- brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative - persistently or morbidly thoughtful
Antonym: thoughtless (indirect, via thoughtful)
- 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 form: noun ponderer1
Somebody ----s PP