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101pensive — adj dreaming, dreamy, dreamful, in a reverie, daydreaming, gazing out the window, in a trance, absent minded; thoughtful, thinking, cerebra tional, absorbed, immersed, engrossed, lost in thought, bemused, Archaic. museful; cogitative, cogitating …
102philosophical — adj 1. philosophic, Philos. metaphysical, metaphysic; abstract, abstruse, recondite, esoteric. 2. thoughtful, thinking, pensive, reflective, reflecting, meditative, meditating, contemplative, contemplating, cogitative; grave, serious, sober, deep …
103preoccupied — adj 1. abstracted, rapt, engrossed, consumed, lost in, absorbed, immersed, wrapped up, Inf. into [s.t.] busy, occupied; obsessed, Sl. hung up; oblivious, unaware, unconscious, unmindful, insensible, blind; distracted, diverted, distrait,… …
104reasonable — adj 1. logical, practical, pragmatic; sensible, intelligent, rational; judicious, wise, sound, sane; plausible, credible, admissible, tenable; believable, arguable, justifiable, vindicable, maintainable; proper, advisable, suitable, well advised …
105reflective — adj 1. imitative, mirrorlike, repetitive, echoing; resounding, reverberating. 2. contemplative, meditative, meditating, musing, pondering, brooding, mulling over; reflecting, cogitative, cogitating, ruminant, ruminating; pensive, thoughtful,… …
106speculative — adj 1. deliberative, cogitative, rational, reasoning, intellectual, ideational; abstract, ideal, notional, imaginary, philosophical; analytic, experimental. 2. theoretical, academic, hypothetical, supposititious, suppositional, conjectural;… …
107thinking — adj 1. rational, reasoning, reasonable, sensible, cerebral; logical, practical, pragmatic; intelligent, knowing, ratiocinative, percipient, perceiving; analytic, ideational, philosophical, sophic; speculative, imaginative. 2. reflective,… …
108incogitative — in·cogitative …
109contemplative — [adj] deep in thought attentive, cogitative, in brown study*, intent, introspective, lost, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, rapt, reflecting, reflective, ruminative, speculative, thinking, thoughtful; concepts 402,403 Ant. disdainful,… …
110meditative — [adj] contemplative awake, aware, cogitative, introspective, lucubratory, musing, pensive, philosophical, prayerful, rapt, reflective, ruminant, ruminative, thinking, thoughtful; concept 402 …
