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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

Example Sentences

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For months, the senior U.S. senator from Montana pondered his political future.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

When lawmakers have pondered the best ways to put checks on personal power, it is to classical Athens that they have often looked.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 8, 2026

The question that Barclays analyst Dan Levy pondered on Tuesday was, of course, why?

From Barron's • Feb. 17, 2026

England's pace attack will have collectively pondered, fretted and chewed the festive bowling fat on their journey from Adelaide to the Melbourne Cricket Ground this week.

From BBC • Dec. 26, 2025

And all the time they talked: they talked of rockets, orbits, space; gravely they pondered the seven stomachs of a cow; tomorrow’s weather; but neither mentioned dogs.

From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford

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