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thought out

thought out is the alternative form of thought-out.

thought out is the simple past and past participle of think out.

Meaning of thought-out

Adjective

thought-out (comparative more thought-out, superlative most thought-out)

  1. (in-compounds) planned

Meaning of think out

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To devise or solve by a process of thought.
    • I wanted to try and think out how it was that rational or even half-rational men could ever have learned to wear armor, considering its inconveniences; and how they had managed to keep up such a fashion for generations when it was plain that what I had suffered to-day they had had to suffer all the...1889, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, New York, N.Y.: Charles L. Webster & Company, →OCLC

Forms of thought out

comparativemore thought out
superlativemost thought out

Questions about thought out

What is thought out the alternative form of?
Thought out is the alternative form of thought-out.

Words near thought out in the dictionary

  1. thought on one's feet
  2. thought one hung the moon
  3. thought one is God's own cousin
  4. thought one was it
  5. thought one's shit didn't stink
  6. thought out
  7. thought out loud
  8. thought over
  9. thought path
  10. thought paths
  11. thought pattern

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