Usually means: Repeatedly thinking about something deeply.
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  1. ruminating: Merriam-Webster
  2. ruminating: Collins English Dictionary
  3. ruminating: Vocabulary.com
  4. Ruminating, ruminating: Wordnik
  5. ruminating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. ruminating: Wiktionary
  7. Ruminating, ruminating: Dictionary.com
  8. ruminating: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Ruminating: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Ruminating: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Ruminating: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. ruminating: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. ruminating: FreeDictionary.org
  14. ruminating: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ruminating: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ruminating: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ruminating)

▸ noun:  An act of pondering over, meditation, or reflection.

Similar:
mull, meditate, mull over, contemplate, chew over, think over, ponder, muse, speculate, reflect, more...

Opposite:
non-ruminating

Types:
overthinking, contemplating, mulling over, pondering, brooding, meditating, more...

Phrases:
result of ruminating, more...

Adjectives:
latter, graminivorous, right, much, obsessive, little, same, such, clean, preparatory, idle

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Similar:
mull, meditate, mull over, contemplate, chew over, think over, ponder, muse, speculate, reflect, more...

Opposite:
non-ruminating

Types:
overthinking, contemplating, mulling over, pondering, brooding, meditating, more...

Phrases:
result of ruminating, more...

Adjectives:
latter, graminivorous, right, much, obsessive, little, same, such, clean, preparatory, idle



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