Contemplate

Definition: Contemplate

Contemplate

Verb

1. Look at thoughtfully; observe deep in thought; "contemplate one's navel".

2. Consider as a possibility; "I contemplated leaving school and taking a full-time job".

3. Think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes; "He is meditating in his study".

4. Reflect deeply on a subject; "I mulled over the events of the afternoon"; "philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years"; "The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate".

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Date "contemplate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Etymology: Contemplate \Con"tem*plate, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Contemplated; Contemplating.]. (Websters 1913)

Literature

Tips from 1870

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Synonyms: Contemplate

Attention

Verb: be attentive; Adjective: attend, advert to, observe, look, see, view, remark, notice, regard, take notice, mark; give attention to, pay attention to, pay heed to, give heed to; incline an ear to, lend an ear to; trouble one's head about; give a thought to, animadvert to; occupy oneself with; contemplate; (think of); look at, look to, look after, look into, look over; see to; turn the mind to, bend the mind to, apply the mind to, direct the mind to, give the mind to, turn the eye to, bend the eye to, apply the eye to, direct the eye to, give the eye to, turn the attention to, bend the attention to, apply the attention to, direct the attention to, give the attention to; have an eye to, have in one's eye; bear in mind; take into account, take into consideration; keep in sight, keep in view; have regard to, heed, mind, take cognizance of entertain, recognize; make note of, take note of; note.

Expectation

Verb: expect; look for, look out for, look forward to; hope for; anticipate; have in prospect, have in contemplation; keep in view; contemplate, promise oneself; not wonder; at, not wonder if.

Intention

Take upon oneself; (undertake); take into one's head; meditate, contemplate of, think of, dream of, talk of; premeditate; compass, calculate; destine, destinate; propose.

Thought

Verb: think, reflect, cogitate, excogitate, consider, deliberate; bestow thought upon, bestow consideration upon; speculate, contemplate, meditate, ponder, muse, dream, ruminate; brood over, con over; animadvert, study; bend -, apply mind; (attend); digest, discuss, hammer at, weigh, perpend; realize, appreciate; fancy; (imagine); trow.

Crosswords: Contemplate

Does an angel contemplate my faith? (Angels; performing artist: Robbie Williams)

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Books

• A Guy's Guide to Dating: Everything You Need to Know About Love, Sex, Relationships, and Other Things Too Terrible to Contemplate (reference)

• An American Nuclear Family In Watted Wise Living; A Book to Color & Contemplate (reference)

• Common Sense to Contemplate (reference)

• Roots of Faith: An Anthology of Early Christian Sprituality to Contemplate and Treasure (reference)

• Truth, Peace, Love: 52 Words To Contemplate (reference)

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Music

• Contemplate (reference)

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Fearful to contemplate. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently, the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void. (reference)

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As a final disposition, I contemplate depositing them with the Essex Historical Society.

Meantime, love and suffer, hope and contemplate.

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Health

If you work, you may be taking a different look at your career, beginning to contemplate retirement, or feeling challenged by younger coworkers. (references)

However, those with known CVD and men over age 40 and women over age 50 with multiple cardiovascular risk factors who contemplate a program of vigorous activity should have a medical evaluation prior to initiating such a program. (references)

Economic History

Norway

Norway has no foreign trade zones and does not contemplate establishing any. (references)

Azerbaijan

The U.S. Export-Import Bank (Exim) should be brought into a deal at an early stage for any public sector transaction or transactions that contemplate an Exim insurance product. (references)

Russia

NATO Allies addressed deeply-held Russian concerns by accepting provisions in CFE which demonstrated that NATO did not contemplate a massive eastward shift in peacetime military potential as a result of enlargement. (references)

Trade

Costa Rica

Costa Rican law does not contemplate exemption of replacement parts from duties or taxes even if the parts are used in warranty repairs. (references)

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Ending with "contemplate": impossible-to-contemplate.

