CONTEMPLATIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does contemplative mean? 

• CONTEMPLATIVE (noun)
  The noun CONTEMPLATIVE has 1 sense:

1. a person devoted to the contemplative life

  Familiarity information: CONTEMPLATIVE used as a noun is very rare.

• CONTEMPLATIVE (adjective)
  The adjective CONTEMPLATIVE has 1 sense:

1. deeply or seriously thoughtful

  Familiarity information: CONTEMPLATIVE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONTEMPLATIVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person devoted to the contemplative life

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("contemplative" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

• CONTEMPLATIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Deeply or seriously thoughtful

Synonyms:

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

Context example:

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

Similar:

thoughtful (exhibiting or characterized by careful thought)

Derivation:

contemplate (reflect deeply on a subject)

contemplate (think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes)

contemplativeness (deep serious thoughtfulness)

 Context examples 

Last month, on December 25, you also had a new moon solar eclipse there to set this contemplative theme in motion.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Each man seemed stunned—deeply contemplative, as it were, and, not quite sure, trying to realize just what had taken place.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

If he looks out through the glass, the boldest boy (Steerforth excepted) stops in the middle of a shout or yell, and becomes contemplative.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

In his singular character the dual nature alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally predominated in him.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)