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View synonyms for thinking cap

thinking cap

noun

  1. a state of mind marked by reflection or concentration:

    If we put on our thinking caps, we may come up with the answer.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of thinking cap1

First recorded in 1870–75
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Idioms and Phrases

see put on one's thinking cap .
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Example Sentences

But his head was too hot to wear a thinking cap, and no story would come at his half-hearted call.

Now you put your thinking cap on and invent a name, something romantic and pretty.

Old Styf answered "yes" at once to their request, and put on his red thinking cap.

There was nothing for it but to bow to the inevitable, break my journey, and put my thinking-cap on.

"And this head of mine would have to put on its thinking-cap," he pursued jovially.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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