Albanian

sodis, sjell ndër mend (bear in mind, make mention, recall, recollect, remind), parashikoj (adumbrate, anticipate, divine, dope, envision, forecast, foresee, foretaste, look forward to, predict, previse, prognosticate, time, visualize), mendoj (believe, conceive, consider, deem, deliberate, dream up, elaborate, expect, fancy, feel, figure, guess, hold, imagine, judge, mean, opine, ponder, rate, reason, reckon for, reflect, regard, repute, say, study, suppose, take, think, Trow, try, understand, ween), meditoj (meditate, pore, speculate). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فكر مليا (meditate, ponder, reflect, ruminate, think, weigh), ‏فكر (bethink, cerebrate, consider, idea, meditate, reason, reflect, speculate on, think, think out, think over, thought), ‏تفكر (contemplation, meditation, ponder, rumination, speculate, speculation), ‏توقع (anticipate, anticipation, await, expect, expectancy, expectation, foresee, look forward to, presage, wait), ‏تأمل (cogitative, consider, contemplation, meditate, meditation, muse, observation, ponder, pore over, rumble, ruminate, rumination, speculate, study, think, think out, think over, thinking), ‏تبصر (follow smb. with one's eyes, insight, premeditation, prudence, reflect, shrewdness), ‏إعتزم (go, intend, mean, plan, propose, resolve). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съзерцавам (view), размишлявам върху, очаквам (abide, anticipate, apprehend, await, envisage, expect, hope, wait, watch, ween), планирам (arrange, devise, glide, intend, map out, mastermind, plan, plane, project, schedule, scheme, volplane). (various references)

Chinese 

沉思 (contemplation, meditation, ponder), 冥想 (Contemplated, Contemplating, meditative, meditatively). (various references)

Czech

zamýšlet (intend, mean, purpose, think, think of), uvažovat o (consider), rozjímat (speculate), pomýšlet, přemýšlet (meditate, muse, reflect, speculate, study, think, think over). (various references)

Dutch

beschouwen (account, consider, envisage, esteem, look at, regard, take into account, view). (various references)

Esperanto

kontempli (consider, envisage, look at, regard, view). (various references)

Faeroese

eygfara (consider, deem, envisage, look, look at, regard, view, watch). (various references)

Farsi 

تفکرکردن (Chew, Consider, Imagine, Meditate, Muse, Ponder, Speculate), اندیشیدن (Speculate, Think), درنظرداشتن (Envisage, Purpose). (various references)

Finnish

miettiä (consider, meditate, reflect, think, think over, think to oneself). (various references)

French

contempler (consider). (various references)

German

betrachten (account, behold, consider, count, esteem, eye, keep, look at, look on, look upon, lookup, mind, observe, regard, take into account, to contemplate, to eye, to regard, to treat, view, viewed, viewing). (various references)

Greek 

σκέπτομαι (cogitate, consider, deliberate, meditate, speculate, think), σκέφτομαι (brood over, think, think of, think up), σχεδιάζω (cogitate, design, devise, draw, engineer, frame, lay out, map, pencil, plan, plan for, plat, plot, project, propose, schedule, scheme, sketch), μελετώ (con, consider, deliberate, meditate, peruse, ponder, study), προβλέπω (anticipate, envisage, forecast, foresee, foretell, predict, prescribe, prognosticate, provide for), περιμένω (abide, await, bide, expect, hold on, wait, wait on), αναπολώ (conjure up, look back, look back on, recapture, recollect, reminisce, retrace), ατενίζω (face, gaze, gaze at, gloat, stare, stare at), θεωρώ (assume, consider, count, deem, envisage, judge, regard, repute, speculate, view). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"תבו� ן (eye, gaze, look, observe), ל�"שקיף (look on, observe, review, view), ל�"ר�"ר (meditate, muse, ponder, reflect, revolve, ruminate, think). (various references)

Hungarian

szemlél (to contemplate), szándékozik (have the intention, intend, mean, meant, purpose, to contemplate, to intend, to mean), fontolgat (consider, deliberate, to deliberate, to meditate). (various references)

Indonesian

merenung (gaze), mengangan-angankan (fantasize, imagine, ponder, recall), memandang (envisage, gaze, view). (various references)

Italian

contemplare (admire, provide for), prevedere (anticipate, expect, forecast, foreknow, foresee, foretell, look ahead, provide, reckon on), meditare (brood, cogitate, meditate, muse, ponder, reflect, revolve, speculate), macchinare (hatch, machinate, organize, plan, plot, undertake, venture). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

企てる (to attempt, to contemplate, to design, to intend, to plan, to plot, to propose, to undertake). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おもいいる (to contemplate, to ponder), くわ� てる (to attempt, to contemplate, to design, to intend, to plan, to plot, to propose, to undertake), か�"ずる (to contemplate, to feel, to sense, to view). (various references)

Korean 

관조한다. (various references)

Manx

smooinaghtyn er (consider, envisage, think about). (various references)

Pig Latin

ontemplatecay

Portuguese

contemplar (eye, look, look on), tencionar (design, intend, mean, propone, propose, purpose), ponderar (balance, cogitate, consider, deliberate, mature, meditate, mull, ponder, ruminate, view, weigh), meditar (brood, chew, cogitate, meditate, muse, pore, ruminate, speculate, think), agraciar (decorate, grace). (various references)

