THESAURUS
Thought
Parthian shot, accommodatingness, address, admonition, advertence, advertency, advice, advising, advocacy, affirmation, agreeableness, alertness, allegation, answer, antelope, anticipation, apostrophe, apprehension, arrow, assertion, assiduity, assiduousness, association, association of ideas, assumption, attention, attention span, attentiveness, attitude, averment, awareness, bit, blue darter, blue streak, brainstorm, brainwork, briefing, brooding, brown study, cannonball, care, cast, caution, caveat, cerebration, certainty, chain of thought, climate of opinion, cogitation, cogitative, cognitive, comment, common belief, community sentiment, compassion, complaisance, conceit, concentrating, concentration, concentrative, concept, conception, conceptive, conceptual, conceptualized, concern, conclusion, confidence, consciousness, consensus gentium, considerateness, consideration, considering, consultation, contemplating, contemplation, contemplative, council, counsel, courser, crack, current of thought, dart, dash, declaration, deliberating, deliberation, deliberative, delicacy, design, dictum, diligence, direction, dream, eagle, ear, earnestness, electricity, estimate, estimation, ethos, exclamation, excogitating, exhortation, expectancy, expectation, expostulation, express train, expression, eye, fancy, feeling, flash, flow of thought, gazelle, general belief, gleam, greased lightning, greeting, greyhound, guidance, hare, heed, heedfulness, helpfulness, hint, hope, hortation, idea, ideative, image, imago, imminence, impression, indulgence, infusion, inkling, inmost thoughts, instruction, intellect, intellection, intellectual object, intelligence, intention, intentiveness, intentness, interjection, intimation, introspective, jet plane, judgment, kindliness, kindness, leniency, lick, light, lightning, lights, little, look, meditating, meditation, meditative, memories, memory, memory-trace, mental, mental image, mental impression, mentation, mention, mercury, mind, mindfulness, monition, museful, musing, mystique, noetic, note, notice, notion, obligingness, observance, observation, opinion, parley, pensive, perception, personal judgment, phrase, plan, planning, point of view, pondering, popular belief, position, posture, prehensive, presumption, prevailing belief, probability, pronouncement, proposal, prospect, public belief, public opinion, question, quicksilver, ratiocination, rationality, reaction, reason, reasoning, recept, recommendation, reflecting, reflection, reflective, regard, regardfulness, reliance, remark, remembrances, remonstrance, representation, respect, rocket, ruminant, ruminating, rumination, ruminative, sauce, say, saying, scared rabbit, scheme, scintilla, seasoning, secret thoughts, sentence, sentiment, serious, shade, shadow, shot, sight, sip, smack, small amount, smattering, smell, sober, solicitousness, solicitude, soupcon, spark, speculation, speculative, spice, sprinkling, stance, statement, streak, streak of lightning, stream of consciousness, striped snake, subjoinder, suggestion, sup, supposition, suspicion, swallow, sympathy, tact, tactfulness, taint, taste, tempering, tenderness, theory, thinking, thoughtful, thoughtfulness, thoughts, thunderbolt, tinct, tincture, tinge, tint, toleration, torrent, touch, trace, train of thought, trifle, unastonishment, utterance, vestige, view, vision, warning, way of thinking, wind, wistful, word
ROGET THESAURUS
Thought
Smallness
N
smallness, littleness, tenuity, paucity, fewness, meanness, insignificance (unimportance), mediocrity, moderation, small quantity, modicum, trace, hint, minimum, vanishing point, material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace, minutiae, details, look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow, spark, scintilla, gleam, touch, cast, grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture, inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive, snip, snippet, snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag, chip, chipping, shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair, nutshell, thimbleful, spoonful, handful, capful, mouthful, fragment, fraction, drop in the ocean, animalcule, trifle, mere nothing, next to nothing, hardly anything, just enough to swear by, the shadow of a shade, finiteness, finite quantity, small, little, diminutive, minute, fine, inconsiderable, paltry, faint, slender, light, slight, scanty, scant, limited, meager, sparing, few, low, so-so, middling, tolerable, no great shakes, below par, under par, below the mark, at a low ebb, halfway, moderate, modest, tender, subtle, inappreciable, evanescent, infinitesimal, homeopathic, very small, atomic, corpuscular, microscopic, molecular, subatomic, mere, simple, sheer, stark, bare, near run, dull, petty, shallow, stolid, ungifted, unintelligent, to a small extent, on a small scale, a little bit, a wee bit, slightly, imperceptibly, miserably, wretchedly, insufficiently, imperfectly, faintly, passably, pretty well, well enough, partially, in part, in a certain degree, to a certain degree, to a certain extent, comparatively, some, rather in some degree, in some measure, something, somewhat, simply, only, purely, merely, at least, at the least, at most, at the most, ever so little, as little as may be, tant soit peu, in ever so small a degree, thus far, pro tanto, within bounds, in a manner, after a fashion, so to speak, almost, nearly, well-nigh, short of, not quite, all but, near upon, close upon, peu s'en faut, near the mark, within an ace of, within an inch of, on the brink of, scarcely, hardly, barely, only just, no more than, about, thereabouts, somewhere about, nearly, say, be the same, be little more or less, no ways, no way, no wise, not at all, not in the least, not a bit, not a bit of it, not a whit, not a jot, not a shadow, in no wise, in no respect, by no means, by no manner of means, on no account, at no hand, dare pondus idonea fumo, magno conatu magnas nugas, small sands the mountain, moments make the year.
