pondering

  • 41ponder — pon|der [ˈpɔndə US ˈpa:ndər] v [I and T] [Date: 1300 1400; : Old French; Origin: ponderer to weigh , from Latin ponderare, from pondus weight ] formal to spend time thinking carefully and seriously about a problem, a difficult question, or… …

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  • 42ponder — pon|der [ pandər ] verb intransitive or transitive FORMAL to think carefully about something for a long time before reaching a decision: Injuries to key players have left the coach pondering his options for the next game. ponder how/what/when etc …

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  • 43AYPWIP — Abbreviation for the infamous catanoic reponse of The Brain from W.B. Animaniacs, Are you pondering what I m pondering? Say Dave, AYPWIP? …

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  • 44AYPWIP — Abbreviation for the infamous catanoic reponse of The Brain from W.B. Animaniacs, Are you pondering what I m pondering? Say Dave, AYPWIP? …

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  • 45ponder — ponder, meditate, muse, ruminate can mean to consider or examine something attentively, seriously, and with more or less deliberation. Ponder characteristically retains its original implication of weighing and usually suggests consideration of a… …

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  • 46musing — adj 1. meditative, thoughtful, pensive, Archaic. museful, in a brown study; reflective, pondering, ruminative, introspective, deliberative, cogitative; speculative, philosophical, metaphysical. 2. daydreaming, absent minded, lost in thought,… …

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  • 47thinking — adj 1. rational, reasoning, reasonable, sensible, cerebral; logical, practical, pragmatic; intelligent, knowing, ratiocinative, percipient, perceiving; analytic, ideational, philosophical, sophic; speculative, imaginative. 2. reflective,… …

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  • 48brooding — rood ing, a. 1. worried and thinking long and intensely, especially about a particular problem. Syn: broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative, gloomy, morose. [WordNet 1.5] …

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  • 49Cygnus gibbus — Mute Mute, a. [L. mutus; cf. Gr. my ein to shut, Skr. m[=u]ta bound, m[=u]ka dumb: cf. OE. muet, fr. F. muet, a dim. of OF. mu, L. mutus.] 1. Not speaking; uttering no sound; silent. [1913 Webster] All the heavenly choir stood mute, And silence… …

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  • 50Cygnus olor — Mute Mute, a. [L. mutus; cf. Gr. my ein to shut, Skr. m[=u]ta bound, m[=u]ka dumb: cf. OE. muet, fr. F. muet, a dim. of OF. mu, L. mutus.] 1. Not speaking; uttering no sound; silent. [1913 Webster] All the heavenly choir stood mute, And silence… …

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