ruminative in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for ruminative in the English»French Dictionary

ruminative [Brit ˈruːmɪnətɪv, Am ˈruməˌneɪdɪv, ˈrumənəˌtɪv] ADJ liter

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The soloist, now more ruminative, calms the proceedings.
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These ruminative thoughts can keep us up late at night overanalyzing the situation.
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It has been found that girls use ruminative coping which involves perseverating on the negative feelings and the unpleasant situations associated with problems.
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In fact, there was nothing forbidding on this occasion about a text that was gut-bustingly funny but ruminative and melancholic, too.
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Likewise, ruminative tendency itself, some cognitive psychologists argue, increases the likelihood of the onset of depression.
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There's a good balance of the boozy and the ruminative here, too.
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Her voice has a ruminative, glazed quality, yet is rarely solemn.
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The dancers were by turns intimate and distant, intent and diffuse, bombastic and ruminative.
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For instance, daydreaming is only associated with negative mood when the content of thought is also negative, self-focused, and ruminative.
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This self-consciousness conduces to a hypervigilant and ruminative mode to process social information that finally will stimulate a variety of paranoid-like forms of social misperception and misjudgment.
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