From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Meditative \Med"i*ta*tive\, adjective [L. meditativus: cf. F. m['e]ditatif.] Disposed to meditate, or to meditation; as, a meditative man; a meditative mood. -- {Med"i*ta*tive*ly}, adverb -- {Med"i*ta*tive*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: persistently or morbidly thoughtful [syn: {brooding}, {broody}, {contemplative}, {musing}, {pensive}, {pondering}, {reflective}, {ruminative}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
121 Moby Thesaurus words for "meditative": absent, absentminded, absorbed, absorbed in, abstracted, bemused, brooding, buried in, castle-building, caught up in, cogitative, cognitive, concentrating, concentrative, conceptive, conceptual, conceptualized, contemplating, contemplative, daydreaming, daydreamy, deliberating, deliberative, devoted, devoted to, do-nothing, dormant, dreaming, dreamy, drowsing, ecstatic, elsewhere, engaged, engrossed, engrossed in, excogitating, excogitative, faraway, half-awake, ideative, idle, immersed in, immobile, in a reverie, in the clouds, inactive, inert, intent, intent on, introspective, involved, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, lost, lost in, lost in thought, meditating, mental, monomaniacal, monopolized, mooning, moonraking, motionless, museful, musing, napping, neuter, neutral, nodding, noetic, oblivious, obsessed, occupied, paralytic, paralyzed, passive, pensive, pipe-dreaming, pondering, prehensive, preoccupied, procrastinating, quiescent, quietist, quietistic, rapt, reflecting, reflective, ruminant, ruminating, ruminative, serious, single-minded, sober, somewhere else, speculative, stagnant, stagnating, standpat, stargazing, static, stationary, studious, studying, submerged in, swept up, taken up, taken up with, thinking, thought, thoughtful, totally absorbed, transported, unconscious, vegetable, vegetative, wistful, woolgathering, wrapped in, wrapped in thought, wrapped up in
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