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reflecting
adjective as in contemplative
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adjective as in gleaming
adjective as in glistening
adjective as in glossy
adjective as in imitating
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adjective as in imitative
adjective as in pensive
adjective as in ruminative
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- absorbed
- analytical
- attentive
- brainy
- calculating
- cerebral
- cogitative
- contemplative
- deep
- deliberative
- discerning
- earnest
- engrossed
- excogitative
- farsighted
- grave
- in a brown study
- intellectual
- intent
- keen
- levelheaded
- logical
- lost in thought
- meditative
- melancholy
- museful
- musing
- pensive
- philosophic
- pondering
- preoccupied
- rapt
- rational
- reasonable
- reasoning
- reflective
- retrospective
- serious
- sober
- speculative
- studious
- subjective
- thinking
- wise
- wistful
adjective as in thoughtful
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Example Sentences
When asked about this, one of Mr Zhang's employees told state-owned news outlet The Paper that he was "reflecting" on it.
The longer a poll is conducted — or out in the field, as they say in the business — the greater the chances of reflecting the eventual turnout.
Again it was West Indies as England's opponents, this time in 1995, when Bird led the players from the field at Old Trafford because bright sunlight was reflecting into the middle and causing a distraction.
The harm is psychic and moral, reflecting a conflict between deeply held ethical beliefs and behaviors that violate these beliefs, particularly behaviors over which one has little or no control.
Minguela lay in his darkened cell, reflecting on moments when he had arrived home, tired from work and traffic, and scolded his children about minor messes.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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