Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Thinking deeply or closely; thoughtful.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Meditative; thoughtfully silent.
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- adjective
Meditative ;thoughtfully silent .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The students sensed his unwillingness to engage in confrontation and they read his museful mild delivery, sometimes far-wandering, as a kind of private escape, not unlike their own, from the assignment of the day.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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The students sensed his unwillingness to engage in confrontation and they read his museful mild delivery, sometimes far-wandering, as a kind of private escape, not unlike their own, from the assignment of the day.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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The students sensed his unwillingness to engage in confrontation and they read his museful mild delivery, sometimes far-wandering, as a kind of private escape, not unlike their own, from the assignment of the day.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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'Forgive me if I say you talk like the bigger child,' Fleetwood said lightly, not ungenially; for the features he looked on were museful, a picture in their one expression.
The Amazing Marriage — Complete George Meredith 1868
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Her delicious chatter, and her museful sparkle in listening, equally quickened every sense of life.
Diana of the Crossways — Complete George Meredith 1868
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Her delicious chatter, and her museful sparkle in listening, equally quickened every sense of life.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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Her delicious chatter, and her museful sparkle in listening, equally quickened every sense of life.
Diana of the Crossways — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868
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'Forgive me if I say you talk like the bigger child,' Fleetwood said lightly, not ungenially; for the features he looked on were museful, a picture in their one expression.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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One evening Commodore Spiva met me as I walked museful in a grove.
Tupelo John Hill 1862
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He was silent, museful, and inattentive to my situation, yet made no motion to depart.
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