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Ruminative

adjective
1.
Deeply or seriously thoughtful.  Synonyms: brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective.






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"Ruminative" Quotes from Famous Books



... ate the salt he brought her with heart-whole bovine relish—putting out her soft white pad of a tongue, licking it deliberately from his hand, savouring it tranquilly, and crunching the bigger grains with ruminative enjoyment between her teeth. So soon consoled! They were companions in misery no longer. "I 'm afraid you are a Latin, after all," he said, and left her ...
— The Cardinal's Snuff-Box • Henry Harland

... this, I walked away from the cave and climbed again to the railway; my friends also were silent and ruminative. Not unnaturally, I suspected that a desire for substantial thanks had some part in their Silence, and at a convenient spot I made suitable offering. It was done, I trust, with all decency, for I knew that I had the better kind of Calabrian to deal with; but ...
— By the Ionian Sea - Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy • George Gissing

... remarked in ruminative fashion. "Dot Frauenzimmer she iss to raise hell alretty determined. Von Pachydermatology she knows nodding. Maybe she leaves me alone, maybe it is to be 'raus mit me. I' weis' ni'! It iss aber besser one over on dat ...
— Police!!! • Robert W. Chambers



Words linked to "Ruminative" :   thoughtful, ruminate



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