Synonyms of ruminating

ruminating

verb

present participle of ruminate

as in pondering

to give serious and careful thought to

the minister hoped that the congregation would spend the remainder of the week ruminating the message of his sermon

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pondering
• contemplating
• debating
• considering
• studying
• entertaining
• questioning
• weighing
• eying
• exploring
• cogitating
• analyzing
• reviewing
• eyeing
• deliberating
• meditating
• thinking (about or over)
• looking at
• revolving
• mulling (over)
• wrestling (with)
• chewing on
• digesting
• turning
• poring (over)
• chewing over
• perpending
• reminiscing
• kicking around
• beating one's brains out (about)
• reflecting (on or upon)
• reasoning
• cudgeling one's brains (about)
• musing (upon)
• believing
• concluding
• opining
• speculating (about)
• absorbing
• second-guessing
• brooding (about or over)
• dwelling (on or upon)
• fretting (about or over)
• conceiving
• fixating (on or upon)
• obsessing (about or over)
• assimilating
• drinking (in)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• ignoring
• disregarding
• overlooking
• slighting
• dismissing
• rejecting
• poohing
• pooh-poohing