contemplative
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- adjective
- /kənˈtɛm.plə.tɪv/
- I live a quiet, contemplative life.
- contemplative practices
- contemplative prayer
- contemplative life
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Watch on YouTubeAnd simran is some kind of contemplative self inquiry.
- And simran is some kind of contemplative self inquiry.
- So this is where the resource, the inner resource of contemplative practice really starts to shine.
- Or should you live a mixed life that combines these two, that in some ways determines when you ought to be active and when you ought to be contemplative?
- So contemplative reading of scripture, just slowing down and really listening to what God is speaking through the scriptures.
- But let me just cut to the chase and say where this where this contemplative journey took me.
- I have it in this kind of contemplative, you know, Hamlet like pose.
- So most of the fears that we actually have are just negative contemplative thoughts that we're rerunning too often.
- Some of them are great, but none had the maturity and the this contemplative nature to it and this kind of tone that really spoke well.
- Well, you, you, you strike me as somebody who is kind of an insular, you know, perhaps somewhat introverted person, contemplative.
- Like I think I read actually that you, am I right about this, that you spend your mornings doing exercise and writing and contemplative things the first part of the day?
Examples
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So the summit embraces and encourages a variety of different contemplative practices.
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The effect of this style in the Ara Pacis is to induce a contemplative mood.
Academic text (1990) -
Perhaps we should discuss Word of Peace in a less busy, more contemplative atmosphere.
Fiction book (1990) -
Every day you go on your two hours contemplative walk under the olive trees.
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You are not satisfied with the contemplative life.
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Religious expressions at this level are personal, deeply contemplative, and usually solitary.
Academic text (1994) -
Essentially a quiet, unobtrusive genre, the still life requires a contemplative attitude of its audience.
Academic text (1993) -
What mattered was faith in the efficacy of contemplative prayer and belief in the power of the spirit.
Fiction book (1993) -
Empathy is an essential part of Williams's contemplative ideal, a crossroads of the sacred and the secular.
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His contemplative nature helped him gain insight into his own feelings.
Synonyms
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Serious and quietly thinking about something
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A person who thinks carefully about ideas or feelings
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To think carefully about your own feelings and thoughts
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Thinking deeply and quietly in a calm way
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Being quiet and deep in thought, often a little sad
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Focusing very seriously on something in your mind
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Thinking deeply about something, often in a quiet way
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Being quiet and thinking deeply about something
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Being quiet and thinking deeply to feel calm
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Thinking carefully to understand or solve something
How Contemplative
Surface Forms
Morphology
contemplative = contemplate (transparent) = contemplate + ive
The adjective is a regular formation from the verb 'contemplate' with '-ive' meaning 'relating to or given to contemplation'.
Etymology
Contemplative comes from the Latin verb contemplari, meaning 'to look' in a templum ('temple'), where people sat quietly to think or pray. That's why when something or someone is described as contemplative it means they involve deep, calm thinking and reflection.