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[ kuh n-tem -pluh -tiv, kon -tuh m-pley-, -tem- ] SHOW IPA
/ kənˈtɛm plə tɪv, ˈkɒn təmˌpleɪ-, -tɛm- / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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adjective given to or characterized by contemplation: a contemplative mind.
noun a person devoted to contemplation, as a monk.
Origin of contemplative 1300–50; <Latin
contemplātīvus, equivalent to
contemplāt (
us ) (see contemplate) +
-īvus -ive; replacing Middle English
contemplatif <Anglo-French <Latin, as above
SYNONYMS FOR contemplative 1 thoughtful, reflective, meditative.
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OTHER WORDS FROM contemplative con·tem·pla·tive·ly, adverb con·tem·pla·tive·ness, noun non·con·tem·pla·tive, adjective non·con·tem·pla·tive·ly, adverb
non·con·tem·pla·tive·ness, noun un·con·tem·pla·tive, adjective un·con·tem·pla·tive·ly, adverb un·con·tem·pla·tive·ness, noun
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Words nearby contemplative contemn, contemp., contemplable, contemplate, contemplation, contemplative , contemplative order, contempo, contemporaneous, contemporary, contemporize
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Example sentences from the Web for contemplative But it was that period in her life, when her career was just taking shape, that produces her most contemplative answers.
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I found their melancholy inviting and I appreciated their contemplative , lonely world.
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Though the scene is spare, the effect is powerful: bright, solemn, contemplative .
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But which I think has been slightly overstated – there's a contemplative upside to living in and among minimal sculptural forms.
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The spokesman for the office said that Jalics is leading a contemplative retreat until May 10, and cannot be reached.
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It does violence even to that minimum of intellectual eagerness which is the portion of a contemplative mind.
The Galaxy, June 1877 | Various
The eyes were large and gray, the expression that of a contemplative savant, with a faint dash of irony in their glance.
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Consequently it is not comprised in our division of life into the active and the contemplative .
On Prayer and The Contemplative Life | St. Thomas Aquinas
Especially on the contemplative side of life, education does great things for us; or would do, if we gave it the chance.
The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day | Evelyn Underhill
But there is a poetic Arcadia none the less, the real Arcadia mirrored in a contemplative mind.
Soliloquies in England | George Santayana
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British Dictionary definitions for contemplative / (ˈkɒntɛmˌpleɪtɪv , -təm- , kənˈtɛmplə- ) /
adjective denoting, concerned with, or inclined to contemplation; meditative
noun a person dedicated to religious contemplation or to a way of life conducive to this
Derived forms of contemplative contemplatively , adverb contemplativeness , noun Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Words related to contemplative introspective, reflective, thoughtful, pensive, meditative, thinking, intent, musing, lost, attentive, rapt, speculative, cogitative, ruminative, pondering, reflecting