Synonyms for ruminate
All synonyms
Verb
1. Ponder — to meditate or ponder over; to muse on
ponder, meditate, speculate, reflect, muse, chew, mull, consider, contemplate, mull over, think over, think, chew over, chew the cud, deliberate, brood, revolve, agitate, excogitate, cogitate, weigh
Definitions
- v. 1
To meditate or ponder over; to muse on.
Related words
- Word family
- ruminative ruminator rumen ruminant rumination
Forms
- Past participle
- ruminated
e.g. ruminated → pondered, meditated, speculated, reflected…
Example sentences
- reflect You reflect a quiet confidence in all that you do.
- speculate As to what happened there, one can only speculate.
- ponder These are very disconcerting questions to ponder.
- meditate Sami wanted to be able to meditate like Layla did.
By length
- 4 letters
- chew1, muse1, mull1
- 5 letters
- think1, weigh1, brood1
- 6 letters
- ponder2
- 7 letters
- reflect2, revolve2, agitate3
- 8 letters
- consider3, meditate3, cogitate3
- 9 letters
- speculate3
- 10 letters
- deliberate4, excogitate
- 11 letters
- contemplate3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (ponder2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- ruminer
- Italiano
- ruminare
- Español
- rumiar
- Deutsch
- wiederkäuen