Synonyms:
brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative
Meaning: deeply or seriously thoughtful; "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";
Usage examples
He lay in his bunk pondering upon it.
The doctor seemed to be pondering sadly.
They shook hands, and Lammle strode out pondering.
'For the Church?' said I, still pondering, between whiles, on Uriah Heep.
In his heart he was pondering several most excruciating methods of murdering the man.
While he sat there pondering, the first stroke of the town bell proclaiming the hour was borne upon his ear.
The narrative tone is missing after the first page, a rather moody and melancholic pondering usurping its place.
As the philosopher, pondering on the workings of self-consciousness, recognizes that various pathways lead up to God, so the primitive man, in forming his language, sometimes trod one, sometimes another.
I observed him, now and then, draw a large fragment of biscuit out of his pocket, and gnaw; whether it was his dinner, or whether he was endeavoring to keep off that exhaustion of the stomach, produced by much pondering over dry works, I leave to harder students than myself to determine.
And so, wondering, pondering, perplexed, amazed, whirling through the mad whirlpool of life, dancing the dance of death, groping for the nameless, indefinite something, the magic formula, the essence, the intrinsic fact, the flash of light through the murk and dark--the rational sanction for existence, in short--Foma Gordyeeff goes down to madness and death.