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| Main Entry: | pensive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | meditative, solemn |
| Synonyms: | absorbed, abstracted, attentive, contemplative, dreamy, grave, musing, preoccupied, reflective, serious, sober, speculative, thinking, thoughtful, wistful, withdrawn, cogitative, pondering, reflecting, ruminating, ruminative |
| Antonyms: | ignorant, shallow |
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| Main Entry: | contemplative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deep in thought |
| Synonyms: | attentive, intent, introspective, lost, meditative, musing, pensive, rapt, reflective, speculative, thinking, thoughtful, cogitative, in brown study, pondering, reflecting, ruminative |
| Antonyms: | disdainful, negligent, scornful, shallow, disregarding, rejecting, unreflective |
| Main Entry: | dreamy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | illusory, romantic |
| Synonyms: | abstracted, astral, calming, chimerical, daydreaming, excellent, fanciful, fantastic, gentle, idealistic, imaginary, immaterial, impractical, intangible, introspective, marvelous, misty, musing, mythical, nightmarish, otherworldly, out of this world, pensive, preoccupied, quixotic, shadowy, soothing, speculative, unreal, unsubstantial, utopian, vague, visionary, whimsical, introvertive, lulling, phantasmagoric, phantasmagorical, relaxing |
| Antonyms: | horrible, terrible, unromantic |
| Main Entry: | meditative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | contemplative |
| Synonyms: | awake, aware, introspective, musing, pensive, philosophical, rapt, reflective, thinking, thoughtful, cogitative, lucubratory, prayerful, ruminant, ruminative |
| Main Entry: | melancholy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | depressed, sad |
| Synonyms: | blue*, dejected, despondent, destroyed, disconsolate, dismal, dispirited, doleful, dolorous, down*, down in the mouth*, downbeat, downcast, downhearted, droopy, funereal, gloomy, glum, grim, heavyhearted, joyless, lachrymose, low, low-spirited, lugubrious, miserable, moody, mournful, pensive, somber, sorrowful, sorry*, trite, unhappy, wet blanket*, wistful, woebegone, woeful, down and out, down in the dumps, dragged, in blue funk, mirthless, moony, saddened, saddening, torn up |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy, joyful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | moody |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crabby, temperamental |
| Synonyms: | angry, cantankerous, capricious, changeable, crestfallen, cross, dismal, doleful, dour, down in the mouth*, downcast, erratic, fickle, fitful, flighty, frowning, gloomy, glum, huffy, ill-tempered, impulsive, introspective, irascible, irritable, lugubrious, melancholy, mercurial, miserable, morose, offended, out of sorts*, pensive, petulant, sad, saturnine, short-tempered, sulky, sullen, testy, touchy, crabbed, down in the dumps, ill-humored, in a huff, in the doldrums, moping, piqued, splenetic |
| Antonyms: | balanced, cheerful, happy, overjoyed |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | reflective |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thoughtful |
| Synonyms: | contemplative, deliberate, meditative, pensive, reasoning, speculative, studious, cogitating, pondering, ruminative |
| Antonyms: | ignorant, unthoughtful |
| Main Entry: | wistful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | daydreaming, longing |
| Synonyms: | contemplative, desirous, disconsolate, dreaming, dreamy, forlorn, hopeless, meditative, melancholy, mournful, musing, nostalgic, pensive, plaintive, reflective, sad, thoughtful, wishful, yearning |
| Antonyms: | uncaring |
| Main Entry: | lugubrious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dismal |
| Synonyms: | gloomy, mournful, pensive, sad, sorrowful |
| Main Entry: | retrospective |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | backward-looking |
| Synonyms: | contemplative, pensive, reflective, recollective |
| Main Entry: | philosophical/philosophic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thinking deeply, rationally |
| Synonyms: | abstract, deep, erudite, judicious, learned, logical, pensive, profound, rational, reflective, sagacious, sapient, theoretical, thoughtful, wise, cogitative |
| Antonyms: | irrational, narrow-minded, thoughtless, unreasonable |
| Main Entry: | sad |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unhappy, depressed |
| Synonyms: | bitter, blue*, cheerless, dejected, despairing, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, distressed, doleful, down, downcast, forlorn, gloomy, glum, grief-stricken, heartbroken, heartsick, heavyhearted, languishing, low, low-spirited, lugubrious, melancholy, morbid, morose, mournful, out of sorts*, pensive, pessimistic, somber, sorrowful, sorry, troubled, weeping, wistful, woebegone, bereaved, down in dumps, down in mouth, grieved, hurting, in doldrums, in grief, in the dumps, sick at heart |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, glad, happy, joyful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | serious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | somber, humorless |
| Synonyms: | austere, bound, bound and determined, businesslike, contemplative, deadpan*, deliberate, determined, downbeat*, earnest, funereal, genuine, grave, grim, honest, intent, meditative, no-nonsense*, pensive, reflective, resolute, sedate, set, severe, sincere, sober, solemn, staid, steady, stern, thoughtful, weighty, cold sober, go for broke, long-faced, pokerfaced, resolved, unhumorous, unsmiling |
| Antonyms: | flippant, funny, happy, light |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | solemn |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | quiet, serious |
| Synonyms: | austere, deliberate, dignified, downbeat, earnest, funereal, glum, grave, heavy, intense, matter of life and death*, moody, no-nonsense*, pensive, portentous, reflective, sedate, sober, somber, staid, stern, thoughtful, weighty, brooding, cold sober, no fooling |
| Antonyms: | frivolous, funny, light, laughing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | thoughtful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | contemplative, introspective |
| Synonyms: | absorbed, analytical, attentive, brainy*, calculating, cerebral, deep, discerning, earnest, engrossed, farsighted, grave, intellectual, intent, keen, levelheaded, logical, meditative, melancholy, musing, pensive, preoccupied, rapt, rational, reasonable, reasoning, reflective, retrospective, serious, sober, studious, subjective, thinking, wise, wistful, cogitative, deliberative, lost in thought, museful, philosophic, pondering, reflecting, ruminative |
| Antonyms: | idiotic, negligent, obtuse, remiss, stupid, thoughtless |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | thinking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective2 |
| Definition: | thoughtful |
| Synonyms: | absorbed, contemplative, engrossed, introspective, meditative, pensive, philosophical, reflective, cogitative, deliberating, deliberative, ruminating, ruminative |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | thought |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
alembicated, catoptric, cogitabund, contemplative, deep, idiotropic, in the mind, introspective, lost in thought, meditative, museful, pensive, philosophastering, philosophical, platonic, reflective, refrangible, sedate, specular, speculative, studious, subvocal, thinking, thought of, thoughtful, under consideration, uppermost in the mind, wistful
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