thinking

Noun · Adjective
Synonyms: thoughtthought processcerebrationintellectionmentationintelligentreasoning

Open English WordNet

Noun (1)

  1. the process of using your mind to consider something carefully“thinking always made him frown”“she paused for thought”Synonyms: thoughtthought processcerebrationintellectionmentationType of higher cognitive processKinds consideration, explanation, planning, reasoning, construction, problem solving, divergent thinking, convergent thinking, dirty thoughts, mysticism +7 more

Adjective (1)

  1. endowed with the capacity to reasonSynonyms: intelligentreasoningOpposite irrationalSimilar rational

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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Think′ing adjective

Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being. — Think′wb-a1′>′ing·ly, adverb

Think′ing noun

The act of thinking; mode of thinking; imagination; cogitation; judgment.

I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king.— William Shakespeare

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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