Synonyms of the word

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…

anticipate

• v. (transitive) To act before (someone), especially to prevent an action.
• v. to take up or introduce (something) prematurely.
• v. to know of (something) before it happens; to expect.
• v. to eagerly wait for (something).

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.

commit

• v. To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; — used with to, unto.
• v. To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
• v. (transitive) to have enter an establishment, such as a hospital or asylum, as a patient.
• v. To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
• v. To join a contest; to match; followed by with.
• v. To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step. (Traditionally…
• v. (computing) To make a set of changes permanent.
• v. (obsolete, Latinism) To confound.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be committed or perpetrated; to take place; to occur.
• n. (computing) The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction or source code into a source control repository),…

conjecture

• n. (formal) A statement or an idea which is unproven, but is thought to be true; a guess.
• n. (formal) A supposition based upon incomplete evidence; a hypothesis.
• n. (mathematics, philology) A statement likely to be true based on available evidence, but which has not…
• n. (obsolete) Interpretation of signs and omens.
• v. (formal, intransitive) To guess; to venture an unproven idea.

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.

expect

• v. To look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or…
• v. To consider obligatory or required.
• v. To consider reasonably due.
• v. (continuous aspect only, of a woman or couple) To be pregnant, to consider a baby due.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To wait for; to await.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To wait; to stay.

hypothecate

• v. (transitive) To pledge (something) as surety for a loan; to pawn, mortgage.
• v. (politics, Britain) To designate a new tax or tax increase for a specific expenditure.

hypothesise

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To believe or assert on uncertain grounds.

hypothesize

• v. (US) Alternative form of hypothesise.

invest

• v. To spend money, time, or energy on something, especially for some benefit or purpose; used with in.
• v. (dated) To clothe or wrap (with garments).
• v. (obsolete) To put on (clothing).
• v. To envelop, wrap, cover.
• v. To commit money or capital in the hope of financial gain.
• v. To ceremonially install someone in some office.
• v. To formally give (someone) some power or authority.
• v. To formally give (power or authority).
• v. To surround, accompany, or attend.
• v. To lay siege to.
• v. (intransitive) To make investments.
• v. (metallurgy) To prepare for lost wax casting by creating an investment mold (a mixture of a silica sand…
• n. (meteorology) An unnamed tropical weather pattern "to investigate" for development into a significant…

job

• n. A task.
• n. An economic role for which a person is paid.
• n. (in noun compounds) Plastic surgery.
• n. (computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
• n. A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.
• n. A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty,…
• n. Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
• n. A thing (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).
• v. (intransitive) To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
• v. (intransitive) To work as a jobber.
• v. (intransitive, professional wrestling slang) To take the loss.
• v. (transitive, trading) To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
• v. (transitive, often with out) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.
• v. (intransitive) To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private…
• v. To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.
• v. To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.
• v. To hire or let in periods of service.

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.

place

• n. (physical) An area; somewhere within an area.
• n. A location or position in space.
• n. A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.
• n. (obsolete) A passage or extract from a book or document.
• n. (obsolete, rhetoric) A topic.
• n. A frame of mind.
• n. (chess, obsolete) A chess position; a square of the chessboard.
• n. (social) A responsibility or position in an organization.
• n. (obsolete) A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.
• n. Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
• n. Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
• n. Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
• v. (transitive) To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
• v. (intransitive) To earn a given spot in a competition.
• v. (transitive) To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
• v. (transitive, passive) To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
• v. (transitive) To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
• v. (transitive) To arrange for or to make (a bet).
• v. (transitive) To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job.
• v. (sports, transitive) To place-kick (a goal).

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.

put

• v. To place something somewhere.
• v. To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition.
• v. (finance) To exercise a put option.
• v. To express something in a certain manner.
• v. (athletics) To throw a heavy iron ball, as a sport. (See shot put. Do not confuse with putt.).
• v. To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
• v. To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
• v. To attach or attribute; to assign.
• v. (obsolete) To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
• v. To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.
• v. (obsolete) To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
• v. (mining) To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.
• n. (business) A right to sell something at a predetermined price.
• n. (finance) A contract to sell a security at a set price on or before a certain date.
• n. The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push.
• n. An old card game.
• n. (obsolete) An idiot; a foolish person.
• n. (obsolete) A prostitute.

reason

• n. A cause.
• n. (uncountable) Rational thinking (or the capacity for it); the cognitive faculties, collectively, of conception,…
• n. (obsolete) Something reasonable, in accordance with thought; justice.
• n. (mathematics, obsolete) Ratio; proportion.
• v. (intransitive) To exercise the rational faculty; to deduce inferences from premises; to perform the process…
• v. (intransitive) Hence: To carry on a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute;…
• v. (intransitive) To converse; to compare opinions.
• v. (transitive) To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to…
• v. (transitive, rare) To support with reasons, as a request.
• v. (transitive) To persuade by reasoning or argument.
• v. (transitive, with down) To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons.
• v. (transitive, usually with out) To find by logical process; to explain or justify by reason or argument.

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…

suppose

• v. (transitive) To take for granted; to conclude, with less than absolute supporting data; to believe.
• v. (transitive) To theorize or hypothesize.
• v. To imagine; to believe; to receive as true.
• v. To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature.
• v. To put by fraud in the place of another.

theorise

• v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of theorize.

theorize

• v. To formulate a theory, especially about some specific subject.
• v. To speculate.

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.