How do you use the word "thought" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "thought": The last person I told my idea to thought I was nuts. I thought you liked to learn new things.

Thought Meaning

/θɔt/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA representation created in the mind without the use of one's faculties of vision, sound, smell, touch, or taste; an instance of thinking.

nounThe operation by which mental activity arise or are manipulated; the process of thinking; the agency by which thinking is accomplished.

Sentence Examples

The last person I told my idea to thought I was nuts.

I thought you liked to learn new things.

I couldn't bear the thought of waiting any longer.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

idea think guess

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

He ____ carefully about the difficult question for many minutes before answering.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

I had a sudden ____ about a better way to solve the problem while I was having my morning cup of coffee today.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *teng-der. Proto-Germanic *þankijaną Proto-Germanic *þanhtaz Proto-West Germanic *þą̄ht Old English þōht Middle English thought English thought From Middle English thought, ithoȝt, from Old English þōht, ġeþōht, from Proto-West Germanic *þą̄ht, from Proto-Germanic *þanhtaz, *gaþanhtą (“thought”), from Proto-Indo-European *teng- (“to think”). Cognate with Scots thocht (“thought”), Saterland Frisian Toacht (“thought”), West Frisian dacht (“attention, regard, thought”), Dutch gedachte (“thought”), German Andacht (“reverence, devotion, prayer”), Icelandic þóttur (“thought”). Related to thank, think.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing." — 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

"He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts." — 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

"Which of you by taking thought, can adde one cubite vnto his ſtature?" — 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 6:27:

"'Bide the night at Heriotside,' says he. 'It's a thought out of your way, but it's a comfortable bit.'" — 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

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