Dictionary Definition
musing adj : persistently or morbidly thoughtful
[syn: brooding,
broody, contemplative, meditative, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative] n : a calm
lengthy intent consideration [syn: contemplation, reflection, reflexion, rumination, thoughtfulness]
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English
Pronunciation
Verb form
musing- Present participle and gerund of "to muse".
Adjective
musing- Absorbed in thought; contemplative
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Noun
- thought, meditation, contemplation
- daydreaming or imaginative musings.
Translations
thought
- Portuguese: pensamento, meditação, contemplação
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Walter Mitty, absence of mind, absent, absentminded, absentmindedness,
absorbed, absorption, abstracted, abstractedness, abstraction, advisement, bemused, bemusement, brooding, brown study,
castle-building, close study, cogitative, cognitive, concentrating, concentration, concentrative, conceptive, conceptual, conceptualized, consideration, contemplating, contemplation, contemplative, contemplativeness,
counsel, daydream, daydreamer, daydreaming, daydreamy, deep thought,
deliberating,
deliberation,
deliberative, depth
of thought, dream,
dreamery, dreamfulness, dreaminess, dreaming, dreamlikeness, dreamy, drowsing, ecstatic, elsewhere, engrossed, engrossment, excogitating, fantasy, fantasying, faraway, fit of abstraction,
half-awake, ideative,
in a reverie, in the clouds, introspective, lost, lost in thought, lucubration, meditating, meditation, meditative, melancholy, mental, mooning, moonraking, muse, museful, musefulness, muted ecstasy,
napping, nodding, noetic, oblivious, pensive, pensiveness, pipe dream,
pipe-dreaming, pondering, prehensive, preoccupation, preoccupied, profound
thought, rapt, reflecting, reflection, reflective, reflectiveness, reverie, revolving, ruminant, ruminating, rumination, ruminative, serious, sober, somewhere else, speculation, speculative, speculativeness,
stargazing, study, taken up, thinking, thought, thoughtful, thoughtfulness, trance, transported, unconscious, weighing, wistful, wistfulness, woolgathering, wrapped in
thought