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| 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: | 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: | imitative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | simulated, unoriginal |
| Synonyms: | artful, copied, copycat, counterfeit, deceptive, derivative, following, forged, mimic, mock, parrot*, pseudo*, reflective, secondhand, sham*, copying, echoic, emulative, emulous, mimetic, mimicking, onomatopoeic, plagiarized, put-on, reflecting, simulant |
| Antonyms: | different, genuine, original |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | 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dreamy, grave, musing, preoccupied, reflective, serious, sober, speculative, thinking, thoughtful, wistful, withdrawn, cogitative, pondering, reflecting, ruminating, ruminative |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 |
| Main Entry: | rational |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | realistic; of sound mind |
| Synonyms: | analytical, balanced, calm, cerebral, circumspect, collected, cool*, deliberate, discerning, discriminating, enlightened, far-sighted, impartial, intellectual, intelligent, judicious, knowing, levelheaded, logical, lucid, normal, objective, perspicacious, prudent, reasonable, reasoning, reflective, sagacious, sane, sensible, sober, sound, stable, synthetic, thinking, thoughtful, together, well-advised, wise, all there, cognitive, deductive, philosophic, ratiocinative |
| Antonyms: | irrational, ridiculous, unrealistic, unreasonable, unsound |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sage |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wise |
| Synonyms: | astute, aware, careful, clever, contemplative, cunning, discerning, educated, enlightened, experienced, informed, insightful, intelligent, intuitive, judicious, knowing, knowledgeable, learned, perceptive, reflective, sagacious, sapient, scholarly, sensible, sharp, shrewd, smart, sound, thoughtful, understanding, foresighted |
| Main Entry: | sapient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sagacious |
| Synonyms: | acute, astute, cagey*, canny, clever, contemplative, discerning, discriminating, educated, enlightened, experienced, farsighted, foxy*, informed, insightful, intelligent, judicious, keen, knowing, knowledgeable, perceptive, reflective, sage, scholarly, sensible, sharp, shrewd, smart, thoughtful, wise, astucious, clear-sighted |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | studious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | scholarly, attentive |
| Synonyms: | academic, assiduous, bookish*, bookworm*, busy, careful, contemplative, diligent, eager, earnest, industrious, intellectual, learned, lettered, meditative, reflective, sedulous, serious, thoughtful, well-informed, well-read, grubbing, hard-working |
| Antonyms: | ignorant, inattentive, lazy, unscholarly |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wise |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intelligent, reasonable |
| Synonyms: | astute, aware, calculating, careful, clever, contemplative, crafty, cunning, discerning, discreet, educated, enlightened, erudite, experienced, grasping, informed, insightful, intuitive, judicious, keen, knowing, knowledgeable, perceptive, perspicacious, politic, prudent, rational, reflective, sagacious, sage, sane, sapient, scholarly, sensible, sharp, shrewd, smart, sound, tactful, taught, thoughtful, understanding, wary, well-informed, witty, cogitative, foresighted, sensing, sophic |
| Antonyms: | foolish, ignorant, stupid, unintelligent, unreasonable, unwise |
| 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: | introspective |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | contemplative |
| Synonyms: | reflective, subjective, thoughtful, inner-directed |
| 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: | profound |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intellectual, thoughtful |
| Synonyms: | abstruse, deep, difficult, discerning, enlightened, erudite, esoteric, heavy*, hermetic, informed, intellectual, intelligent, knowing, knowledgeable, learned, mysterious, occult, penetrating, philosophical, recondite, reflective, sagacious, sage, scholarly, secret, serious, shrewd, skilled, subtle, thorough, weighty, wise, Orphic, acroamatic |
| Antonyms: | ignorant, stupid |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | reasonable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | moderate, tolerable |
| Synonyms: | acceptable, analytical, average, cheap, circumspect, conservative, discreet, equitable, fair, feasible, fit, honest, humane, impartial, inexpensive, judicious, just, justifiable, knowing, legitimate, low-priced, modest, objective, okay, plausible, politic, proper, prudent, rational, reflective, restrained, right, sane, sapient, sensible, sound, temperate, understandable, valid, controlled, legit, low-cost, making sense, standing to reason, unexcessive, unextreme, within reason |
| Antonyms: | expensive, intolerable, outrageous, unreasonable |
| 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: | conscious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intentional |
| Synonyms: | affected, calculated, deliberate, knowing, mannered, premeditated, rational, reasoning, reflective, responsible, self-conscious, studied, willful |
| Notes: | conscience is the noun meaning 'a sense of right and wrong' while conscious is the adjective meaning 'aware of something, being awake' |
| Antonyms: | indifferent, unconscious, unfeeling, unintentional, unstudied, not deliberate |
| Main Entry: | reasonable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intelligent, practical |
| Synonyms: | advisable, all there, arguable, believable, cerebral, clear-cut, cognitive, commonsensical, conscious, consequent, consistent, cool*, credible, in one's right mind, judicious, justifiable, levelheaded, logical, perceiving, percipient, plausible, ratiocinative, rational, reasoned, reasoning, reflective, sane, sensible, sober, sound, tenable, thought-out, thoughtful, together*, tolerant, unbiased, unprejudiced, well-advised, wise |
| Antonyms: | implausible, impractical, nonsensical, stupid, unreasonable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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