Figure
Figure verb - To come to a judgment about after discussion or consideration.
Usage example: we figured that we had better arrive early at the concert in order to get good seats
Think is a synonym for figure in suppose topic. In some cases you can use "Think" instead a verb "Figure", when it comes to topics like activity, opinion, understand.
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| human | human figure | human think |
| old | old figure | old think |
| good | good figure | good think |
| nice | nice figure | nice think |
| Other adjectives: original, single, popular, actual, big, little, new, older, historical. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Granted, they don't know all the information themselves and some of his powers they have never seen before, but you'd think they'd at least try instead of leaving him to figure it out by himself?!
Source: Series / The Fades -
Similarly, hi-NRG diva Abigail Zsiga has the kind of deep powerful voice that you would think shouldn't even be physically possible from someone who looks so much like a child's stick figure drawing.
Source: Vocal Dissonance -
Set up similarly, but subverted in Duck Dodgers, where Dodgers dresses a woman to fool some guards but they both think "she" is ugly and quite easily figure him out to be a guy.
Source: Attractive Bent-Gender
Cite this Source
Think and Figure. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/figure/think
Figure & Think. N.p., 2016. Web. 14 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/figure/think>.
Think or Figure. 2016. Accessed August 14, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/figure/think.
Google Ngram Viewer shows how "figure" and "think" have occurred on timeline