recollect
Call to mind
To recollect is to recall or remember something, often with effort or after some time has passed: I can't recollect where I put my keys.
The word suggests retrieving scattered memories and bringing them back together.
It's slightly more formal than remember and often implies deliberate mental effort rather than spontaneous recall.
Retain in mind
- recallMemory retrieval act
- reminisceRecall past experiences fondly
- retrieveGet something back
- summonCall to appear
flashback · recapture · rekindle · revive · revisit · reawaken · cognition · mind
Think deeply about
- contemplateConsider something thoroughly
- meditateQuiet mental focus
- museThink deeply about
- ruminateThink deeply and repeatedly
introspect · deliberate · cogitate · brood · dwell · consider · think · review
Labored effort against resistance
- graspSeize or understand
- retrieveGet something back
- summonCall to appear
- piece togetherConstruct from fragments
Recalling past experiences
- wistfulnessTender sadness for absence
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
- longingIntense, persistent desire
- sentimentalityExcessive tender emotion
homesickness · melancholy · retrospection · hiraeth · halcyon · golden · bygone · yesteryear
remember
Retain in mind
summon · flashback · recapture · rekindle · revive · revisit · reawaken · cognition · mind · thought
ponder
Think deeply about
- contemplateConsider something thoroughly
- meditateQuiet mental focus
- museThink deeply about
ruminate · introspect · deliberate · cogitate · brood · dwell · consider · think · review · examine
struggle
Labored effort against resistance
piece together · strain · search · dig · rack · fuzzy · hazy · vague · dim · faint
reminiscence
Recalling past experiences
- wistfulnessTender sadness for absence
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
- longingIntense, persistent desire
sentimentality · homesickness · melancholy · retrospection · hiraeth · halcyon · golden · bygone · yesteryear · bittersweet
- memoryremember, forget, recall, memorize, retain
- memoriesmemories, remember, childhood memory, childhood memories, reminisce
- Looking Backremember, recall, memory, reminisce, reminiscing
- perceptionsee, vision, seeing, senses, observing
- nostalgianostalgia, nostalgic, memories, memory, remember
- chew overchew, ruminate, mull over, ponder, contemplate
recollectforget
Fail to recall
disremember · misremember · draw a blank · lose · block out
- fuzzy recollection
- personal recollectionsIndividual's stored experiences
- false recollectionUntrue remembered event
recollection, recollections, recollected, recollecting, recollects, recollective