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Definition: Meditative |
MeditativeAdjective1. Persistently or morbidly thoughtful. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "meditative" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1415. (references) |
Synonyms: MeditativeSynonyms: brooding (adj), broody (adj), contemplative (adj), musing (adj), pensive (adj), pondering (adj), reflective (adj), ruminative (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Thought | Adjective: thinking; Verb: thoughtful, pensive, meditative, reflective, museful, wistful, contemplative, speculative, deliberative, studious, sedate, introspective, Platonic, philosophical. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Meditative |
| English words defined with "meditative": Contemplant ♦ meditatively, Muscular Christianity, Museful ♦ Revolutive. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "meditative": GNU. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "meditative": Revolutive. (references) |
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 | Close view of dhyani Buddha figure seated in meditative attitude, Taxila, Rawalpindi district, Punjab, Pakistan.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | An old subscriber of the New Republic am I, prudent, meditative, rigidly impartial.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a horse, a buffalo and a stag. In its wild condition it is something like a thunderbolt, an earthquake and a cyclone. A hunter from Kew caught a distant view Of a peacefully meditative gnu, And he said: "I'll pursue, and my hands imbrue In its blood at a closer interview." But that beast did ensue and the hunter it threw O'er the top of a palm that adjacent grew; And he said as he flew: "It is well I withdrew Ere, losing my temper, I wickedly slew That really meritorious gnu." Jarn Leffer |
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| "Meditative" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 96.10% of the time. "Meditative" is used about 77 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 96.1% | 74 | 38,813 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.9% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 77 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
meditative music | 5 |
rose meditative | 4 |
colorful meditative piece | 3 |
meditative prayer | 2 |
meditative | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "meditative"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | meditues (contemplative, speculative), përsiatës. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مولع بالتأمل (reflective), تأملي (contemplative, reflective, speculative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | съзерцателен (contemplative), мечтателен (dreamy, visionary), замислен (abstracted, broody, contemplative, grave, immersed in thought, intended, pensive, preoccupied, reflective, ruminant, thoughtful, wistful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 冥想 (Contemplate, Contemplated, Contemplating, meditatively). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | rozjímavý (contemplative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | nadenkend (pensive, thinking, thoughtful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | meditema (pensive, thinking, thoughtful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | mietiskelevä (centemplative meditative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | méditatif. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | nachdenklich (contemplative, contemplatively, meditatively, pensive, ruminative, thoughtful, thoughtfully, thought-provoking), versponnen (airy fairy, madcap, notional). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συλλογισμένοσ (pensive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מהורהר (pensive, thoughtful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | elmélkedő (contemplating, contemplative, pondering, reflective, ruminative, speculative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | meditativo (contemplative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 思索的 (contemplative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しさくてき (contemplative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | editativemay meditativo (cogitative), meditabundo (contemplative, grave, pensive), cogitação (cogitation, thought). (various references) meditativ (cogitative, meditating, meditatively, mused, museful, musing, musingly, pensive, pensively, speculative, thoughtful, wistful), gânditor (meditatively, mind, mused, museful, musing, notionalist, pensive, speculative, thinker, thinking, thoughtful, wistful), contemplativ (contemplative, contemplatively, meditatively, speculative). (various references) созерцательный (contemplative), задумчивый (broody, contemplative, pensive, reflective, ruminative, thoughtful, wistful). (various references) meditativan, sklon razmišljanju (broody, cogitative), kontemplativan (contemplative). (various references) meditativo. (various references) meditativ, fundersam (contemplative, hesitative, pensive, thoughtful). (various references) dalgın (absent, absent minded, abstracted, deep, distrait, dreamy, engrossed, far away, far off, faraway, glassy, lost, moony, pensive, plunged in thought, preoccupied, reflective, ruminant, ruminative, self-absorbed, stargazer, thoughtful, unheedful, vacant, vacuous, vague, wandering, wistful, woolgathering), düşünceli (abstracted, advised, circumspect, considerate, delicate, forethoughtful, minded, mindful, pensive, philosophic, philosophical, reflective, regardful, ruminant, ruminative, sophisticated, tactful, thoughtful, wistful, worried). (various references) споглядальний (contemplative, theoretic), замислений (preoccupied, thoughtful). (various references) trầm tư (meditatingly, thoughtful), hay ngẫm nghĩ (ruminative). (various references) myfyriol, ystyrgar (thoughtful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | in cognitatione defixus, theoricus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "meditative": meditatively, meditativeness, meditativenesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "meditative": premeditative. (additional references) | |
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"Meditative" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: mediative, mediatized. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "meditative" (pronounced me"dutā'tiv) |
| 6 | -u t ā' t i v | authoritative, imitative, qualitative, quantitative, rehabilitative. |
| 5 | -t ā' t i v | facultative. |
| 4 | -ā' t i v | accommodative, accumulative, administrative, appreciative, collaborative, cooperative, deliberative, dissipative, elucidative, innovative, investigative, iterative, legislative, manipulative, prognosticative, regulative, stimulative. |
| 3 | -t i v | abortive, accusative, acquisitive, active, adaptive, addictive, additive, adjective, adoptive, affective, affirmative, alliterative, alternative, anticompetitive, appointive, argumentative, assaultive, assertive, attentive, attractive, automotive, captive, causative, cognitive, collective, combative, commemorative, communicative, comparative, competitive, conductive, congestive, connective, consecutive, conservative, constructive, consultative, contemplative, contraceptive, corrective, corruptive, counterproductive, creative, cumulative, curative, deceptive, decorative, defective, definitive, degenerative, demonstrative, derivative, descriptive, destructive, detective, digestive, dilutive, diminutive, directive, disincentive, disparages, dispositive, disruptive, distinctive, distributive, duplicative, effective, elective, eruptive, evocative, executive, exhaustive, expletive, exploitative, exploitive, Federative, festive, figurative, fixative, formative, fugitive, furtive, generative, hyperactive, hypersensitive, illustrative, imaginative, imperative, inactive, inattentive, incentive, indicative, ineffective, infective, infinitive, informative, initiative, injunctive, inoperative, inquisitive, insensitive, instinctive, instructive, interactive, interpretive, introspective, intuitive, invective, inventive, irrespective, laxative, locomotive, lucrative, motive, narrative, native, negative, neoconservative, nonautomotive, noncompetitive, noncumulative, nonexecutive, nonnative, nonproductive, normative, nutritive, objective, obstructive, octave, operative, overactive, palliative, participative, pejorative, perceptive, perspective, photoconductive, plaintive, positive, predictive, preemptive, prerogative, preservative, presumptive, preventative, preventive, primitive, proactive, probative, productive, prohibitive, projective, prospective, protective, provocative, punitive, putative, radioactive, reactive, receptive, reconstructive, recuperative, redemptive, redistributive, reflective, refractive, relative, remunerative, rep, repetitive, representative, reproductive, respective, restive, restorative, restrictive, retroactive, retrospective, secretive, sedative, seductive, selective, sensitive, speculative, subjective, substantive, suggestive, superconductive, superlative, supportive, talkative, tentative, ultraconservative, unattractive, uncompetitive, uncooperative, unimaginative, uninformative, unproductive, unreceptive, unrepresentative, vegetative, vindictive, vituperative. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-i-i-m-t-t-v" | |
-1 letter: mediative. | |
-2 letters: ideative, imitated, meditate, vitiated. | |
-3 letters: deviate, emitted, imitate, mediate, teatime, vidette, vitiate. | |
-4 letters: dative, evited, ideate, itemed, matted, meated, mediae, metate, teamed, teated, vatted, vetted, vittae. | |
-5 letters: adeem, admit, aimed, amide, davit, deave, demit, eaved, edema, evade, evite, imide, ivied, mated, matte, mavie, media, medii, meted, tamed, teiid, timed, timid, vitae, vitta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-i-i-m-t-t-v" | |
+2 letters: meditatively. | |
+3 letters: determinative, premeditative. | |
+4 letters: determinatives, meditativeness. | |
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