Synonyms of the word

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.

advisement

• n. (now US) Consideration or deliberation.
• n. (archaic) Advice, counsel.

alter

• v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
• v. (intransitive) To become different.
• v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
• v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

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).

believe

• v. (transitive) To accept as true, particularly without absolute certainty (i.e., as opposed to knowing).
• v. (transitive) To accept that someone is telling the truth.
• v. (intransitive) To have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth.

center

• n. The point in the interior of a circle that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
• n. The point in the interior of a sphere that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
• n. The middle portion of something; the part well away from the edges.
• n. (geometry) The point on a line that is midway between the ends.
• n. (geometry) The point in the interior of any figure of any number of dimensions that has as its coordinates…
• n. A place where some function or activity occurs.
• n. A topic that is particularly important in a given context.
• n. (basketball) The player, generally the tallest, who plays closest to the basket.
• n. (ice hockey) The forward that generally plays between the left wing and right wing and usually takes the…
• n. (American football, Canadian football) The person who holds the ball at the beginning of each play.
• n. (netball) A player who can go all over the court, except the shooting circles.
• n. (soccer) A pass played into the centre of the pitch.
• n. (rugby) One of the backs operating in a central area of the pitch, either the inside centre or outside…
• n. (architecture) A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault or arch are supported in position…
• n. (engineering) One of the two conical steel pins in a lathe, etc., upon which the work is held, and about…
• n. (engineering) A conical recess or indentation in the end of a shaft or other work, to receive the point…
• n. (politics) The ensemble of moderate or centrist political parties.
• adj. Of, at, or related to a center.
• v. (transitive) To cause (an object) to occupy the center of an area.
• v. (transitive) To cause (some attribute, such as a mood or voltage) to be adjusted to a value which is midway…
• v. (transitive) To give (something) a central basis.
• v. (intransitive) To concentrate on (something), to pay close attention to (something).
• v. (engineering) To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center.

centre

• n. (British spelling, Canadian, Irish, South African, Australian and New Zealand) Alternative spelling of…
• v. (British spelling, Canadian, Irish, South African, Australian and New Zealand) Alternative spelling of…

cerebrate

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

change

• v. (intransitive) To become something different.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
• v. (transitive) To replace.
• v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
• v. (archaic) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
• n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
• n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
• n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
• n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
• n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
• n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
• n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
• n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
• n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
• n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

cogitate

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

conceive

• v. (transitive) To develop an idea; to form in the mind; to plan; to devise; to originate.
• v. (transitive) To understand (someone).
• v. (intransitive or transitive) To become pregnant.

concentrate

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather…
• v. To increase the strength and diminish the bulk of, as of a liquid or an ore; to intensify, by getting…
• v. To approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate.
• v. (intransitive) To focus one's thought or attention (on).
• n. A substance that is in a condensed form.

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.

deliberation

• n. The act of deliberating, or of weighing and examining the reasons for and against a choice or measure;…
• n. Careful discussion and examination of the reasons for and against a measure.

envisage

• v. To conceive or see something within one's mind; to imagine or envision.

evaluate

• v. (transitive) to draw conclusions from examining; to assess.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) to compute or determine the value of (an expression).
• v. (transitive, computing, mathematics) To return or have a specific value.

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.

focus

• n. (countable, optics) A point at which reflected or refracted rays of light converge.
• n. (countable, geometry) A point of a conic at which rays reflected from a curve or surface converge.
• n. (uncountable, photography, cinematography) The fact of the convergence of light on the photographic medium.
• n. (uncountable, photography, cinematography) The quality of the convergence of light on the photographic…
• n. (uncountable) Concentration of attention.
• n. (countable, seismology) The exact point of where an earthquake occurs, in three dimensions (underneath…
• n. (computing, graphical user interface) The indicator of the currently active element in a user interface.
• n. (linguistics) The most important word or phrase in a sentence or passage, or the one that imparts information.
• v. (transitive) To cause (rays of light, etc) to converge at a single point.
• v. (transitive) To adjust (a lens, an optical instrument) in order to position an image with respect to the…
• v. (transitive, followed by on or upon) To concentrate one's attention.
• v. (intransitive) To concentrate one’s attention.
• v. (computing, graphical user interface, transitive) To transfer the input focus to (a visual element), so…

guess

• v. To reach a partly (or totally) unqualified conclusion.
• v. To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.
• v. (chiefly US) to suppose (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).
• v. (obsolete) To hit upon or reproduce by memory.
• n. A prediction about the outcome of something, typically made without factual evidence or support.

