Phrase Hound found 82 phrases and 16 compound words that contain thinking. The most common are listed below. Open thinking in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 82
- critical thinkingThe application of logical principles, rigorous standards of evidence, and careful reasoning to the analysis and discussion of claims, beliefs, and issues.
- wishful thinkingThe formation of beliefs based on an outcome that aligns with one's desires or hopes, while disregarding evidence, rationality, or reality.
- thinking aboutpresent participle and gerund of think about
- positive thinkingFocusing on thoughts of success, as a strategy for achievement.
- Just Thinking
- thinking capA metaphorical state of focused thinking or concentration, invoked to encourage problem-solving.
- forward-thinkingThinking in a manner that takes the future into account for aforethought plans; progressive.
- Stop Thinking
- design thinkingthe application of a defined set of cognitive, strategic and practical processes to develop design concepts
- way of thinkingAn opinion; a viewpoint.
- ways of thinkingplural of way of thinking: An opinion; a viewpoint.
- Creative thinking
- new thinkingSynonym of new political thinking: The doctrine put forth by Mikhail Gorbachev as part of his reforms of the Soviet Union. Its major elements were international collaboration, priority of universal human interests over the interests of any …
- thinking distanceThe distance travelled by a vehicle between the time that the need to brake is perceived, and the time that the brakes are applied
- thinking of the childrenpresent participle and gerund of think of the children
- free-thinkingHaving opinions that are contrary to dogma or the positions of authority.
- blue-sky thinkingA form of thinking that is not grounded or in touch with the realities of the present, and can thus benefit from creative imagination.
- lateral thinkingThe use of reasoned thought in a nonstandard, or nonlinear logical way to find a solution to a problem.
- magical thinkingThe attribution of causal or synchronistic relationships between actions and events which seemingly cannot be justified by reason and observation.
- good thinkingUsed to express approval of a clever idea.
- tree thinkingA phylogenetic method of analysing evolutionary phenomena that uses the visualization of lineages as tree-like structures.
- train of thinkingAlternative form of train of thought: The flow of thinking; a sequence of ideas passing through someone’s mind.
- hard of thinkingHaving difficulty in thinking; stupid.
- self-thinkingForming one's own opinions; having independent judgment.
- thinking twicepresent participle and gerund of think twice
Compound words 16
- freethinkingThe principles of a freethinker; free thought.
- metathinkingSynonym of metathought: Thought about thought itself.
- thinkinglyWith thought or thinking.
- thinkingnessThe quality of having thoughts; faculty of thinking.
- interthinkingpresent participle and gerund of interthink
- nonthinkingDone without forethought
- afterthinkingpresent participle and gerund of afterthink
- crimethinkingpresent participle and gerund of crimethink
- doublethinkingpresent participle of doublethink: The holding of two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously and accepting both of them as true or correct, without acknowledging the contradiction.
- forethinkingpresent participle and gerund of forethink