| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | contemplative |
| Synonyms: | awake, aware, cogitative, introspective, lucubratory, musing, pensive, philosophical, prayerful, rapt, reflective, ruminant, ruminative, thinking, thoughtful |
| Main Entry: | reflective |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thoughtful |
| Synonyms: | cogitating, contemplative, deliberate, meditative, pensive, pondering, reasoning, ruminative, speculative, studious |
| Antonyms: | ignorant, unthoughtful |
| Main Entry: | serious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | somber, humorless |
| Synonyms: | austere, bound, bound and determined, businesslike, cold sober, contemplative, deadpan, deliberate, determined, downbeat, earnest, funereal, genuine, go for broke, grave, grim, honest, intent, long-faced, meditative, no-nonsense, pensive, pokerfaced, reflective, resolute, resolved, sedate, set, severe, sincere, sober, solemn, staid, steady, stern, thoughtful, unhumorous, unsmiling, weighty |
| Antonyms: | flippant, funny, happy, light |
| Main Entry: | studious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | scholarly, attentive |
| Synonyms: | academic, assiduous, bookish, bookworm, busy, careful, contemplative, diligent, eager, earnest, grubbing, hard-working, industrious, intellectual, learned, lettered, meditative, reflective, sedulous, serious, thoughtful, well-informed, well-read |
| Antonyms: | ignorant, inattentive, lazy, unscholarly |
| 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: | wistful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | daydreaming, longing |
| Synonyms: | contemplative, desirous, disconsolate, dreaming, dreamy, forlorn, hopeless, meditative, melancholy, mournful, musing, nostalgic, pensive, plaintive, reflective, sad, thoughtful, wishful, yearning |
| Antonyms: | uncaring |
| Main Entry: | musing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pensive |
| Synonyms: | absorbed, introspective, meditative, thoughtful |
| 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: | cogitative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thoughtful |
| Synonyms: | contemplating, contemplative, deliberative, excogitative, meditating, meditative, probing, reasoning, reflective, ruminative, thinking |