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ponderverb to give serious and careful thought toI'm pondering whether or not I should join another committee chew over, cogitate, consider, contemplate, debate, deliberate, entertain, eye, kick around, meditate, mull (over), perpend, pore (over), question, revolve, ruminate, study, think (about or over), turn, weigh, wrestle (with) muse (upon), reflect (on or upon), reminisceanalyze, explore, reviewconclude, reasonsecond-guess, speculate (about)brood (about or over), dwell (on or upon), fixate (on or upon), fret (about or over), obsess (about or over)believe, conceive, opineabsorb, assimilate, digest, drink (in) beat one's brains out (about), chew on, cudgel one's brains (about), look at disregard, ignore, overlook, slightdismiss, pooh-pooh(also pooh), reject ponder, meditate, muse, ruminate mean to consider or examine attentively or deliberately.ponder implies a careful weighing of a problem or, often, prolonged inconclusive thinking about a matter.pondered the course of action meditate implies a definite focusing of one's thoughts on something so as to understand it deeply.meditated on the meaning of life muse suggests a more or less focused daydreaming as in remembrance.mused upon childhood joys ruminate implies going over the same matter in one's thoughts again and again but suggests little of either purposive thinking or rapt absorption.ruminated on past disappointments in the 14th century |