Ponder deeply over it.
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Ponder
//ˈpɒn.də(ɹ)//
Synonyms for "ponder" (109 found)
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Closest matches (22)
Strong matches (33)
Related words (54)
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4 entriesRelated terms
7 entriesderived
7 entriesetymologically related_to
2 entriesrelated to
13 entriesTranslations
148 translations across 47 languages.
Arabic
3 entries- تَفَكَّرَ verb (to think deeply)
- فَكَّرَ verb (to think deeply)
- مخمخ verb (to consider carefully)
Armenian
2 entries- մտորել verb (to think deeply)
- մտորել verb (to consider carefully)
Belarusian
4 entries- абду́маць verb (to consider carefully)
- абду́мваць verb (to consider carefully)
- абмеркава́ць verb (to consider carefully)
- абмярко́ўваць verb (to consider carefully)
Bulgarian
4 entries- обми́сля verb (to consider carefully)
- обми́слям verb (to consider carefully)
- разми́сля verb (to think deeply)
- разми́слям verb (to think deeply)
Catalan
2 entries- ponderar verb (to think deeply)
- ponderar verb (to consider carefully)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᎠᏓᏅᏖᏗ verb (to think deeply)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 思考 verb (to think deeply)
- 思考 verb (to consider carefully)
- 沈思 verb (to think deeply)
- 沉思 verb (to think deeply)
Chuukese
1 entries- ekipwichi verb (to think deeply)
Czech
1 entries- přemýšlet verb (to think deeply)
Danish
3 entries- fundere verb (to think deeply)
- gruble verb (to think deeply)
- tænke efter verb (to consider carefully)
Dutch
3 entries- overdenken verb (to consider carefully)
- overpeinzen verb (to think deeply)
- overwegen verb (to think deeply)
Esperanto
2 entries- pensi verb (to think deeply)
- pripensi verb (to consider carefully)
Finnish
2 entries- pohtia verb (to think deeply)
- pohtia verb (to consider carefully)
French
3 entries- réfléchir verb (to think deeply)
- s'interroger verb (to consider carefully)
- songer verb (to think deeply)
Galician
4 entries- parar mentes verb (to think deeply)
- parar mentes verb (to consider carefully)
- ponderar verb (to think deeply)
- ponderar verb (to consider carefully)
German
3 entries- grübeln verb (to think deeply)
- nachdenken verb (to consider carefully)
- überlegen verb (to consider carefully)
Hebrew
1 entries- הִרְהֵר verb (to think deeply)
Hindi
4 entries- चिंतन करना verb (to think deeply)
- चिंतन करना verb (to consider carefully)
- मंथन करना verb (to think deeply)
- विचारना verb (to consider carefully)
Hungarian
4 entries- elmereng verb (to think deeply)
- elmélkedik verb (to think deeply)
- eltűnődik verb (to think deeply)
- fontolgat verb (to consider carefully)
Icelandic
2 entries- íhuga verb (to think deeply)
- íhuga verb (to consider carefully)
Ido
4 entries- konsiderar verb (to think deeply)
- meditar verb (to think deeply)
- ponderar verb (to think deeply)
- reflektar verb (to think deeply)
Iranian Persian
2 entries- اَنْدیشیدَن verb (to think deeply)
- فِکْر کَرْدَن verb (to think deeply)
Italian
2 entries- ponderare verb (to think deeply)
- ponderare verb (to consider carefully)
Japanese
1 entries- 熟考する verb (to think deeply)
Kazakh
1 entries- толғану verb (to think deeply)
Khiamniungan Naga
1 entries- thólū verb (to think deeply)
Korean
1 entries- 숙고하다 verb (to think deeply)
Latin
4 entries- aspicio verb (to consider carefully)
- dēlīberō verb (to think deeply)
- expendō verb (to consider carefully)
- meditor verb (to think deeply)
Macedonian
2 entries- размисли verb (to think deeply)
- размислува verb (to think deeply)
Malay
1 entries- merenungi verb (to think deeply)
Māori
4 entries- hurihuri verb (to consider carefully)
- taute verb (to think deeply)
- taute verb (to consider carefully)
- whakaaroaro verb (to think deeply)
Occitan
2 entries- pensar verb (to think deeply)
- perpensar verb (to think deeply)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- طارتمق verb (to consider carefully)
Polish
4 entries- dumać verb (to think deeply)
- namyślać się verb (to think deeply)
- namyślić się verb (to think deeply)
- rozmyślać verb (to think deeply)
Portuguese
2 entries- ponderar verb (to think deeply)
- ponderar verb (to consider carefully)
Russian
4 entries- ду́мать verb (to think deeply)
- заду́маться verb (to think deeply)
- заду́мываться verb (to think deeply)
- обду́мать verb (to consider carefully)
Sanskrit
1 entries- मन्यते verb (to think deeply)
Scottish Gaelic
4 entries- cnuasaich verb (to think deeply)
- cnuasaich verb (to consider carefully)
- meòraich verb (to think deeply)
- meòraich verb (to consider carefully)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- razmíšljati verb (to think deeply)
- ràzmisliti verb (to think deeply)
- ра̀змислити verb (to think deeply)
- разми́шљати verb (to think deeply)
Slovak
1 entries- premýšľať verb (to think deeply)
Slovene
2 entries- razmisliti verb (to think deeply)
- razmišljati verb (to think deeply)
Spanish
4 entries- cavilar verb (to think deeply)
- considerar verb (to think deeply)
- discurrir verb (to think deeply)
- meditar verb (to think deeply)
Swedish
4 entries- begrunda verb (to think deeply)
- fundera verb (to think deeply)
- fundera verb (to consider carefully)
- grubbla verb (to consider carefully)
Tamil
1 entries- யோசி verb (to think deeply)
Turkish
1 entries- düşünüp taşınmak verb (to think deeply)
Ukrainian
4 entries- ду́мати verb (to think deeply)
- обду́мати verb (to consider carefully)
- обду́мувати verb (to consider carefully)
- обмірко́вувати verb (to consider carefully)
Urdu
1 entries- سوچْنا verb (to think deeply)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
A gaggle of intoxicated youths stopped to ponder whether there is an Opposite Day in Bizarro World.
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Fathers and teachers, I ponder, "What is hell?" I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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As our vehicle leaves the ground and plunges over the edge of the cliff toward the valley floor, I ponder whether it is possible that one might allege I am guilty of an act of moral failure, having failed to maintain a proper course along the roadway.
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