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contemplative
adjective as in deep in thought
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But it was that period in her life, when her career was just taking shape, that produces her most contemplative answers.
I found their melancholy inviting and I appreciated their contemplative, lonely world.
Though the scene is spare, the effect is powerful: bright, solemn, contemplative.
Scott's film is less contemplative and more grounded than McCarthy's script, with most of the philosophical digressions excised.
But which I think has been slightly overstated – there's a contemplative upside to living in and among minimal sculptural forms.
Thereafter he went into a contemplative frame of mind to the docks, and found Sam Blake as usual in his bunk.
An upright, phlegmatic man who finally led the contemplative life of one of the ancient hermits.
It was Tanqueray who kept on looking at him with clear, contemplative eyes under brows no longer irritable.
He was merely a friend of her aunt's, and from that contemplative position he never stepped down.
The fish will regard with contemplative indifference every other lure but a close imitation of that particular insect.
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On this page you'll find 47 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to contemplative, such as: introspective, meditative, pensive, reflective, thoughtful, and intent.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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