musing

Speech parts

1. musing - Noun

2. musing - Adjective

3. musing - Verb

5. musing - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Muse

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

reflective broody pensive reflexion reflection contemplation contemplative brooding rumination pondering ruminative meditative thoughtfulness study concentration
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Antonyms

breaking condemning comical attentive thoughtless despising
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Hypernyms

consideration

Hyponyms

study speculation retrospect introspection self-examination meditation

Anagrams

Mingus signum

Examples

When, musing on companions gone, We doubly feel ourselves alone. Walter Scott

It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefoot friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind. Edward Gibbon

I do not need the musing of the philosophers to tell me what I am doing. It would be more interesting to let me know why I am doing it. Louise Bourgeois

Musing on the phrase ‘waste of time.' So much more complex than it appears. Many ‘wastes of time'-small talk, daydreaming-are imperatives. Tom Peters

Let the sky rain potatoes," said a musing voice. "Let it thunder to the tune of Greensleeves. Cassandra Clare

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation. Walter Bagehot

Close letter words and terms

Musilesque musimon Musina musingly musion musique