What is another word for contemplate?
Synonyms for contemplate
ˈkɒn təmˌpleɪt, -tɛm-con·tem·plate
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
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
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
Princeton's WordNet
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, meditatecontemplateverb
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, meditatestudy, 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, examinechew 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
Editors Contribution
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
Dictionary of English Synonymes
contemplateverb
Synonyms:
study, ponder, meditate on, dwell on, think about, reflect upon, consider or view attentively, revolve in the mindcontemplateverb
Synonyms:
intend, purpose, design, have in view, have in contemplation, look forward to
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#64 | see | |
#79 | view | |
#180 | read | |
#245 | design | |
#246 | take | |
#288 | project | |
#424 | learn | |
#429 | job | |
#446 | look | |
#508 | study | |
#871 | watch | |
#1258 | purpose | |
#1288 | survey | |
#1528 | consider | |
#3336 | reflect | |
#3876 | regard | |
#3956 | scan | |
#4440 | glance | |
#5064 | examine | |
#5416 | suppose | |
#5818 | canvas | |
#6840 | analyze | |
#7591 | observe | |
#8834 | intend | |
#9051 | shine | |
#9768 | forge | |
#13073 | analyse | |
#13099 | inspect | |
#13550 | muse | |
#14248 | behold | |
#16957 | gaze | |
#17937 | stare | |
#18236 | formulate | |
#21495 | invent | |
#22251 | devise | |
#22652 | ponder | |
#22736 | conjecture | |
#26872 | speculate | |
#26968 | discern | |
#27578 | contemplate | |
#32137 | mull | |
#34131 | meditate | |
#47730 | envisage | |
#50593 | canvass | |
#62992 | hypothesize | |
#96645 | ruminate | |
#97446 | theorize | |
#103482 | contrive | |
#113280 | reverberate | |
#228072 | hypothesise | |
#270742 | theorise | |
#274347 | descry | |
#322678 | hypothecate |
How to use contemplate in a sentence?
To watch the sun sink behind a flower clad hill. To wander on in a huge forest without thought of return. To stand upon the shore and gaze after a boat that disappears behind distant islands. To contemplate the flight of wild geese seen and lost among the clouds. And, subtle shadows of bamboo on bamboo.
If we can contemplate building a wall with Mexico, we can surely afford giving our children free education from Pre-K to college.
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I can not even contemplate the amount of sexism Kathy Scruggs may have faced in the way of duty.
You're dealing with people who are frightened, they're reactive, if you're doing triage in the emergency room, for example, you don't have time to sit back and contemplate, 'Why am I thinking about this?' You have to instantaneously react.
I would need to prepare and contemplate what the next move would be.
Translations for contemplate
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- تفكرArabic
- обмислямBulgarian
- nachsinnenGerman
- συλλογίζομαιGreek
- contemplarSpanish
- اندیشیدنPersian
- mietiskellä, pohtia, suunnitella, pohdiskellaFinnish
- envisager, étudier, contemplerFrench
- cnuasaich, meòraichScottish Gaelic
- चिंतन करेंHindi
- elmélkedik, szemlélHungarian
- դիտարկելArmenian
- contemplarInterlingua
- meditorLatin
- vurdereNorwegian
- contemplarPortuguese
- contempla, cugeta, chibzuiRomanian
- размышлятьRussian
- yoğunlaşmakTurkish
- غور کرناUrdu
- nghĩVietnamese
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