Contemplated vs Thought - What's the difference?
contemplated | thought |
(contemplate)
To look at on all sides or in all its aspects; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study, ponder, or consider.
* Milton
* Byron
To consider as a possibility.
* A. Hamilton
* Kent
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Form created in the mind, rather than the forms perceived through the five senses; an instance of thinking.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts , and I by others not less disturbing.}}
* , chapter=5
, title= (uncountable) The process by which such forms arise or are manipulated; thinking.
* (Paul Fix)
A way of thinking (associated with a group, nation or region).
(think)
As verbs the difference between contemplated and thought
is that contemplated is (contemplate) while thought is (think).As a noun thought is
form created in the mind, rather than the forms perceived through the five senses; an instance of thinking.contemplated
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Verb
(head)contemplate
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Verb
(contemplat)- To love, at least contemplate and admire, / What I see excellent.
- We thus dilate / Our spirits to the size of that they contemplate .
- There remain some particulars to complete the information contemplated by those resolutions.
- If a treaty contains any stipulations which contemplate a state of future war.
The attack of the MOOCs, passage=Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.}}
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* contemplative * contemplation * contemplativelyReferences
* ----thought
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Alternative forms
* (l) (archaic)Noun
(wikipedia thought) (en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts .}}
- The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it’s unfamiliar territory.