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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishconsideren, fromMiddle Frenchconsiderer, fromLatinconsiderare.

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consider (third-person singular simple presentconsiders,present participleconsidering,simple past and past participleconsidered)

  1. (transitive) Tothink aboutseriously.
    Synonyms:bethink,reflect (on),take;see alsoThesaurus:ponder
    Consider that we’ve had three major events and the year has hardly begun.
    How can you know everything about everything, if you won'tconsider any dissent?
    • 1667,John Milton, “Book VIII”, inParadise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […];[a]nd by Robert Boulter […];[a]nd Matthias Walker, […],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […],1873,→OCLC:
      Thenceforth to speculations high or deep / I turned my thoughts, and with capacious mind /Considered all things visible.
    • 2014 March 15, “Turn it off”, inThe Economist, volume410, number8878:
      If the takeover is approved, Comcast would control 20 of the top 25 cable markets, […]. Antitrust officials will need toconsider Comcast’s status as a monopsony (a buyer with disproportionate power), when it comes to negotiations with programmers, whose channels it pays to carry.
  2. (intransitive) To think about something seriously or carefully: todeliberate.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:ponder
  3. (transitive) To think about whether one will do (an action); to weigh as a possible course of action.
    Synonyms:think of,bethink
    I’mconsidering going to the beach tomorrow.
  4. (ditransitive) Toassign somequality to.
    Synonyms:deem,regard,think of;see alsoThesaurus:deem
    Consider yourself lucky, butconsider your opponent skillful.
    Iconsidered the pie undercooked.
    Iconsider you (to be) an excellent friend.
    • 1813,Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice:
      "What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing after all. Iconsider it as one of the first refinements of polished society."
    • 1963,Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, inThe China Governess: A Mystery, London:Chatto & Windus,→OCLC:
      ‘I understand that the district wasconsidered 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. […]’
    • 2023 September 12, Paul Glader, “Four takeaways from Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk”, inCNN‎[1]:
      Isaacson reports that Musk’s fractured relationship with Jenna, who is trans, partly led to Musk’s rightward turn toward libertarianism and questioning what heconsiders the “woke-mind-virus, which is fundamentally antiscience, antimerit, and antihuman.”
  5. (transitive) Tolook atattentively.
    Synonyms:regard,observe;see alsoThesaurus:pay attention
    She sat there for a moment,considering him.
  6. (transitive) Totake up as anexample.
    Synonym:take
    Consider a triangle having three equal sides.
    • 2013 June 14,Sam Leith, “Where the profound meets the profane”, inThe Guardian Weekly, volume189, number 1, page37:
      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.
  7. (transitive, parliamentary procedure) Todebate (ordispose of) amotion.
    Synonyms:deliberate,bethink
    This body will nowconsider the proposed amendments to Section 453 of the zoning code.
  8. To have regard to; to take into view or account; to pay due attention to; to respect.
    Synonyms:take into account,hear
    He never seems toconsider the feelings of others.
  9. Tobelieve oropine (that).
    • 1921,Ben Travers, chapter 2, inA Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.:Doubleday, Page & Company, published1925,→OCLC:
      Mother very rightly resented the slightest hint of condescension. Sheconsidered 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,[…].
    • 2021 October 1, J. Susan Griffin, “Party A v. British Columbia (Securities Commission), 2021 BCCA 358”, inCanLII‎[2], retrieved3 October 2021:
      What is clear is that the courts in both Alberta and Ontarioconsider 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.

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think about seriously
think of doing
assign some quality to
look at attentively
take up as an example
debate or dispose of a motion
to have regard to; to take into view or account; to pay due attention to; to respect
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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /konˈsi.der/
  • Rhymes:-er
  • Hyphenation:con‧si‧der

Verb

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consider

  1. first-personsingularpresentindicative/subjunctive ofconsidera
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