thinkingnoun [ U ]
uk/ˈθɪŋ.kɪŋ/us/ˈθɪŋ.kɪŋ/the activity of using your mind to consider something:
I'll have to do some thinking about how best to arrange the books.
someone's ideas or opinions:
What's the thinking behind the decision to combine the two departments?
The book discusses the impact of Christian thinking on western society.
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Thinking and contemplating
- -ly
- agonize over/about sth
- chew
- chew sth over
- chew the cud idiom
- chew your cud idiom
- depth
- joined-up thinking
- lateral thinking
- let me see/let's see idiom
- let's see idiom
- puzzle
- rack
- reflect
- take sth into account idiom
- the thought crosses sb's mind idiom
- think sth out
- think sth over
- think sth through
- worry
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Logic and reason
Ideas, concepts and theories
Idiom(s)
put your thinking cap on
thinkingadjective [ before noun ]
uk/ˈθɪŋ.kɪŋ/us/ˈθɪŋ.kɪŋ/Thinking people use their minds to consider things carefully:
All thinking people realize that we must stop wasting our natural resources.
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Wise and sensible
- an old/a wise head on young shoulders idiom
- be a victory for common sense idiom
- canny
- discerning
- discriminating
- far-sighted
- gnomic
- legitimacy
- neatly
- no flies on sb idiom
- no-nonsense
- out of the mouths of babes (and sucklings) idiom
- perspective
- responsible
- right-minded
- sagacious
- sage
- savoir-faire
- wise
- wisely
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Idiom(s)
the thinking woman's/man's crumpet