thought
noun
[ θɔːt ]
• an idea or opinion produced by thinking, or occurring suddenly in the mind.
• "Maggie had a sudden thought"
Similar:
idea,
notion,
line of thinking,
belief,
concept,
conception,
conviction,
opinion,
view,
impression,
image,
perception,
mental picture,
assumption,
presumption,
hypothesis,
theory,
supposition,
postulation,
abstraction,
apprehension,
understanding,
conceptualization,
feeling,
funny feeling,
suspicion,
sneaking suspicion,
hunch,
• the action or process of thinking.
• "Sophie sat deep in thought"
Similar:
thinking,
reasoning,
contemplation,
musing,
pondering,
consideration,
reflection,
introspection,
deliberation,
study,
rumination,
cogitation,
meditation,
brooding,
mulling over,
reverie,
brown study,
concentration,
debate,
speculation,
cerebration,
Origin:
Old English thōht, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch gedachte, also to think.
thought
verb
• past and past participle of think.
think
verb
• have a particular opinion, belief, or idea about someone or something.
• "she thought that nothing would be the same again"
Similar:
believe,
be of the opinion,
have as one's opinion,
be of the view,
be under the impression,
expect,
imagine,
anticipate,
surmise,
suppose,
conjecture,
guess,
fancy,
conclude,
determine,
reason,
reckon,
figure,
opine,
ween,
deem,
judge,
hold,
consider,
presume,
estimate,
regard as,
view as,
• direct one's mind towards someone or something; use one's mind actively to form connected ideas.
• "he was thinking about Colin"
Similar:
ponder,
reflect,
deliberate,
meditate,
contemplate,
muse,
cogitate,
ruminate,
be lost in thought,
be in a brown study,
brood,
concentrate,
rack one's brains,
cudgel one's brains,
put on one's thinking cap,
sleep on it,
cerebrate,
Opposite:
act,
leap into action,
Origin:
Old English thencan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch and German denken .
