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How to pronounce meditative in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms brooding, broody, contemplative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative
Derivation meditate, meditativeness

Examples of meditative

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The class will demonstrate how flute playing can be a soothing, meditative tool.
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Doesn't it detract from the contemplative and meditative nature of spirituality?
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Songs take the form of short meditative chants which are repeated over and over.
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Like a meditative palette cleanser where we could exercise our ambient leanings.
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Laying hands on Ms. Logan's shoulder and head, she intoned a meditative prayer.
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What Byblos is to the party, La Reserve is to the peaceful and meditative mind.
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Gamma activity is associated with perception of meaning and meditative awareness.
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The music Harrington is attracted to is increasingly meditative and reflective.
From the guardian.co.uk
This is a very slim book, meditative and shot through with acute sensory touches.
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More examples
  • Brooding: deeply or seriously thoughtful; "Byron lives on not only in his poetry, but also in his creation of the 'Byronic hero' - the persona of a brooding melancholy young man";
  • (meditatively) in a meditative manner; "round and round, while meditatively, as a cow chewing the cud, he let his eyes rest on the flat water ahead of him"
  • (meditativeness) pensiveness: deep serious thoughtfulness
  • (meditate) chew over: reflect deeply on a subject; "I mulled over the events of the afternoon"; "philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years"; "The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate"
  • (meditate) study: think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes; "He is meditating in his study"
  • (meditation) continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature; "the habit of meditation is the basis for all real knowledge"
  • Meditation is a holistic discipline during which time the practitioner trains his or her mind in order to realize some benefit.
  • (Meditation (alternative medicine)) The health applications and clinical studies of meditation are products of the field of interest within the medical community to study the physiological effects of meditation. Lazar, S.W.; Bush, G.; Gollub, R. L.; Fricchione, G. L.; Khalsa, G.; Benson, H. ...
  • (Meditation (Bobby Miller album)) Meditation is the fifth studio album produced by Bobby Miller.