thinking

1. 1.

   endowed with the capacity to reason

   Synonymsintelligentreasoning

   Similarrational

Other forms of thinking

plural

thinkings·

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 thinking

What does thinking mean?

thinking means "the process of using your mind to consider something carefully". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in thinking?

thinking has 2 syllables: thin-king. The stress falls on "thin". In IPA it is /ˈθɪŋkɪŋ/.

What is another word for thinking?

Close synonyms include thought, thought process, cerebration, intellection, mentation. 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 thinking a common word?

thinking is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 thinking?

1 word rhymes with thinking. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.