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Think definition

Think is a verb meaning "judge or regard; look upon; judge." It has 14 meanings, as a verb and a noun, listed below with example sentences.

Part of speech
verb, noun
Syllables
1
Letters
5
How common
Everyday word

Think as a verb

  1. judge or regard; look upon; judge

    "I think he is very smart"

    Same sense: believe, consider, conceive

  2. expect, believe, or suppose

    "he didn't think to find her in the kitchen"

    Same sense: guess, imagine, suppose, reckon, opine

  3. use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments

    "I've been thinking all day and getting nowhere"

    Same sense: cogitate, cerebrate

  4. recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection

    "I can't think what her last name was"

    Same sense: call up, call back, remember, recall, retrieve, recollect

  5. imagine or visualize

    "Just think — you could be rich one day!"

  6. focus one's attention on a certain state

    "Think big"

  7. have in mind as a purpose

    "She didn't think to harm me"

    Same sense: mean, intend

  8. decide by pondering, reasoning, or reflecting

    "Can you think what to do next?"

  9. ponder; reflect on, or reason about

    "Think the matter through"

  10. dispose the mind in a certain way

    "Do you really think so?"

  11. have or formulate in the mind

    "think good thoughts"

  12. be capable of conscious thought

    "Man is the only creature that thinks"

  13. bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation

Think as a noun

  1. an instance of deliberate thinking

    "I need to give it a good think"

Synonyms and antonyms

All synonyms of think, sense by sense

How to say think

Think has 1 syllable and rhymes with link. Syllable counts and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.

Words that rhyme with think

All 28 words that rhyme with think

THINK in word games

Scrabble
12
Words With Friends
12
Anagrams
0

Is THINK a valid Scrabble word? Yes, it is in the ENABLE list most word games use. Check THINK in the word checker, or unscramble THINK to see the shorter words in its letters.

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