Thesaurus:contemplative

THESAURUS

contemplative

English

Adjective

Sense: given to serious thought

Synonyms

• attentive
• calculant
• cogitabund (archaic, literary)
• contemplative
• deliberative
• intelligent    [⇒ thesaurus]
• introspective
• meditative
• museful
• musing
• pensive
• reflective
• speculative
• studious
• thinkful
• thinking
• thoughty
• thoughtful
• wistful

Hypernyms

• behavioral    [⇒ thesaurus]

Various

• temperate    [⇒ thesaurus]

Further reading

• “451. thought” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “contemplative” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.