Word Meanings - CONSIDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

consider, view attentively, prob. fr. con- + sidus, sideris, star, constellation; orig., therefore, to look at the stars. See Sidereal, 1. To fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination; to thank on with care; to ponder; to study; to

Additional info about word: CONSIDER

consider, view attentively, prob. fr. con- + sidus, sideris, star, constellation; orig., therefore, to look at the stars. See Sidereal, 1. To fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination; to thank on with care; to ponder; to study; to meditate on. I will consider thy testimonies. Ps. cxix. 95. Thenceforth to speculations high or deep I turned my thoughts, and with capacious mind Considered all things visible. Milton. 2. To look at attentively; to observe; to examine. She considereth a field, and buyeth it. Prov. xxxi. 16. 3. To have regard to; to take into view or account; to pay due attention to; to respect. Consider, sir, the chance of war: the day Was yours by accident. Shak. England could grow into a posture of being more united at home, and more considered abroad. Sir W. Temple. 4. To estamate; to think; to regard; to view. Considered as plays, his works are absurd. Macaulay. Note: The proper sense of consider is often blended with an idea of the result of considering; as, "Blessed is he that considereth the poor." Ps. xli. 1. ; i.e., considers with sympathy and pity. "Which if I have not enough considered." Shak. ; i.e., requited as the sufficient considering of them would suggest. "Consider him liberally." J. Hooker. Syn. -- To ponder; weigh; revolve; study; reflect or meditate on; contemplate; examine. See Ponder.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONSIDER)

• Account Deem
• esteem
• consider
• regard
• hold
• judge
• rate
• estimate
• value
• reckon
• explain
• solve
• Beware
• Care
• refrain
• heed
• look
• fear
• avoid
• Calculate
• Estimate
• weigh
• number
• count
• apportion
• proportion
• investigate
• compute
• Consult
• Interrogate
• canvass
• question
• deliberate
• confer
• advise with
• ask advice of
• care for
• promote
• Deem
• Judge
• believe
• think
• suppose
• conceive

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CONSIDER)

• Pretermit
• allow
• ignore
• disregard
• admit
• pass
• misexamine
• misinvestigate
• Shelve
• burke
• discard
• hazard
• chance
• risk
• Dictate
• state
• assert
• pronounce
• enunciate
• concede
• endorse
• affirm
• grant
• Miss
• overlook
• despise
• dislike
• contemn
• hate
• loathe
• misconsider
• misconceive
• misestimate
• misjudge
• Miscompute
• disesteem
• vilipend
• underrate
• undervalue
• underestimate
• cheapen
• vilify

Related words: (words related to CONSIDER)

• THINKING
  Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being. -- Think"ing*ly, adv.
• COUNTERBRACE
  To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• CONFERENCE
  A stated meeting of preachers and others, invested with authority to take cognizance of ecclesiastical matters. 6. A voluntary association of Congregational churches of a district; the district in which such churches are. Conference meeting,
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• MISJUDGE
  To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
• COUNTERFLEURY
  Counterflory.
• COUNTERVIEW
  1. An opposite or opposing view; opposition; a posture in which two persons front each other. Within the gates of hell sat Death and Sin, In counterview. Milton M. Peisse has ably advocated the counterview in his preface and appendixx.
• ADMITTER
  One who admits.
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• COUNTABLE
  Capable of being numbered.
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• COUNTRY-DANCE
  See MACUALAY
• ENDORSER
  See INDORSER
• COUNTERJUMPER
  A salesman in a shop; a shopman; -- used contemtuously.
• INTERROGATE
  To question formally; to question; to examine by asking questions; as, to interrogate a witness. Wilt thou, uncalled, interrogate, Talker! the unreplying Fate Emerson. Syn. -- To question; ask. See Question. (more info) interrogatus,
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• DENUNCIATE
  To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly. To denunciate this new work. Burke.
• HALLOW
  To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• IMPROPORTIONATE
  Not proportionate.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• OLD LINE STATE
  Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.