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n. a person devoted to the contemplative life

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brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative

adj. deeply or seriously thoughtful; "Byron lives on not only in his poetry, but also in his creation of the 'Byronic hero' - the persona of a brooding melancholy young man";

introspective, introverted, self-examining

adj. given to examining own sensory and perceptual experiences

yearning, wistful

adj. showing pensive sadness; "the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty"

dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen

adj. showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd"

gloomy, dismal, sorry

adj. causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"

bemused, deep in thought(p), lost(p), preoccupied

adj. deeply absorbed in thought; "as distant and bemused as a professor listening to the prattling of his freshman class"; "lost in thought"; "a preoccupied frown"

cogitative

adj. given to cogitation; "he looked at me with cogitative eyes"

well thought out(p)

adj. resulting from careful thought; "the paper was well thought out"

deliberate

adj. marked by careful consideration or reflection; "a deliberate decision"

deliberative

adj. involved in or characterized by deliberation and discussion and examination; "a deliberative body"

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