ponder
verbEtymology
From Middle English ponderen, from Old French ponderer (“to weigh, balance, ponder”) from Latin ponderāre (“to weigh, ponder”), from pondus (“weight”), from pendere (“to weigh”); see pendent and pound.
- inherited from ponderen
Definitions
To wonder, think of deeply.
To consider (something) carefully and thoroughly.
- I have spent days pondering the meaning of life.
- Ponder the path of thy feet.
To weigh.
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A period of deep thought.
- I lit my pipe and had a ponder about it, but reached no definite conclusion.
A surname.
A ghost town in Ripley County, Missouri, United States.
A town in Denton County, Texas, United States.
The neighborhood
- synonymcogitate
- synonymdeliberate
- synonymafterthink
- synonymagitate
- synonymbethink
- synonymcall to mind
- synonymchew
- synonymchew over
- synonymchew the cud
- synonymconsider
- synonymcontemplate
- synonymintrospect
- neighborponderment
- neighborpondersome
- neighborpreponder
- neighborpreponderance
- neighborpreponderant
- neighborpreponderate
- neighborconsideration
Derived
beponder, ponderable, ponderance, ponderize, reponder, unpondered, Ponders End
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at ponder. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at ponder. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at ponder
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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