meditate
Verb
Verb Forms: meditated, meditating, meditates
- To focus one's mind for spiritual or mental clarity; to ponder.
- reflect deeply on a subject
- think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes
- To contemplate; to keep the mind fixed upon something; to study.
- To sit or lie down and come to a deep rest while still remaining conscious.
- To consider; to reflect on.
Adj
- Meditated.
Examples
- He had to MEDITATE on his tiles for a long time to find any playable word.
Origin / Etymology
First attested in 1560; borrowed from Latin meditātus, perfect active participle of meditor (“to think or reflect upon, consider, design, purpose, intend”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), morphologically as if frequentative of medeor (“to heal, to cure, to remedy”); in sense and in form near to Ancient Greek μελετάω (meletáō, “to care for, attend to, study, practise, etc.”). Participial usage up until Early Modern English.
Synonyms
chew over, contemplate, excogitate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate, study, think over
Scrabble Score: 11
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