If you consider something, you think about it carefully.
You can say that someone is considering doing something in the future.
Be Careful!
Don't say that someone 'is considering to do' something.
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Verb | 1. | consider - deem to be; "She views this quite differently from me"; "I consider her to be shallow"; "I don't see the situation quite as negatively as you do" expect - consider reasonable or due; "I'm expecting a full explanation as to why these files were destroyed" receive - regard favorably or with disapproval; "Her new collection of poems was not well received" construe, interpret, see - make sense of; assign a meaning to; "What message do you see in this letter?"; "How do you interpret his behavior?" reconsider - consider again; give new consideration to; usually with a view to changing; "Won't you reconsider your decision?" reconsider - consider again (a bill) that had been voted upon before, with a view to altering it include - consider as part of something; "I include you in the list of culprits" think, believe, conceive, consider - judge or regard; look upon; judge; "I think he is very smart"; "I believe her to be very smart"; "I think that he is her boyfriend"; "The racist conceives such people to be inferior" consider - regard or treat with consideration, respect, and esteem; "Please consider your family" call - consider or regard as being; "I would not call her beautiful" like - feel about or towards; consider, evaluate, or regard; "How did you like the President's speech last night?" relativise, relativize - consider or treat as relative identify - consider (oneself) as similar to somebody else; "He identified with the refugees" abstract - consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically reify - consider an abstract concept to be real deem, take for, view as, hold - keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view; "take for granted"; "view as important"; "hold these truths to be self-evident"; "I hold him personally responsible" esteem, respect, value, prise, prize - regard highly; think much of; "I respect his judgement"; "We prize his creativity" disesteem, disrespect - have little or no respect for; hold in contempt make - consider as being; "It wasn't the problem some people made it" capitalise, capitalize - consider expenditures as capital assets rather than expenses |
2. | consider - give careful consideration to; "consider the possibility of moving" meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, chew over, think over, excogitate, reflect, ruminate, speculate, contemplate - reflect deeply on a subject; "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" factor in, factor out, factor - consider as relevant when making a decision; "You must factor in the recent developments" equate, liken, compare - consider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous; "We can compare the Han dynasty to the Romans"; "You cannot equate success in financial matters with greed" deliberate, moot, debate, consider, turn over - think about carefully; weigh; "They considered the possibility of a strike"; "Turn the proposal over in your mind" | |
3. | consider - take into consideration for exemplifying purposes; "Take the case of China"; "Consider the following case" contemplate - consider as a possibility; "I contemplated leaving school and taking a full-time job" trifle, dally, play - consider not very seriously; "He is trifling with her"; "She plays with the thought of moving to Tasmania" think about - have on one's mind, think about actively; "I'm thinking about my friends abroad"; "She always thinks about her children first" abstract - consider apart from a particular case or instance; "Let's abstract away from this particular example" warm to - become excited about; "He warmed to the idea of a trip to Antarctica" | |
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5. | ![]() see - deliberate or decide; "See whether you can come tomorrow"; "let's see--which movie should we see tonight?" premeditate - consider, ponder, or plan (an action) beforehand; "premeditated murder" debate - argue with one another; "We debated the question of abortion"; "John debated Mary" wrestle - engage in deep thought, consideration, or debate; "I wrestled with this decision for years" hash out, talk over, discuss - speak with others about (something); talk (something) over in detail; have a discussion; "We discussed our household budget" think twice - consider and reconsider carefully; "Think twice before you have a child" | |
6. | consider - judge or regard; look upon; judge; "I think he is very smart"; "I believe her to be very smart"; "I think that he is her boyfriend"; "The racist conceives such people to be inferior" hold - remain committed to; "I hold to these ideas" pass judgment, evaluate, judge - form a critical opinion of; "I cannot judge some works of modern art"; "How do you evaluate this grant proposal?" "We shouldn't pass judgment on other people" rethink - change one's mind; "He rethought his decision to take a vacation" think - dispose the mind in a certain way; "Do you really think so?" look upon, regard as, repute, take to be, esteem, look on, think of - look on as or consider; "she looked on this affair as a joke"; "He thinks of himself as a brilliant musician"; "He is reputed to be intelligent" feel - have a feeling or perception about oneself in reaction to someone's behavior or attitude; "She felt small and insignificant"; "You make me feel naked"; "I made the students feel different about themselves" | |
7. | consider - look at attentively look - perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards; "She looked over the expanse of land"; "Look at your child!"; "Look--a deer in the backyard!" | |
8. | consider - look at carefully; study mentally; "view a problem" analyse, analyze, examine, study, canvass, canvas - consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning; "analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare"; "analyze the evidence in a criminal trial"; "analyze your real motives" contemplate - look at thoughtfully; observe deep in thought; "contemplate one's navel" groak - look or stare at longingly; "The dog his master who was eating a sausage" | |
9. | consider - regard or treat with consideration, respect, and esteem; "Please consider your family" |