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What (who) is ruminative - definition
ruminative
If you are ruminative, you are thinking very deeply and carefully about something. (FORMAL)
He was uncharacteristically depressed and ruminative.
ADJ
• ruminatively
He smiles and swirls the ice ruminatively around his almost empty glass.
ADV: ADV with v
Ruminative
·adj Inclined to, or engaged in, rumination or meditation.
Ruminator
·noun One who ruminates or muses; a meditator.
Examples of use of ruminative
1. He has always favored ruminative interior monologues to exterior drama.
2. She has also articulated a moderate, somewhat ruminative position on abortion.
3. It‘s 20 years since The Sportswriter introduced us to the ruminative Frank Bascombe and the peculiar joys of American suburbia.
4. Ten years after the last official Kinks offering, the leader of that influential band is in a ruminative mood, bowed by the challenges of aging and contemplating his own Waterloo sunset.
5. I‘ve done that enough.‘ The Sportswriter saw the introduction of a ruminative, serpentine prose style that stood in high contrast to Ford‘s earlier stories, which owed more to the taut, muscular traditions of Hemingway or Faulkner.