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The Meaning of think

  • (v. t.) To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.
  • (v. t.) To employ any of the intellectual powers except that of simple perception through the senses; to exercise the higher intellectual faculties.
  • (v. t.) To call anything to mind; to remember; as, I would have sent the books, but I did not think of it.
  • (v. t.) To reflect upon any subject; to muse; to meditate; to ponder; to consider; to deliberate.
  • (v. t.) To form an opinion by reasoning; to judge; to conclude; to believe; as, I think it will rain to-morrow.
  • (v. t.) To purpose; to intend; to design; to mean.
  • (v. t.) To presume; to venture.
  • (v. t.) To conceive; to imagine.
  • (v. t.) To plan or design; to plot; to compass.
  • (v. t.) To believe; to consider; to esteem.

Synonyms

cerebrate , conceptualize , suppose , mean , reckon , debate , trust , weigh , view , conceptualise , deliberate , take , study , call up , see , guess , deal , moot , intend , opine , recollect , imagine , count , recall , believe , turn over , call back , regard , gestate , consider , remember , cogitate , retrieve , conceive , look at , approximate , bet , speak out , look , hypothesise , work out , figure , speculate , pretend , gauge , envisage , infer , judge , say , theorize , conjecture , depend , calculate , cypher , venture , hypothesize , speak up , hazard , compute , theorise , sound off , animadvert , presuppose , hypothecate , ideate , estimate , forecast , cipher , conceive of , count on , recover , commemorate , mobilize , phone , return , find , call in , rally , hark back , echo , come back , call , bring forward , mobilise , commend , think back , think of , ring , withdraw , regain , telephone , entail , signify , destine , stand for , imply , specify , designate , have in mind , esteem , appreciate , prize , deem , hold , value

Rhymes

bink , blink , brink , chink , cinq , cinque , clink , dink , doublethink , drink , finck , fink , finke , flink , frink , hinck , hink , hoodwink , inc , ink , interlink , klinck , krinke , linc , linck , link , linke , lynk , minc , mink , minke , pink , plink , precinct , rethink , rinck , rink , rinke , schinke , schlink , shrink , sink , smink , spink , stink , swink , sync , vink , wink , zinc , zinck , zink , zinke