PONDERING Synonyms

• a request for information

• perplexed (as if being expected to know something that you do not know)

• marked by or given to doubt

• showing curiosity

• causing reflection or having a device that reflects

• the process of using your mind to consider something carefully

• endowed with the capacity to reason

• consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning

• make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features

• break down into components or essential features

• subject to psychoanalytic treatment

• deem to be

• give careful consideration to

• take into consideration for exemplifying purposes

• show consideration for; take into account

• think about carefully; weigh

• judge or regard; look upon; judge

• look at attentively

• look at carefully; study mentally

• regard or treat with consideration, respect, and esteem

• look at thoughtfully; observe deep in thought

• consider as a possibility

• think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes

• reflect deeply on a subject

• carefully thought out in advance

• unhurried and with care and dignity

• characterized by conscious design or purpose

• think about carefully; weigh

• discuss the pros and cons of an issue

• evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of

• form a critical opinion of

• consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning

• observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect

• question or examine thoroughly and closely

• question closely

• put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to

• reflect deeply on a subject

• think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes

• reflect deeply on a subject

• reflect deeply on a subject

• look at thoughtfully; observe deep in thought

• consider as a possibility

• think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes

• reflect deeply on a subject

• come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort

• reflect deeply on a subject

• reflect deeply on a subject

• think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes

• an island in western Scotland in the Inner Hebrides

• a term used in Scottish names of promontories

• reflect deeply on a subject

• heat with sugar and spices to make a hot drink

• the source of an artist's inspiration

• in ancient Greek mythology any of 9 daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne; protector of an art or science

• reflect deeply on a subject

• manifest or bring back

• reflect deeply on a subject

• to throw or bend back (from a surface)

• be bright by reflecting or casting light

• show an image of

• give evidence of a certain behavior

• give evidence of the quality of

• chew the cuds

• reflect deeply on a subject