ideate

• v. To apprehend in thought so as to fix and hold in the mind; to memorize.
• v. To generate an idea.
• n. (metaphysics) The actual existence supposed to correspond with an idea; the correlate in real existence…

imagine

• v. (transitive) To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.
• v. (transitive) To believe in something created by one's own mind.
• v. (transitive) To assume.
• v. (transitive) To conjecture or guess.
• v. (intransitive) To use one's imagination.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise.

intend

• v. (intransitive, usually followed by the particle "to") To fix the mind upon (something to be accomplished);…
• v. To fix the mind on; attend to; take care of; superintend; regard.
• v. (obsolete) To stretch to extend; distend.
• v. To strain; make tense.
• v. (obsolete) To intensify; strengthen.
• v. To apply with energy.
• v. To bend or turn; direct, as one’s course or journey.
• v. To design mechanically or artistically; fashion; mold.
• v. To pretend; counterfeit; simulate.

judge

• n. A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering…
• n. A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question.
• n. A person officiating at a sports or similar event.
• n. A person whose opinion on a subject is respected.
• v. (transitive) To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on.
• v. (intransitive) To sit in judgment, to act as judge.
• v. (transitive) To form an opinion on.
• v. (intransitive) To arbitrate; to pass opinion on something, especially to settle a dispute etc.
• v. (transitive) To have as an opinion; to consider, suppose.
• v. (intransitive) To form an opinion; to infer.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To criticize or label another person or thing.

mean

• v. To intend.
• v. To convey meaning.
• v. (transitive) To have conviction in (something said or expressed); to be sincere in (what one says).
• v. (transitive) To result in; to bring about.
• v. (transitive) To be important (to).
• v. (Ireland, Britain regional) To lament.
• adj. (obsolete) Common; general.
• adj. Of a common or low origin, grade, or quality; common; humble.
• adj. Low in quality or degree; inferior; poor; shabby.
• adj. Without dignity of mind; destitute of honour; low-minded; spiritless; base.
• adj. Of little value or account; worthy of little or no regard; contemptible; despicable.
• adj. (chiefly Britain) Ungenerous; stingy, tightfisted; North American English: cheap; formal: niggardly, penurious,…
• adj. Disobliging; pettily offensive or unaccommodating; small.
• adj. Selfish; acting without consideration of others; unkind.
• adj. Causing or intending to cause intentional harm; bearing ill will towards another; cruel; malicious.
• adj. Powerful; fierce; harsh; damaging.
• adj. Accomplished with great skill; deft; hard to compete with.
• adj. (informal, often childish) Difficult, tricky.
• adj. Having the mean (see noun below) as its value.
• adj. (obsolete) Middling; intermediate; moderately good, tolerable.
• n. (now chiefly in the plural) A method or course of action used to achieve some result.
• n. (obsolete, in the singular) An intermediate step or intermediate steps.
• n. Something which is intermediate or in the middle; an intermediate value or range of values; a medium.
• n. (music, now historical) The middle part of three-part polyphonic music; now specifically, the alto part…
• n. (statistics) The average of a set of values, calculated by summing them together and dividing by the number…
• n. (mathematics) Any function of multiple variables that satisfies certain properties and yields a number…
• n. (mathematics) Either of the two numbers in the middle of a conventionally presented proportion, as 2 and…

modify

• v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

opine

• v. (intransitive) To have or express an opinion; to state as an opinion; to suppose, consider (that).
• v. (intransitive, now rare) To give one's formal opinion (on or upon something).
• n. (biochemistry) Any of a class of organic compounds, derived from amino acids, found in some plant tumours.

