Definition of meditative
1 : marked by or conducive to meditation
2 : disposed or given to meditation
meditatively
adverbmeditativeness
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Examples of meditative in a Sentence
I could see that she was in a meditative mood.
I've been in a meditative mood all day.
Recent Examples of meditative from the Web
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If anything, however, the Cleveland exhibition portrays Gund as a contemplative aesthete who relished the meditative mood evoked by the works in the subtly entrancing show whose title bears his name.
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But for me, the prep has become ritualistic and almost meditative.
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On a typical weekday afternoon, 100 or so children aged 5 to 17 play Xbox, watch movies, do homework, eat snacks and dinner, get mentored, practice meditative yoga, go on field trips.
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And Burns, after her day's labor of love, might head out to practice her meditative art: twirling objects that are on fire.
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Rowing has a meditative effect, with its rhythmic motion and surreal quiet, apart from breathing, faint splashes, and the whir of the seat rolling back and forth.
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Her pale, austere, meditative canvases, based on slight variations of the grid, exhibited a faith, very much shared by Taborn, in the radiant effects that can be achieved by the subtle play of repetition and difference.
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I was knocked out by the quartet's 2015 debut, Clockworking (Sono Luminus), which undergirded its meditative ethereality with thick textures and structural rigor.
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Last summer, to capitalize on the chapel's meditative mood, the church invited light artist James Turrell to create one of his installations.
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First Known Use of meditative
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MEDITATIVE Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of meditative for English Language Learners
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: very thoughtful : involving or allowing deep thought or meditation
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