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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

think nothing of en · VERB

Meanings

  1. To consider as straightforward or normal an activity or situation others regard as unusual, wrong, or difficult.
    • I had seen that my neighbours' door was open, but I thought nothing of it at the time, until I heard their house had been broken into.
    • He also thought nothing of laying down a railway in a war zone. For example, he was one of those behind the Grand Crimean Central Railway, built during the Crimean War [...]. 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chester (1848)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 57:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
thinks nothing of Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
thought nothing of Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
thought nothing of Tense=Past lexicographic
thinking nothing of Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Relateds

think nothing of it