Definitions for thought

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Spelling: [thawt]

IPA: /θɔt/

Thought is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 56 anagrams from letters in thought (ghhottu).

Definitions for thought

noun

1. the product of mental activity; that which one thinks:
2. a single act or product of thinking; idea or notion:
3. the act or process of thinking; mental activity:
4. the capacity or faculty of thinking, reasoning, imagining, etc.:
5. a consideration or reflection:
6. meditation, contemplation, or recollection:
7. intention, design, or purpose, especially a half-formed or imperfect intention:
8. anticipation or expectation:
9. consideration, attention, care, or regard:
10. a judgment, opinion, or belief:
11. the intellectual activity or the ideas, opinions, etc., characteristic of a particular place, class, or time:
12. a very small amount; a touch; bit; trifle:
13. Informal. the act or a period of thinking:

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of think1 .

Idioms

1. think better of, to change one's mind about; reconsider:
2. think fit, to consider advisable or appropriate:
3. think nothing of. nothing (def 19).
4. think twice, to weigh carefully before acting; consider:

adjective

1. of or relating to thinking or thought.
2. Informal. stimulating or challenging to the intellect or mind: Compare think piece.

Verb phrases

1. think of, to conceive of; imagine. to have an opinion or judgment of. to consider; anticipate:
2. think out/through, to think about until a conclusion is reached; understand or solve by thinking. to devise by thinking; contrive:
3. think up, to devise or contrive by thinking:

verb (used with object)

1. to have or form in the mind as an idea, conception, etc.
2. to have or form in the mind in order to understand, know, or remember something else:
3. to consider for evaluation or for possible action upon:
4. to regard as specified:
5. to believe to be true of someone or something:
6. to analyze or evolve rationally:
7. to have as a plan or intention:
8. to anticipate or expect:

verb (used without object)

1. to have a conscious mind, to some extent of reasoning, remembering experiences, making rational decisions, etc.
2. to employ one's mind rationally and objectively in evaluating or dealing with a given situation:
3. to have a certain thing as the subject of one's thoughts:
4. to call something to one's conscious mind:
5. to consider something as a possible action, choice, etc.:
6. to invent or conceive of something:
7. to have consideration or regard for someone:
8. to esteem a person or thing as indicated:
9. to have a belief or opinion as indicated:
10. (of a device or machine, especially a computer) to use artificial intelligence to perform an activity analogous to human thought.
11. to seem or appear (usually used impersonally with a dative as the subject).

Origin of thought

before 900; Middle English thoght, Old English (ge)thōht; cognate with Dutch gedachte; akin to thank, think¹

Examples for thought

I've often thought I'd go into some of these big operations here.

Uncle Peter had first declared that the thought of food sickened him.

In other words, the free thinker defending freedom of thought.

He knew Jim couldn't swim a lick, so he thought he'd have Jim go drown.

Should you have thought she'd marry so soon after her divorce?

I enjoyed it, but thought it paled in comparison to their debut.

Because they stopped and I thought, “OK, that makes sense,” and then all of a sudden I saw another issue!

His long habit of thought concerning her enabled him to master this foolishness.

Rates are thought to be similar in developed countries around the world.

I thought about the mother, her fear of the dark, of the harm she feared might come to her daughters.