consider
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsɪdə/
ipa: /kənˈsɪdɚ/
ipa: [kənˈsɪɾ.ɚ]
ipa: [kn̩ˈsɪɾ.ɚ]
ipa: /kənˈsɪdə/
rhymes: -ɪdə(ɹ)
Forms: form: considers
form: considering
form: considered
form: considered
form: considre
Etymology: From Middle English consideren, from Middle French considerer, from Latin considerare.
Senses: examples: text: Consider that we’ve had three major events and the year has hardly begun.
text: How can you know everything about everything, if you won't consider any dissent?
text: Thenceforth to speculations high or deep / I turned my thoughts, and with capacious mind / Considered all things visible.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: If the takeover is approved, Comcast would control 20 of the top 25 cable markets, […]. Antitrust officials will need to consider Comcast’s status as a monopsony (a buyer with disproportionate power), when it comes to negotiations with programmers, whose channels it pays to carry.
ref: 2014 March 15, “Turn it off”, in The Economist, volume 410, number 8878:
synonyms: word: bethink
word: reflect
alt: on
word: take
word: afterthink
word: agitate
word: bethink
word: call to mind
word: chew
word: chew over
word: chew the cud
word: cogitate
word: consider
word: contemplate
word: deliberate
word: introspect
word: mull
word: mull over
word: muse
word: ponder
word: meditate
word: quander
word: reflect
word: rethink
word: reconsider
word: revolve
word: ruminate
word: second-guess
word: think
word: think over
glosses: To think about seriously.
synonyms: word: afterthink
word: agitate
word: bethink
word: call to mind
word: chew
word: chew over
word: chew the cud
word: cogitate
word: consider
word: contemplate
word: deliberate
word: introspect
word: mull
word: mull over
word: muse
word: ponder
word: meditate
word: quander
word: reflect
word: rethink
word: reconsider
word: revolve
word: ruminate
word: second-guess
word: think
word: think over
glosses: To think about something seriously or carefully: to deliberate.
examples: text: I’m considering going to the beach tomorrow.
synonyms: think of
bethink
glosses: To think about whether one will do (an action); to weigh as a possible course of action.
examples: text: Consider yourself lucky, but consider your opponent skillful.
text: I considered the pie undercooked.
text: I consider you (to be) an excellent friend.
text: "What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished society."
ref: 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice:
text: ‘I understand that the district was considered a sort of sanctuary,’ the Chief was saying. ‘An Alsatia like the ancient one behind the Strand, or the Saffron Hill before the First World War.[…]’
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: Isaacson reports that Musk’s fractured relationship with Jenna, who is trans, partly led to Musk’s rightward turn toward libertarianism and questioning what he considers the “woke-mind-virus, which is fundamentally antiscience, antimerit, and antihuman.”
ref: 2023 September 12, Paul Glader, “Four takeaways from Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk”, in CNN:
synonyms: word: deem
word: regard
word: think of
word: account
word: count
word: esteem
word: see
word: consider
word: deem
word: hold
word: dub
word: find
word: interpret
word: judge
word: look upon
word: regard as
word: think of
word: view as
glosses: To assign some quality to.
examples: text: She sat there for a moment, considering him.
text: She considereth a field, and buyeth it.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 31:16:
synonyms: word: regard
word: observe
word: attend
word: clock
word: consider
word: give heed
word: heed
word: let in on
word: mark
word: mind
word: notice
word: pass
word: pay attention
word: pay heed
word: pick up what someone is putting down
word: privy
word: regard
word: take heed
word: take note
word: take notice
glosses: To look at attentively.
examples: text: Consider a triangle having three equal sides.
text: Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses", "oaths" and "swearing" itself.
ref: 2013 June 14, Sam Leith, “Where the profound meets the profane”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 37:
synonyms: take
glosses: To take up as an example.
examples: text: This body will now consider the proposed amendments to Section 453 of the zoning code.
topics: government
parliamentary-procedure
synonyms: deliberate
bethink
glosses: To debate (or dispose of) a motion.
examples: text: He never seems to consider the feelings of others.
text: Consider, sir, the chance of war: the day / Was yours by accident.
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene v]:
text: February 21, 1679, William Temple, letter to the Lord Treasurer
England could grow into a posture of being more united at home, and more considered abroad.
synonyms: take into account
glosses: To have regard to; to take into view or account; to pay due attention to; to respect.
examples: text: Mother very rightly resented the slightest hint of condescension. She considered that the exclusiveness of Peter's circle was due not to its distinction, but to the fact that it was an inner Babylon of prodigality and whoredom,[…].
ref: 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 2, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
text: What is clear is that the courts in both Alberta and Ontario consider that there must be some preliminary assessment of the evidence of alleged breaches of the relevant Act when considering whether a freeze order is justified at the investigation stage.
ref: 2021 October 1, J. Susan Griffin, “Party A v. British Columbia (Securities Commission), 2021 BCCA 358”, in CanLII, retrieved 03 Oct 2021:
glosses: To believe or opine (that).
Derived terms: disconsider
foreconsider
misconsider
preconsider
Related terms: all things considered
considerable
considerate
consideration
considerer
consider it done
reconsider