Reason
Reason verb - To form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information.
Usage example: she reasoned that since all of the cakes were on sale for the same price, she might as well pick the biggest one
Think is a synonym for reason in activity topic. In some cases you can use "Think" instead a verb "Reason", when it comes to topics like calculate, deduce, mentally analyze.
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| good | good reason | good think |
| special | special reason | special think |
| best | best reason | best think |
| common | common reason | common think |
| Other adjectives: original, single, obvious, actual, entire, big, wrong, little, new, silly, above, odd, strange, biggest. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- She doesn't care that Ben can think and reason; she includes him and later herself in this.
Source: Literature / Sacreya's Legacy - Meyer to a painful degree of topaz and unwarranted angst and the main character cannot manage to think or reason in a convincing manner.
Source: Fanfic Recs / Twilight -
Darkseid's new Parademons have the ability to think and reason for themselves, whereas the originals were mindless drones.
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Think and Reason. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/reason/think
Reason & Think. N.p., 2016. Web. 14 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/reason/think>.
Think or Reason. 2016. Accessed August 14, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/reason/think.
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