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Definition: Musing |
MusingAdjective1. Persistently or morbidly thoughtful. Noun1. A calm lengthy intent consideration. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "musing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: MusingSynonyms: brooding (adj), broody (adj), contemplative (adj), meditative (adj), pensive (adj), pondering (adj), reflective (adj), ruminative (adj), contemplation (n), meditation (n), reflection (n), reflexion (n), rumination (n), thoughtfulness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dejection | Phrase: the countenance falling; the heart failing, the heart sinking within one; "a plague of sighing and grief"; " thick-ey'd musing and curs'd melancholy"; " the sickening pang of hope deferred". |
Inattention | Abstraction; absence of mind, absorption of mind; preoccupation, distraction, reverie, brown study, deep musing, fit of abstraction. |
Absent, abstracted, distrait; absentminded, lost; lost in thought, wrapped in thought; rapt, in the clouds, bemused; dreaming on other things, musing on other things; preoccupied, engrossed; (attentive); daydreaming, in a reverie; Noun: off one's guard; (inexpectant); napping; dreamy; caught napping. | |
Thought | Lost in thought; (inattentive); deep musing; (intent). |
Abstract thought, abstraction contemplation, musing; brown study; (inattention); reverie, Platonism; depth of thought, workings of the mind, thoughts, inmost thoughts; self-counsel self-communing, self-consultation; philosophy of the Absolute, philosophy of the Academy, philosophy of the Garden, philosophy of the lyceum, philosophy of the Porch. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Musing |
| English words defined with "musing": alienated, Angle of total reflection, anomic ♦ disoriented. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "musing": Hair, Hairs ♦ Musits ♦ urbanity. (references) |
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Theater & Movies | |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | "This must be Thursday", said Arthur musing to himself, sinking low over his beer, "I never could get the hang of Thursdays." |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Monsieur Madeleine sat musing, listening to his firm and resolute step as it died away along the corridor. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | URBANITY, n. The kind of civility that urban observers ascribe to dwellers in all cities but New York. Its commonest expression is heard in the words, "I beg your pardon," and it is not consistent with disregard of the rights of others. The owner of a powder mill Was musing on a distant hill -- Something his mind foreboded -- When from the cloudless sky there fell A deviled human kidney! Well, The man's mill had exploded. His hat he lifted from his head; "I beg your pardon, sir," he said; "I didn't know 'twas loaded." Swatkin |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Musing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 86.67% of the time. "Musing" is used about 60 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 86.67% | 52 | 47,145 |
| Noun (singular) | 8.33% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 3.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 60 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "musing": deep musing. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
musing viggo | 37 |
musing | 13 |
musing paris | 8 |
diversity management musing | 4 |
crochet musing | 4 |
mortensen musing viggo | 3 |
in musing starlight | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "musing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | размишление (cogitation, contemplation, meditation, muse, reflection, speculation, think), замисленост (muse, preoccupation, reverie). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | grübelnd (pondering, poring, ruminant, ruminative), Grübelei (brooding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ρεμβασμόσ (muse, reverie), ονειροπόλοσ (daydreamer, dreamer, star gazer, stargazer, visionary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tűnődés (rumination, wondering), mélázó, álmodozó (daydreamer, dreamer, dreamy, fantast, moping, notional, to be in the clouds), álmodozás (daydream, day-dream, reverie, star-gazing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pengelamunan (daydreaming). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | meditazione (devotion, meditation, muse, reflection, reflexion), meditabondo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | smooinaghtyn dowin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | usingmay meditativ (cogitative, meditating, meditative, meditatively, mused, museful, musingly, pensive, pensively, speculative, thoughtful, wistful), meditaţie (brown study, coaching, introversion, meditation, speculation), gânditor (meditative, meditatively, mind, mused, museful, notionalist, pensive, speculative, thinker, thinking, thoughtful, wistful), îngândurat (abstracted, musingly, pensively, uneasy), îngândurare (anxiety). (various references) grubbel (obsession, rumination). (various references) mơ m ng (somnolent), trầm ngâm (contemplative, meditatingly, pensive, ruminant), sự trầm ngâm (brown study, contemplativeness, meditation, rumination), sự mơ m ng (dream, dreamt, reverie), sự đăm chiêu, đăm chiêu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "musing": musingly, musings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "musing": amusing, bemusing, mandamusing, unamusing. (additional references) | |
