ponderformal

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to think carefully about something
considerDon't make any decisions before you've considered the matter.
contemplateHe lay in a hospital bed contemplating his future.
ponderShe sat back for a minute to ponder her next move in the game.
mull overI need a few days to mull things over before I decide.
reflectI spent a lot of time reflecting on what he'd said.
agonizeShe agonized for days before agreeing to take the job.
I'm contemplating leaving my job.
Losing a child is just too awful to contemplate.
I couldn't contemplate living on my own.
He was contemplating his future.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Thinking and contemplating
a brown studyidiom
agonize
agonize over/about something
beard-stroking
bethink
grapple
harbour
heart-searching
hit on/upon something
I/we'll (have to) seeidiom
in the cold light of dayidiom
introspect
navel
reckon
revisit
reweigh
rumination
run through someone's mind/headidiom
scratch your headidiom
weigh

Examples of contemplated

contemplated

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

He propelled people along career paths that without his encouragement they would never even have contemplated.
But reform was usually only contemplated with regard to women of the working classes.
Television is not something contemplated at a distance; distance - crucial for aura - is generally lacking.
From studies of crevasse opening and closure, he contemplated both brittle and ductile aspects of ice deformation.
To my mind there are three problem areas that should be dealt with if another edition should ever be contemplated.
Should closure be contemplated using a device introduced via a catheter, the ideal defect for such a maneuver is of the intermediate type.
People can use their mutual knowledge of groupings in a system of precedent to predict a beneficial or unfavorable judicial response to contemplated behavior.
First, the report notes that informed consent is crucial when predictive genetic screening is contemplated.
The idea of adding an act to the alternatives already contemplated may take a more subtle form.
The contemplated integration and its application are best described through the following example.
The list of potentially contrastive features which they document, incidentally, is considerably larger than the feature inventory standardly contemplated by phonologists.
Federalism or regional autonomy, much less partition, can hardly be contemplated because the two main communities are widely scattered and interspersed throughout the country.
However, in publicly funded health care systems at least, the initiation of a national screening program is unlikely to be contemplated without evidence of cost-effectiveness.
This was a question that had been contemplated in earlier times, but in the sixteenth century it took on a different cast.
We remark that expressing the index implies that smooth trade-offs of stocks, giving rise to shadow prices, must be contemplated by the proponents.
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