- brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative - persistently or morbidly thoughtful
Antonym: thoughtless (indirect, via thoughtful)
- contemplation, reflection, reflexion, rumination, musing, thoughtfulness - a calm lengthy intent consideration
--1 is a kind of consideration
--1 has particulars:cogitation, study; meditation, speculation; meditation; introspection, self-contemplation, self-examination; omphaloskepsis; retrospect Derived form: verb muse1
- chew over, think over, meditate, ponder, excogitate, contemplate, muse, reflect, mull, mull over, ruminate, speculate - reflect deeply on a subject; "I mulled over the events of the afternoon"; "philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years"; "The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate"
--1 is one way to think, cogitate, cerebrate
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun muse2, noun muser1, noun musing1
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