meditative

meditative
Synonyms and related words:
absent, absentminded, absorbed, absorbed in, abstracted, bemused, brooding, buried in, castle-building, caught up in, cogitative, cognitive, concentrating, concentrative, conceptive, conceptual, conceptualized, contemplating, contemplative, daydreaming, daydreamy, deliberating, deliberative, devoted, devoted to, do-nothing, dormant, dreaming, dreamy, drowsing, ecstatic, elsewhere, engaged, engrossed, engrossed in, excogitating, excogitative, faraway, half-awake, ideative, idle, immersed in, immobile, in a reverie, in the clouds, inactive, inert, intent, intent on, introspective, involved, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, lost, lost in, lost in thought, meditating, mental, monomaniacal, monopolized, mooning, moonraking, motionless, museful, musing, napping, neuter, neutral, nodding, noetic, oblivious, obsessed, occupied, paralytic, paralyzed, passive, pensive, pipe-dreaming, pondering, prehensive, preoccupied, procrastinating, quiescent, quietist, quietistic, rapt, reflecting, reflective, ruminant, ruminating, ruminative, serious, single-minded, sober, somewhere else, speculative, stagnant, stagnating, standpat, stargazing, static, stationary, studious, studying, submerged in, swept up, taken up, taken up with, thinking, thought, thoughtful, totally absorbed, transported, unconscious, vegetable, vegetative, wistful, woolgathering, wrapped in, wrapped in thought, wrapped up in

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  • Meditative — Med i*ta*tive, a. [L. meditativus: cf. F. m[ e]ditatif.] Disposed to meditate, or to meditation; as, a meditative man; a meditative mood. {Med i*ta*tive*ly}, adv. {Med i*ta*tive*ness}, n. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • meditative — index circumspect, cogitative, deliberate, pensive, solemn, speculative Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • meditative — (adj.) 1650s, from L.L. meditativus, from meditat , pp. stem of L. meditari (see MEDITATION (Cf. meditation)). Related: Meditatively; meditativeness …   Etymology dictionary

  • meditative — contemplative, speculative, *thoughtful, reflective, pensive Analogous words: pondering, musing, ruminating (see PONDER) …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • meditative — [adj] contemplative awake, aware, cogitative, introspective, lucubratory, musing, pensive, philosophical, prayerful, rapt, reflective, ruminant, ruminative, thinking, thoughtful; concept 402 …   New thesaurus

  • meditative — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ involving or absorbed in meditation. DERIVATIVES meditatively adverb …   English terms dictionary

  • meditative — [med′ə tāt΄iv] adj. [LL meditativus] 1. meditating or inclined to meditate 2. indicating meditation SYN. PENSIVE meditatively adv …   English World dictionary

  • meditative — [[t]me̱dɪtətɪv, AM teɪt [/t]] ADJ GRADED: ADJ n Meditative describes things that are related to the act of meditating or the act of thinking very deeply about something. Music can induce a meditative state in the listener... Yogis trained in… …   English dictionary

  • méditative — ● méditatif, méditative adjectif (bas latin meditativus) Se dit du comportement de quelqu un qui est plongé dans ses pensées : Avoir un air méditatif. ● méditatif, méditative (synonymes) adjectif (bas latin meditativus) Se dit du comportement de… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • meditative — med|i|ta|tive [ˈmedıtətıv US teıtıv] adj 1.) thinking deeply and seriously about something ▪ She was in a meditative mood. 2.) relating to the practice of emptying your mind of thoughts and feelings, in order to relax completely or for religious… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • meditative — med|i|ta|tive [ medı,teıtıv ] adjective 1. ) involving deep careful thought: a long meditative gaze 2. ) involving meditation: meditative martial arts ╾ med|i|ta|tive|ly adverb …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

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