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cogitate

[ koj-i-teyt ]

verb (used without object)

, cog·i·tat·ed, cog·i·tat·ing.
  1. to think hard; ponder; meditate:

    to cogitate about a problem.

    Synonyms: reflect, deliberate



verb (used with object)

, cog·i·tat·ed, cog·i·tat·ing.
  1. to think about; devise:

    to cogitate a scheme.

    Synonyms: weigh

cogitate

/ ˈkɒdʒɪˌteɪt /

verb

  1. to think deeply about (a problem, possibility, etc); ponder


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Derived Forms

  • ˌcogiˈtation, noun
  • ˈcogiˌtator, noun
  • ˈcogiˌtatingly, adverb

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Other Words From

  • cogi·tating·ly adverb
  • cogi·tator noun
  • pre·cogi·tate verb precogitated precogitating

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Word History and Origins

Origin of cogitate1

1555–65; < Latin cōgitātus (past participle of cōgitāre ), equivalent to co- co- + agitātus; agitate

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Word History and Origins

Origin of cogitate1

C16: from Latin cōgitāre, from co- (intensive) + agitāre to turn over, agitate

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Example Sentences

As his characters cogitate and self-medicate, scheme and philosophize, his subject is less the content of their thoughts than the mind contemplating itself.

Nevertheless, the media machine will cogitate for the next 48 hours on the supposed winners and losers.

Let me see; let me think, reflect, cogitate, tickle the thinker.

It is chiefly this class of holiday-makers that we have in our minds whilst we cogitate the hints in these pages.

The word "Coger" does not imply codger, or a drinker of cogs, but comes from cogite, to cogitate.

There on the low stone wall bordering on the east the property of Captain Orrin Eldridge, he seated himself to rest and cogitate.

He will lift his eyebrows with a certain look of contempt, and continue to cogitate—about nothing.

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