think up

Questions about think up

What does think up mean?

think up means "devise or invent".

What is another word for think up?

Close synonyms include think of, dream up, hatch, concoct. 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 think up a common word?

think up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.