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ruminative

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The narrator, a Nigerian psychiatry student, is emotionally distant, ruminative, and intellectual.

Yet it was not exactly a stare; it was too thoughtful, too ruminative, too unconscious for that.

“The bank raised the reward to eight thousand this week,” interposed the ruminative Copeland.

"Do you know, it's rather a pity you don't like me," said Hal, with ruminative frankness.

Mr. Stobell, whose habit was taciturn and ruminative, fixed his dull brown eyes on the ground and thought it over.

"Some day the damn fool will bust his head open," said the liveryman, after a ruminative pause.

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On this page you'll find 54 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ruminative, such as: absorbed, analytical, attentive, brainy, calculating, and cerebral.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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