CONTEMPLATE meaning: Consider deeply; think about carefully

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General (26 matching dictionaries)

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contemplate: Collins English Dictionary
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Contemplate, contemplate: Wordnik
contemplate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
contemplate: Wiktionary
contemplate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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Contemplate, contemplate: Dictionary.com
contemplate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Contemplate (The Reason You Exist), Contemplate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Contemplate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
contemplate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
contemplate: Rhymezone
contemplate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
contemplate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
contemplate: Free Dictionary
contemplate: Mnemonic Dictionary
contemplate: Dictionary/thesaurus
contemplate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
Contemplate: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Business (1 matching dictionary)

contemplate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

contemplate: Encyclopedia

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contemplate: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

contemplate: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ verb: To look at on all sides or in all its aspects; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study, ponder, or consider.
▸ verb: To consider as a possibility.

Similar:

think over, mull over, chew over, meditate, ponder, mull, speculate, ruminate, muse, study, more...

Opposite:

meditate

Types:

think, ponder, muse, speculate, more...

Phrases:

contemplate navel, contemplate one's navel, to contemplate, contemplate another, contemplate something without bias, more...

Colors:

indigo, lavender, sage, teal, mauve, more...

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