Contemplated vs Contemplative - What's the difference?

contemplated | contemplative |

As a verb contemplated

is past tense of contemplate.

As an adjective contemplative is

inclined to contemplate; introspective and thoughtful; meditative.

As a noun contemplative is

someone who has dedicated themselves to religious contemplation.

contemplated

English

Verb

(head)

(contemplate)

contemplate

English

Verb

(contemplat)

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.

* Milton

To love, at least contemplate and admire, / What I see excellent.

* Byron

We thus dilate / Our spirits to the size of that they contemplate .

To consider as a possibility.

* A. Hamilton

There remain some particulars to complete the information contemplated by those resolutions.

* Kent

If a treaty contains any stipulations which contemplate a state of future war.

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Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* contemplative * contemplation * contemplatively

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contemplative

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Inclined to contemplate; introspective and thoughtful; meditative.

* 1873 , (John Stuart Mill), Autobiography , Chapter 5:

Compared with the greatest poets, he may be said to be the poet of unpoetical natures, possessed of quiet and contemplative tastes. But unpoetical natures are precisely those which require poetic cultivation. This cultivation Wordsworth is much more fitted to give, than poets who are intrinsically far more poets than he.

Pertaining especially to a contemplative Roman Catholic religious or one of the contemplative Roman Catholic religious orders.

* 1870 , (Charles Dickens), The Mystery of Edwin Drood , Chapter 3:

Whether the nuns of yore, being of a submissive rather than a stiff-necked generation, habitually bent their contemplative heads to avoid collision with the beams in the low ceilings of the many chambers of their House [...] may be matters of interest to its haunting ghosts (if any), but constitute no item in Miss Twinkleton's half-yearly accounts.

Relating to, or having the power of, contemplation.

contemplative faculties

Noun

(en noun)

Someone who has dedicated themselves to religious contemplation.

* 2009 , (Karen Armstrong), The Case for God , Vintage 2010, p. 112:

The contemplative must not expect exotic feelings, visions or heavenly voices; these did not come from God but from his own fevered imagination and would merely distract him from his true objective [...].

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