FOOD FOR THOUGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does food for thought mean? 

• FOOD FOR THOUGHT (noun)
  The noun FOOD FOR THOUGHT has 1 sense:

1. anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking

  Familiarity information: FOOD FOR THOUGHT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOOD FOR THOUGHT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

food; food for thought; intellectual nourishment

Hypernyms ("food for thought" is a kind of...):

cognitive content; content; mental object (the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "food for thought"):

pabulum (insipid intellectual nourishment)