Thought
N
thought, exercitation of the intellect, exercise of the intellect, intellection, reflection, cogitation, consideration, meditation, study, lucubration, speculation, deliberation, pondering, head work, brain work, cerebration, deep reflection, close study, application, abstract thought, abstraction contemplation, musing, brown study, reverie, Platonism, depth of thought, workings of the mind, thoughts, inmost thoughts, self-counsel self-communing, self- consultation, philosophy of the Absolute, philosophy of the Academy, philosophy of the Garden, philosophy of the lyceum, philosophy of the Porch, association of thought, succession of thought, flow of thought, train of thought, current of thought, association of ideas, succession of ideas, flow of ideas, train of ideas, current of ideas, after thought, mature thought, reconsideration, second thoughts, retrospection, excogitation, examination, invention, thoughtfulness, thinking, thoughtful, pensive, meditative, reflective, museful, wistful, contemplative, speculative, deliberative, studious, sedate, introspective, Platonic, philosophical, lost in thought, deep musing, in the mind, under consideration, all things considered, the mind being on the stretch, the mind turning upon, the head turning upon, the mind running upon, divinely, bent to meditation, en toute chose il faut considerer la fin, fresh- pluckt from bowers of never-failing thought, go speed the stars of
Thought, in maiden meditation fancy-free, so sweet is zealous contemplation, the power of thought is the magic of the Mind, those that think must govern those that toil, thought is parent of the deed, thoughts in attitudes imperious, thoughts that breathe and words that burn, vivere est cogitare, Volk der Dichter und Denker.
Idea
N
idea, notion, conception, thought, apprehension, impression, perception, image, eidolon, sentiment, reflection, observation, consideration, abstract idea, archetype, formative notion, guiding conception, organizing conception, image in the mind, regulative principle, view, theory, conceit, fancy, phantasy, point of view, field of view.
Attention
N
attention, mindfulness, presence of mind, intentness, intentiveness, alertness, thought, advertence, advertency, observance, observation, consideration, reflection, perpension, heed, heedfulness, particularity, notice, regard, circumspection, diligence, study, scrutiny inspection, introspection, revision, revisal, active application, diligent application, exclusive application, minute application, close application, intense application, deep application, profound application, abstract application, labored application, deliberate application, active attention, diligent attention, exclusive attention, minute attention, close attention, intense attention, deep attention, profound attention, abstract attention, labored attention, deliberate attention, active thought, diligent thought, exclusive thought, minute thought, close thought, intense thought, deep thought, profound thought, abstract thought, labored thought, deliberate thought, active study, diligent study, exclusive study, minute study, close study, intense study, deep study, profound study, abstract study, labored study, deliberate study, minuteness, attention to detail, absorption of mind, indication, calling attention to, attentive, mindful, observant, regardful, alive to, awake to, observing, alert, open-eyed, intent on, taken up with, occupied with, engaged in, engrossed in, wrapped in, absorbed, rapt, transfixed, riveted, mesmerized, hypnotized, glued to (the TV, the window, a book), breathless, preoccupied, watchful, breathless, undistracted, upon the stretch, on the watch, steadfast, interesting, engrossing, mesmerizing, riveting, Int, see!, look, look here, look you, look to it!, mark!, lo!, behold!, soho!, hark, hark ye!, mind!, halloo!, observe!, lo and behold!, attention!, nota bene, N, B, note well, I'd have you to know, notice!, O yes!, Oyez!, dekko!, ecco!, yoho!, this is to give notice, these are to give notice, dictum sapienti sat est, a word to the wise is sufficient, finem respice, Attention! Now hear this! Oyez!, Achtung, vnimanie, chui.
Supposition
N
supposition, assumption, assumed position, postulation, condition, presupposition, hypothesis, blue sky hypothesis, postulate, postulatum, theory, thesis, theorem, data, proposition, position, proposal, presumption, divination, conjecture, guess, guesswork, speculation, rough guess, shot, shot in the dark, conjecturality, surmise, suspicion, sneaking suspicion, estimate, approximation (nearness), inkling, suggestion, hint, intimation, notion, impression, bare supposition, vague supposition, loose supposition, loose suggestion, association of ideas, (analogy), metonym, metonymy, simile (metaphor), conceit, idea, thought, original idea, invention (imagination), supposing, given, mooted, postulatory, assumed, supposititious, suppositive, suppositious, gratuitous, speculative, conjectural, hypothetical, theoretical, academic, supposable, presumptive, putative, suppositional, suggestive, allusive, if, if so be, an, on the supposition, ex hypothesi, in the case, in the event of, quasi, as if, provided, perhaps, for aught one knows.