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thinck

thinck is the obsolete form of think.

Meaning of think

Verb

think (third-person singular simple present thinks, present participle thinking, simple past and past participle thought)

  1. (transitive) To ponder, to go over in one's mind.
    • Idly, the detective thought what his next move should be.
    Synonyms:
    ponder
  2. (transitive) To have (some statement) in one's mind; to say to oneself mentally.
    • "I should phone my mother," I thought.
  3. (intransitive) To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.
    • I thought for three hours about the problem and still couldn’t find the solution.
  4. (intransitive) To conceive of something or someone
    • I tend to think of her as rather ugly.
  5. (transitive) To be of the opinion (that); to consider, judge, regard, or look upon (something) as.
    • I don't think it worth complaining about the leak in the roof, is it?
    Synonyms:
    have opinion, deem
  6. (transitive) To guess; to reckon; to believe while admittedly being uncertain.
    • We should/would have thought she could've washed her hands before, at least.

See all 10 meanings of think

Forms of thinck

third-person singular presentthincks
present participlethincking
past participlethought
pastthought

Questions about thinck

What is thinck the obsolete form of?
Thinck is the obsolete form of think.

Words near thinck in the dictionary

  1. thin-slice
  2. thin-sliced
  3. thin-slices
  4. thin-slicing
  5. thinbladed
  6. thinck
  7. thinclad
  8. thinclads
  9. thincoat
  10. Thind
  11. Thinds

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thinck (page history and authors); think (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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