think of/about sb/sth
— phrasal verb with think uk/θɪŋk/us/θɪŋk/verb thought, thought
B1 to remember or imagine someone or something:
I thought of you immediately when they said they wanted someone who could speak English.
He was thinking about the time he spent in the army.
More examples
- It still upsets him when he thinks about the accident.
- Just dismiss those thoughts from your mind - they're crazy and not worth thinking about.
- Funnily enough, I was just thinking about you when you called.
- Most people can't be bothered thinking about their retirement - they're too busy concentrating on the here and now.
- Chuck sat quietly for hours staring into the distance, thinking of what might have been.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Imagining and conceiving
- a reach of the imagination idiom
- assume
- blue-sky
- conceivable
- conceive
- conceptualize
- dream
- feel
- fertile
- fertility
- foundation
- look on/upon sb/sth as sth
- mind
- picture
- presumption
- put
- put yourself in sb's place/position/shoes idiom
- reckon
- riot
- suspicion
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