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Another word for thinking

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thinking

modif.

rational, reasoning, reasonable, pensive, introspective, reflective, meditative, speculative, studious, deliberating, contemplative, absorbed, engrossed, intent on, ruminating, cerebrating; see also thoughtful 1.

Antonyms stupid*, vacuous, irrational.

put on one's thinking cap

begin thinking, study, examine; see think 1.

thinking Synonyms

thinking

n.

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*.

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Another word for thinking

adjective

Of, characterized by, or disposed to thought:

cogitative, contemplative, deliberative, excogitative, meditative, pensive, reflective, ruminative, speculative, thoughtful. Idiom: in a brown study. See thoughts

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They sat silently thinking for a time.
Nothing. I was just thinking about technology.
"I wasn't thinking," she said.
What was she thinking of?
But you're not thinking right.

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