pore

• n. A tiny opening in the skin.
• n. By extension any small opening or interstice, especially one of many, or one allowing the passage of a…
• v. to study meticulously; to go over again and again.
• v. to meditate or reflect in a steady way.

recall

• v. (transitive) To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order).
• v. (transitive) To call back, bring back or summon (someone) to a specific place, station etc.
• v. (transitive) To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc.
• v. (transitive) To call back (a situation, event etc.) to one's mind; to remember, recollect.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To call again, to call another time.
• v. (transitive) To request or order the return of (a faulty product).
• n. The action or fact of calling someone or something back.
• n. Memory; the ability to remember.
• n. (information retrieval) the fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search.

reckon

• v. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.
• v. To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account;…
• v. To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.
• v. To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by…
• v. (intransitive) To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.
• v. To come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to settle; to examine and strike the balance of debt and…

recollect

• v. To recall; to collect one's thoughts again, especially about past events.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To collect (things) together again.
• v. To compose oneself.

remember

• v. To recall from one's memory; to have an image in one's memory.
• v. To memorize; to put something into memory.
• v. To keep in mind, be mindful of.
• v. To not forget (to do something required).
• v. To convey greetings from.
• v. (obsolete) To put in mind; to remind (also used reflexively).
• v. (intransitive) To engage in the process of recalling memories.

retrieve

• v. (transitive) To regain or get back something.
• v. (transitive) To rescue (a) creature(s).
• v. (transitive) To salvage something.
• v. (transitive) To remedy or rectify something.
• v. (transitive) To remember or recall something.
• v. (transitive) To fetch or carry back something.
• v. (transitive) To fetch and bring in game.
• v. (intransitive) To fetch and bring in game systematically.
• v. (intransitive) To fetch or carry back systematically, notably as a game.
• v. (sports, transitive) To make a difficult but successful return of the ball.
• v. (obsolete) To remedy the evil consequence of, to repair (a loss or damage).
• n. A retrieval.
• n. (sports) The return of a difficult ball.
• n. (obsolete) A seeking again; a discovery.
• n. (obsolete) The recovery of game once sprung.

rivet

• n. A cylindrical mechanical fastener that attaches multiple parts together by fitting through a hole and…
• n. (figuratively) Any fixed point or certain basis.
• n. (obsolete) A light kind of footman's armour (back-formation from almain-rivet).
• v. (transitive) To attach or fasten parts by using rivets.
• v. (transitive) To install rivets.
• v. (transitive) To command the attention of.

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.

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.

weighing

• v. present participle of weigh.
• n. action of the verb to weigh.
• adj. that weighs.
• adj. that burdens.

will

• v. (rare, transitive) To wish, desire (something).
• v. (rare, intransitive) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that).
• v. (auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action).
• v. (auxiliary) To choose to (do something), used to express intention but without any temporal connotations…
• v. (auxiliary) Used to express the future tense, sometimes with some implication of volition when used in…
• v. (auxiliary) To be able to, to have the capacity to.
• n. One's independent faculty of choice; the ability to be able to exercise one's choice or intention.
• n. One's intention or decision; someone's orders or commands.
• n. The act of choosing to do something; a person’s conscious intent or volition.
• n. A formal declaration of one's intent concerning the disposal of one's property and holdings after death;…
• n. (archaic) That which is desired; one's wish.
• n. (archaic) Desire, longing. (Now generally merged with later senses.).
• v. (archaic) To wish, desire.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To instruct (that something be done) in one's will.
• v. (transitive) To try to make (something) happen by using one's will (intention).
• v. (transitive) To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document).

wish

• n. a desire, hope, or longing for something or for something to happen.
• n. an expression of such a desire etc.
• n. the process of expressing or thinking about such a desire etc. (often connected with ideas of magic and…
• n. the thing desired or longed for.
• n. (Sussex) a water meadow.
• v. (transitive) To desire; to want.
• v. (intransitive, followed by for) To hope (for a particular outcome).
• v. (ditransitive) To bestow (a thought or gesture) towards (someone or something).
• v. (intransitive, followed by to and an infinitive) To request or desire to do an activity.
• v. (transitive) To recommend; to seek confidence or favour on behalf of.