As the pirates were scouring the country, here and there, it happened that they met Daphnis, who was musing in a melancholy mood and rambling by the sea-shore, quite alone.
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Musing
Synonyms for "musing" (145 found)
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Strong matches (44)
Related words (72)
in a reveriein the cloudsintrospectivelostlost in thoughtlucubrationmeditatingmeditationmelancholymentalmooningmoonrakingmusemusefulmusefulnessmuted ecstasynappingnoddingnoeticoblivious
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pensivenesspipe dreampipe-dreamingponderingprehensivepreoccupationpreoccupiedprofound thoughtraptreflectingreflectionreflectivenessreverierevolvingruminantruminatingruminationruminativeserioussobersomewhere elsespeculationspeculativespeculativenessstargazingstudytaken upthinkingthoughtthoughtfulthoughtfulnesstrancetransportedunconsciousvisionarywalter mittyweighingwistfulwistfulnesswoolgatheringwrapped in thought
Adjective(5 words)
Adjective(2 words)
Noun(4 words)
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5 entriesderived
1 entriesform of
1 entriesrelated to
5 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
27 translations across 9 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- замислен adj (absorbed in thought; contemplative)
- размишление noun (thought)
Catalan
1 entries- pensatiu adj (absorbed in thought; contemplative)
Czech
1 entries- dumání noun (thought)
French
3 entries- pensif adj (absorbed in thought; contemplative)
- songeur adj (absorbed in thought; contemplative)
- pensée noun (thought)
German
4 entries- grübelnd adj (absorbed in thought; contemplative)
- nachbrütend adj (absorbed in thought; contemplative)
- nachgrübelnd adj (absorbed in thought; contemplative)
- nachsinnend adj (absorbed in thought; contemplative)
Italian
1 entries- pensieroso adj (absorbed in thought; contemplative)
Polish
1 entries- przemyślenie noun (thought)
Portuguese
4 entries- pensativo adj (absorbed in thought; contemplative)
- contemplação noun (thought)
- meditação noun (thought)
- pensamento noun (thought)
Spanish
4 entries- pensativo adj (absorbed in thought; contemplative)
- absorto noun (thought)
- contemplativo noun (thought)
- pensativo noun (thought)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
Now came an end of mourning and of woe, / when Jove, surveying from his prospect high / shore, sail-winged sea, and peopled earth below, / stood, musing, on the summit of the sky, / and on the Libyan kingdom fixed his eye.
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"When, musing sad and pensive, thou hast found / beside an oak-fringed river, on the shore, / a huge sow thirty-farrowed, and around, / milk-white as she, her litter, mark the ground, / that spot shall see thy promised town; for there / thy toils are ended, and thy rest is crowned."
Source: tatoeba (7086452)
But he musing, beheld her with silence, desirous to know whether the Lord had made his journey prosperous or not.
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