Synonyms

believe conceive consider

Examples

"I think he is very smart" "I believe her to be very smart" "I think that he is her boyfriend" "The racist conceives such people to be inferior"

Used in print

While details are still be to worked_out , Ratcliff said he expects to tell home_folks in Dallas why he thinks Berry 's proposed constitutional amendment should be rejected .

`` I think the big thing about the game was that our kids for the third straight week stayed in there pitching and kept the pressure on .

Assistant coach John_Cudmore described victory as `` a good feeling , I think , on the part of the coaches and the players .

They knew what they could do and it was often a_little more than I thought they could do .

He wants Mommy to think him a good boy .

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judge see hold feel impute think_of tend rethink suspect idea consideration

Synonyms

guess suppose imagine reckon opine

Examples

"I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel" "I thought to find her in a bad state" "he didn't think to find her in the kitchen" "I guess she is angry at me for standing her up"

Used in print

`` I think that all Americans will resent deeply the statements made about President_Eisenhower by Richard_J._Hughes .

I think everybody is agreed that we need to hear some voice on the national level that would make some sense and in_which we would have some confidence in following .

The board said it thought it had gone as far as instructed so_far and asked for more information to be brought at the next meeting .

The fire_ant is thought to infest approximately two million acres of land in Georgia , attacking crops , young wildlife and livestock and can be a serious health menace to humans who are allergic to its venom , Blasingame said .

One might think the problem would be similar .

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expect suspect suspect divine idea opinion guess supposition

Synonyms

cerebrate cogitate

Examples

"I've been thinking all day and getting nowhere"

Used in print

`` I knew it all_along '' , confessed Arnold with a grin , `` but I just happened to think how much nicer it would be to drop one way up there '' .

Perhaps Special Projects necessarily thinks along documentary lines .

They not_only think and feel cliches but live cliches as_well .

Think , for_example , of the spirit of the Marine_Corps .

The theory claims to show by analysis that when we say , `` That is good '' , we do not mean to assert a character of the subject of which we are thinking .

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reason plan relate associate think_about chew_over give judge concentrate study puzzle_over reason philosophize rationalize brainstorm chew_over think_up think_out thinking mind cogitation thinker

Synonyms

remember recall recollect call_up call_back remind retrieve

Examples

: "I can't remember saying any such thing" "I can't think what her last name was" "can you remember her phone number?" "Do you remember that he once loved you?" "call up memories"

Used in print

She eyed the chickens with , if she had known it , something of Glendora 's dismal look and thought with a certain fury of the time she had spent on Latin verbs .

She thought it was sometime during the second week she worked for Stanley .

Casey kept his smile fixed , but some small inner disturbance was working_on him as he thought again about Needham , who was eight or ten years older than the girl .

Because his mind had been otherwise occupied for the past couple of hours , he did not think to look and see if Jerry_Burton 's car was still there .

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forget recognize review know remember idea recall recall retrieval

Examples

"Just think--you could be rich one day!" "Think what a scene it must have been!"

Used in print

I shuddered to think that someone so dear to me could even associate with such a sinister milieu .

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imagine

Examples

"Think big" "think thin"

Used in print

They think , perforce , of physical survival : everything else is secondary .

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concentrate idea

Synonyms

intend mean

Examples

"I mean no harm" "I only meant to help you" "She didn't think to harm me" "We thought to return early that night"

Used in print

I showed her the shower and tub , and she said , smiling , `` If you really do n't mind , I think I 'll get clean in the shower , then soak for a_few minutes in your tub .

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shall will plan aim design intention

Examples

"Do you really think so?"

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thought

Examples

"Man is the only creature that thinks"

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idea

Examples

"She thought herself into a state of panic over the final exam"

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change

Examples

"Can you think what to do next?"

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"Think the matter through" "Think how hard life in Russia must be these days"

Examples

"think good thoughts"

Examples

: "I need to give it a good think"

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deliberation colloquialism remember