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counterthought

counterthought noun: a thought that counters or opposes another thought.

Noun

counterthought (plural counterthoughts)

  1. A thought that counters or opposes another thought.
    • His thoughts and their counterthoughts are bent and curled, snail-like, inside the whorls of fiction.2008 January 1, Richard Eder, “A Writer, a Muse, Their Laundry”, in New York Times

Forms of counterthought

pluralcounterthoughts

Origin of counterthought

From counter- + thought.

Questions about counterthought

What does counterthought mean?
Counterthought means a thought that counters or opposes another thought.
What part of speech is counterthought?
Counterthought is a noun.
What is the plural of counterthought?
The plural of counterthought is counterthoughts.

Words near counterthought in the dictionary

  1. countertheories
  2. countertheory
  3. countertherapeutic
  4. countertheses
  5. counterthesis
  6. counterthought
  7. counterthoughts
  8. counterthreat
  9. counterthreats
  10. counterthrew
  11. counterthrow

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