Usually means: Consider something deeply and thoughtfully.
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  1. ponder: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. ponder: Merriam-Webster
  3. ponder: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. ponder: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. ponder: Collins English Dictionary
  6. ponder: Vocabulary.com
  7. Ponder, ponder: Wordnik
  8. ponder: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Ponder, ponder: Wiktionary
  10. ponder: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. ponder: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. ponder: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Ponder, ponder: Dictionary.com
  14. ponder: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. ponder: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Ponder (horse), Ponder: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Ponder: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. ponder: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. ponder: Rhymezone
  20. ponder: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. ponder: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. ponder: FreeDictionary.org
  23. ponder: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. ponder: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. ponder: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ponder: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Ponder: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. PONDER: Acronym Finder
  2. ponder: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ponder: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Ponder)

▸ verb:  To wonder, think of deeply.
▸ verb:  To consider (something) carefully and thoroughly.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To weigh.
▸ noun:  (colloquial) A period of deep thought.
▸ noun:  A surname.
▸ noun:  A ghost town in Ripley County, Missouri, United States.
▸ noun:  A town in Denton County, Texas, United States.

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

Opposite:
think, contemplate, meditate

Types:
contemplate, meditate, ruminate, reflect, consider, mull over, deliberate, puzzle over, more...

Phrases:
ponder over, Christian Ponder, Samantha Ponder, Ponder the Mystery, to ponder, more...

Adjectives:
miss, problems, long, rich, most, black, first, pious, old, industrial, good

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

Opposite:
think, contemplate, meditate

Types:
contemplate, meditate, ruminate, reflect, consider, mull over, deliberate, puzzle over, more...

Phrases:
ponder over, Christian Ponder, Samantha Ponder, Ponder the Mystery, to ponder, ponder deeply, one thing philosophers ponder on, ponder ruminate, daydream or ponder, ponder on, opposite of ponder, more...

Adjectives:
miss, problems, long, rich, most, black, first, pious, old, industrial, good

Colors:
    slate gray,     deep teal,     forest green,     midnight blue,     charcoal, more...



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