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ruminant

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of ruminant

given to or marked by long, quiet thinking

I wandered around campus all day in a ruminant mood

Synonyms of ruminant

broody, cogitative, contemplative, meditative, melancholy, musing, pensive, reflective, ruminative, thoughtful

Words Related to ruminant

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 of ruminant

featherbrained, flighty, flippant, frivolous, goofy, harebrained, light-headed, scatterbrained

brainless, mindless, silly, thoughtless, unthinking

Antonyms of ruminant

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