English language
Toggle Transcript
musing::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative |
musing::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | contemplation, reflection, reflexion, rumination, thoughtfulness |
| Type of | consideration |
| Has types | introspection, meditation, retrospect, self-contemplation, self-examination, speculation, study, cogitation |
| Derivation | muse |
Examples of musing
musing
Look how the media hang on to her every tweet, Facebook musing or Fox appearance.
From the thenewstribune.com
Lawyers in Athens have been musing on the possibility of a return to the drachma.
From the economist.com
Yet Mercier spends most of the book musing about music and life before Arnault.
From the bloomberg.com
Greenberg was also musing online whether the shares'drop would affect Pera's bid.
From the businessweek.com
The musing and hinting by Thompson is a predictable part of political conventions.
From the jsonline.com
Belinda McKeon's first novel is an excellent musing on families and relationships.
From the economist.com
I am musing about the effectiveness of debating complex science in this forum.
From the guardian.co.uk
Every word, every musing, every hyperbolic expression is recorded and decoded.
From the time.com
His audience absorbed each new musing and meter raptly, approving with a roar.
From the nytimes.com
- Contemplation: a calm, lengthy, intent consideration
- 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";
- (musingly) in a reflective manner; "`It's funny about that bar,' he said musingly"
- (Musings) Thoughts are forms conceived in the mind, rather than the forms perceived through the five senses. Thought and thinking are the processes by which these concepts are perceived and manipulated. ...
- Bley piano, Laing drums. 1991. Justin Time JUST-39 -2 (CD)
- In ancient Greek mythology any of 9 daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne; protector of an art or science
- 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"
- The source of an artist's inspiration; "Euterpe was his muse"
- (musing) contemplation: a calm, lengthy, intent consideration
