Ruminate

Definition: Ruminate

Ruminate

Verb

1. Chew the cuds; of ruminants.

2. 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".

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

Date "ruminate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Literature

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

Synonyms: Ruminate

Intellect

Verb: note, notice, mark; take notice of, take cognizance of be aware of, be conscious of; realize; appreciate; ruminate; (think); fancy; (imagine).

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: Ruminate

Arabic 

‏فكر في (turn over), ‏فكر مليا (contemplate, meditate, ponder, reflect, think, weigh), ‏تأمل (cogitative, consider, contemplate, contemplation, meditate, meditation, muse, observation, ponder, pore over, rumble, rumination, speculate, study, think, think out, think over, thinking), ‏إجتر (regurgitate, ruminant). (various references)

Bulgarian 

размишлявам (cogitate, meditate, muse, ponder, speculate, study, think away), преживям. (various references)

Chinese 

反刍 (Ruminated, Ruminating, rumination). (various references)

Czech

uvažovat (cogitate, ponder, ratiocinate, reflect, revolve, think, think of), přemítat (deliberate, ponder, revolve), přežvykovat (Cud). (various references)

Danish

tygge drøv (to ruminate), drøvtygge (to ruminate). (various references)

Dutch

herkauwen (chew the cud). (various references)

Farsi 

نشخوارکردن (Champ, Quid), اندیشه کردن (Cogitate, Deliberate, Meditate, Muse, Ponder), دوباره جویدن . (various references)

Finnish

märehtiä (chew the cud). (various references)

French

ruminer (to ruminate), remâcher (rumination), réfléchir, penser, méditer. (various references)

German

wiederkäuen (chew again, chew the cud, regurgitate, rumination). (various references)

Greek 

συλλογίζομαι (bethink, brood over, chew, cogitate, meditate, ponder, reflect, think), μηρυκώμαι, μηρυκάζω (chew the cud), αναμασώ (chew over, regurgitate, rehash), αναχαράζω. (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"עלות �'ר�" (munch, regurgitate, ruminant), ל�"ר�"ר (contemplate, meditate, muse, ponder, reflect, revolve, think). (various references)

Hungarian

töpreng (mull over, ponder, speculate, thought, to brood on sg, to brood over sg, to mull, to mull over sg, to reflect, to reflect on, to speculate, to think), kérõdzik (regurgitate). (various references)

Italian

ruminare (to ruminate). (various references)

Korean 

되새기십시�". (various references)

Manx

caigney keerey (chew the cud). (various references)

Pig Latin

uminateray.(various references)

Portuguese

ruminar (to ruminate), refletir (bethink, consider, esteem, glass, glisten, image, meditate, mirror, reflect, reflect on, regard, return, reverberate, see, speculate, take into account, think, think about, think over), ponderar (balance, cogitate, consider, contemplate, deliberate, mature, meditate, mull, ponder, view, weigh), meditar (brood, chew, cogitate, contemplate, meditate, muse, pore, speculate, think), magicar. (various references)

Romanian

rumega (champ, chew, chew the cud, eat), reflecta (chew the cud, cogitate, consider, contemplate, deliberate, mirror, reflect, reflex, reverberate), mesteca (champ, chew, eat, manducate, masticate, mouth, stir), medita (brood, coach, cogitate, contemplate, debate, meditate, muse, reflect, study for, study on, think, tutor), gândi (believe, deem, hesitate, hope, imagine, reason, reflect, suppose, think), chibzui (arrange, calculate, consider, ponderate, reflect, think, weigh). (various references)

Russian 

жевать (chew, masticate, munch). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

razmišljati (cogitate, contemplate, debate, deliberate, meditate, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, speculate, think over), preživati (chew the cud). (various references)

Spanish

rumiar (chew on, chew the cud). (various references)

Swedish

idissla (chew the cud), grubbla (brood, cogitate, eat one's heart out, mull, muse, ponder, puzzle, puzzle over, rack one's brains, worry). (various references)

Thai

เคี้ยวเอื้อง, ครุ่นคิ�" (mull, ruminant). (various references)

Turkish

uzun uzun düşünmek, tasarlamak (architect, blue print, calculate, cast about, cast around, contemplate, contrive, design, devise, draft, draught, fix, forecast, incubate, mean, meditate, plan, premeditate, project, propose, purpose, scheme, skeletonize, spin, think out, think up, trace), kurmak (activate, base, build, build up, cog, conspire, constitute, construct, erect, establish, fix up, float, form, found, frame, ground, install, institute, lay, line up, organize, pitch, plant, promote, put, put together, set, set up, start, strike up, time, weave, wind up), geviş getirmek (chew the cud), dalıp gitmek (engulf, fantasize, wander), 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, meditate, opine, reason, reflect, remember, suppose, think, think of), düşünüp taşınmak (calculate, chew, cogitate, cogitate over, debate, debate with oneself, look round, mull over, ponder, ponder over, pore, reason, reason out, reflect, revolve, think over, turn over, turn over in one's mind, weigh, worry out). (various references)

Ukrainian

роздумувати (muse, ponder), жувати (champ, chaw, chew, masticate, munch). (various references)

Welsh

cil-gnoi (chew cud). (various references)

cogito, rumino. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "ruminate": ruminated, ruminates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Ruminate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Brumante, raminate, reminate, robinae, robineae, rumiant, rumitate, Rumyantsev, runimate. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: minaret, minuter, muriate, natrium, raiment, ruinate, taurine, unmiter, unmitre, uranite, urinate.

-2 letters: airmen, antrum, atrium, auntie, etamin, imaret, inmate, iterum, manitu, manure, marine, marten, martin, mature, minter, minuet, minute, murein, murine, mutine, nature, nutria, ratine, remain, remint, retain, retina, rumina, tamein, triune, uniter, untame, untrim, uremia.

-3 letters: aimer, ament, amine, anime, antre, armet.

+1 letter: antiserum, miniature, ruminated, ruminates.

+2 letters: antiserums, innumerate, intermural, miniatures, multirange, neutralism, numerating, numeration, rudimental, ruminative, tambourine, tourmaline.

+3 letters: acquirement, adventurism, antheridium, argumentive, curtailment, drumbeating, enumerating, enumeration, enumerative, euchromatin, importunate, innumerates, intercampus, mensuration, mercurating, mercuration, miniaturize, mountaineer, neutralisms, numerations, outdreaming, permutation, planetarium, retinaculum, rudimentary, seminatural, subterminal, tambourines, tourmalines, ultramarine, unamortized.

+4 letters: acquirements, adventurisms, amentiferous, anticonsumer, circumjacent, circumstance, counterclaim, counterimage, curtailments, drumbeatings, enumerations, euchromatins, instrumental, menstruating, menstruation, mensurations, mercurations, miniaturized, miniaturizes, misadventure, mountaineers, multinuclear, permutations, planetariums, reassumption, remunerating, remuneration, remunerative, ruminatively, subminiature, ultramarines, undemocratic, undramatized, ungerminated, unimportance, unmoralities.