thinking


Definition: Meaning of, thinking in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / θɪŋkɪŋ /

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  1. your opinion or ideas about something, or your attitude towards it
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  2. when you think about something
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  3. put on your thinking cap informal to try to think seriously about a problem in order to solve it
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  1. a thinking person is intelligent and tries to think carefully about important subjects
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  2. the thinking man's/woman's etc something used to say that someone or something is liked by intelligent people
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thinking used in phrases

  • analytic thinking (noun)
    1. the abstract separation of a whole into its constituent parts in order to study the parts and their relations
  • clear-thinking (adjective)
    1. not mentally confused; able to think clearly and act intelligently
  • convergent thinking (noun)
    1. especially solving problems that have a single correct solution thinking that brings together information focussed on solving a problem
  • creative thinking (noun)
    1. the ability to create
  • divergent thinking (noun)
    1. thinking that moves away in diverging directions so as to involve a variety of aspects and which sometimes lead to novel ideas and solutions; associated with creativity
  • forward-thinking (adjective)
    1. ahead of the times
  • free-thinking (adjective)
    1. especially in religion religion unwilling to accept authority or dogma
  • lateral thinking (noun)
    1. a way of thinking in which you use your imagination to see relationships between things that are not normally thought of together
  • logical thinking (noun)
    1. thinking that is coherent and logical
  • out-of-the-box thinking (noun)
    1. thinking that moves away in diverging directions so as to involve a variety of aspects and which sometimes lead to novel ideas and solutions; associated with creativity
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