Synonyms for think
Another word for think is believe, consider or conceive. Below are 18 synonyms and 30 related words across 12 senses.
Also searched as: thinks.
1. noun: an instance of deliberate thinking
2. verb: judge or regard; look upon; judge
- believe synonyms
- consider synonyms
- conceive synonyms
3. verb: expect, believe, or suppose
- guess synonyms
- imagine synonyms
- suppose synonyms
- reckon synonyms
- opine
4. verb: use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments
- cogitate
- cerebrate
5. verb: recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
- call up synonyms
- call back synonyms
- remember synonyms
- recall synonyms
- retrieve synonyms
- recollect
6. verb: imagine or visualize
7. verb: focus one's attention on a certain state
8. verb: have in mind as a purpose
- mean synonyms
- intend synonyms
9. verb: decide by pondering, reasoning, or reflecting
10. verb: ponder; reflect on, or reason about
11. verb: dispose the mind in a certain way
12. verb: have or formulate in the mind
Related words
Broader, narrower and sibling terms from the same WordNet tree. They aren't interchangeable, but one of them is often the word you wanted.
- weighing
- deliberation synonyms
- advisement
- take to be synonyms
- look on synonyms
- feel synonyms
- be known as synonyms
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- look upon synonyms
- judge synonyms
- regard as synonyms
- regard synonyms
- pass judgment
- evaluate synonyms
- esteem synonyms
- rethink synonyms
- expect synonyms
- suspect synonyms
- anticipate synonyms
- straddle
- think about
- look synonyms
- think over synonyms
- think back
- give synonyms
- pay synonyms
- understand synonyms
- wait synonyms
- move synonyms
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Questions people ask
What is another word for think?
You can say believe, consider, conceive, guess or imagine instead of think. Which one fits depends on the sense; the first sense above means "an instance of deliberate thinking".
What is the opposite of think?
WordNet lists no direct antonym for think; the nearest opposites depend on which sense you mean.
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