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thought (root: think)
CIDE DICTIONARY
thought, imp. & p. p.
thought, n. [OE. , , AS. , ge, fr. to think; akin to D. gedachte thought, MHG. dāht, gedāht, Icel. , . See Think.].
- The act of thinking; the exercise of the mind in any of its higher forms; reflection; cogitation. [1913 Webster]"Thought can not be superadded to matter, so as in any sense to render it true that matter can become cogitative." [1913 Webster]
- Meditation; serious consideration. [1913 Webster]"Pride, of all others the most dangerous fault,
Proceeds from want of sense or want of thought." [1913 Webster] - That which is thought; an idea; a mental conception, whether an opinion, judgment, fancy, purpose, or intention. [1913 Webster]"Thus Bethel spoke, who always speaks his thought." [1913 Webster]"Why do you keep alone, . . .
Using those thoughts which should indeed have died
With them they think on?" [1913 Webster]"Thoughts come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to choose or to reject." [1913 Webster]"All their thoughts are against me for evil." [1913 Webster] - Solicitude; anxious care; concern. [1913 Webster]"Hawis was put in trouble, and died with thought and anguish before his business came to an end." [1913 Webster]"Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink." [1913 Webster]
- A small degree or quantity; a trifle; as, a thought longer; a thought better. [1913 Webster]" Thought, in philosophical usage now somewhat current, denotes the capacity for, or the exercise of, the very highest intellectual functions, especially those usually comprehended under judgment." [1913 Webster]"If the hair were a thought browner." [1913 Webster]"This [faculty], to which I gave the name of the “elaborative faculty,” -- the faculty of relations or comparison, -- constitutes what is properly denominated thought." [1913 Webster]
Syn. -- Idea; conception; imagination; fancy; conceit; notion; supposition; reflection; consideration; meditation; contemplation; cogitation; deliberation.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
thought, n.
1 the process or power of thinking; the faculty of reason.
2 a way of thinking characteristic of or associated with a particular time, people, group, etc. (medieval European thought).
3 sober reflection or consideration (gave it much thought).
4 an idea or piece of reasoning produced by thinking (many good thoughts came out of the discussion).
5 (foll. by of + verbal noun or to + infin.) a partly formed intention or hope (gave up all thoughts of winning; had no thought to go).
6 (usu. in pl.) what one is thinking; one's opinion (have you any thoughts on this?).
7 the subject of one's thinking (my one thought was to get away).
8 (prec. by a) somewhat (seems to me a thought arrogant).
1 the process or power of thinking; the faculty of reason.
2 a way of thinking characteristic of or associated with a particular time, people, group, etc. (medieval European thought).
3 sober reflection or consideration (gave it much thought).
4 an idea or piece of reasoning produced by thinking (many good thoughts came out of the discussion).
5 (foll. by of + verbal noun or to + infin.) a partly formed intention or hope (gave up all thoughts of winning; had no thought to go).
6 (usu. in pl.) what one is thinking; one's opinion (have you any thoughts on this?).
7 the subject of one's thinking (my one thought was to get away).
8 (prec. by a) somewhat (seems to me a thought arrogant).
Idiom
give thought to consider; think about. in thought thinking, meditating. take thought consider matters. thought-provoking stimulating serious thought. thought-reader a person supposedly able to perceive another's thoughts. thought-reading the supposed perception of what another is thinking. thought transference telepathy. thought-wave an undulation of the supposed medium of thought transference.
Derivative
-thoughted adj. (in comb.).
thought, past and past part. of THINK.
