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/ɹˈuːmɪnətˌɪv/
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ADJECTIVE
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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
How To Use ruminative In A Sentence
- He was uncharacteristically depressed and ruminative.
- These speeches had to be rich in literary illusion and ruminative aphorism.
- He plucked a stalk of dried finocchio and chewed it ruminatively, Huck Finn style. SIGNIFICANT OTHERS
- These speeches had to be rich in literary illusion and ruminative aphorism.
- Part of this was a reaction to the bumpiness of the adoption process, part of it just a by-product of who we are: overly ruminative, insecure people. Freud’s Blind Spot
- I find the fourth the most ruminative of Chopin's ballades.
- With the arena thus sanctified, we embarked on a roller-coaster ride through a Gaga theme park, with her ubiquitous hits "Telephone" and "Poker Face" along with songs from her upcoming "Born This Way" album, including the title tune and a ruminative piano interlude, "Speechless. A pyrotechnic bikini? Lady Gaga gives D.C.'s 'little monsters' what they want.
- In particular, the ruminative musings on anthropocentricity are virtually absent.
- His fields of dots grew through a ruminative, additive process that is integral to their emotional tenor.
- Much human depression is cognitively generated by dejecting ruminative thought. Self-Efficacy - Albert Bandura