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PONDERING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Deeply or seriously thoughtful
Example:
Byron lives on not only in his poetry, but also in his creation of the 'Byronic hero' - the persona of a brooding melancholy young man
Synonyms:
brooding; broody; contemplative; meditative; musing; pensive; pondering; reflective; ruminative
Classified under:
Similar:
thoughtful (exhibiting or characterized by careful thought)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb ponder
Context examples:
Bless my heart alive! said Mr. Omer, pondering, how she loves that child!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I still slept in the boat, and I lay awake long that night, gazing up at the first stars I had seen in many nights and pondering the situation.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
He lay in dull despair, while she watched him searchingly, pondering again upon unsummoned and wayward thoughts of marriage.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
While pondering this new idea, I heard the front door open; Mr. Bates came out, and with him was a nurse.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
She was pondering, in the meanwhile, upon the possibility, without seeming very rude, of making her escape from Jane Fairfax's letter, and had almost resolved on hurrying away directly under some slight excuse, when Miss Bates turned to her again and seized her attention.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
“For the Church?” said I, still pondering, between whiles, on Uriah Heep.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I have seen him a score of times, at table, insulting this hunter or that, with cool and level eyes and, withal, a certain air of interest, pondering their actions or replies or petty rages with a curiosity almost laughable to me who stood onlooker and who understood.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Martin looking at her averted face, knowing that all he had to do was to reach out his hand and pluck her, fell to pondering whether, after all, there was any real worth in refined, grammatical English, and, so, forgot to reply to her.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I was pondering these things, when an incident, and a somewhat unexpected one, broke the thread of my musings.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Mr. Murdstone took no heed of me when I went into the parlour where he was, but sat by the fireside, weeping silently, and pondering in his elbow-chair.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