THESAURUS
thought
Parthian shot, accommodatingness, address, admonition, advertence, advertency, advice, advising, advocacy, affirmation, agreeableness, alertness, allegation, answer, antelope, anticipation, apostrophe, apprehension, arrow, assertion, assiduity, assiduousness, association, association of ideas, assumption, attention, attention span, attentiveness, attitude, averment, awareness, bit, blue darter, blue streak, brainstorm, brainwork, briefing, brooding, brown study, cannonball, care, cast, caution, caveat, cerebration, certainty, chain of thought, climate of opinion, cogitation, cogitative, cognitive, comment, common belief, community sentiment, compassion, complaisance, conceit, concentrating, concentration, concentrative, concept, conception, conceptive, conceptual, conceptualized, concern, conclusion, confidence, consciousness, consensus gentium, considerateness, consideration, considering, consultation, contemplating, contemplation, contemplative, council, counsel, courser, crack, current of thought, dart, dash, declaration, deliberating, deliberation, deliberative, delicacy, design, dictum, diligence, direction, dream, eagle, ear, earnestness, electricity, estimate, estimation, ethos, exclamation, excogitating, exhortation, expectancy, expectation, expostulation, express train, expression, eye, fancy, feeling, flash, flow of thought, gazelle, general belief, gleam, greased lightning, greeting, greyhound, guidance, hare, heed, heedfulness, helpfulness, hint, hope, hortation, idea, ideative, image, imago, imminence, impression, indulgence, infusion, inkling, inmost thoughts, instruction, intellect, intellection, intellectual object, intelligence, intention, intentiveness, intentness, interjection, intimation, introspective, jet plane, judgment, kindliness, kindness, leniency, lick, light, lightning, lights, little, look, meditating, meditation, meditative, memories, memory, memory-trace, mental, mental image, mental impression, mentation, mention, mercury, mind, mindfulness, monition, museful, musing, mystique, noetic, note, notice, notion, obligingness, observance, observation, opinion, parley, pensive, perception, personal judgment, phrase, plan, planning, point of view, pondering, popular belief, position, posture, prehensive, presumption, prevailing belief, probability, pronouncement, proposal, prospect, public belief, public opinion, question, quicksilver, ratiocination, rationality, reaction, reason, reasoning, recept, recommendation, reflecting, reflection, reflective, regard, regardfulness, reliance, remark, remembrances, remonstrance, representation, respect, rocket, ruminant, ruminating, rumination, ruminative, sauce, say, saying, scared rabbit, scheme, scintilla, seasoning, secret thoughts, sentence, sentiment, serious, shade, shadow, shot, sight, sip, smack, small amount, smattering, smell, sober, solicitousness, solicitude, soupcon, spark, speculation, speculative, spice, sprinkling, stance, statement, streak, streak of lightning, stream of consciousness, striped snake, subjoinder, suggestion, sup, supposition, suspicion, swallow, sympathy, tact, tactfulness, taint, taste, tempering, tenderness, theory, thinking, thoughtful, thoughtfulness, thoughts, thunderbolt, tinct, tincture, tinge, tint, toleration, torrent, touch, trace, train of thought, trifle, unastonishment, utterance, vestige, view, vision, warning, way of thinking, wind, wistful, wordROGET THESAURUS
thought
Smallness
N smallness, littleness, tenuity, paucity, fewness, meanness, insignificance (unimportance), mediocrity, moderation, small quantity, modicum, trace, hint, minimum, vanishing point, material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace, minutiae, details, look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow, spark, scintilla, gleam, touch, cast, grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture, inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive, snip, snippet, snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag, chip, chipping, shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair, nutshell, thimbleful, spoonful, handful, capful, mouthful, fragment, fraction, drop in the ocean, animalcule, trifle, mere nothing, next to nothing, hardly anything, just enough to swear by, the shadow of a shade, finiteness, finite quantity, small, little, diminutive, minute, fine, inconsiderable, paltry, faint, slender, light, slight, scanty, scant, limited, meager, sparing, few, low, so-so, middling, tolerable, no great shakes, below par, under par, below the mark, at a low ebb, halfway, moderate, modest, tender, subtle, inappreciable, evanescent, infinitesimal, homeopathic, very small, atomic, corpuscular, microscopic, molecular, subatomic, mere, simple, sheer, stark, bare, near run, dull, petty, shallow, stolid, ungifted, unintelligent, to a small extent, on a small scale, a little bit, a wee bit, slightly, imperceptibly, miserably, wretchedly, insufficiently, imperfectly, faintly, passably, pretty well, well enough, partially, in part, in a certain degree, to a certain degree, to a certain extent, comparatively, some, rather in some degree, in some measure, something, somewhat, simply, only, purely, merely, at least, at the least, at most, at the most, ever so little, as little as may be, tant soit peu, in ever so small a degree, thus far, pro tanto, within bounds, in a manner, after a fashion, so to speak, almost, nearly, well-nigh, short of, not quite, all but, near upon, close upon, peu s'en faut, near the mark, within an ace of, within an inch of, on the brink of, scarcely, hardly, barely, only just, no more than, about, thereabouts, somewhere about, nearly, say, be the same, be little more or less, no ways, no way, no wise, not at all, not in the least, not a bit, not a bit of it, not a whit, not a jot, not a shadow, in no wise, in no respect, by no means, by no manner of means, on no account, at no hand, dare pondus idonea fumo, magno conatu magnas nugas, small sands the mountain, moments make the year.Thought
