thinking

thinking
adj
1. rational, reasoning, reasonable, sensible, cerebral; logical, practical, pragmatic; intelligent, knowing, ratiocinative, percipient, perceiving; analytic, ideational, philosophical, sophic; speculative, imaginative.
2. reflective, contemplative, cogitative, cogitating, meditative, meditating, musing, pondering; reflecting, ruminant, ruminating, introspective; pensive, thoughtful, concentrating, preoccupied, engrossed, rapt in thought, lost in thought, bemused, Archaic. museful; deliberative, excogitative, lucubratory, studious; conscientious, careful.
n
3. reasoning, rationcination, rationalization, intellectualization; cerebration, brainwork, headwork, ideation, cogitation, excogitation; train of thought, association of ideas.
4. thought, logic, reason, judgment; opinion, conjecture, belief, view; conviction, persuasion.
5. contemplation, contemplating, meditation, consideration, rumination, ruminating, brown study, musing, pondering, brooding, mulling over, chewing over, chewing one's cud, wondering; deliberation, deliberating, speculation, speculating, conjecturing.

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