'Meditative' definitions:
Definition of 'meditative'
From: WordNet
adjective
Deeply or seriously thoughtful; "Byron lives on not only in his poetry, but also in his creation of the 'Byronic hero' - the persona of a brooding melancholy young man"; [syn: brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative]
Definition of 'Meditative'
From: GCIDE
- Meditative \Med"i*ta*tive\, a. [L. meditativus: cf. F. m['e]ditatif.] Disposed to meditate, or to meditation; as, a meditative man; a meditative mood. -- {Med"i*ta*tive*ly}, adv. -- {Med"i*ta*tive*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'meditative'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absent,
- absentminded,
- absorbed,
- absorbed in,
- abstracted,
- bemused,
- brooding,
- buried in,
- castle-building,
- caught up in,
- cogitative,
- cognitive,
- concentrating,
- concentrative,
- conceptive,
- conceptual,
- conceptualized,
- contemplating,
- contemplative,
- daydreaming,
- daydreamy,
- deliberating,
- deliberative,
- devoted,
- devoted to,
- do-nothing,
- dormant,
- dreaming,
- dreamy,
- drowsing,
- ecstatic,
- elsewhere,
- engaged,
- engrossed,
- engrossed in,
- excogitating,
- excogitative,
- faraway,
- half-awake,
- ideative,
- idle,
- immersed in,
- immobile,
- in a reverie,
- in the clouds,
- inactive,
- inert,
- intent,
- intent on,
- introspective,
- involved,
- laissez-aller,
- laissez-faire,
- lost,
- lost in,
- lost in thought,
- meditating,
- mental,
- monomaniacal,
- monopolized,
- mooning,
- moonraking,
- motionless,
- museful,
- musing,
- napping,
- neuter,
- neutral,
- nodding,
- noetic,
- oblivious,
- obsessed,
- occupied,
- paralytic,
- paralyzed,
- passive,
- pensive,
- pipe-dreaming,
- pondering,
- prehensive,
- preoccupied,
- procrastinating,
- quiescent,
- quietist,
- quietistic,
- rapt,
- reflecting,
- reflective,
- ruminant,
- ruminating,
- ruminative,
- serious,
- single-minded,
- sober,
- somewhere else,
- speculative,
- stagnant,
- stagnating,
- standpat,
- stargazing,
- static,
- stationary,
- studious,
- studying,
- submerged in,
- swept up,
- taken up,
- taken up with,
- thinking,
- thought,
- thoughtful,
- totally absorbed,
- transported,
- unconscious,
- vegetable,
- vegetative,
- wistful,
- woolgathering,
- wrapped in,
- wrapped in thought,
- wrapped up in