pondered

ADJECTIVE

deliberate

Synonyms

STRONGEST

calculated careful cautious cold-blooded conscious meticulous premeditated prudent purposeful studious thoughtful willful

STRONG

advised considered designed express fixed intended judged planned prearranged predetermined projected purposed reasoned resolved schemed studied weighed

WEAK

aforethought cut-and-dried designful done on purpose predesigned predeterminate prepense provident purposive scrupulous thought-out voluntary wary with forethought witting

Antonyms

STRONGEST

careless heedless ignorant imprudent inattentive incautious thoughtless uncareful unmindful

STRONG

indefinite unplanned

WEAK

chance indeterminate unintentional unmethodical unsystematic unwitting

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pondered

Rath made a note of that as he pondered his side's defeat.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Roz and I looked down from the dock and pondered how to get aboard.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Many have pondered why Mexicans and Mexican Americans have such an affinity for those blokes from across the pond.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Yuriy, a senior instructor who led one of the squads across the gruelling obstacle course, has at times pondered the necessity of such trials given the nature of drone warfare.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

Well, she had no puppies to induce Amaroq to feed her, so she pondered again.

From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George

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