contemplative

1. 1.

   a person devoted to the contemplative life

   Broaderperson

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymsbroodingbroodymeditativemusingpensiveponderingreflectiveruminative

   Similarthoughtful

Other forms of contemplative

plural

contemplatives·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about contemplative

What does contemplative mean?

contemplative means "a person devoted to the contemplative life". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in contemplative?

contemplative has 4 syllables: con-tem-pla-tive. The stress falls on "tem". In IPA it is /kənˈtɛmplətɪv/.

What is another word for contemplative?

Close synonyms include brooding, broody, meditative, musing, pensive. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is contemplative a common word?

contemplative is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.