Meaning & use
methinks
An old-fashioned way of saying 'it seems to me' or 'I think', now used mainly for humor or literary effect.
See it in a sentence
Methinks you protest too much about a mistake nobody else even noticed.
Methinks the old bridge will not survive another harsh winter storm.
A note on using this word
Methinks is archaic and grammatically fixed; it never changes form for tense or subject, and modern writers use it jokingly.
Words with a similar meaning
I thinkit seems to me
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