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. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
meditative
adj : persistently or morbidly thoughtful [syn: brooding, broody,
contemplative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective,
ruminative]
WordNet (r) 2.0
121 Moby Thesaurus words for "meditative":
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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