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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

COGNITIVE, a. Knowing, or apprehending by the understanding; as cognitive power.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: of or being or relating to or involving cognition; "cognitive psychology"; "cognitive style"

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1586 1. of, relating to, being, or involving conscious intellectual activity (as thinking, reasoning, or remembering) <cognitive impairment> 2. based on or capable of being reduced to empirical factual knowledge • cognitively adverb

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cognitive Cog"ni*tive, a. Knowing, or apprehending by the understanding; as, cognitive power. --South.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Cognitive means relating to the mental process involved in knowing, learning, and understanding things. (TECHNICAL or FORMAL) As children grow older, their cognitive processes become sharper. ADJ: ADJ n

Moby Thesaurus

cogitative, concentrating, concentrative, conceptive, conceptual, conceptualized, contemplating, contemplative, deliberating, deliberative, excogitating, ideative, introspective, meditating, meditative, mental, museful, musing, noetic, pensive, pondering, prehensive, reflecting, reflective, ruminant, ruminating, ruminative, serious, sober, speculative, thinking, thought, thoughtful, wistful