thinking

thinking
I
(Roget's IV) modif.
Syn. rational, reasoning, reasonable, pensive, introspective, reflective, meditative, speculative, studious, deliberating, contemplative, absorbed, engrossed, intent on, ruminating, cerebrating; see also thoughtful 1 .
Ant. stupid*, vacuous, irrational.
• put on one's thinking cap,
Syn. begin thinking, study, examine; see think 1 .
n.
Syn. thought, reasoning, reason, cogitation, ideation, rationalization, contemplation, rumination, reflection, speculation, cerebration, deliberation, study, meditation, abstraction, musing, self-absorption, introspection, retrospection, intellectual perception, noodling*, tall headwork*.
II
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
thought, brain power, contemplation, meditation, cogitation, concentration, study, analysis, evaluation, reflection, deliberation, reasoning, logic, deduction, speculation, *putting two and two together. ''The magic of the mind.''—Lord Byron. ''The talking of the soul with itself.''—Plato.
III
(Roget's Thesaurus II) adjective Of, characterized by, or disposed to thought: cogitative, contemplative, deliberative, excogi-tative, meditative, pensive, reflective, ruminative, speculative, thoughtful. Idiom: in a brown study. See THOUGHTS.

English dictionary for students. 2013.

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