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adjective
Of, characterized by, or disposed to thought
Synonyms: contemplative, pensive, reflective, cogitative, meditative, introspective, rational, thoughtful, deliberating, reasonable, speculative, engrossed, reasoning, studious, deliberative, bright, excogitative, absorbed, intelligent, intent on, ruminating, cerebrating, begin thinking, ruminative, study, meditating, examine
Antonyms: stupid, vacuous, irrational
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noun
The process of using your mind to consider something carefully
Synonyms: thought, cerebration, reasoning, reason, cogitation, ideation, rationalization, contemplation, rumination, reflection, speculation, deliberation, study, meditation, abstraction, musing, self-absorption, introspection, retrospection, intellectual perception, thought-process, noodling, tall headwork, intellection, mentation
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verb
Recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
Synonyms: remembering, recollecting, recalling, retrieving
Antonyms: forgetting
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verb
Have in mind as a purpose
Synonyms: inventing, meaning, conceiving, creating, intending
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verb
Expect, believe, or suppose
Synonyms: guessing, presuming, reckoning, imagining, supposing, opining
Antonyms: neglecting, ignoring, forgetting
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verb
Judge or regard; look upon; judge
Synonyms: believing, holding, conceiving, considering, deeming
Antonyms: disregarding, disbelieving
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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
Synonyms: pondering, conceiving, weighing, meditating, speculating, ruminating, resolving, estimating, reflecting, studying, intending, visualizing, understanding, theorizing, boning, suspecting, considering, surmising, supposing, stewing, sensing, reasoning, cogitating, reputing, remembering, contemplating, regarding, scanning, reckoning, recalling, musing, realizing, appraising, rationalizing, purposing, presuming, examining, cerebrating, imagining, opining, mulling, evaluating, deliberating, judging, inventing, inferring, conferring, hypothesizing, guessing, formulating, figuring, feeling, expecting, consulting, entertaining, deeming, deducing, conjecturing, concluding, conceptualizing, brooding, believing, assuming, apprehending, anticipating
Antonyms: accepting, neglecting