consider

About 91.29 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To think about seriously.

   Consider that we’ve had three major events and the year has hardly begun.

2. verb To think about something seriously or carefully: to deliberate.
3. verb To think about whether one will do (an action); to weigh as a possible course of action.

   I’m considering going to the beach tomorrow.

4. verb To assign some quality to.

   Consider yourself lucky, but consider your opponent skillful.

5. verb To look at attentively.

   She sat there for a moment, considering him.

6. verb To take up as an example.

   Consider a triangle having three equal sides.

7. verb To debate (or dispose of) a motion.

   This body will now consider the proposed amendments to Section 453 of the zoning code.

8. verb To have regard to; to take into view or account; to pay due attention to; to respect.

   He never seems to consider the feelings of others.

Similar words

think deliberate regard believe conceive view look at see moot reckon

Often followed by

the a that it this how what whether them

Word family

considered considering considers