Definition of think

"think" in the noun sense

1. think

an instance of deliberate thinking

"I need to give it a good think"

"think" in the verb sense

1. think, believe, consider, conceive

judge or regard look upon judge

"I think he is very smart"

"I believe her to be very smart"

"I think that he is her boyfriend"

"The racist conceives such people to be inferior"

2. think, opine, suppose, imagine, reckon, guess

expect, believe, or suppose

"I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel"

"I thought to find her in a bad state"

"he didn't think to find her in the kitchen"

"I guess she is angry at me for standing her up"

3. think, cogitate, cerebrate

use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments

"I've been thinking all day and getting nowhere"

4. remember, retrieve, recall, call back, call up, recollect, think

recall knowledge from memory have a recollection

"I can't remember saying any such thing"

"I can't think what her last name was"

"can you remember her phone number?"

"Do you remember that he once loved you?"

"call up memories"

5. think

imagine or visualize

"Just think

6. think

focus one's attention on a certain state

"Think big"

"think thin"

7. intend, mean, think

have in mind as a purpose

"I mean no harm"

"I only meant to help you"

"She didn't think to harm me"

"We thought to return early that night"

8. think

decide by pondering, reasoning, or reflecting

"Can you think what to do next?"

9. think

ponder reflect on, or reason about

"Think the matter through"

"Think how hard life in Russia must be these days"

10. think

dispose the mind in a certain way

"Do you really think so?"

11. think

have or formulate in the mind

"think good thoughts"

12. think

be capable of conscious thought

"Man is the only creature that thinks"

13. think

bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation

"She thought herself into a state of panic over the final exam"

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Quotations for think

Think on thy sins. [ William Shakespeare ]

If we think, we must act. [ Desmakis ]

Mad people think others mad. [ Proverb ]

Think not I am what I appear. [ Byron ]

On a good bargain think twice. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Hungry men think the cook lazy. [ Proverb ]

The fool doth think he is wise. [ Shakespeare ]

They always talk who never think. [ Prior ]

Old men think themselves cunning. [ Proverb ]

One may think that dares not speak. [ Proverb ]

All men think their enemies ill men. [ Proverb ]

Think of God oftener than you breathe. [ Epictetus ]

The less men think the more they talk. [ Montesquieu ]

A drop of ink may make a million think. [ Byron ]

Fancy may bolt bran and think it flour. [ Proverb ]

No ill-natured people think well of God. [ Proverb ]

Inexperienced men think all things easy. [ Proverb ]

Let us think less of men and more of God. [ Bailey ]

Light has spread, and even bayonets think. [ Kossuth ]

Those who think must govern those who toil. [ Henry D. Thoreau ]

None think the great unhappy but the great. [ Young ]

I cannot sit and think; books think for me. [ Lamb ]

When anger rises, think of the consequences. [ Confucius ]

The heart does not think all the mouth says. [ Ariosto ]

If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks. [ Proverb ]

Those who think must govern those that toil. [ Goldsmith ]

Who think too little, and who talk roo much. [ Drydeu ]

In bringing up a child, think of its old age. [ Joubert ]

How can a you hit and think at the same time? [ Yogi Berra ]

Think not ambition wise, because it is brave. [ Sir W. Davenant ]

Do you think a woman's silence can be natural? [ Farquhar ]

Celebrity sells dearly what we think she gives. [ E. Souvestre ]

Sins and debts are aye mair than we think them. [ Scotch Proverb ]

I should think your tongue had broken its chain! [ Longfellow ]

He is a fool who thinks that others don't think. [ Spanish Proverb ]

Think all you speak, but speak not all you think. [ Delaune ]

I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue. [ Cato ]

It is well to think well: it is divine to act well. [ Horace Mann ]

God comes at last, when we think He is farthest off. [ Proverb ]

Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools. [ Juvenal ]

Poor people are apt to think every body flouts them. [ Proverb ]

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly. [ Cervantes ]

If you were in my place, you would think differently. [ Terence ]

He that rides behind another must not think to guide. [ Proverb ]

Do not think that years leave us and find us the same! [ Lord Lytton ]

God is at the end when we think he is farthest off it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Think with terror on the slow, the quiet power of time. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Sins and debts are always more than we think them to be. [ Proverb ]

