think

v

1. conceive, imagine, image, picture; ideate, form an image of, think of, dream up; dream, envisage, visualize, make up, conjure, feature; concoct, hatch, brew, fabricate, fashion, form, formulate.

2. meditate, ponder, reason, deliberate; reflect, muse, brood, mull over, turn over in one's mind; wander about, chew one's cud, think about, kick around, tinker with, toy with, flirt with the idea; men-talize, cerebrate, chew over, be in a brown study, put on one's thinking cap, be lost in thought, lucubrate; cogitate, excogitate, cudgel one's brains, rack one's brains, use one's head; concentrate on, focus on, take to heart, Archaic. perpend; analyze, examine, review, turn over, revolve, weigh; study, con, evaluate, give attention to.

3. recollect, bear in mind, remember, recall, recall to mind; think back to, pass in review, retrace; call to mind, reminisce, bethink, carry one's thoughts back.

4. believe, opine, fancy, consider; suppose, conjecture, presume, assume, Archaic. trow, Archaic. ween; hold, maintain, esteem; surmise, speculate, daresay, suspect; judge, deduce, infer, conclude; hypothesize, theorize, posit, postulate.

5. consider, regard, view, look upon; acknowledge, deem, recognize; feel, divine, intuit; see, perceive, understand, comprehend, apprehend, reckon; value, estimate, gauge, appraise, assess, rate, prize.

6. intend, purpose, have in mind, have in view, mean; aim, project, arrange, plan, compass; propose, design, calculate, premeditate, determine, destine.

7. think better of

reconsider, change one's mind, think twice, think over; reexamine, review, recheck, look at again, take under advisement, view in a new light.

8. think up

devise, contrive, improvise, come up with; invent, create, originate; design, scheme, construct, frame, draft; coin, mint, neologize, neoterize.