Word Meanings - CONTEMPLATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Pertaining to contemplation; addicted to, or employed in, contemplation; meditative. Fixed and contemplative their looks. Denham. 2. Having the power of contemplation; as, contemplative faculties. Ray.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONTEMPLATIVE)

• Thoughtful
• Careful
• provident
• contemplative
• considerate
• anxious
• pensive
• cogitative
• reflective
• regardful
• mindful
• heedful
• diligent

Related words: (words related to CONTEMPLATIVE)

• ANXIOUSLY
  In an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously.
• PENSIVE
  weigh, ponder, consider, v. intens. fr. pendere to weigh. See 1. Thoughtful, sober, or sad; employed in serious reflection; given to, or favorable to, earnest or melancholy musing. The pensive secrecy of desert cell. Milton. Anxious cares
• CONTEMPLATIVE
  1. Pertaining to contemplation; addicted to, or employed in, contemplation; meditative. Fixed and contemplative their looks. Denham. 2. Having the power of contemplation; as, contemplative faculties. Ray.
• CAREFULLY
  In a careful manner.
• ANXIOUSNESS
  The quality of being anxious; great solicitude; anxiety.
• COGITATIVE
  1. Possessing, or pertaining to, the power of thinking or meditating. "Cogitative faculties." Wollaston. 2. Given to thought or contemplation. Sir H. Wotton.
• THOUGHTFUL
  1. Full of thought; employed in meditation; contemplative; as, a man of thoughtful mind. War, horrid war, your thoughtful walks invades. Pope. 2. Attentive; careful; exercising the judgment; having the mind directed to an object; as, thoughtful
• PENSIVED
  Made pensive. Shak.
• PROVIDENTLY
  In a provident manner.
• CONTEMPLATIVELY
  With contemplation; in a contemplative manner.
• CAREFULNESS
  Quality or state of being careful.
• CAREFUL
  1. Full of care; anxious; solicitous Be careful for nothing. Phil. iv. 6. The careful plowman doubting stands. Milton. 2. Filling with care or colicitube; exposing to concern, anxiety, or trouble; painful. The careful cold beinneth for to creep.
• CONTEMPLATIVENESS
  The state of being contemplative; thoughtfulness.
• PROVIDENT
  Foreseeing wants and making provision to supply them; prudent in preparing for future exigencies; cautious; economical; -- sometimes followed by of; as, aprovident man; an animal provident of the future. And of our good and of our dignity,
• ANXIOUS
  1. Full of anxiety or disquietude; greatly concerned or solicitous, esp. respecting future or unknown; being in painful suspense; -- applied to persons; as, anxious for the issue of a battle. 2. Accompanied with, or causing, anxiety; worrying;
• PENSIVENESS
  The state of being pensive; serious thoughtfulness; seriousness. Hooker.
• REGARDFUL
  Heedful; attentive; observant. -- Re*gard"ful*ly, adv. Let a man be very tender and regardful of every pious motion made by the Spirit of God to his heart. South. Syn. -- Mindful; heedful; attentive; observant.
• PENSIVELY
  In a pensive manner.
• REFLECTIVE
  Reflexive; reciprocal. -- Re*flect"ive*ly, adv. -- Re*flect"ive*ness, n. "Reflectiveness of manner." J. C. Shairp. (more info) 1. Throwing back images; as, a reflective mirror. In the reflective stream the sighing bride, viewing her charms. Prior.
• PROVIDENTIAL
  Effected by, or referable to, divine direction or superintendence; as, the providential contrivance of thing; a providential escape. -- Prov"i*den"tial*ly, adv.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• SUSPENSIVE
  Tending to suspend, or to keep in suspense; causing interruption or delay; uncertain; doubtful. "In suspensive thoughts." Beaumont. "A suspensive veto." Macaulay. The provisional and suspensive attitude. J. Morley. Suspensive condition
• IMPROVIDENTLY
  In a improvident manner. "Improvidently rash." Drayton.
• UNCONSIDERATE
  Inconsiderate; heedless; careless. Daniel. -- Un`con*sid"er*ate*ness, n. Hales.
• INCONSIDERATE
  1. Not considerate; not attentive to safety or to propriety; not regarding the rights or feelings of others; hasty; careless; thoughtless; heedless; as, the young are generally inconsiderate; inconsiderate conduct. It is a very unhappy token of
• OVERANXIOUS
  Anxious in an excessive or needless degree. -- O"ver*anx"ious*ly, adv.
• OVERCAREFUL
  Too careful. Shak.
• INCONSIDERATENESS
  The quality or state of being inconsiderate. Tillotson.
• INEXPENSIVE
  Not expensive; cheap.
• UNPROVIDENT
  Improvident. "Who for thyself art so unprovident.' Shak.
• INCOGITATIVE
  Not cogitative; not thinking; wanting the power of thought; as, a vegetable is an incogitative being. Locke.