Definition of "ruminative"
ruminative
adjective
comparative more ruminative, superlative most ruminative
Causing rumination or prone to it; thoughtful.
Quotations
‘It happened,’ returned the man, with a ruminative air, as he drew his right hand across his chin, and dipped the other in the pocket of his rough outer coat, ‘it happened somewhere about here as I reckon. I don’t think it can have been a mile from here.’
1864, Charles Dickens, chapter 12, in Our Mutual Friend, archived from the original on 8 April 2011