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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thoughtful |
| Synonyms: | cogitating, contemplative, deliberate, meditative, pensive, pondering, reasoning, ruminative, speculative, studious |
| Antonyms: | ignorant, unthoughtful |
| Main Entry: | contemplative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deep in thought |
| Synonyms: | attentive, cogitative, in brown study, intent, introspective, lost, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, rapt, reflecting, reflective, ruminative, speculative, thinking, thoughtful |
| Antonyms: | disdainful, disregarding, negligent, rejecting, scornful, shallow, unreflective |
| Main Entry: | imitative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | simulated, unoriginal |
| Synonyms: | artful, copied, copycat, copying, counterfeit, deceptive, derivative, echoic, emulative, emulous, following, forged, mimetic, mimic, mimicking, mock, onomatopoeic, parrot, plagiarized, pseudo*, put-on, reflecting, reflective, secondhand, sham*, simulant |
| Antonyms: | different, genuine, original |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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reflecting, reflective, ruminating, ruminative, serious, sober, speculative, thinking, thoughtful, wistful, withdrawn |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: | profound |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intellectual, thoughtful |
| Synonyms: | Orphic, abstruse, acroamatic, deep, difficult, discerning, enlightened, erudite, esoteric, heavy*, hermetic, informed, intellectual, intelligent, knowing, knowledgeable, learned, mysterious, occult, penetrating, philosophical, recondite, reflective, sagacious, sage, scholarly, secret, serious, shrewd, skilled, subtle, thorough, weighty, wise |
| Antonyms: | ignorant, stupid |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rational |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | realistic; of sound mind |
| Synonyms: | all there, analytical, balanced, calm, cerebral, circumspect, cognitive, collected, cool*, deductive, deliberate, discerning, discriminating, enlightened, far-sighted, impartial, intellectual, intelligent, judicious, knowing, levelheaded, logical, lucid, normal, objective, perspicacious, philosophic, prudent, ratiocinative, reasonable, reasoning, reflective, sagacious, sane, sensible, sober, sound, stable, synthetic, thinking, thoughtful, together, well-advised, wise |
| Antonyms: | irrational, ridiculous, unrealistic, unreasonable, unsound |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | reasonable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | moderate, tolerable |
| Synonyms: | acceptable, analytical, average, cheap, circumspect, conservative, controlled, discreet, equitable, fair, feasible, fit, honest, humane, impartial, inexpensive, judicious, just, justifiable, knowing, legit, legitimate, low-cost, low-priced, making sense, modest, objective, okay, plausible, politic, proper, prudent, rational, reflective, restrained, right, sane, sapient, sensible, sound, standing to reason, temperate, understandable, unexcessive, unextreme, valid, within reason |
| Antonyms: | expensive, intolerable, outrageous, unreasonable |
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