Words containing "musing": amusingly, amusingness, amusingnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Musing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Maisang, maisug, masin, Masinga, mazing, mesin, meusien, mising, mosing, Moswin, mousing, Moussant, Mpushini, muding, mueing, Munsingen, muring, Muscina, Museen, musig, Musigny, musin, mutskin, muvin, Muvingi, Muyinga, muzungu, uming. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "musing" (pronounced myuw"zing) |
| 6 | m y uw" z i ng | amusing. |
| 5 | -y uw" z i ng | abusing, accusing, confusing, defusing, diffusing, excusing, fusing, infusing, misusing, overusing, recusing, refusing, reusing, using. |
| 4 | -uw" z i ng | boozing, bruising, choosing, cruising, losing, oozing, perusing, schmoozing, snoozing. |
| 3 | -z i ng | advertising, advising, aggrandizing, agonizing, amazing, amortizing, analyzing, antagonizing, apologizing, appeasing, appetizing, appraising, arising, arousing, authorizing, blazing, bowsing, browsing, brutalizing, bulldozing, buzzing, cannibalizing, capitalizing, carousing, categorizing, causing, centralizing, characterizing, chastising, cleansing, closing, colorizing, commercializing, composing, comprising, compromising, computerizing, criminalizing, criticizing, crystallizing, customizing, decentralizing, decomposing, decriminalizing, deemphasizing, dehumanizing, demilitarizing, democratizing, demonizing, demoralizing, denationalizing, desensitizing, destabilizing, devising, digitizing, disclosing, disguising, disposing, downsizing, dozing, dramatizing, easing, economizing, editorializing, emphasizing, enclosing, energizing, enterprising, equalizing, espousing, exercising, exposing, fantasizing, federalizing, fertilizing, finalizing, foreclosing, formalizing, franchising, fraternizing, freezing, galvanizing, gazing, generalizing, glamorizing, glazing, grazing, harmonizing, hazing, hosing, housing, humanizing, hydrolyzing, idolizing, immobilizing, immortalizing, immunizing, imposing, improvising, industrializing, institutionalizing, ionizing, ironizing, itemizing, jeopardizing, legalizing, legitimizing, liberalizing, marginalizing, materializing, maximizing, memorizing, merchandising, mesmerizing, minimizing, mobilizing, modernizing, monopolizing, moralizing, nationalizing, neutralizing, normalizing, nosing, opposing, organizing, overgrazing, oxidizing, paralyzing, paraphrasing, patronizing, pausing, penalizing, personalizing, phasing, phrasing, pleasing, polarizing, politicizing, popularizing, posing, praising, predisposing, prioritizing, privatizing, proposing, proselytizing, publicizing, quizzing, raising, rationalizing, razing, realizing, reauthorizing, recapitalizing, recognizing, reimposing, reorganizing, revising, revitalizing, revolutionizing, rising, romanticizing, Rosing, sanitizing, satirizing, scrutinizing, securitizing, seizing, sensationalizing, sizing, sneezing, socializing, specializing, squeezing, stabilizing, standardizing, sterilizing, stigmatizing, strategizing, subsidizing, summarizing, supervising, supposing, surprising, symbolizing, sympathizing, synthesizing, tantalizing, teasing, televising, temporizing, terrorizing, theorizing, tranquilizing, trivializing, unappetizing, uncompromising, unionizing, unsurprising, uprising, utilizing, vandalizing, verbalizing, victimizing, visualizing, warehousing, wheezing, whizzing, womanizing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-m-n-s-u" | |
-1 letter: minus, munis, suing, using. | |
-2 letters: gins, gnus, gums, guns, migs, mugs, muni, muns, nims, sign, sing, smug, snug, sung. | |
-3 letters: gin, gnu, gum, gun, ins, ism, mig, mis, mug, mun, mus, nim, nus, sim, sin, sum, sun, uns. | |
-4 letters: in, is, mi, mu, nu, si, um, un, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-m-n-s-u" | |
+1 letter: amusing, impugns, mousing, muggins, mushing, musings, mussing, musting, spuming, summing. | |
+2 letters: assuming, bemusing, dumpings, gunsmith, legumins, misbegun, miscuing, misusing, mousings, moussing, muggings, muntings, muscling, musingly, resuming, scumming, slumming, slumping, smudging, smutting, stumming, stumping. | |
+3 letters: ambushing, amusingly, bumblings, campusing, consuming, costuming, dumplings, fumigants, geraniums, glucinums, guildsman, guildsmen, gumminess, gumptions, gunsmiths, gymnasium, ignoramus, impugners, impulsing, magnesium, measuring, meringues, misruling, mistuning, mouldings, mountings, mournings, mugginess, mulligans, mustering, oogoniums, origanums, plumbings, presuming, rumblings, scrumming, scumbling, shlumping, smuggling, smutching, squirming, strumming, stumbling, subliming, subsuming, summating, summering, summiting, summoning, surmising, surnaming, tumblings, umangites, unamusing, unmasking, unmeshing, unmingles, unseaming, unsmiling. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 75 73 69 6E 67 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- ..- ... .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01110101 01110011 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M u s i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0075 0073 0069 006E 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)478785758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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