Meaning

Alternative form of thinking cap..

Example Sentences

Now suppose they put on their "thinking-caps" a moment or two, and consider what is going on in the great world around them. [...] Before you pull off your "thinking-cap" cast a look around your own country—free, prosperous, powerful, independent; yet how full of wickedness, and how unmindful of its obligation to the God of nations!

The story you shall have, then, just as well as I can tell it: and you must put on your thinking-caps, so as to remember all you can of it; and be sure to ask questions about what you don't understand.

As time passed the Great Spirit grew fonder and fonder of his good-natured friend, and was grieved to see him suffer for the lack of a full dinner pot and stomach, so the Great Spirit put on his thinking-cap and learned a way to help Mr. Turtle. "The old fellow needs a wife!" said the Great Spirit taking off his thinking-cap.

Word Forms

• thinking-caps

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When Should You Use Thinking-cap?

Use thinking-cap when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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