Contemplate
['kɒntempleɪt;-təm-] or ['kɑntəmplet]
Definition
(verb.) consider as a possibility; 'I contemplated leaving school and taking a full-time job'.
(verb.) look at thoughtfully; observe deep in thought; 'contemplate one's navel'.
Checker: Witt--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study.
(v. t.) To consider or have in view, as contingent or probable; to look forward to; to purpose; to intend.
(v. i.) To consider or think studiously; to ponder; to reflect; to muse; to meditate.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Study, ponder, meditate on, dwell on, think about, reflect upon, consider or view attentively, revolve in the mind.[2]. Intend, purpose, design, have in view, have in contemplation, look forward to.
Checker: Phelps
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Meditate, behold, observe, ponder, study, purpose, design, intend, project
ANT:Ignore, overlook, waive, abandon
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Definition
v.t. to consider or look at attentively: to meditate on or study: to intend.—v.i. to think seriously: to meditate (with on upon).—adj. Contemp′lable.—ns. Contem′plant Contemp′latist; Contemplā′tion continued study of a particular subject: a meditation written or a subject for such.—adj. and n. Contem′plative given to contemplation.—adv. Contem′platively.—ns. Contem′plativeness; Con′templātor one who contemplates: a student.
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Examples
- Let them look abroad and contemplate the scenes which were enacting around them. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- My dear son, you contemplate an absence of a week, I think? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- We have nothing but one single dye to contemplate, in order to comprehend one of the most curious operations of the understanding. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- It makes a striking and lively picture from whatsoever point you contemplate it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Do you contemplate undeceiving Sir Leicester to-night? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- And I understand he is a naturaliSt. Mr. Farebrother, my dear sir, is a man deeply painful to contemplate. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- In short, the men contemplate mutiny and murder. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The duties of her married life, contemplated as so great beforehand, seemed to be shrinking with the furniture and the white vapor-walled landscape. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I drew up all the instructions for the contemplated move, and kept them in my pocket until I should hear of the junction of our troops at Jackson. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- This proposal of his, this plan of marrying and continuing at Hartfieldthe more she contemplated it, the more pleasing it became. Jane Austen. Emma.
- This was my homely thought, as I contemplated the box-tree. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- In this frame of mind, I not only abandoned my contemplated visit to Mrs. Ablewhite--I even shrank from encountering Gabriel Betteredge himself. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Watt’s patents of 1769 and 1784 contemplated the application of his steam engines to carriages running on land. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Why, if Zat Arras even dreamed that I contemplated such a thing he would have my heart cut out of me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- I hope we are friends, was the unmoved reply; while he still watched the rising of the moon, which he had been contemplating as I approached. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Madame Defarge, with her arms folded, sat in the morning light and heat, contemplating the wine-shop and the street. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Mr. Bucket looks at him as if his face were a vista of some miles in length and he were leisurely contemplating the same. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Contemplating the reproduction, he seemed to see, for the second time, in the appeal and in the confession of weakness, a little fear. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- My guardian stood before me, contemplating the birds, and I had no need to look beyond him. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I lighted on you, Mr. Barsad, coming out of the prison of the Conciergerie while I was contemplating the walls, an hour or more ago. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I had no notion that he liked me so very much, said Harriet, contemplating the letter. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Why should a state want a strategic frontier unless it contemplates war? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- You mean, my man, that the crew contemplates mutiny? Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- As on the other hand, the facility assists the fancy in a small removal, but takes off from its force when it contemplates any considerable distance. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- It is a little document to do so much; and Traddles contemplates it, as it lies upon my desk, half in admiration, half in awe. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
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