N thought, exercitation of the intellect, exercise of the intellect, intellection, reflection, cogitation, consideration, meditation, study, lucubration, speculation, deliberation, pondering, head work, brain work, cerebration, deep reflection, close study, application, abstract thought, abstraction contemplation, musing, brown study, reverie, Platonism, depth of thought, workings of the mind, thoughts, inmost thoughts, self-counsel self-communing, self- consultation, philosophy of the Absolute, philosophy of the Academy, philosophy of the Garden, philosophy of the lyceum, philosophy of the Porch, association of thought, succession of thought, flow of thought, train of thought, current of thought, association of ideas, succession of ideas, flow of ideas, train of ideas, current of ideas, after thought, mature thought, reconsideration, second thoughts, retrospection, excogitation, examination, invention, thoughtfulness, thinking, thoughtful, pensive, meditative, reflective, museful, wistful, contemplative, speculative, deliberative, studious, sedate, introspective, Platonic, philosophical, lost in thought, deep musing, in the mind, under consideration, all things considered, the mind being on the stretch, the mind turning upon, the head turning upon, the mind running upon, divinely, bent to meditation, en toute chose il faut considerer la fin, fresh- pluckt from bowers of never-failing thought, go speed the stars of Thought, in maiden meditation fancy-free, so sweet is zealous contemplation, the power of thought is the magic of the Mind, those that think must govern those that toil, thought is parent of the deed, thoughts in attitudes imperious, thoughts that breathe and words that burn, vivere est cogitare, Volk der Dichter und Denker.Idea
N idea, notion, conception, thought, apprehension, impression, perception, image, eidolon, sentiment, reflection, observation, consideration, abstract idea, archetype, formative notion, guiding conception, organizing conception, image in the mind, regulative principle, view, theory, conceit, fancy, phantasy, point of view, field of view.Attention
N attention, mindfulness, presence of mind, intentness, intentiveness, alertness, thought, advertence, advertency, observance, observation, consideration, reflection, perpension, heed, heedfulness, particularity, notice, regard, circumspection, diligence, study, scrutiny inspection, introspection, revision, revisal, active application, diligent application, exclusive application, minute application, close application, intense application, deep application, profound application, abstract application, labored application, deliberate application, active attention, diligent attention, exclusive attention, minute attention, close attention, intense attention, deep attention, profound attention, abstract attention, labored attention, deliberate attention, active thought, diligent thought, exclusive thought, minute thought, close thought, intense thought, deep thought, profound thought, abstract thought, labored thought, deliberate thought, active study, diligent study, exclusive study, minute study, close study, intense study, deep study, profound study, abstract study, labored study, deliberate study, minuteness, attention to detail, absorption of mind, indication, calling attention to, attentive, mindful, observant, regardful, alive to, awake to, observing, alert, open-eyed, intent on, taken up with, occupied with, engaged in, engrossed in, wrapped in, absorbed, rapt, transfixed, riveted, mesmerized, hypnotized, glued to (the TV, the window, a book), breathless, preoccupied, watchful, breathless, undistracted, upon the stretch, on the watch, steadfast, interesting, engrossing, mesmerizing, riveting, Int, see!, look, look here, look you, look to it!, mark!, lo!, behold!, soho!, hark, hark ye!, mind!, halloo!, observe!, lo and behold!, attention!, nota bene, N, B, note well, I'd have you to know, notice!, O yes!, Oyez!, dekko!, ecco!, yoho!, this is to give notice, these are to give notice, dictum sapienti sat est, a word to the wise is sufficient, finem respice, Attention! Now hear this! Oyez!, Achtung, vnimanie, chui.Supposition
N supposition, assumption, assumed position, postulation, condition, presupposition, hypothesis, blue sky hypothesis, postulate, postulatum, theory, thesis, theorem, data, proposition, position, proposal, presumption, divination, conjecture, guess, guesswork, speculation, rough guess, shot, shot in the dark, conjecturality, surmise, suspicion, sneaking suspicion, estimate, approximation (nearness), inkling, suggestion, hint, intimation, notion, impression, bare supposition, vague supposition, loose supposition, loose suggestion, association of ideas, (analogy), metonym, metonymy, simile (metaphor), conceit, idea, thought, original idea, invention (imagination), supposing, given, mooted, postulatory, assumed, supposititious, suppositive, suppositious, gratuitous, speculative, conjectural, hypothetical, theoretical, academic, supposable, presumptive, putative, suppositional, suggestive, allusive, if, if so be, an, on the supposition, ex hypothesi, in the case, in the event of, quasi, as if, provided, perhaps, for aught one knows.Also see definition of "thought" in Bible Study Dictionaries
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