ruminative in English

adjective

['ru·mi·na·tive || 'ruːmɪnətɪv]

reflective, musing on an idea, thoughtful, contemplative; ruminating, chewing the cud

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "ruminative" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "ruminative", or refer to the context using the word "ruminative" in the English Dictionary.

1. He was uncharacteristically depressed and ruminative.

2. These speeches had to be rich in literary illusion and ruminative aphorism.

3. Powell people referred to the defense secretary's ruminative intellectualism as "The Aspin University."

4. Boisterous A scherzo displays bluff, Boisterous good humour, leavened by a ruminative trio section

5. Brooding definition: deeply or seriously thoughtful; synonyms: pondering, musing, reflective, ruminative, meditative, contemplative, broody, pensive, thoughtful

6. Synonyms for Cogitative include contemplative, meditative, reflective, ruminative, pensive, thoughtful, ruminant, broody, deliberative and exCogitative

7. You're in a ruminative mood at week's start, thinking about the relationships you have in your life.

8. In the psychological theory of depression, ruminative response styles theory was to put the end of the 20th century.

9. Based on ruminative response styles theory, contemplation of response and reaction to the distraction of depression, negative emotion and memory of.

10. There are also several similar words to Cogitative in our dictionary, which are Contemplating, Contemplative, Deliberative, ExCogitative, Meditating, Meditative, Reasoning, Reflective, Ruminative, Thinking and Probing

11. Section 3 insinuates that the ballet can only be comprehended if approached Crabwise, in a ruminative, yet exacting, account sensitive to temporal and spatial contingency

12. Part of this was a reaction to the Bumpiness of the adoption process, part of it just a by-product of who we are: overly ruminative, insecure people

13. Brooding can also mean you're being extremely thoughtful, contemplative, meditative, musing, reflective, or ruminative — those are all good things. You have to look at the context to see if …