Thesaurus / ruminating
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synonyms for ruminating
- contemplative
- dreamy
- sober
- thoughtful
- wistful
- absorbed
- abstracted
- attentive
- cogitative
- grave
- musing
- pondering
- preoccupied
- reflecting
- reflective
- ruminative
- serious
- speculative
- thinking
- withdrawn
- absorbed
- contemplative
- deliberating
- engrossed
- cogitative
- deliberative
- introspective
- meditative
- pensive
- philosophical
- reflective
- ruminative
- absorption
- aloofness
- brooding
- cogitation
- consideration
- contemplation
- daydreaming
- detachment
- engrossment
- entrancement
- musing
- pensiveness
- preoccupation
- reflection
- remoteness
- reverie
- thinking
- trance
- pondering
- reflecting
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How to use ruminating in a sentence
He went on, ruminating on the vain shadow, into which his over-heated ambition to act and to be distinguished, had involved him.
THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTERI can see now the happy ruminating smile which came so often on my Uncle Antony's face in those latter months.
FIRST PLAYSA. A. MILNEHe has but one stomach, does not ruminate, and is formed more like the horse than the ox, or other ruminating animals.
BUFFON'S NATURAL HISTORY. VOLUME VII (OF 10)GEORGES LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFONHe, indeed, was ruminating deeply upon Monella, who was every day—every hour almost—becoming a greater mystery to him.
THE DEVIL-TREE OF EL DORADOFRANK AUBREYRuminating thus, he essayed another door, which admitted him to a bedroom, where lay another harmonious slumberer.
PEVERIL OF THE PEAKSIR WALTER SCOTTLeeby returned to the kitchen, and Jess sat for a time ruminating.
A WINDOW IN THRUMSJ. M. BARRIESixty ruminating jaw-wags, then he spat into the fog, then the blast—correct to the clock's tide!
BLOW THE MAN DOWNHOLMAN DAYOne evening, as he was ruminating over the past, his servant brought him a card, and said the gentleman was waiting to see him.
FILE NO. 113EMILE GABORIAUWholly at a loss how to act, she sat ruminating over this letter, till Mrs. Arlbery opened the door.
CAMILLAFANNY BURNEYShe was ruminating upon this formidable, this terrible task, when Edgar again appeared, accompanied by her sisters.
CAMILLAFANNY BURNEYWORDS RELATED TO RUMINATING
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