Romanian

contempla (gaze, view), reflecta (chew the cud, cogitate, consider, deliberate, mirror, reflect, reflex, reverberate, ruminate), proiecta (blueprint out, cast, design, draft, engineer, frame, plan, project, scheme), preconiza (advocate, foresee, recommend, suggest), plãnui (cast about to, conceive, devise, meditate, plan, project, scheme, stage), medita (brood, coach, cogitate, debate, meditate, muse, reflect, ruminate, study for, study on, think, tutor), intenţiona (consider, mean, plan, purpose, will), examina (canvass, comb, consider, debate, examine, explore, go over, inspect, investigate, look at, look over, observe, overhaul, overlook, peer, pry into, quiz, review, scout, scrutinize, search, study, talk over, verify, view, visit, weigh). (various references)

Russian 

обдумывать (chew, cogitate, cogitated, cogitating, consider, debate, deliberate, mull, perpend, ponder, premeditate, think of). (various references)

Scottish

beachd-smaoinich (meditate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

razmišljati (cogitate, debate, deliberate, meditate, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over), posmatrati (behold, observe, watch), meditirati (meditate). (various references)

Spanish

contemplar (account, consider, deem, esteem, gaze at, look, look at, regard, take into account, view, watch). (various references)

Swedish

ha för avsikt (aim, be going to, plan, purpose), begrunda (reflect on, think, think about). (various references)

Turkish

tasarlamak (architect, blue print, calculate, cast about, cast around, contrive, design, devise, draft, draught, fix, forecast, incubate, mean, meditate, plan, premeditate, project, propose, purpose, ruminate, scheme, skeletonize, spin, think out, think up, trace), seyretmek (behold, clear, look at, see, view, watch), süzmek (bolt, clarify, drain, eye, filter, filtrate, infiltrate, Leach, measure, percolate, settle, strain), niyet etmek (aim, have in mind, intend, mean, propose, purpose, will), dalmak (barge, bathe, be absorbed in, be lost in thought, be wraped up in, bounce, break, break into, conk, cut into, dip, dive, drop, drowse off, duck, engross, groove, jut into, lose oneself in, meditate, muse, nip in, pitch into, plummet, plunge, pore, pore over, rush in, rush into, sail in, sink, sink into), düşünmek (allow, balance, be pensive, bethink oneself, cerebrate, cogitate, conceive, consider, consult, deliberate, envision, excogitate, fancy, figure, give a thought, give thought to, imagine, intend, meditate, opine, reason, reflect, remember, ruminate, suppose, think, think of). (various references)

Ukrainian

споглядати (behold), міркувати (brood over, cogitate, deliberate, descant, dwell, excogitate, meditate, peruse, pore, ratiocinate, reason, speculate), мати намір (be at, design, have in mind, intend, mean, meditate). (various references)

aspectu, aspectum, aspectuque, aspectus, aspexerit, aspexi, aspeximus, aspexisset, aspexisti, aspexit, aspice, aspicere, aspicerem, aspicerent, aspiceret, aspiciam, aspiciant, aspicias, aspiciat, aspiciebant, aspiciebantque, aspiciebat, aspiciemus, aspiciens, aspicient, aspicientes, aspicientibus, aspicies, aspiciet, aspicietis, aspicite, aspiciunt, contemplari, intueor, intueri, prospicio. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "contemplate": contemplated, contemplates. (additional references)

Words containing "contemplate": uncontemplated. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Contemplate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: comtemplate, contemplatyf, contenplate, contimplate, nontemplate. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: cattlemen, competent, placement.

-3 letters: antelope, compleat, complete, conepate, conepatl, contempt, copemate, mantelet, matelote, palmette, palmetto, pentacle, placemen, template, tentacle, toeplate.

-4 letters: acetone, calotte, capelet, cementa, clement, compete, empanel, emplace, emplane, lactone, lomenta, mantlet, matelot, metopae, omental, paletot, palette, pectate, peltate, polecat, polenta, potence, potteen, telamon, teleman, templet, tomenta.

-5 letters: camlet, cantle, caplet, capote, cattle.

+1 letter: contemplated, contemplates, outplacement.

+2 letters: contemplative, outplacements.

+3 letters: contemplatives, ultracompetent, uncontemplated.

+4 letters: complementarity, complementation, contemplatively.

+5 letters: compartmentalise, compartmentalize, complementations.