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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | backward-looking |
| Synonyms: | contemplative, pensive, recollective, reflective |
| 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: | ex post facto |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | after the fact |
| Synonyms: | attendant, done afterward, post factum, posterior, postmortem, retroactive, retrospective, sequent, subsequent, succeeding |
| Main Entry: | ruminative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thoughtful |
| Synonyms: | absorbed, analytical, attentive, brainy, calculating, cerebral, cogitative, contemplative, deep, deliberative, discerning, earnest, engrossed, excogitative, farsighted, grave, in a brown study, intellectual, intent, keen, levelheaded, logical, lost in thought, meditative, melancholy, museful, musing, pensive, philosophic, pondering, preoccupied, rapt, rational, reasonable, reasoning, reflecting, reflective, retrospective, serious, sober, speculative, studious, subjective, thinking, wise*, wistful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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