3.2.1 Mind

Use this domain for general words referring to the mind--the part of a person that thinks.

  • What words refer to the mind?
    mind, intellect, intelligence, reason, understanding, brain, head

    • 3.2.1.1 Think about

    Use this domain for words related to thinking about something for some time.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    30 Think
    30A To Think, Thought
    30B To Think About, with the Implied Purpose of Responding Appropriately
  • What words refer to thinking about something for a period of time?
    think about, brood, cogitate, consider, give consideration to, contemplate, meditate, muse, mull over, occupy your mind, ponder, reconsider, reflect, reflection, ruminate, speculate, study, weigh, wonder, go around in your mind, do some thinking, keep your mind on, have something on your mind, deduce, deduction, induction, inductive, logic, apply yourself, pay attention, bethink, conclude, observe, process, reason, theorize,
  • What words refer to thinking carefully?
    attend, attention, beware, careful, caution, cautious, concentrate, concentration, concern, concerned, consider, consideration, foresight, guard, intentional, interest, occupy, precaution, provident, prudent, purposeful, refuse, regard, tend, think thoroughly, give thought, thoughtful, think hard,
  • What words refer to not thinking carefully?
    careless, casual, dismiss, disregard, incautious, neglect, overlook, shrug, wing it
  • What words refer to thinking about what is good for someone?
    be concerned about, care about
  • What words refer to thinking before making a decision?
    think about, look at, think over, consider, think something out, think twice, think of, take into consideration, take into account,
  • What words refer to a series of thoughts?
    line of thought, line of thinking, train of thought, reasoning,
  • What words refer to thinking about something again?
    think again, reconsider, change your mind, on second thought, on reflection
  • What words refer to the thoughts a person is thinking at a particular time?
    thinking,
  • What words refer to thinking about many things?
    mind is full
  • What words refer to the way a person thinks about something?
    attitude, logic, outlook, perspective, thoughtful, view
  • What words describe the way a person thinks?
    clear, cogent, concise, observant,
  • What words refer to trying not to think about something?
    ignore, try to forget, put out of your mind, empty your mind
  • What words refer to stopping thinking about something?
    drop (a line of thought), distract, distraction, take your mind off
  • What words refer to failing to think about what you are doing?
    unthinking, unintentional, thoughtless, mindless
  • What words refer to a person who thinks a lot?
    thinker, brain, intellectual, philosopher,

    • 3.2.1.2 Imagine

    Use this domain for imagining things--to think about something that does not exist, or to think about something happening that has never happened.

  • What words refer to imagining things?
    imagine, conceive of, dream up, envisage, hypothesize, invent, picture (in your mind), form a picture, make up, see, suppose, think of, think up, visualize,
  • What words refer to imagining something that you would like to do?
    daydream (v), dream about, dream of, fantasize, live in a fantasy world,
  • What words refer to imagining things that do not exist?
    imagine, be in the mind, be in your mind, be seeing things, hallucinate,
  • What words refer to the ability to imagine?
    imagination, vivid imagination, fertile imagination, creativity, inventiveness, vision,
  • What words refer to a person who imagines?
    creative genius, dreamer, visionary,
  • What words describe someone who imagines?
    imaginative, creative (person),
  • What words refer to something that someone imagines?
    image, conception, conceptualization, creation, daydream (n), dream, fancy, flight of fancy, fantasy, fiction, figment of your imagination, hallucination, hypothesis, invention, make believe, picture, unreality, vision, visualization,
  • What words describe something that someone has imagined?
    imaginary, abstract, conceptual, creative (thought), fanciful, fictional, hypothetical, unreal, nonexistent, doesn't exist,
  • What words describe someone who does not imagine?
    unimaginative, uncreative,
  • What words describe something that cannot be imagined?
    unimaginable, inconceivable,

    • 3.2.1.3 Intelligent

    Use this domain for words that describe a person who thinks well.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    32D Capacity for Understanding
  • What words describe someone who thinks well?
    intelligent, brainy, bright, brilliant, capable, clever, crafty, discerning, educated, ingenious, insightful, keen, knowledgeable, learned, literate, perceptive, philosophical, profound, rational, scholarly, sharp, shrewd, sly, smart, sophisticated, sound, wily, have a lot of sense, have a high IQ,
  • What words describe an intelligent child?
    bright, gifted, precocious, prodigy, whiz kid
  • What words describe someone who can think quickly?
    quick, sharp, whiz, be quick on the uptake, be on the ball, think on your feet
  • What words describe someone who is intelligent, well-educated, and thinks a lot?
    intellectual, academic, learned, brains, intelligentsia
  • What words describe someone who makes good decisions?
    wise, sagacious, prudent, sensible, good sense, sound judgment
  • What words refer to the ability to think well?
    ability, capacity, circumspection, cleverness, competence, cunning, discernment, discretion, discrimination, insight, intelligence, IQ, judgment, knowledge, philosophy, profundity, prudence, rationality, reasoning, sagacity, sanity, sense, sensibility, shrewdness, smarts, sophistication, understanding, wisdom, wit
  • What words refer to a person who thinks well?
    academician, genius, highbrow, illuminati, intellectual, literati, magus, philosopher, priest, prodigy, sage, scholar, scholastic, thinker, able thinker, wise man,

    • 3.2.1.4 Stupid

    Use this domain for words that describe a person who does not think well.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    32E Lack of Capacity for Understanding
  • What words describe a person who does not think well?
    asinine, blind, brainless, crass, crazy, daft, delirious, demented, dense, dim, dizzy, doltish, dull, dull-witted, dumb, fanatical, fatuous, foolish, harebrained, idiotic, inane, ingenuous, insane, insensitive, irrational, lumpish, moronic, naive, nonsensical, obtuse, retarded, senile, senseless, silly, simple, slow, slow-witted, stupid, thick, thickheaded, undiscerning, unimaginative, unperceptive, unsound, witless, lacking in intelligence, mentally lazy,
  • What words describe someone who makes bad decisions?
    foolish, shortsighted, unwise
  • What words refer to not being able to think well?
    derangement, idiocy, imbecility, insanity, lunacy, madness, senility, stupidity,
  • What words refer to something someone says or does that is stupid?
    absurdity, nonsense,
  • What words refer to a person who does not think well?
    airhead, blockhead, dolt, donkey, dullard, dumbbell, dummy, dunce, dupe, fanatic, fool, idiot, imbecile, moron, numskull, scatterbrain, sucker,

    • 3.2.1.5 Logical

    Use this domain for words describing logical thinking.

  • What words describe thinking that is logical?
    logical, sound, rational, reasonable, well thought out, well-founded, make sense, hang together, coherent, add up
  • What words refer to a logical way of thinking?
    logic, reasoning
  • What words describe thinking that is not logical?
    illogical, irrational, make no sense, not hold water, not stand up, not add up

    • 3.2.1.6 Instinct

    Use this domain for words related to instinct--to know something without being told, to know what to do without taught how to do it.

  • What words refer to a natural ability to know what to do?
    instinct, instinctive, intuition, intuitive, sixth sense, gut feeling, just seem to know