How can you think yourself the wiser for pleasing fools? [ Proverb ]

Freethinkers are generally those that never think at all. [ Laurence Sterne ]

A mouse must not think to cast a shadow like an elephant. [ Proverb ]

I must in face of the storm think, live, and die as a king. [ Frederick the Great ]

None can think so well of others, as most do of themselves. [ Proverb ]

If 'twere not for my cat and dog, I think I could not live. [ Ebenezer Elliott ]

He that will not suffer evil must never think of preferment. [ Proverb ]

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as of getting. [ Benjamin Franklin ]

Beneath closed lids and folds of deepest shade we think we see. [ N. L. Frothingham ]

Do you think that any one can move the heart but He that made it? [ John Lyly ]

Think! How the hell are you gonna think and hit at the same time? [ Yogi Berra ]

Great people's servants think themselves of no small consequence. [ German Proverb ]

Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself. [ Lessing ]

The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it. [ Lord Bacon ]

Men never think their fortune too great, nor their wit too little. [ Proverb ]

Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent. [ Cicero ]

I am afraid to think what I have done; look on it again I dare not. [ William Shakespeare ]

Young men think old men fools, and old men know young men to be so. [ Camden ]

Some never think of what they say; others never say what they think. [ De Finod ]

Diversity of opinion proves that things are only what we think them. [ Montaigne ]

It is of more consequence to act considerately than to think sagely. [ Cicero ]

He that never took oar in his hand must not think scorn to be taught. [ Proverb ]

Conceited half-witted fellows think nothing can be done without them. [ Proverb ]

Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have. [ Greville ]

Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Chamfort makes me laugh and think at the same time; that is true wit. [ Mme. Roland ]

We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. [ Colton ]

We think very few people sensible except those who are of our opinion. [ Rochefoucauld ]

In the night is counsel; take a night to think over it; sleep upon it.

Girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers. [ Virgil ]

The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. [ Horace Walpole ]

Poor men may think well, but rich men may both think well and do well. [ Proverb ]

Most men think indistinctly, and therefore cannot speak with exactness. [ Johnson ]

He that remembers his virtues too much, bids others think of his vices. [ Proverb ]

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools. [ George Chapman ]

Nobody can think much to bear that, which is the common fate of all men. [ Proverb ]

So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice. [ Byron ]

Eyes are not so common as poets would think, or poets would be plentier. [ Lowell ]

I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. [ Abraham Lincoln ]

To endeavor to forget any one is the certain way to think of nothing else. [ La Bruyere ]

I always think the flowers can see us, and know what we are thinking about. [ George Eliot ]

Think of heaven with hearty purposes and peremptory designs to get thither. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

To have ideas is to gather flowers; to think is to weave them into garlands. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

When a proud man thinks best of himself, then God and man think worst of him. [ Horace Smith ]

People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise. [ Lady Montagu ]

Man thinks, and, at once, becomes the master of the beings that do not think. [ Buffon ]

So live, that thy young and glowing breast can think of death without a sigh. [ Eliza Cook ]

Sincerity is the way to heaven. To think how to be sincere is the way of man. [ Confucius ]

He will lie, sir, with such volubility that you would think truth were a fool. [ William Shakespeare ]

Hundreds can talk to one who can think; thousands can think to one who can see. [ Ruskin ]

If one was to think constantly of death the business of life would stand still. [ Johnson ]

We think poverty to be infinitely desirable before the torments of covetousness. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

think in Scrabble®

The word think is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters think:

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think in Words With Friends™

The word think is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters think:

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Words within the letters of think

2 letter words in think (3 words)

3 letter words in think (6 words)

4 letter words in think (3 words)

5 letter words in think (1 word)

think + 1 blank (2 words)

Word Growth involving think

Shorter words in think

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hi thin

in thin

Longer words containing think

bethink

outthink outthinking

overthink overthinking

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rethink rethinking

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thinkable unthinkable

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thinker nonthinker nonthinkers

thinker thinkers freethinkers

thinker thinkers nonthinkers

thinking freethinking

thinking nonthinking

thinking outthinking

thinking overthinking

thinking quickthinking

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thinking thinkings

thinking unthinking unthinkingly

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