cogitative

cog·i·ta·tive

adj \ˈkä-jə-ˌtā-tiv\

Definition of COGITATIVE

1

: of or relating to cogitation

2

: capable of or given to cogitation

Examples of COGITATIVE

1. <a cogitative woman who was given to long silences, even in the company of her own family>

First Known Use of COGITATIVE

15th century

Related to COGITATIVE

Synonyms: broody, contemplative, meditative, melancholy, musing, pensive, reflective, ruminant, ruminative, thoughtful

Antonyms: unreflective

Related Words: introspective, retrospective, self-reflective; earnest, grave, sedate, serious, serious-minded, severe, sober, solemn, somber (or sombre), weighty; philosophical (also philosophic); analytic (or analytical), logical, rational; deliberate, purposeful; absentminded, abstracted, preoccupied

Near Antonyms: featherbrained, flighty, flippant, frivolous, goofy, harebrained, light-headed, scatterbrained; brainless, mindless, silly, thoughtless, unthinking

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Rhymes with COGITATIVE

aggregative, agitative, applicative, carminative, circulative, combinative, commutative, connotative, consecrative, consultative, contemplative, copulative, corporative, denotative, dissipative, duplicative, educative, facultative, federative, generative, germinative, gravitative, imitative, implicative, innovative, instigative, integrative, irritative, iterative, legislative, limitative, meditative, meliorative, motivative, nominative, nuncupative, operative, palliative, penetrative, procreative, propagative, qualitative, quantitative, recreative, regulative, replicative, separative, terminative, vegetative