Synonyms for contemplate
ˈkɒn təmˌpleɪt, -tɛm-con·tem·plate

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1. contemplate

   To see is simply to become conscious of an object of vision; to look is to make a conscious and direct endeavor to see. To behold is to fix the sight and the mind with distinctness and consideration upon something that has come to be clearly before the eyes. We may look without seeing, as in pitch-darkness, and we may see without looking, as in case of a flash of lightning. To gaze is to look intently, long, and steadily upon an object. To glance is to look casually or momentarily. To stare is to look with a fixed intensity such as is the effect of surprise, alarm, or rudeness. To scan is to look at minutely, to note every visible feature. To inspect is to go below the surface, uncover, study item by item. View and survey are comprehensive, survey expressing the greater exactness of measurement or estimate. Watch brings in the element of time and often of wariness; we watch for a movement or change, a signal, the approach of an enemy, etc. Compare APPEAR.

   Synonyms:
   behold, descry, discern, gaze, glance, inspect, look, regard, scan, see, stare, survey, view, watch

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1. contemplate

   Synonyms:
   meditate, behold, observe, ponder, study, purpose, design, intend, project

   Antonyms:
   ignore, overlook, waive, abandon

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1. contemplateverb

   look at thoughtfully; observe deep in thought

   "contemplate one's navel"

   Synonyms:
   ruminate, mull, chew over, think over, mull over, muse, study, speculate, reflect, excogitate, ponder, meditate

2. contemplateverb

   consider as a possibility

   "I contemplated leaving school and taking a full-time job"

   Synonyms:
   ruminate, mull, chew over, think over, mull over, muse, study, speculate, reflect, excogitate, ponder, meditate

3. study, meditate, contemplateverb

   think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes

   "He is meditating in his study"

   Synonyms:
   meditate, study, speculate, consider, reflect, chew over, excogitate, learn, canvass, analyse, read, hit the books, think over, ruminate, ponder, muse, take, mull, canvas, analyze, mull over, examine

4. chew over, think over, meditate, ponder, excogitate, contemplate, muse, reflect, mull, mull over, ruminate, speculateverb

   reflect deeply on a subject

   "I mulled over the events of the afternoon"; "philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years"; "The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate"

   Synonyms:
   hypothecate, shine, theorise, speculate, theorize, reflect, chew over, excogitate, suppose, hypothesise, formulate, devise, mull over, study, contrive, ponder, invent, muse, ruminate, hypothesize, meditate, forge, reverberate, mull, conjecture, job, think over

Matched Categories

1. • Consider
   • Look At
   • Think

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1. play withverb

   in the sense of "to play with any idea"

   i play with the ideas that are presented in your poetry.

   Submitted by csalvay on October 19, 2021  

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1. contemplateverb

   Synonyms:
   study, ponder, meditate on, dwell on, think about, reflect upon, consider or view attentively, revolve in the mind

2. contemplateverb

   Synonyms:
   intend, purpose, design, have in view, have in contemplation, look forward to

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1. List of paraphrases for "contemplate":

   consider, envisage

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How to use contemplate in a sentence?

1. Rene Descartes:

   In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.

2. Fiona Simson:

   The impacts on farmers if foot and mouth gets in are too gut-wrenching to even contemplate, but it's not just about farmers. Wiping $ 80 billion off Australia's GDP would be an economic disaster for everyone.

3. Mitch McConnell:

   Our colleagues who are itching for a procedural nuclear winter have not even begun to contemplate how it would look, our colleagues who are itching to drain every drop of collegiality from this body have not even begun to consider how that would work.

4. Emily Nash:

   I don’t think anyone even wants to contemplate that.

5. Bruce King:

   Only big concrete companies would contemplate installing the technology.