train of thought

1. 1.

   the connections that link the various parts of an event or argument together

   “I couldn't follow his train of thought”

   “he lost the thread of his argument”

   Synonymsthread

   Broaderthinking

Questions about train of thought

What does train of thought mean?

train of thought means "the connections that link the various parts of an event or argument together".

What is another word for train of thought?

Close synonyms include thread. 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 train of thought a common word?

train of thought 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.