cogitating
41conception — [n1] understanding; idea apperception, appreciation, apprehension, clue, cogitating, cognition, communing, comprehension, conceit, concentrating, concept, consideration, considering, deliberating, design, dreaming, envisaging, explanation,… …
42reflective — [adj] thoughtful cogitating, contemplative, deliberate, meditative, pensive, pondering, reasoning, ruminative, speculative, studious; concept 403 Ant. ignorant, unthoughtful …
43cogitate — [käj′ə tāt΄] vi., vt. cogitated, cogitating [< L cogitatus, pp. of cogitare < * coagitare: see CO & AGITATE] to think seriously and deeply (about); ponder; meditate; consider SYN. THINK1 cogitable [käj′ətə bəl] adj. cogitation n. cogitator …
44cogitative — [käj′ə tāt΄iv] adj. [ME cogitatif < LL cogitativus] 1. capable of cogitating 2. tending to cogitate; thoughtful; meditative …
45think — think1 [thiŋk] vt. thought, thinking [< ME thenchen, to think, confused with thinchen, to seem < OE thencan < PGmc * thankjan, to think: for IE base see THANK] 1. to form or have in the mind; conceive [thinking good thoughts] 2. to hold… …
46in a brown study — LOST IN THOUGHT, in a reverie, musing, ruminating, cogitating, dreaming, daydreaming; informal miles away. → study * * * I see study II absorbed in one s thoughts Origin: apparently originally from brown in the sense ‘gloomy’ …
47cog´i|ta´tor — cog|i|tate «KOJ uh tayt», verb, tat|ed, tat|ing. –v.i. to think over; consider with care; ponder; meditate; reflect: »The judge cogitated a long time before making any decision in the case. That lady lay cogitating over the past evening (Dinah M …
48cog|i|tate — «KOJ uh tayt», verb, tat|ed, tat|ing. –v.i. to think over; consider with care; ponder; meditate; reflect: »The judge cogitated a long time before making any decision in the case. That lady lay cogitating over the past evening (Dinah M. Mulock) …
