ruminatively

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meditatively, while thinking deeply, pensively
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To meditate or reflect

I didn't answer right away because I needed to ruminate first.

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Causing rumination or prone to it; thoughtful
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to chew over again, as food previously swallowed and regurgitated
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{v} to chew the cud, reflect, muse
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chew the cuds; "cows ruminate"
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To chew over again
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To chew cud. (Said of ruminants.) Involves regurgitating partially digested food from the rumen
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To chew the cud; to chew again what has been slightly chewed and swallowed
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When animals ruminate, they bring food back from their stomach into their mouth and chew it again
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To think again and again; to muse; to meditate; to ponder; to reflect
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To meditate or ponder over; to muse on
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chew the cuds; "cows ruminate
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If you ruminate on something, you think about it very carefully. He ruminated on the terrible wastage that typified American life
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{f} chew cud, regurgitate food and re-chew it; think, meditate, ponder
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Having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the North American papaw
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reflect deeply on a subject; "I mulled over the events of the afternoon"; "philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years"; "The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate"
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If you are ruminative, you are thinking very deeply and carefully about something. He was uncharacteristically depressed and ruminative. + ruminatively ru·mi·na·tive·ly He smiles and swirls the ice ruminatively around his almost empty glass. thinking deeply and carefully about something
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{s} reflective, musing on an idea, thoughtful, contemplative; ruminating, chewing the cud
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Inclined to, or engaged in, rumination or meditation
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persistently or morbidly thoughtful
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