cogitate

Other forms of cogitate

past tense

cogitated·

present participle

cogitating·

third person

cogitates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cogitate

What does cogitate mean?

cogitate means "consider carefully and deeply; reflect upon; turn over in one's mind". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cogitate?

cogitate has 3 syllables: co-gi-tate. The stress falls on "co". In IPA it is /ˈkɑdʒɪˌteɪt/.

What is another word for cogitate?

Close synonyms include think, cerebrate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cogitate a common word?

cogitate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with cogitate?

29 words rhyme with cogitate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.