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31meditative — adj contemplative, contemplating, musing, pondering, brooding, mulling over; reflective, reflecting, cogitative, cogitating, ruminant, ruminative, ruminating, chewing, chewing one s cud; pensive, thoughtful, concentrating, intent, abstracted,… …
32pensive — adj dreaming, dreamy, dreamful, in a reverie, daydreaming, gazing out the window, in a trance, absent minded; thoughtful, thinking, cerebra tional, absorbed, immersed, engrossed, lost in thought, bemused, Archaic. museful; cogitative, cogitating …
33preoccupied — adj 1. abstracted, rapt, engrossed, consumed, lost in, absorbed, immersed, wrapped up, Inf. into [s.t.] busy, occupied; obsessed, Sl. hung up; oblivious, unaware, unconscious, unmindful, insensible, blind; distracted, diverted, distrait,… …
34reflective — adj 1. imitative, mirrorlike, repetitive, echoing; resounding, reverberating. 2. contemplative, meditative, meditating, musing, pondering, brooding, mulling over; reflecting, cogitative, cogitating, ruminant, ruminating; pensive, thoughtful,… …
35rumination — n 1. chewing the cud, remastication; chewing, mastication, Dial. chawing. 2. meditation, meditating, contemplation, contemplating, cogitation, cogitating; cerebration, lucubration, thought, thinking, concentration; musing, pondering, thinking… …
36speculation — n 1. thinking, thought, reflection, meditation, contemplation; musing, pondering, brooding, mulling over, dwelling on; cogitating, cogitation, excogitating, excogitation; rumination, ruminating, chewing over, chewing one s cud; putting on one s… …
37thinking — adj 1. rational, reasoning, reasonable, sensible, cerebral; logical, practical, pragmatic; intelligent, knowing, ratiocinative, percipient, perceiving; analytic, ideational, philosophical, sophic; speculative, imaginative. 2. reflective,… …
38thought — n 1. conception, concept, idea, conceit; imagination, notion, whim, whimsy, vagary, crotchet, fancy. 2. cerebration, cerebrating, thinking, brainwork, headwork, lucubration; concentration, concentrating, focusing, having one s mind on, reflection …
39cogitate — UK [ˈkɒdʒɪteɪt] / US [ˈkɑdʒɪˌteɪt] verb [intransitive] Word forms cogitate : present tense I/you/we/they cogitate he/she/it cogitates present participle cogitating past tense cogitated past participle cogitated formal to think about something… …
40cogitate — [c]/ˈkɒdʒəteɪt / (say kojuhtayt) verb (cogitated, cogitating) –verb (i) 1. to think hard; ponder; meditate. –verb (t) 2. to think about; devise. {Latin cōgitātus, past participle} –cogitator, noun …
