Word Meanings - PONDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To weigh. 2. To weigh in the mind; to view with deliberation; to examine carefully; to consider attentively. Ponder the path of thy feet. Prov. iv. 26. Syn. -- To Ponder, Consider, Muse. To consider means to view or contemplate with

Additional info about word: PONDER

1. To weigh. 2. To weigh in the mind; to view with deliberation; to examine carefully; to consider attentively. Ponder the path of thy feet. Prov. iv. 26. Syn. -- To Ponder, Consider, Muse. To consider means to view or contemplate with fixed thought. To ponder is to dwell upon with long and anxious attention, with a view to some practical result or decision. To muse is simply to think upon continuously with no definite object, or for the pleasure it gives. We consider any subject which is fairly brought before us; we ponder a concern involving great interests; we muse on the events of childhood.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PONDER)

• Cogitate
• Think
• ruminate
• reflect
• meditate
• brood
• speculate
• contemplate
• ponder
• muse
• Consider
• Attend
• revolve
• think
• investigate
• regard
• observe
• judge
• opine
• infer
• deduce
• weigh
• cogitate
• deliberate
• deem
• Contemplate
• Meditate
• behold
• study
• purpose
• design
• intend
• project
• Deliberate Consider
• consult
• debate
• perpend
• Digest Sort
• arrange
• dispose
• order
• classify
• consider
• prepare
• assimilate
• incorporate
• convert
• methodise
• tabulate

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PONDER)

• Shelve
• burke
• discard
• hazard
• chance
• risk
• Recal
• withdraw
• draw
• retract
• pull
• attract
• rebound
• recoil
• adduce
• revert
• rebate
• Chance
• revoke
• Miscalculate
• venture
• stake
• Miss
• overlook
• disregard
• despise
• dislike
• contemn
• hate
• loathe
• misconsider
• misconceive
• misestimate
• misjudge

Related words: (words related to PONDER)

• THINKING
  Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being. -- Think"ing*ly, adv.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• DISPOSEMENT
  Disposal. Goodwin.
• OPINER
  One who opines. Jer. Taylor.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• PROJECTION
  The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction
• DIGESTER
  1. One who digests. 2. A medicine or an article of food that aids digestion, or strengthens digestive power. Rice is . . . a great restorer of health, and a great digester. Sir W. Temple. 3. A strong closed vessel, in which bones or other
• MISJUDGE
  To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• REVOKER
  One who revokes.
• PONDEROUS
  1. Very heavy; weighty; as, a ponderous shield; a ponderous load; the ponderous elephant. The sepulcher . . . Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws. Shak. 2. Important; momentous; forcible. "Your more ponderous and settled project." Shak. 3.
• CONVERTIBILITY
  The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness. The mutual convertibility of land into money, and of money into land. Burke.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• REVERT
  To change back. See Revert, v. i. To revert a series , to treat a series, as y = a + bx + cx2 + etc., where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x, so as to find therefrom the second variable x, expressed in a series arranged
• INFERNALLY
  In an infernal manner; diabolically. "Infernally false." Bp. Hacket.
• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• CONSIDERINGLY
  With consideration or deliberation.
• CONTEMPLATE
  contemplate; con- + templum a space for observation marked out by the 1. To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study. To love,
• VENTURESOME
  Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act. -- Ven"ture*some*ly, adv. -- Ven"ture*some*ness, n.
• DISVENTURE
  A disadventure. Shelton.
• EQUIPONDERANCE; EQUIPONDERANCY
  Equality of weight; equipoise.
• SUPERREFLECTION
  The reflection of a reflected image or sound. Bacon.
• SADDUCEEISM; SADDUCISM
  The tenets of the Sadducees.
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• INDIGEST
  Crude; unformed; unorganized; undigested. "A chaos rude and indigest." W. Browne. "Monsters and things indigest." Shak.