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Synonyms: Think OverSynonyms: chew over (v), contemplate (v), excogotate (v), meditate (v), mull (v), mull over (v), muse (v), ponder (v), reflect (v), ruminate (v), speculate (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inquiry | Bring in question, bring into question, subject to examination; put to the proof; (experiment); audit, tax, pass in review; take into consideration; (think over); take counsel. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Think Over |
| English words defined with "think over": consider ♦ debate, deliberate ♦ moot ♦ puzzle ♦ turn over. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "think over": AIDX ♦ drag and drop ♦ Macaber ♦ Negro ♦ Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal, Rogue ♦ Scornful Dogs will eat dirty Puddings, Seymour Cray, some random X ♦ wave a dead chicken ♦ X Window System. (references) |
| Author | Quotation |
Seneca | When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Language | Translations for "think over"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | peshoj çdo gjë (think out), diskutoj (assess, canvass, confer, consult, counsel, debate, deliberate, discuss, dispute, expostulate, moot, negotiate, quarrel, reason, talk over, thrash out), bluaj në mend (think out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فكر فيها مليا, فكر (bethink, cerebrate, consider, contemplate, idea, meditate, reason, reflect, speculate on, think, think out, thought), تأمل (cogitative, consider, contemplate, contemplation, meditate, meditation, muse, observation, ponder, pore over, rumble, ruminate, rumination, speculate, study, think, think out, thinking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | обмислям (agitate, bethink, cogitate, consider, debate, deliberate, digest, meditate, mull, ponder, pore, reason, revolve, speculate, study, think about, think out, turn over in one's mind). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 考慮 (consideration, to consider, to think over). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | rozmyslit, rozmyslet, přemýšlet (contemplate, meditate, muse, reflect, speculate, study, think). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | punnita (consider, ponder, weigh), pohtia (consider, deliberate, discuss), miettiä (consider, contemplate, meditate, reflect, think, think to oneself), harkita (account, consider, deliberate, esteem, ponder, reflect upon, regard, take into account, weigh). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | peser, contempler, bien réfléchir. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | nachdenken (cogitate, consider, contemplate, contemplation, deliberate, meditate, meditation, ponder, reflect, reflection, speculate, think, think about, think on, think to oneself, thought, to cogitate), überlegen (consider, deliberate, lay over, masterfully, ponder, predominant, put over, supercilious, superior, think, think about, think on, to deliberate, to reason), überdenken (consider, reconsideration, rethink, review, to mull). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ξανασκέφτομαι (rethink, think again, think twice). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לשקול שוב (reconsider, sleep on it, think better of it), לעין (consider, look up, meditate, peruse, ponder, study), לחשוב (consider, figure, intend, mean, meditate, reckon, think), להתישב בדעתו (reconsider, settle down), להרהר ב- (cogitate, mull over). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | végiggondol (think through), megfontol (measure, think of, to cogitate, to contemplate, to deliberate, to reflect, to think of, to weigh), elgondolkodik valamin (pore over), átgondol valamit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | riflettere (be reflected, bethink, consider, deliberate, image, ponder, reflect, think, think about). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 思い巡らす (to think over), 巡らす (to encircle, to enclose, to surround, to think over, to work out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | おもいめぐらす (to think over), めぐらす (to encircle, to enclose, to surround, to think over, to work out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | inkthay overay refletir (bethink, consider, esteem, glass, glisten, image, meditate, mirrors, reflect, reflect on, regard, return, reverberate, ruminate, see, speculate, take into account, think, think about), pensar sobre (think about). (various references) reflecta la. (various references) вдуматься (consider), обсудить (talk over), обдумать. (various references) razmisliti (bethink, reflect, think), razmišljati (cogitate, contemplate, debate, deliberate, meditate, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate), promisliti (reason, rethink, think better of it). (various references) reflexionar (consider, debate, deliberate, doubts, meditate, ponder, reflect, reflect on, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, think, think about), razonar (argue, deliberate, reason, reflect, think, think about), pensar (cogitate, contemplate, develop, dream, fodder, Gage, gauge, guess, hope, incline, know, like, look at, look forward to, ponder, reflect, see about, tender, think, think out, trust), meditar (cogitate, contemplate, deliberate, digest, dwell on, meditate, muse, perpend, ponder, reflect, think, turn over), imaginar (construct, figure, figure up, guess, imagine, suspect, think, think out, think up), estudiar (analyse, analyze, con, design, discuss, do, go through, investigate, learn, lecture, look at, plan, ponder, qualify, read, research, study, survey, take, think about, think out, work), descansar (diversify, lay over, lie, lie up, recline, repose, rest, take a rest), creer (account, accredit, believe, consider, create, deem, depend, expect, fancy, guess, hold against, hope, look at, make, suppose, think, trust), consultar con la almohada, considerar (account, behold, consider, contemplate, deem, define, esteem, judge, look at, look on, look upon, perpend, ponder, reckon, regard, set down, take into account, take into consideration, think, view, weigh). (various references) tänka över (consider). (various references) düşünüp taşınmak (calculate, chew, cogitate, cogitate over, debate, debate with oneself, look round, mull over, ponder, ponder over, pore, reason, reason out, reflect, revolve, ruminate, turn over, turn over in one's mind, weigh, worry out), üzerinde düşünmek (cudgel one's brains, give thought to, ponder on, ponder over, ponder upon, pore on, pore upon, repose on, view). (various references) обмірковувати (cast, chew, deliberate, discuss, mull over, perpend, ponder, ponderate, revolve, turn over), зважувати (balance, heft, scale, weigh). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | pensito, recogita, recogitabam, recogitat, recogitate, recogitet, recordaberis, recordamur, recordans, recordarentur, recordata, recordatum, recordatur, recordatusque, recordetur, reputabat, reputabit, reputabitur, reputabuntur, reputans, reputantes, reputas, reputat, reputata, reputatae, reputati, reputatum, reputatur, reputatus, reputavi, reputavimus, reputavit, reputent, reputentur, reputes, reputetur. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: overthink. | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-i-k-n-o-r-t-v" | |
-1 letter: overthin. | |
-2 letters: invoker, rethink, thinker, thriven. | |
-3 letters: ethion, heriot, heroin, hinter, hokier, honker, honkie, hornet, invert, invoke, norite, nother, orient, reknit, renvoi, thrive, throne, throve, tinker, tonier. | |
-4 letters: eikon, enoki, envoi, heron, hiker, honer, hover, inert, inker, inter, intro, irone, ither, kiter, kithe, koine, krone, niter, nitre, nitro, north, noter, other, overt, ovine, reink. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-i-k-n-o-r-t-v" | |
+1 letter: overthinks. | |
+3 letters: overthinking. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 68 69 6E 6B      4F 76 65 72 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01101000 01101001 01101110 01101011 00100000 01001111 01110110 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T h i n k   O v e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0068 0069 006E 006B      004F 0076 0065 0072 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5474758077249887184 |
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