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
judge or regard; look upon; judge
"I think he is very smart"
Same sense: believe, consider, conceive
expect, believe, or suppose
"he didn't think to find her in the kitchen"
Same sense: guess, imagine, suppose, reckon, opine
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
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
imagine or visualize
"Just think — you could be rich one day!"
focus one's attention on a certain state
"Think big"
have in mind as a purpose
"She didn't think to harm me"
Same sense: mean, intend
decide by pondering, reasoning, or reflecting
"Can you think what to do next?"
ponder; reflect on, or reason about
"Think the matter through"
dispose the mind in a certain way
"Do you really think so?"
have or formulate in the mind
"think good thoughts"
be capable of conscious thought
"Man is the only creature that thinks"
bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation
Think as a noun
an instance of deliberate thinking
"I need to give it a good think"
Synonyms and antonyms
- believe definition
- consider
- conceive
- guess definition
- imagine
- suppose
- reckon
- opine
- cogitate
- cerebrate
- call up
- call back
- remember definition
- recall
- retrieve
- recollect
- mean definition
- intend
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
- link
- drink
- pink
- sink
- ink
- sync
- shrink
- blink
- zinc
- brink
- wink
- rethink
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.
Definitions and examples from Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0). Browse more words in the dictionary.