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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb ruminate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

ruminant
  1. Chewing cud.
  2. Pondering; ruminative.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. contemplative, meditative, reflective, ruminative, cogitative, pensive, thoughtful, broody, deliberative, philosophical, retrospective, deep, musing, speculative, calculating, introspective, thinking, pondering, studious, absorbed, brooding, rapt, wistful, dreamy, preoccupied, prayerful, reflecting, lost in thought, serious, dreaming, philosophic, in a brown study, solemn, museful, analytical, discerning, engrossed, reasoning, intent, attentive, deep in thought, excogitative, daydreaming, deep-thinking, immersed in thought, ruminating, abstracted, melancholy, deliberate, lost … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “In a ruminant mood, Finch could indeed talk of the problems of governing American society with an eloquence close to poetry.”
ruminate
  1. (botany) Having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the North American papaw.
ruminative
  1. Causing rumination or prone to it; thoughtful.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. contemplative, meditative, reflective, cogitative, pensive, thoughtful, museful, ruminant, absorbed, broody, deliberative, excogitative, philosophical, rapt, retrospective, studious, wistful, analytical, calculating, deep, discerning, engrossed, intent, musing, philosophic, pondering, reflecting, speculative, thinking, attentive, cerebral, intellectual, preoccupied, reasoning, in a brown study, lost in thought, introspective, brooding, dreamy, prayerful, serious, solemn, dreaming, deep in thought, deep-thinking, daydreaming, abstracted, ruminating, meditating, deliberate … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Sally Dutton came in and found her friend in this ruminative mood.”
      “There's a solemn, ruminative atmosphere, and it's strange to see so many people and hear so little noise.”
      “The malcontent was unsociable, asperous, morose, ruminative, of economic speech, and prone to ranting when provoked.”
ruminated
  1. (botany) ruminate
ruminating
  1. present participle of ruminate
  2. Synonyms:
      3. pondering, contemplating, considering, deliberating, meditating, cogitating, studying, weighing, reflecting, questioning, musing, revolving, debating, turning, perpending, entertaining, thinking, brooding, eyeing, eying, excogitating, figuring, brainstorming, mulling over, thinking about, chewing over, thinking over, poring over, meditating on, wrestling with, kicking around, dwelling on, brooding over, musing on, giving thought to, poring on, puzzling over, brooding on, cogitating about, turning over, deliberating about, cogitating on, deliberating on, agonizing over, giving consideration to, racking brains, pondering on, worrying about, pondering over, turning over in one's mind … more
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