Contemplating Synonyms and Antonyms

To have in mind as a goal or purpose
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. aiming
  2. designing
  3. intending
  4. meaning
  5. planning
  6. projecting
  7. proposing
  8. targeting
  9. minding
Think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. studying
  2. mulling
  3. viewing
  4. musing
  5. pondering
  6. surveying
  7. reflecting
  8. scrutinizing
  9. meditating
  10. regarding
  11. ruminating
  12. probing
  13. thinking
  14. weighing
  15. inspecting
  16. understanding
  17. piercing
  18. theorizing
  19. penetrating
  20. examining
  21. speculating
  22. auditing
  23. deliberating
  24. revolving
  25. resolving
  26. observing
  27. recalling
  28. proposing
  29. considering
  30. postulating
  31. planning
  32. beholding
  33. cogitating
  34. prying
  35. mediating
  36. peering
  37. hypothesizing
  38. entertaining
  39. noticing
  40. envisaging
  41. determining
  42. scanning
  43. comprehending
  44. anticipating
Antonyms:
  1. slighting
  2. disregarding
  3. scorning
  4. discarding
  5. neglecting
  6. forgetting

Words Related to Contemplating

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Contemplating Sentence Examples

  • She'd been contemplating how to break the news to Kiera.

  • He drummed his fingers, obviously contemplating his next words.

  • Felipa slowly shook her head, obviously contemplating whether it was wise to confide in them.

  • It is in contemplating the abstract reality which concrete things obscurely exhibit, the type or ideal which they imperfectly imitate, that the true life of the mind in man must consist; and as man is most truly man in proportion as he is mind, the desire of one's own good, which Plato, following Socrates, held to be permanent and essential in every living thing, becomes in its highest form the philosophic yearning for knowledge.

  • Carmen tipped her head to the side, contemplating the name.

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