line of thought
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.23 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
1
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A way of thinking about a particular topic, concept, or problem, that follows a logical progression of reasoning or argument.
noun
Example Sentences
- "In the present chapter, I want to develop this line of thought in greater detail and at the same time clear up some difficulties that a number of my critics have claimed to find in my account of these matters."
- "Let me approach this line of thought a bit indirectly."
- "Similarly, to take twenty-five years of free-form, cross-cutting social, political, economic, and historical writing growing out of work at a single, unstandard, American institution and isolate it as an "era" in such writing — a stage, a phase, a line of thought — is to pursue an agenda, take a position, state a case."
- ""Even today there is a dictatorship of a narrow line of thought" which kills "people's freedom, their freedom of conscience," the Pope expressed in his April 10 daily Mass."
Inflected Forms
lines of thought (plural)
line of thinking (alternative)