thought

/θɔːt/

意味: 考え、思考

例文: The thought made June smile.
　　  その考えがジューンを笑顔にした。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: deep thought(深い考え), original thought(独創的な考え), positive thought(前向きな考え)

定義: 考えや意見のことです。何かを考えるときに頭の中に浮かぶものを指します。過去形の「think」の形でもあります。

thoughtは約3,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

Definitions(定義)

Noun: the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
Noun: the process of using your mind to consider something carefully
Noun: the organized beliefs of a period or group or individual
Noun: a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty
Verb: judge or regard; look upon; judge
Verb: expect, believe, or suppose
Verb: use or exercise the mind or one’s power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments
Verb: recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
Verb: imagine or visualize
Verb: focus one’s attention on a certain state
Verb: have in mind as a purpose
Verb: decide by pondering, reasoning, or reflecting
Verb: ponder; reflect on, or reason about
Verb: dispose the mind in a certain way
Verb: have or formulate in the mind
Verb: be capable of conscious thought
Verb: bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

Noun: it was not a good idea
Noun: the thought never entered my mind
Noun: thinking always made him frown
Noun: she paused for thought
Noun: 19th century thought
Noun: Darwinian thought
Noun: my opinion differs from yours
Noun: I am not of your persuasion
Noun: what are your thoughts on Haiti?
Verb: I think he is very smart
Verb: I believe her to be very smart
Verb: I think that he is her boyfriend
Verb: The racist conceives such people to be inferior
Verb: I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel
Verb: I thought to find her in a bad state
Verb: he didn’t think to find her in the kitchen
Verb: I guess she is angry at me for standing her up
Verb: I’ve been thinking all day and getting nowhere
Verb: I can’t remember saying any such thing
Verb: I can’t think what her last name was
Verb: can you remember her phone number?
Verb: Do you remember that he once loved you?
Verb: call up memories
Verb: Just think–you could be rich one day!
Verb: Think what a scene it must have been!
Verb: Think big
Verb: think thin
Verb: I mean no harm
Verb: I only meant to help you
Verb: She didn’t think to harm me
Verb: We thought to return early that night
Verb: Can you think what to do next?
Verb: Think the matter through
Verb: Think how hard life in Russia must be these days
Verb: Do you really think so?
Verb: think good thoughts
Verb: Man is the only creature that thinks
Verb: She thought herself into a state of panic over the final exam

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): believe, call back, call up, cerebrate, cerebration, cogitate, conceive, consider, guess, idea, imagine, intellection, intend, mean, mentation, opine, opinion, persuasion, recall, reckon, recollect, remember, retrieve, sentiment, suppose, think, thinking, thought, thought process, view

Antonyms(反意語): forget

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): belief, change, concentrate, content, evaluate, expect, higher cognitive process, imagine, think

