Reckon

Quick meaning: Reckon is a verb meaning To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.

Meaning

To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.

More Meanings

1. To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute.
2. To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.
3. (colloquial) To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause
4. (intransitive) To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.
5. (informal) An impression or opinion.
6. To come to an accounting; to draw up or settle accounts; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.
7. To reckon with something or somebody or not, i.e. to reckon without something or somebody: to take into account, deal with, consider or not, i.e. to misjudge, ignore, not take into account, not deal with, not consider or fail to consider; e.g. reckon without one's host

Example Sentences

I reckon he won't try that again.

He was reckoned among the transgressors

[…] faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.

Without her eccentricities being reckoned to her for a crime.

Word Forms

• reckons
• reckoning
• reckoned
• reckin
• recken

Synonyms for reckon

Depending on context, synonyms include number, enumerate, calculate, compute, value, rate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include count, estimate, see, guess, suppose, forecast.

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