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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thoughtful |
| Synonyms: | contemplating, contemplative, deliberative, excogitative, meditating, meditative, probing, reasoning, reflective, ruminative, thinking |
| Main Entry: | meditative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | contemplative |
| Synonyms: | awake, aware, cogitative, introspective, lucubratory, musing, pensive, philosophical, prayerful, rapt, reflective, ruminant, ruminative, thinking, thoughtful |
| Main Entry: | pensive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | meditative, solemn |
| Synonyms: | absorbed, abstracted, attentive, cogitative, contemplative, dreamy, grave, musing, pondering, preoccupied, reflecting, reflective, ruminating, ruminative, serious, sober, speculative, thinking, thoughtful, wistful, withdrawn |
| Antonyms: | ignorant, shallow |
| Main Entry: | philosophical/philosophic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thinking deeply, rationally |
| Synonyms: | abstract, cogitative, deep, erudite, judicious, learned, logical, pensive, profound, rational, reflective, sagacious, sapient, theoretical, thoughtful, wise |
| Antonyms: | irrational, narrow-minded, thoughtless, unreasonable |
| Main Entry: | thoughtful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | contemplative, introspective |
| Synonyms: | absorbed, analytical, attentive, brainy, calculating, cerebral, cogitative, deep, deliberative, discerning, earnest, engrossed, farsighted, grave, intellectual, intent, keen, levelheaded, logical, lost in thought, meditative, melancholy, museful, musing, pensive, philosophic, pondering, preoccupied, rapt, rational, reasonable, reasoning, reflecting, reflective, retrospective, ruminative, serious, sober, studious, subjective, thinking, wise, wistful |
| Antonyms: | idiotic, negligent, obtuse, remiss, stupid, thoughtless |
| Main Entry: | thinking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pertaining to thought |
| Synonyms: | bright, cogitative, contemplative, deliberating, engrossed, introspective, meditating, pensive, rational, reasonable, reflective, studious |
| Main Entry: | wise |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intelligent, reasonable |
| Synonyms: | astute, aware, calculating, careful, clever, cogitative, contemplative, crafty, cunning, discerning, discreet, educated, enlightened, erudite, experienced, foresighted, grasping, informed, insightful, intuitive, judicious, keen, knowing, knowledgeable, perceptive, perspicacious, politic, prudent, rational, reflective, sagacious, sage, sane, sapient, scholarly, sensible, sensing, sharp, shrewd, smart, sophic, sound, tactful, taught, thoughtful, understanding, wary, well-informed, witty |
| Antonyms: | foolish, ignorant, stupid, unintelligent, unreasonable, unwise |
| Main Entry: | thinking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thoughtful |
| Synonyms: | absorbed, cogitative, contemplative, deliberating, deliberative, engrossed, introspective, meditative, pensive, philosophical, reflective, ruminating, ruminative |
| Main Entry: | deliberative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thoughtful |
| Synonyms: | calculated, cogitative, contemplating, contemplative, excogitative, meditating, meditative, planned, probing, purposeful, reasoning, reflective, thinking |
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