
We recognize the (climate change) policy is important to the public, we need to somehow reflect that. The bigger issue is what premium markets will build in to reflect the risk of further attacks. Words popularity by usage frequency ranking "The mess in his dorm room reflects on the student" "His lack of interest in the project reflects badly on him" Smooth, shine, contemplate, speculate, radiate, strike, glisten, chew over, glitter, excogitate, gleam, beam, smoothen, mull over, think over, polish, ponder, muse, ruminate, glow, meditate, glint, fall, reverberate, mull Rebound, shine, contemplate, bound, speculate, chew over, excogitate, spring, resound, ricochet, mull over, recoil, think over, echo, bounce, ponder, muse, ruminate, ring, meditate, resile, reverberate, mull, take a hop "Sound is reflected well in this auditorium" Hypothecate, shine, contemplate, theorise, speculate, theorize, chew over, excogitate, suppose, hypothesise, formulate, devise, mull over, study, contrive, ponder, invent, muse, ruminate, hypothesize, meditate, forge, reverberate, mull, conjecture, job, think over "I mulled over the events of the afternoon" "philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years" "The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate" Ruminate, chew over, think over, mull over, muse, meditate, speculate, reverberate, shine, excogitate, ponder, contemplate, mullĬhew over, think over, meditate, ponder, excogitate, contemplate, muse, reflect, mull, mull over, ruminate, speculate verb Princeton's WordNet (3.40 / 5 votes) Rate these synonyms: We deliberate on or upon, also about or concerning a matter: the first two are preferable. We consider or deliberate with a view to action, while meditation may be quite purposeless.Ĭonfer, consider, consult, debate, deliberate, meditate, ponder, weigh Debate implies opposing views deliberate, simply a gathering and balancing of all facts and reasons. Deliberating always carries the idea of slowness consulting is compatible with haste we can speak of a hasty consultation, not of a hasty deliberation. Deliberate, which can be applied to a single individual, is also the word for a great number, while consult is ordinarily limited to a few a committee consults an assembly deliberates.


He consults a dictionary, but does not confer with it. A man confers with his associates about a new investment he consults his physician about his health he may confer with him on matters of general interest.

Confer suggests the interchange of counsel, advice, or information consult indicates almost exclusively the receiving of it. Consult and confer always imply two or more persons, as does debate, unless expressly limited as above. An individual considers, meditates, ponders, reflects, by himself he weighs a matter in his own mind, and is sometimes said even to debate with himself.
