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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Disposed to or characterized by contemplation. See Synonyms at pensive.
  2. n. A person given to contemplation.
  3. n. A member of a religious order that emphasizes meditation.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Given to or characterized by contemplation or continued and absorbed reflection; employed in reflection or study; reflective; meditative; thoughtful: as, a contemplative mind.
  2. Marked by contemplation; manifesting reflection or a studious habit.
  3. Relating or pertaining to contemplation or thought, as distinguished from action: as, contemplative philosophy; the contemplative faculty (that is, the faculty of cognition).
  4. n. One given to contemplation or deep thought, especially on religious subjects; a recluse; a hermit.
  5. n. Eccles., a friar of the order of Mary Magdalene.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Pertaining to one who contemplates or is introspective and thoughtful.
  2. adj. Pertaining especially to a contemplative Roman Catholic religious or one of the contemplative Roman Catholic religious orders.
  3. n. Someone who has dedicated themselves to religious contemplation.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Pertaining to contemplation; addicted to, or employed in, contemplation; meditative.
  2. adj. Having the power of contemplation.
  3. n. (R. C. Ch.) A religious or either sex devoted to prayer and meditation, rather than to active works of charity.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. deeply or seriously thoughtful
  2. n. a person devoted to the contemplative life

Etymologies

  1. From Old French contemplatif, from the participle stem of Latin contemplāre. (Wiktionary)

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Words with the same meaning

  1. meditative
  1. thoughtful

equivalents (1)

Other words for ‘contemplative’

  1. thoughtful

hypernyms (6)

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  1. person
  1. mortal
  1. individual
  1. someone
  1. soul
  1. somebody

same context (18)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. meditative
  2. dreamy
  3. pensive
  1. thoughtful
  2. reflective
  3. studious
  1. reverent
  2. speculative
  3. rapt
  1. tranquil
  2. austere
  3. devotional
  1. devout
  2. introspective
  3. imaginative
  1. observant
  2. receptive
  3. compassionate

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. contemplative
  2. contemplatively
  3. contemplativeness
  4. conversative
  1. wistful
  2. redemptoristine
  3. ascetic
  4. estimative
  1. musing
  2. meditation
  3. broody
  4. Carthusian
  1. Cistercian
  2. retrospectively
  3. Ray
  4. ruminant
  1. speculative
  2. thoughtful
  3. monastic
  4. carthusian order
  1. reflecting
  2. studious
  3. muse
  4. maschil

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  • pqnga Principles to Remember
    Do:
    * First, do the contemplative work to develop a personal answer to the question
    * Understand what the interviewer is trying to gather from your response
    * Shorten the timeframe of the question so you can give a more specific and reasonable reply
    Source: http://blogs.hbr.org/hmu/2011/03/where-will-you-be-in-five-year.html Mar 22, 2011

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