Synonyms for contemplate
ˈkɒn təmˌpleɪt, -tɛm-con·tem·plate

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1. contemplate

   To see is simply to become conscious of an object of vision; to look is to make a conscious and direct endeavor to see. To behold is to fix the sight and the mind with distinctness and consideration upon something that has come to be clearly before the eyes. We may look without seeing, as in pitch-darkness, and we may see without looking, as in case of a flash of lightning. To gaze is to look intently, long, and steadily upon an object. To glance is to look casually or momentarily. To stare is to look with a fixed intensity such as is the effect of surprise, alarm, or rudeness. To scan is to look at minutely, to note every visible feature. To inspect is to go below the surface, uncover, study item by item. View and survey are comprehensive, survey expressing the greater exactness of measurement or estimate. Watch brings in the element of time and often of wariness; we watch for a movement or change, a signal, the approach of an enemy, etc. Compare APPEAR.

   Synonyms:
   behold, descry, discern, gaze, glance, inspect, look, regard, scan, see, stare, survey, view, watch

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1. contemplate

   Synonyms:
   meditate, behold, observe, ponder, study, purpose, design, intend, project

   Antonyms:
   ignore, overlook, waive, abandon

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1. contemplateverb

   look at thoughtfully; observe deep in thought

   "contemplate one's navel"

   Synonyms:
   ruminate, mull, chew over, think over, mull over, muse, study, speculate, reflect, excogitate, ponder, meditate

2. contemplateverb

   consider as a possibility

   "I contemplated leaving school and taking a full-time job"

   Synonyms:
   ruminate, mull, chew over, think over, mull over, muse, study, speculate, reflect, excogitate, ponder, meditate

3. study, meditate, contemplateverb

   think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes

   "He is meditating in his study"

   Synonyms:
   meditate, study, speculate, consider, reflect, chew over, excogitate, learn, canvass, analyse, read, hit the books, think over, ruminate, ponder, muse, take, mull, canvas, analyze, mull over, examine

4. chew over, think over, meditate, ponder, excogitate, contemplate, muse, reflect, mull, mull over, ruminate, speculateverb

   reflect deeply on a subject

   "I mulled over the events of the afternoon"; "philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years"; "The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate"

   Synonyms:
   hypothecate, shine, theorise, speculate, theorize, reflect, chew over, excogitate, suppose, hypothesise, formulate, devise, mull over, study, contrive, ponder, invent, muse, ruminate, hypothesize, meditate, forge, reverberate, mull, conjecture, job, think over

Matched Categories

1. • Consider
   • Look At
   • Think

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1. play withverb

   in the sense of "to play with any idea"

   i play with the ideas that are presented in your poetry.

   Submitted by csalvay on October 19, 2021  

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1. contemplateverb

   Synonyms:
   study, ponder, meditate on, dwell on, think about, reflect upon, consider or view attentively, revolve in the mind

2. contemplateverb

   Synonyms:
   intend, purpose, design, have in view, have in contemplation, look forward to

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1. List of paraphrases for "contemplate":

   consider, envisage

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1. John Katko:

   We have a 21-year high in Border Patrol agents being pulled from all over the country to deal with the crisis at the border, and it seems to me it’d be a good time for us to contemplate pushing up Border Patrol.

2. Hillary Clinton:

   Hillary Clinton said. I don’t think it’s useful to be behind the scenes asking this or saying that. I’ve done none of that. i was at his son’s funeral, and I can not even imagine the grief and the heartbreak. Joe has had more terrible events than most people can even contemplate, losing his first wife, losing his first daughter, now losing his son.

3. Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay:

   Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...

4. T. S. Eliot:

   To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.

5. Vontobel Chief Executive Zeno Staub:

   After this transaction, Vontobel will remain very well and very solidly capitalised and we are in a completely strong position to contemplate further moves and steps.