) to shine; put a shine on (something); polish (something).
• v. (transitive, cricket) To polish a cricket ball using saliva and one’s clothing.

show

• v. (transitive) To display, to have somebody see (something).
• v. (transitive) To bestow; to confer.
• v. (transitive) To indicate (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate.
• v. (transitive) To guide or escort.
• v. (intransitive) To be visible, to be seen.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To put in an appearance; show up.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To have an enlarged belly and thus be recognizable as pregnant.
• v. (intransitive, racing) To finish third, especially of horses or dogs.
• v. (obsolete) To have a certain appearance, such as well or ill, fit or unfit; to become or suit; to appear.
• n. (countable) A play, dance, or other entertainment.
• n. (countable) An exhibition of items.
• n. (countable) A demonstration.
• n. (countable) A broadcast program/programme.
• n. (countable) A movie.
• n. (uncountable) Mere display or pomp with no substance.
• n. A project or presentation.
• n. (baseball, with "the") The major leagues.
• n. (mining, obsolete) A pale blue flame at the top of a candle flame, indicating the presence of firedamp.
• n. (obsolete) Semblance; likeness; appearance.
• n. (medicine) A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occurring a short time before labor.

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.