English-French translations for thought

• pensée
  J'ai également eu une pensée pour vous, M. Busquin, à ce moment-là. I also thought of you, Mr Busquin, at that moment.
  Le risque existe d'une police de la pensée. There is a danger of thought-police.
  Ce type de pensée n'est pas raisonnable. This line of thought is unreasonable.
• idée
  Je trouvais cette idée fantastique. I thought this was a brilliant idea.
  Cette idée ne doit plus être qu'approfondie et menée à bien. But this thought must be thought out to the end.
  Quel génie en économie a-t-il eu cette idée? What economic genius thought that up?

Definition of thought

• Form created in the mind, rather than the forms perceived through the five senses; an instance of thinking
• The operation by which such forms arise or are manipulated; the process of thinking; the agency by which thinking is accomplished
• A way of thinking (associated with a group, nation or region

Examples

• The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another
• Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom, and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech
• Traditional eastern thought differs markedly from that of the west

Related words

• thoughtful
• thoughtlessly
• thoughtless
• thoughtlessness
• thoughtcrime
• thoughty
• aforethought
• afterthought
• thoughtfully