Meditate

Definitions: Meditate

Meditate

Verb

1. 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".

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "meditate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Synonyms: Meditate

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: Meditate

I meditate diligently every morning. (Toraigan; writing credit: Y�suke Kuroda)

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Books

• How I learned to meditate (reference)

• Teach Yourself to Meditate in Ten Simple Lessons: Discover Relaxation and Clarity of Mind in Just Minutes a Day (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Chicken Soup for the Soul: Meditate (reference)

• How to Meditate Using Chakras, Mantras, and Breath (reference)

• Time of Meditate (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Whenever immense strength is put forth only to end in immense weakness, it makes men meditate.

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Expression using "meditate": meditate out. Additional references.

Albanian

meditoj (contemplate, pore, speculate), përsiat, përsias, bie në mendime (muse upon). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فكر مليا (contemplate, ponder, reflect, ruminate, think, weigh), ‏فكر (bethink, cerebrate, consider, contemplate, idea, reason, reflect, speculate on, think, think out, think over, thought), ‏تأمل (cogitative, consider, contemplate, contemplation, meditation, muse, observation, ponder, pore over, rumble, ruminate, rumination, speculate, study, think, think out, think over, thinking), ‏إستغرق في التأمل, ‏إعتزم أمرا. (various references)

Bulgarian 

размислям, размишлявам (cogitate, muse, ponder, ruminate, speculate, study, think away), кроя (cut, cut out, shape), отдавам се на съзерцание, обмислям (agitate, bethink, cogitate, consider, debate, deliberate, digest, mull, ponder, pore, reason, revolve, speculate, study, think about, think out, think over, turn over in one's mind), медитирам, замислям се (be lost in thought, become thoughtful, think), замислям (compass, contrive, design, hatch, plan). (various references)

Czech

přemýšlet (contemplate, muse, reflect, speculate, study, think, think over). (various references)

Danish

synes (account, deem, opine, reflect on, think, think about, think to oneself). (various references)

Dutch

peinzen (think to oneself), nadenken (reflect on, think, think about, think to oneself), mediteren (think to oneself). (various references)

Esperanto

mediti (think to oneself). (various references)

Faeroese

hugsa djúpt (puzzle over, rack one's brains, think to oneself), hugleiða (think to oneself), grunda (puzzle over, rack one's brains, think to oneself). (various references)

Farsi 

قصدکردن (Attempt, Design), تفکرکردن (Chew, Consider, Contemplate, Imagine, Muse, Ponder, Speculate), تدبیرکردن (Compass, Contrive, Devise, Engine, Workout), سربجیب تفکرفروبردن , عبادت کردن , اندیشه کردن (Cogitate, Deliberate, Muse, Ponder, Ruminate). (various references)

Finnish

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

French

méditer. (various references)

German

nachdenken (cogitate, consider, contemplate, contemplation, deliberate, meditation, ponder, reflect, reflection, speculate, think, think about, think on, think over, think to oneself, thought, to cogitate), meditieren, nachsinnen (muse, ponder, think to oneself). (various references)

Greek 

σκέπτομαι (cogitate, consider, contemplate, deliberate, speculate, think), συλλογίζομαι (bethink, brood over, chew, cogitate, ponder, reflect, ruminate, think), μελετώ (con, consider, contemplate, deliberate, peruse, ponder, study). (various references)

Hebrew 

לעין (consider, look up, peruse, ponder, study, think over), לחשוב (consider, figure, intend, mean, reckon, think, think over), להתישב בדבר (ponder, reflect), להגות (articulate, growl, murmur, pronounce, speak, utter, vocalize), להרהר (contemplate, muse, ponder, reflect, revolve, ruminate, think). (various references)

Hungarian

tervez (design, engineer, intend, plan, project, scheme, to calculate, to design, to draft, to engineer, to frame, to intend, to meditate, to project, to purpose, to scheme), szándékol (to design, to meditate, to purpose), elmélkedik (moral, philosophize, to contemplate, to meditate, to muse, to reflect, to reflect on, to speculate). (various references)

Indonesian

merencanakan (blueprint, design, devise), semedi (meditation), bersemedi. (various references)

Italian

meditare (brood, cogitate, contemplate, muse, ponder, reflect, revolve, speculate). (various references)

Papiamen

meditá (think to oneself). (various references)

