think
/θɪŋk
/- I have no idea why she would think that associating with those people is a good thing.
- But nobody thinks that idea worth fighting a war over.
- But at their recent meeting, members said they thought the situation was getting better.
Synonyms
- So with dinner in mind and a recent chat to people in Spain, I think a small sherry is in order.
- The very fact that we have moved beyond the age of deference supports my case I think.
- Tonight is my last night in Preston for a while so I am going for a few pints and a curry I think.
- With this in mind, let us think for a moment about the surface of a sphere.
- Natural selection did not design our minds to think directly about how best to pass on our genes.
- I just sat in my chair for a few moments, my mouth silent, my mind thinking.
Synonyms
- And we have to have an educational approach, which thinks in these kinds of terms.
- You imagine the worst by thinking negatively without good reason.
- You tend to imagine the worst by thinking negatively and torturing yourself endlessly today!
- We need to think of possible legal complications in all sorts of routine situations.
- Make sure you have thought of the possible gains and losses if you took the leap.
- The tendency is to take what he wants, and act as he wants without thinking of the possible effect on others.
- But for me, these remembrances are the best way I can think of to give you a sense of an age long gone.
- If you can think of an animal, the likelihood is it would be made into a rug somewhere in the house, with its head mounted on the walls.
- I can think of some cases where a marina actually adds to the beauty and charm of a place.
Synonyms
- Recently, I've been thinking of doing a course with the Open University - which is probably a good thing to do.
- Now I am about to start a clinical doctorate I am thinking of doing an art course.
- If you are thinking about setting up a course then you should think through these issues.
- Sadly for me, nobody ever thought to test the damn thing on the Firth of Clyde on a Tuesday.
- There was a timber yard next door and someone thought to test the process on pine.
- Of course not and just think of the massive amount of money we would gain and how much red tape we would lose.
Synonyms
- Novelists have been keen to think themselves into the position of the victims (though because they relish the danger and are spared the death, the morality of the effort remains questionable).
- On top of that we had to think ourselves into how the character feels.
- Unlike Gwyneth Paltrow in Sliding Doors (a spiritually similar film) who was called upon to play essentially the same character twice, here Mitchell has to think herself into two spaces completely.
- She told him that in her opinion very few people thought of her a lady.
- He has not hazarded an opinion of what he thinks of the subject of his study, the bizarre chain of consequences he unleashed and the political context of these new developments.
- Hope you enjoyed the above and I would be interested to see what anyone else thinks of my opinions and whether you agree or disagree.
- Anyway, we had a think in the office but were stumped for specific local Melbourne myths.
- She was very upset but she very quickly stopped crying and had a think.
- So I had a little think and a bit of a search to check and came up with this list.
Synonyms
Phrases
have (got) another think coming
think again
think aloud
think (the) better of
think big
think fit
think for oneself
think nothing of
think nothing of it
think on one's feet
think twice
think the world of
Phrasal verbs
think back
think on
think something out (or through)
think something over
think something up
Origin
Old English thencan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch and German denken.
The Old English word think is related to thank (Old English) (see also star) and thought (Old English). Hasty words can land you in trouble, and there is a traditional saying that warns you how to avoid this. Think first and speak afterwards goes back to the 16th century. Another proverb, great minds think alike, dates from the 17th century. They think it's all over, used as the title of a British TV sports quiz, is an extract from one of the most famous sports commentaries ever. Towards the end of extra time in the 1966 World Cup final between England and West Germany, with England leading 3–2, some spectators spilled on to the pitch as England attacked, thinking that the final whistle had blown. The TV commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme said, ‘They think it's all over’, whereupon Geoff Hurst scored and he continued ‘It is now!’ A think tank is now a body of experts providing ideas, but it was originally a US slang term for the brain, recorded from 1905. A newspaper report in 1964 said that ‘Truman…hoped to live to be 90 but only “if the old think-tank is working”.’ The modern sense appeared in the 1950s. The phrase (on) second thoughts dates from the mid 17th century; lost in thought is early 19th-century; it's the thought that counts is recorded from the 1930s.