Think

Verb

 * 1)  to ponder, to go over in one's head
 * Idly, the detective thought what his next move should be.
 * 1)  To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.
 * I thought for three hours about the problem and still couldn’t find the solution.
 * 1)  to conceive of something or someone (usually followed by of or on)
 * I tend to think of her as rather ugly.
 * 1)  To be of the opinion (that).
 * I think she is pretty, contrary to most people.
 * 1)  To guess; to reckon.
 * I think she’ll pass the examination.
 * 1)  To consider, judge, regard, or look upon (something) as.
 * At the time I thought his adamant refusal to give in right.
 * I hope you won’t think me stupid if I ask you what that means.

Synonyms

 * cogitate, ponder, reflect, ruminate; see also Thesaurus:think
 * opine; see also Thesaurus:have opinion
 * guess, imagine, reckon, suppose
 * consider, deem, find, judge, regard; see also Thesaurus:deem

Derived terms

 * Category:English words derived from: think


 * rethink
 * think about
 * thinker
 * thinko
 * think of
 * think piece


 * think over
 * think twice
 * think up
 * think with one's little head
 * unthinkable

Related terms

 * forthink
 * thought
 * thunk

Noun

 * 1) An act of thinking; consideration (of something).
 * I'll have a think about that and let you know.

Derived terms

 * badthink
 * doublethink
 * goodthink


 * have another think coming
 * rethink (noun, as in "have a rethink")

Verb
think (obsolete except in archaic methinks)


 * 1)  To seem, to appear.
 * 2) * 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XV:
 * And than hym thought there com an olde man afore hym whych seyde, ‘A, Launcelot, of evill wycked fayth and poore beleve!’

Adverbs for Think
abstractly; sensually; despairingly; humorously; frenziedly; contemplatively; habitually; desolately; conscientiously; precisely; instinctively; vaguely; incessantly; idly; poetically; deliberately; remorsefully; constructively; grimly; anxiously; candidly; erratically; scoffingly; divergently; morosely; de-sultorily; contemptuously; connectedly; hysterically; rapturously; shrewdly; vehemently; dispassionately; diversely; independently; grievously; dismally; creatively; wishfully; incisively; psychoanalytically; subtly; cunningly.

Thesaurus
account as, aim, aim at, anticipate, appreciate, aspire after, aspire to, assess, assume, be afraid, be after, be concerned, believe, brood, call to mind, care, cerebrate, cogitable, cogitate, come up with, comprehend, comprehensible, conceivable, conceive, conceptualize, conclude, concoct, conjecture, consider, contemplate, contrive, convincing, create, credit, daresay, deduce, deem, deliberate, design, desire, destine, determine, devise, divine, dread, dream, dream up, drive at, entertain ideas, envisage, envision, esteem, estimate, evaluate, exercise the mind, expect, face, fancy, fantasize, feasible, feature, feel, foresee, form ideas, gather, go for, grant, guess, harbor a design, have a hunch, have an idea, have an impression, have an inkling, have every intention, have in mind, have the idea, heed, hold, hold as, hope, ideate, image, imaginable, imagine, improvise, infer, intellectualize, intend, invent, judge, let, let be, likely, logicalize, logicize, look upon as, maintain, make up, mark, mean, meditate, mind, mull, mull over, muse, muse over, opine, pay attention, plan, plausible, ponder, possible, practicable, practical, prefigure, presumable, presume, presuppose, presurmise, pretend, project, propose, provisionally accept, purport, purpose, rationalize, realize, reason, recall, reck, reckon, recollect, reflect, regard, remember, repute, resolve, ruminate, ruminate over, say, see, sense, set down as, speculate, study, supposable, suppose, surmise, suspect, take, take an interest, take for, take for granted, take it, take to be, think of, thinkable, trow, understand, value, view as, vision, visualize, ween, weigh

Etymology 1
þencan

Etymology 2
From Old English þyncan.

Verb

 * Danish:, reflektere
 * Dutch: denken, nadenken, peinzen
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: à,  ,
 * German: ,


 * Old Provençal:
 * Russian:, обдумать
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swedish: tänka över


 * American Sign Language:
 * Arabic: فكر, ظن
 * Armenian:, խորհել
 * Bosnian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 想
 * Croatian:
 * Czech: přemýšlet
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French: à,  à,   à
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, 思考する, 思索する
 * Korean: 생각하다
 * Kurdish: fikirîn, hizirîn, ramîn, pûnijîn,
 * Latin: ,


 * Lower Sorbian: mysliś
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: فکر کردن
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, refletir
 * Romanian: ,
 * Romansch:
 * Russian:, подумать ; мыслить
 * Scottish Gaelic: smaoinich, ,
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: мислити
 * Roman: misliti
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tai Dam:
 * Tajik:
 * Telugu: ఆలోచించు, భావన
 * Thai: คิด
 * Turkish:
 * Urdu:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: דענקען, טראכטען


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 考虑
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: achten, zien, beschouwen
 * French:, (comme),  (comme)


 * Romanian:
 * Russian: считать, посчитать ; мыслить
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Vietnamese: thấy


 * American Sign Language:
 * Arabic:, اعتقد
 * Armenian: ,
 * Bosnian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, ,  ,
 * Dutch:, denken, van mening zijn
 * Finnish: luulla, olla mielipiteenä
 * French:, ,  être d'avis, ,
 * German: denken, finden (esp. Switzerland)
 * Hindi:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, 意図する


 * Kurdish: bawer kirin, texmîn kirin, fikirîn, hizirîn, pûnijîn, ramîn
 * Latin: opinor
 * Lower Sorbian: mysliś
 * Middle French:
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Persian: گمان کردن
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: мислити
 * Roman: misliti
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Urdu:


 * American Sign Language:
 * Armenian: ,
 * Bosnian:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, ,
 * Dutch:, , vermoeden
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, ,
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese:


 * Latin: cogito
 * Lower Sorbian: mysliś
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: мислити
 * Roman: misliti
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: ఊహించు (oohinchu)


 * Armenian:
 * Bosnian:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech: mít za, považovat za
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:, beschouwen
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German: halten für
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, 判断する
 * Kurdish: hesibandin,
 * Latin: considero, contemplor


 * Lower Sorbian: mysliś
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Polish:, że
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: a lua în consideraţie, judeca, ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: мислити
 * Roman: misliti
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * : 想 (xiǎng), 认为 (rènwéi), 思索 (sīsuǒ), 考虑 (kǎolü), 想象 (xiǎng xiàng), 打算 (dǎsuàn), 想要 (xiǎngyào)
 * : pensar
 * : pikir, berpikir, memikir, menganggap
 * : pensar
 * : 생각하다 (saenggakhada)
 * : fikir, berfikir, memikir
 * : бодох (bodoh)
 * : (fekr kærdæn)
 * : achar
 * : myslieť, myslieť si
 * : misliti
 * : tikön

Noun

 * French: ,

Verb

 * Dutch: dunken