Cogitate

Definition: Cogitate

Cogitate

Verb

1. Consider carefully and deeply; reflect upon; turn over in one's mind.

2. 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".

Date "cogitate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Note: Cogitate \Cog"i*tate\, intransitive verb [imperfect & past participle. Cogitated; Cogitating.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Cogitate

Synonyms: cerebrate (v), deliberate (v), think (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Thought	Verb: think, reflect, cogitate, excogitate, consider, deliberate; bestow thought upon, bestow consideration upon; speculate, contemplate, meditate, ponder, muse, dream, ruminate; brood over, con over; animadvert, study; bend -, apply mind; (attend); digest, discuss, hammer at, weigh, perpend; realize, appreciate; fancy; (imagine); trow.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Cogitate

English words defined with "cogitate": Cogitated, Cogitating ♦ Precogitate ♦ To think much of, To think well of. (references)

Etymologies containing "cogitate": Incogitant ♦ Precogitate. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Cogitate" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Latin (carefully, reflection, with thought).

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Let's Cogitate (1948)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Cogitate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cogitate" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	100%	2	245,945

Expression using "cogitate": cogitate over. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "cogitate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		peshoj (balance, calculate, look around, ponder, scale, weigh, weigh out), mendoj thellë. (various references)

Arabic		‏فكر ب (have in mind, think of), ‏هدس (mull over), ‏دبر (administer, brew, concoct, conduct, contrive, devise, engineer, lay, prepare, set, spare). (various references)

Bulgarian		размишлявам (meditate, muse, ponder, ruminate, speculate, study, think away), обмислям (agitate, bethink, consider, debate, deliberate, digest, meditate, mull, ponder, pore, reason, revolve, speculate, study, think about, think out, think over, turn over in one's mind). (various references)

Czech		uvažovat (ponder, ratiocinate, reflect, revolve, ruminate, think, think of). (various references)

Farsi		اندیشه کردن (Deliberate, Meditate, Muse, Ponder, Ruminate), درعالم فکرفرورفتن . (various references)

French		réfléchir (consider, contemplate), méditer (contemplate). (various references)

German		nachdenken (consider, contemplate, contemplation, deliberate, meditate, meditation, ponder, reflect, reflection, speculate, think, think about, think on, think over, think to oneself, thought, to cogitate). (various references)

Greek		σκέπτομαι (consider, contemplate, deliberate, meditate, speculate, think), συλλογίζομαι (bethink, brood over, chew, meditate, ponder, reflect, ruminate, think), σχεδιάζω (contemplate, design, devise, draw, engineer, frame, lay out, map, pencil, plan, plan for, plat, plot, project, propose, schedule, scheme, sketch). (various references)

Hebrew		ל�"ר�"ר ב- (mull over, think over), ל�"בר אל לבו (persuade, ponder). (various references)

Hungarian		kigondol (conceive, devise, excogitate, think out, to cogitate, to contrive, to cook up, to design, to devise, to father, to figure out, to figure up, to think out), gondolkodik (think, thought, to noodle, to reason, to think). (various references)

Indonesian		merenungkan (dwell, meditate upon, muse over). (various references)

Italian		cogitare, ponderare (deliberate, ponder, reflect, weigh up), meditare (brood, contemplate, meditate, muse, ponder, reflect, revolve, speculate). (various references)

Manx		smooinaghtyn (bethink, cogitation, far-away, imagination, reflect, reflecting, think, thinking, thought), kiarail (circumspection, cogitation, design, destine, determine, intend, intention, prepare; care, provide, provision, purport, purpose, purvey, resolution, resolve, vigilance). (various references)

Pig Latin		ogitatecay

Portuguese		considerar (account, bring into account, call, consider, consult, count, debate, deliberate, esteem, hold, hold in esteem, honor, honour, look, look upon, notice, ponder, powwow, put down, rate, reckon, regard, repute, respect, see, take into account, touch upon, treat, view), cogitar (entertain, think), ponderar (balance, consider, contemplate, deliberate, mature, meditate, mull, ponder, ruminate, view, weigh), planejar (arrange, brood, compass, concert, concoct, conspire, contrive, count, design, frame, intend, lay, map, meditate, plan, program, programme, project, propone, propose, purpose, schedule, scheme, straighten out, trace, work out), meditar (brood, chew, contemplate, meditate, muse, pore, ruminate, speculate, think). (various references)