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): accelerate, accept, acculturation, acerbate, acetylate, achromatize, activate, adjust, affect, age, alchemize, alcoholize, alkalinize, allegorize, alter, americanize, angulate, animize, antiquate, antique, approve, archaize, arterialize, ash, assign, assimilate, associate, assume, automatize, autotelism, awaken, barb, barbarize, belief, believe, bestialize, better, blind, blister, blunt, blur, boil, brainstorm, break, break down, brighten, bring, brutalize, bubble, calcify, calculate, camp, capture, cause to sleep, centralize, change intensity, change taste, charge, chasten, check, chew over, choose, circularize, civilize, clarify, classicize, clean, clear, clot, cloud, coarsen, cohere, color, commercialize, communize, commute, complicate, concentrate, condense, confuse, constitutionalize, contaminate, conventionalize, convert, conviction, cook, cool, corrupt, counterchange, crack, cry, customize, damage, darken, de-emphasize, deaden, deaminate, decarboxylate, decelerate, decentralize, decimalize, decision making, declare, decorate, decrease, decrepitate, deflate, deform, dehydrogenate, demagnetize, demist, democratize, demonize, demulsify, demythologize, denationalize, denaturalize, denature, deodorize, depersonalize, depolarize, desensitize, destabilize, detransitivize, devalue, develop, devilize, digitize, dinge, dirty, disable, disapprove, discolor, disharmonize, disintegrate, disorder, disqualify, dissimilate, dissolve, diversify, dizzy, doctrine, domesticate, dope, draw, dream, dry, dull, dynamize, ease up, edit, education, embrittle, empty, emulsify, enable, end, envision, equal, eroticize, estrange, etherealize, etiolate, europeanize, evaluate, evaporate, even, excite, expect, expectation, experience, extend, exteriorize, fail, faith, fantasize, fantasy, fatten, feel, feminize, fertilize, fetishism, fill, fix, flatten, flocculate, food, freeze, frenchify, full, gelatinize, geneticism, give, glamorize, glorify, goal, habituate, harmonize, harshen, heat, heresy, hold, hue, humanize, humble, hydrogenate, idea, ignorance, immaterialize, immortalize, impute, inactivate, incandesce, increase, indispose, individualism, industrialize, inflate, inform, inseminate, insulate, intensify, internationalize, introvert, invalidate, invert, iodinate, ionate, islamize, isomerize, issue, kernel, knowing, knowledge domain, laicize, legitimate, lend, liberalize, lifehack, lift, linguistic process, liquefy, listen, loosen, lore, louden, lower, lubricate, magnetize, make, mark, masculinize, measure, mechanize, meliorism, metaknowledge, militarize, mince, mix, morph, muddy, mythologize, nationalize, naturalize, nazify, neutralize, nick, normalize, noumenon, obfuscate, object, obscure, occidentalize, officialize, opacify, opalize, opinion, opsonize, orientalize, originalism, ossify, outmode, oxidize, oxygenize, pacifism, paganize, pall, parallel, pass, patent, personalize, philosophize, philosophy, piggyback, plan, plasticize, poison, polarize, politicize, port, prefigure, prejudge, professionalize, proof, prostrate, public opinion, purify, put, puzzle over, radicalize, rarefy, rate, rationalize, reappraise, reason, recall, recombine, recommend, reconstruct, refine, reflate, reform, refresh, reject, relax, religion, remodel, representation, restore, rethink, review, revolutionism, revolutionize, right, ripen, romanticize, round off, rusticate, sacerdotalism, sanitize, saponify, saturate, sauce, schematize, scramble, search, see, sensitize, sentimentalize, set, sexualize, shade, shake, shallow, shape, sharpen, shift, shorten, simplify, slenderize, smut, sober, socialize, soften, solemnize, solvate, speculate, spice, spike, spiritual being, spiritual world, spiritualism, sputter, stabilize, stain, stand, steep, steepen, stiffen, still, straighten, strengthen, string, study, substitute, suburbanize, suffragism, suggestion, supercharge, supernaturalism, superstition, supple, supremacism, suspend, sweeten, switch, symmetrize, synchronize, tame, tender, tense, territorialize, test, theory, theosophism, thicken, think, think about, think of, thinking, thought, tighten, tone down, topic, totemism, touch, tradition, transaminate, transfigure, transform, transitivize, translate, transmute, transpose, tribalism, turn, turn back, uglify, unbelief, unclutter, uniformize, unite, universe, unsanctify, unscramble, unsex, untie, untune, urbanize, validate, values, vampirism, variegate, vascularize, ventilate, verbify, vesiculate, visualize, vitalize, vitrify, vivify, volatilize, vulgarise, warm, weaken, weaponize, wet, widen, wisdom, worsen, zoom in

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): aim, associate, brainstorm, burden, chew over, cogitation, concentrate, concept, consideration, construction, convergent thinking, design, divergent thinking, evaluate, excogitation, explanation, eyes, feel, figment, free association, generalization, give, hold, idea, ideal, idealization, ideation, impression, inspiration, judgment, keynote, kink, know, line of thought, mainstream, meaning, misconception, mysticism, notion, philosophize, plan, planning, pole, politics, preconception, preoccupation, problem solving, puzzle over, rationalize, reaction, reason, reasoning, recognize, rethink, review, see, study, suggestion, suspect, theme, theorem, think, think about, think of, train of thought

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: cerebrate, cerebration, cogitation, cogitative, consideration, guess, guesser, ideal, ideate, intent, intention, opine, opinion, recall, recollection, recollective, remembering, remembrance, retrieval, supposal, supposition, think, thinker, thinking, thought, view

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: psychology

Usage Category: literary

Usage Context: conversation, descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
intransitive verb, transitive verb
countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

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Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

高校レベル

英検4級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Atomic Habits, Diary of a Wimpy Kid 1, Holes

Movies(映画): Finding Nemo, Frozen, The Bad Guys

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: anticipation