Usually means: Reflecting thoughtfully, often somewhat absently.
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  1. musingly: Merriam-Webster
  2. musingly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. musingly: Collins English Dictionary
  4. musingly: Vocabulary.com
  5. Musingly, musingly: Wordnik
  6. musingly: Wiktionary
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  8. Musingly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. musingly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. musingly: Rhymezone
  11. Musingly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. musingly: FreeDictionary.org
  13. musingly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. musingly: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. musingly: Encyclopedia

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▸ adverb:  In a musing manner.

Similar:
musefully, contemplatingly, thoughtfully, meditatively, contemplatively, ponderingly, ruminatively, reflectively, ruminatingly, wistfully, more...

Opposite:
unthinkingly, thoughtlessly, impulsively

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Similar:
musefully, contemplatingly, thoughtfully, meditatively, contemplatively, ponderingly, ruminatively, reflectively, ruminatingly, wistfully, more...

Opposite:
unthinkingly, thoughtlessly, impulsively



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