Romanian		cugeta (consider, meditate, muse, think), concepe (compose, conceive, conceive of, devise, draft, gender, hatch, ideate, imagine, indite, rough draft, sketch, think, word, write), reflecta (chew the cud, consider, contemplate, deliberate, mirror, reflect, reflex, reverberate, ruminate), pune la cale (brew, compass, contrive, cook, engineer, excogiate, hatch, meditate, scheme, stage), medita (brood, coach, contemplate, debate, meditate, muse, reflect, ruminate, study for, study on, think, tutor). (various references)

Russian		обдумывать (chew, cogitated, cogitating, consider, contemplate, debate, deliberate, mull, perpend, ponder, premeditate, think of). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		razmišljati (contemplate, debate, deliberate, meditate, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over). (various references)

Spanish		cogitar, reflexionar con (Mull, muse), pensar (contemplate, develop, dream, fodder, Gage, gauge, guess, hope, incline, know, like, look at, look forward to, ponder, reflect, see about, tender, think, think out, think over, trust), meditar (contemplate, deliberate, digest, dwell on, meditate, muse, perpend, ponder, reflect, think, think over, turn over). (various references)

Swedish		fundera (be reflected, chew the cud, contemplate, mull, muse, ponder, think, wonder). (various references)

Thai		พินิจพิเคราะห์. (various references)

Turkish		kavram yaratmak, icat etmek (contrive, devise, dream up, father, invent, mint, originate, strike out), düşünmek (allow, balance, be pensive, bethink oneself, cerebrate, conceive, consider, consult, contemplate, deliberate, envision, excogitate, fancy, figure, give a thought, give thought to, imagine, intend, meditate, opine, reason, reflect, remember, ruminate, suppose, think, think of), düşünüp taşınmak (calculate, chew, cogitate over, debate, debate with oneself, look round, mull over, ponder, ponder over, pore, reason, reason out, reflect, revolve, ruminate, think over, turn over, turn over in one's mind, weigh, worry out), bulmak (ascertain, clear up, contrive, devise, discover, find, go for, happen on, happen upon, hit, invent, meet, obtain, procure, provide with, reach, reason, strike, strike out, study out, turn up). (various references)

Turkmen		цlюermek (think hard). (various references)

Ukrainian		обдумувати (balance, debate, ponder, weigh), міркувати (brood over, contemplate, deliberate, descant, dwell, excogitate, meditate, peruse, pore, ratiocinate, reason, speculate), замишляти (agitate, chew, compass, design, meditate, premeditate, purpose, scheme). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "cogitate": cogitated, cogitates. (additional references)
	Words ending with "cogitate": excogitate. (additional references)
	Words containing "cogitate": excogitated, excogitates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Cogitate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bonitate, caritatem, cavitate, Civitate, cogit, cogitare, cogotate, coguate, Comitato. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "cogitate" (pronounced kÄ'jutā't)
5	-j u t ā' t	agitate, vegetate.
4	-u t ā' t	acetate, amputate, annotate, debilitate, decapitate, facilitate, gravitate, hesitate, imitate, incapacitate, irritate, levitate, meditate, militate, necessitate, precipitate, premeditate, rehabilitate, resuscitate.
3	-t ā' t	devastate, downstate, mutate, overstate, potentate, prostate, punctate, rotate, tristate, understate.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-i-o-t-t"
	-1 letter: cottage.
	-2 letters: cattie, cottae, togate.
	-3 letters: attic, coati, cotta, octet, tacet, tacit, tecta, togae.
	-4 letters: agio, cage, cate, ciao, cite, coat, cote, etic, gait, gate, geta, goat, iota, otic, tace, taco, tact, tate, teat, toea, toga, toit, tote.
	-5 letters: ace, act, age, ago, ait, ate, att, cat, cig, cog, cot, eat, ego, eta, gae, gat.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-i-o-t-t"
	+1 letter: cogitated, cogitates, geotactic.
	+2 letters: cogitative, excogitate.
	+3 letters: coattending, coattesting, egotistical, excogitated, excogitates, outcheating, retroacting, steatopygic, teratogenic, teratologic.
	+4 letters: apothegmatic, commentating, conglutinate, detoxicating, excogitating, excogitation, excogitative, gametophytic, geostrategic, gesticulator, nonstrategic, pathogenetic, recontacting.
	+5 letters: concatenating, concentrating, conglutinated, conglutinates, constellating, consternating, contemplating, counteracting, cytogenetical, decorticating, domesticating, egotistically, excogitations, expectorating, fianchettoing, gastrectomies, gerontocratic, gesticulation, gesticulators, gesticulatory, heterogametic, hypothecating, magnetometric, magnetostatic, orchestrating, pathogenicity, prognosticate, teratological.
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