Usually means: Consider deeply; think about carefully.
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  1. contemplate: Merriam-Webster
  2. contemplate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. contemplate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. contemplate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. contemplate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Contemplate, contemplate: Wordnik
  7. contemplate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. contemplate: Wiktionary
  9. contemplate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. contemplate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. contemplate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Contemplate, contemplate: Dictionary.com
  13. contemplate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Contemplate (The Reason You Exist), Contemplate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Contemplate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. contemplate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. contemplate: Rhymezone
  18. contemplate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. contemplate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. contemplate: FreeDictionary.org
  21. contemplate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. contemplate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. contemplate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. Contemplate: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  25. contemplate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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Definitions from Wiktionary (contemplate)

▸ verb:  To look at on all sides or in all its aspects; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study, ponder, or consider.
▸ verb:  To consider as a possibility.

Similar:
think over, mull over, chew over, meditate, ponder, mull, speculate, ruminate, muse, study, more...

Opposite:
meditate

Types:
think, ponder, muse, speculate, more...

Phrases:
contemplate navel, contemplate one's navel, to contemplate, contemplate another, contemplate something without bias, more...

Colors:
    indigo,     lavender,     sage,     teal,     mauve, more...



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Similar:
think over, mull over, chew over, meditate, ponder, mull, speculate, ruminate, muse, study, more...

Opposite:
meditate

Types:
think, ponder, muse, speculate, more...

Phrases:
contemplate navel, contemplate one's navel, to contemplate, contemplate another, contemplate something without bias, contemplate quiet, more...

Colors:
    indigo,     lavender,     sage,     teal,     mauve, more...



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