Pig Latin

editatemay

Portuguese

meditar (brood, chew, cogitate, contemplate, muse, pore, ruminate, speculate, think), mediocridade (meanness), refletirmuito (think to oneself), refletir (bethink, consider, esteem, glass, glisten, image, mirrors, reflect, reflect on, regard, return, reverberate, ruminate, see, speculate, take into account, think, think about, think over), ponderar (balance, cogitate, consider, contemplate, deliberate, mature, mullein, ponderability, ruminate, view, weigh), planejar (arrange, brood, cogitate, compass, concert, concoct, conspire, contrive, count, design, frame, intend, lay, map of the area, plan, program, programme, project, proponent, propose, purpose, schedule, scheme, straighten out, trace, work out), pensarmaduramente (think to oneself). (various references)

Romanian

medita (brood, coach, cogitate, contemplate, debate, muse, reflect, ruminate, study for, study on, think, tutor), pune la cale (brew, cogitate, compass, contrive, cook, engineer, excogiate, hatch, scheme, stage), plãnui (cast about to, conceive, contemplate, devise, plan, project, scheme, stage), cugeta (cogitate, consider, muse, think). (various references)

Russian 

размышлять (cogitate, contemplate, meditated, meditating, mull over, muse about, perpend, ratiocinate, reason, reflect, speculate, speculated, speculates). (various references)

Scottish

meòraich, beachd-smaoinich (contemplate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

meditirati (contemplate), razmišljati (cogitate, contemplate, debate, deliberate, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over). (various references)

Spanish

meditar (cogitate, contemplate, deliberate, digest, dwell on, muse, perpend, ponder, reflect, think, think over, turn over). (various references)

Swedish

planera (arrange, contemplate, design, fix, intend, lay out, level, phase, plan, plat, schedule, scheme, set up), meditera. (various references)

Turkish

tasarlamak (architect, blue print, calculate, cast about, cast around, contemplate, contrive, design, devise, draft, draught, fix, forecast, incubate, mean, plan, premeditate, project, propose, purpose, ruminate, scheme, skeletonize, spin, think out, think up, trace), dalmak (barge, bathe, be absorbed in, be lost in thought, be wraped up in, bounce, break, break into, conk, contemplate, cut into, dip, dive, drop, drowse off, duck, engross, groove, jut into, lose oneself in, 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, contemplate, deliberate, envision, excogitate, fancy, figure, give a thought, give thought to, imagine, intend, opine, reason, reflect, remember, ruminate, suppose, think, think of). (various references)

Turkmen 

diсir genmek (meditate on, ponder). (various references)

Ukranian 

міркувати (brood over, cogitate, contemplate, deliberate, descant, dwell, excogitate, peruse, pore, ratiocinate, reason, speculate), мати намір (be at, contemplate, design, have in mind, intend, mean), замишляти (agitate, chew, cogitate, compass, design, premeditate, purpose, scheme). (various references)

Welsh

myfyrio (study). (various references)

cogitare, commentari, meditabar, meditabatur, meditaberis, meditabitur, meditabor, meditabuntur, meditandum, meditare, meditarer, meditari, meditata, meditati, meditatur, meditatus, meditentur. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "meditate": meditated, meditates. (additional references)

Words ending with "meditate": premeditate. (additional references)

Words containing "meditate": premeditated, premeditatedly, premeditates, unpremeditated. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Meditate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Medata, mediatre, medigate, meditiate, meditive, medtiate, megditure, megiture, Mehitabel, midigate, Muidzade. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: emitted, mediate, teatime.

-2 letters: ideate, itemed, matted, meated, mediae, metate, teamed, teated.

-3 letters: adeem, admit, aimed, amide, demit, edema, mated, matte, media, meted, tamed, timed.

-4 letters: adit, aide, amid, amie, dame, date, deem, deet, deme, diet, dime, dita, dite, edit, eide, emit, idea, idem, item, made, maid, mate, matt, mead, meat, meed, meet, meta.

+1 letter: estimated, meditated, meditates.

+2 letters: detainment, dimethoate, impetrated, meditative, mistreated, readmitted, terminated.

+3 letters: detainments, determinant, determinate, detrainment, detrimental, dilatometer, dimethoates, domesticate, edutainment, legitimated, preadmitted, premeditate, reestimated, remotivated.

+4 letters: dermatitides, dermatitises, determinants, determinator, detrainments, detrimentals, dilatometers, distemperate, domesticated, domesticates, edutainments, exterminated, guesstimated, hereditament, intermediate, mathematized, meditatively, metastasized, misestimated, multifaceted, premeditated, premeditates, premeditator, restimulated, systematised, systematized.

+5 letters: advertisement, advertizement, ambidexterity, anathematized, decontaminate, demonstrative, determinantal, determinately, determination, determinative, determinators, detrimentally, dilatometries, dismantlement, hereditaments, indeterminate, intermediated, intermediates, legitimatized, multitalented, overestimated, premeditating, premeditation, premeditative, premeditators, retransmitted, sedimentation, underestimate.

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