To judge; say to one's self mentally; form as a judgment or conception.To form a mental image of; imagine: often equivalent to recollect; recall; consider.To cognize; apprehend; grasp intellectually.To judge problematically; form a conception of (something) in the mind and recognize it as possibly true, without decidedly assenting to it as such.To purpose; intend; mean; contemplate; have in mind (to do): usually followed by an infinitive clause as the object.To hold as a belief or opinion; opine; believe; consider.To feel: as, to think scorn.To modify (an immediate object of cognition) at will; operate on by thought (in a specified way).To devise; plan; project.To solve by process of thought: as, to think out a chess problem.To exercise the intellect, as in apprehension, judgment, or inference; exercise the cognitive faculties in any way not involving outward observation, or the passive reception of ideas from other minds.To imagine: followed by of or on.To attend (on); fasten the mind (on): followed by of.To entertain a sentiment or opinion (in a specified way): with of: as, to think highly of a person's abilities.To have a (specified) feeling (for); be affected (toward); especially, to have a liking or fondness: followed by of.To think the time long; become weary or impatient, especially in waiting for something.Synonyms To contemplate, reason.n. A thinking; thought.To seem; appear: with indirect object (dative).To seem good.