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ruminative::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective |
| Derivation | ruminate |
Examples of ruminative
ruminative
The song continues the ruminative yet quietly dangerous mood already established.
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The ambassador, who completes his assignment in January, was in a ruminative mood.
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The risks magnify when the writer is the famously ruminative Haruki Murakami.
From the guardian.co.uk
Colonel Qaddafi, meanwhile, offered ruminative remarks on colonialism and migration.
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This is not an indelicate rendering of some ruminative, long-winded truth.
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In even the most ruminative passages Yakushev kept things both clean and interesting.
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Dissard brings Chanson, French story-songs, aching narratives set to ruminative lyrics.
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I tell Weller I'd expected to find him less sanguine and ruminative, maybe more volatile.
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Biss's impressionistic, ruminative way with this music might not be to everyone's taste.
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- 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";
- (rumination) contemplation: a calm, lengthy, intent consideration
- (rumination) (of ruminants) chewing (the cud); "ruminants have remarkable powers of rumination"
- (rumination) regurgitation of small amounts of food; seen in some infants after feeding
- (Rumination (eating disorder)) Rumination syndrome, or Merycism is an under-diagnosed chronic eating disorder, characterized by effortless regurgitation of most meals following consumption. ...
- (Rumination (psychology)) Rumination is a way of responding to distress that involves repetitively (and passively) focusing on the symptoms of distress, and on its possible causes and consequences. ...
- Causing rumination or prone to it; thoughtful
- (Rumination) The process of regurgitating food to be rechewed.
- (Rumination) after swallowing, the regurgitation of food followed by chewing another time.
