Meaning & use

methinks

verb·Advanced

An old-fashioned way of saying 'it seems to me' or 'I think', now used mainly for humor or literary effect.

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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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