MEDITATIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does meditative mean? 

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

1. deeply or seriously thoughtful

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEDITATIVE (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:

meditate (reflect deeply on a subject)

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

meditativeness (deep serious thoughtfulness)

 Context examples 

I do wonder if any of us will ever get our wishes, said Laurie, chewing grass like a meditative calf.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“—And beneath him too,” pursued Uriah, very distinctly, and in a meditative tone of voice, as he continued to scrape his chin.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This month, on December 2, Jupiter, the giver of gifts and luck, will enter Capricorn, the most private and meditative part of your chart.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It is part of the settled order of Nature that such a girl should have followers, said Holmes, he pulled at his meditative pipe, but for choice not on bicycles in lonely country roads.

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

You have erred, perhaps, he observed, taking up a glowing cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a disputatious rather than a meditative mood—you have erred perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is really the only notable feature about the thing.

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

"What makes my legs go, Dranpa?" asked the young philosopher, surveying those active portions of his frame with a meditative air, while resting after a go-to-bed frolic one night.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

After July 1, Saturn will return to Capricorn to finish up his tour of duty in your twelfth house, a wonderful place to do research and to be meditative, strategic, and creative.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Mr. Dick had regularly assisted at our councils, with a meditative and sage demeanour.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

If the boy had replied like Alcibiades, By the gods, Socrates, I cannot tell, his grandfather would not have been surprised, but when, after standing a moment on one leg, like a meditative young stork, he answered, in a tone of calm conviction, In my little belly, the old gentleman could only join in Grandma's laugh, and dismiss the class in metaphysics.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I had been out, one day, loitering somewhere, in the listless, meditative manner that my way of life engendered, when, turning the corner of a lane near our house, I came upon Mr. Murdstone walking with a gentleman.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)