Another word for thinking
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Adjective
Of, characterized by, or disposed to thought
- Given to careful thought; reflective:
- Engrossed in thought:
- Exhibiting or characterized by careful thought:
- Given to, characterized by, or based upon speculation or conjecture:
- Expressing inquisitive interest:
- Engaging in, given to, or involving financial speculation:
- Causing rumination or prone to it; thoughtful.
- Of, relating to, produced by, or resulting from reflection.
- Capable of or producing reflection:
- Characterized by or given to serious thinking or contemplation; thoughtful.
- Engaged in deep and serious thought.
- Showing or expressing deep, often melancholy thought:
- Characterized by or given to meditation.
- Assembled or organized for deliberation or debate:
- Characterized by or for use in deliberation or debate.
- Disposed to or characterized by contemplation.
- A person given to contemplation.
- A member of a religious order that emphasizes meditation.
- Of or relating to cogitation.
- Inclined to or capable of cogitation.
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Another word for thinking
Modifier
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- Present participle of cerebrate.
- Present participle of ruminate.
- Preoccupied with something to the exclusion of everything else.
- taken in, sucked up, assimilated, etc.
- greatly interested; wholly occupied
- Disposed to or characterized by contemplation.
- A person given to contemplation.
- A member of a religious order that emphasizes meditation.
- Present participle of deliberate.
- Given to diligent study:
- Relating to, suggestive of, or conducive to study:
- Marked by steady attention and effort; assiduous:
- Given to, characterized by, or based upon speculation or conjecture:
- Expressing inquisitive interest:
- Engaging in, given to, or involving financial speculation:
- Characterized by or given to meditation.
- Of, relating to, produced by, or resulting from reflection.
- Capable of or producing reflection:
- Characterized by or given to serious thinking or contemplation; thoughtful.
- Examining one's own perceptions and sensory experiences; contemplative or thoughtful about oneself.
- Engaged in deep and serious thought.
- Showing or expressing deep, often melancholy thought:
- Capable of reasoning; rational:
- Governed by or being in accordance with reason or sound thinking:
- Being within the bounds of common sense:
- Use of reason, especially to form conclusions, inferences, or judgments.
- Evidence or arguments used in thinking or argumentation.
- Having or exercising the ability to reason.
- Consistent with or based on reason or good judgment; logical or sensible:
- Of sound mind; sane:
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Noun
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- (uncountable) The practice and sport of noodling (fishing for catfish using the bare hands).
- (countable) Musical improvisation.
- Present participle of noodle.
- act, instance, or faculty of looking back on or reviewing past events, experiences, etc.
- reference to a past event
- a survey of past life or experiences
- Contemplation of one's own thoughts, feelings, and sensations; self-examination.
- absorption in one's own interests, affairs, etc.
- the absorption of radiation by the substance emitting the radiation
- Deep in thought; contemplative.
- Contemplation; meditation.
- A product of contemplation; a thought:
- The act of abstracting or the state of having been abstracted.
- An abstract concept, idea, or term.
- An abstract quality.
- The act or process of meditating.
- A devotional exercise of or leading to contemplation.
- A contemplative discourse, usually on a religious or philosophical subject.
- The effort to acquire knowledge, as by reading, observation, or research:
- An act or effort made in the pursuit of knowledge:
- A branch of knowledge or department of learning:
- The act or process of deliberating.
- Discussion and consideration of all sides of an issue:
- Thoughtfulness in decision or action.
- The act of cerebrating; thinking, mental activity.
- Reasoning based on inconclusive evidence; conjecture or supposition.
- A conclusion, opinion, or theory reached by conjecture.
- Contemplation or consideration of a subject; meditation.
- The act of reflecting or the state of being reflected.
- Something, such as light, radiant heat, sound, or an image, that is reflected.
- Serious thinking or careful consideration:
- The act of thinking about something in a sustained fashion.
- The act or process of chewing cud.
- The act or state of contemplating.
- Thoughtful observation or study.
- Meditation on spiritual matters, especially as a form of devotion.
- The act, process, or practice of rationalizing.
- An instance of rationalizing.
- the formation or conception of ideas by the mind
- Thoughtful consideration; meditation.
- A serious thought; a carefully considered reflection.
- The basis or motive for an action, decision, or conviction:
- A declaration made to explain or justify action, decision, or conviction:
- A fact or cause that explains why something exists or has occurred:
- Use of reason, especially to form conclusions, inferences, or judgments.
- Evidence or arguments used in thinking or argumentation.
- The process of thinking; cogitation:
- A product of thinking or other mental activity:
- The faculty of thinking or reasoning:
Idioms:
put on one's thinking cap
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