Contemplative vs Sedate - What's the difference?
contemplative | sedate |
Inclined to contemplate; introspective and thoughtful; meditative.
* 1873 , (John Stuart Mill), Autobiography ,
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 ,
Relating to, or having the power of, contemplation.
Someone who has dedicated themselves to religious contemplation.
* 2009 , (Karen Armstrong), The Case for God , Vintage 2010, p. 112:
to tranquilize by giving a sedative; to calm; to soothe; to induce sleep.
As adjectives the difference between contemplative and sedate
is that contemplative is inclined to contemplate; introspective and thoughtful; meditative while sedate is in a composed and temperate state.As a noun contemplative
is someone who has dedicated themselves to religious contemplation.As a verb sedate is
to tranquilize by giving a sedative; to calm; to soothe; to induce sleep.contemplative
English
Adjective
(en adjective)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.
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.
- contemplative faculties
Noun
(en noun)- 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 [...].