thinking
the process of using your mind to consider something carefully
How often you will meet it
Rank 511 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 38,946 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.019% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
noun
- the process of using your mind to consider something carefully also: thought, thought process, cerebration, intellection, mentation thinking always made him frownshe paused for thought
adjective
- endowed with the capacity to reason also: intelligent, reasoning
thinking in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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And Mlle. Gilberte was thinking of Marius de Tregars.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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Old maids are quoted as thinking that it distracts the game.
Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 08, May 21, 1870 · Various · Chapter 1
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No one had thought about shoes, because they were thinking so hard about Kit.
The Dutch Twins · Lucy Fitch Perkins · Chapter 1
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Ginger didn't answer 'im; he set down on the side o' the bed and sat thinking.
Bill's Lapse Odd Craft, Part 4. · W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs · Chapter 1
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She had been thinking a good deal about her dress--this particular faithful one which she had already worn through a twelvemonth.
Emily Fox-Seton · Frances Hodgson Burnett · Chapter 1