- cogitate
- v1. meditate, contemplate, think, cerebrate, put on one's thinking cap, be lost in thought, beabstracted, be absorbed, be immersed, be engrossed, concentrate, focus, put one's mind to; muse, ponder, brood, mull over, dwell on, be in a brown study; reflect, ruminate, chew over, chew one's cud, rack one's brains, cudgel one's brains.2. deliberate, excogitate, take to heart, consider, Archaic. perpend; weigh, evaluate, study, revolve, review, turn over, examine, con; think about or over, have one's mind on, wonder about, consider, speculate, surmise, suppose, conjecture, theorize, hypothesize.3. conceive, think up, imagine, fancy, have ideas about, Inf. dream up, envision, envisage, visualize; devise, contrive, machinate, cabal, plan, scheme, plot, design, Obs. consult, Obs. intrigue; frame, concoct, brew, invent, hatch.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.