Chapter Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties of Index by Roget's Thesaurus

Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties

Division I.—Formation of Ideas

Section VII.—Creative Thought

514. Supposition (Substantives), conjecture, surmise, presurmise, guess, guess-work, shot, divination, conceit; assumption, postulation, hypothesis, presupposition, postulate, postulatum, presumption, theory; suggestion, allusion, proposition, motion, proposal, allusion, insinuation, innuendo.

(Phrases). A rough guess; a lucky shot.

(Verbs). To suppose, conjecture, surmise, guess, divine, theorise, give a guess, make a shot, hazard a conjecture, throw out a conjecture, etc., presuppose, fancy, wis, take it, dare to say, take it into one's head, assume, postulate, posit, presume, presurmise.

To suggest, hint, insinuate, put forth, propound, propose, start, allude to, prompt, put a case, move, make a motion.

(Phrase). To put if into one's head.

To suggest itself, occur to one, come into one's head; to run in the head; to haunt 505.

(Phrase). "Thereby hangs a tale."

(Adjectives). Supposing, etc., supposed, supposititious, suppositive, putative, suggestive, allusive, conjectural, presumptive, hypothetical, theoretical, warranted, authorised, given, fair, reasonable, just, natural, conjecturable, supposable.

Unwarranted, gratuitous, baseless, wild, hazardous, rash, untenable, extravagant, unreasonable, unauthorised, unsatisfactory, loose, vague, unconnected.

(Adverbs). If, if so be, an, maybe, perhaps, on the supposition, ex hypothesi, quasi.

515. Imagination (Substantives), fancy, conception, ideality, idealism, inspiration, afflatus, verve, dreaming, somnambulism, frenzy, ecstasy, excogitation, liveliness of fancy, reverie, Schwärmerei, trance, vision; Pegasus.

(Phrases). Flight of fancy; fumes of fancy; fine frenzy; thick-coming fancies; coinage of the brain; the mind's eye; castle-building; a stretch of imagination; "such stuff as dreams are made on."

Invention, inventiveness, originality, fertility, conceit, maggot, figment, coinage, fiction, romance, novel 594, myth, Arabian Nights, fairyland, the man in the moon, dream, day-dream, vapour, phantom, phantasy, fantasia, whim, whimsy, vagary, rhapsody, extravaganza, air-drawn dagger, bugbear, men in buckram, castle in the air, air-built castle, castle in Spain, will-o'-the-wisp, ignis fatuus, jack-o'-lantern, Utopia, Atlantis, millennium, fata Morgana 443.

A visionary, romancer, rhapsodist, high-flyer, enthusiast, idealist, energumen, dreamer, seer, fanatic, knight-errant, Don Quixote.

(Verbs). To imagine, fancy, conceive, ideate, idealise, realise, objectify; fancy or picture to oneself; create, originate, devise, invent, coin, fabricate, make up, mint.

(Phrases). To take into one's head; to figure to oneself; to strain or crack one's invention; to strike out something new; to give a loose to the fancy; to give the reins to the imagination; to set one's wits to work; to rack or cudgel one's brains.

(Adjectives). Imagining, imagined, etc.; ideal, unreal, unsubstantial, imaginary, in nubibus, fabulous, fictitious, ben trovato, fanciful, air-drawn, air-built, original, fantastic, fantastical, whimsical, high-flown.