Pondering vs Careful - What's the difference?
pondering | careful |
Ruminations.
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 18, author=Jim Coyle, title=Spoofing of premier a bad omen, work=Toronto Star
, passage=Alas, it looked yesterday, when the Legislature returned to business, as if Premier Dalton McGuinty's peculiar maunderings and ponderings of the past several weeks risk making him just that.}}
(obsolete) Full of care or grief; sorrowful, sad.
*, Bk.V:
*:‘Alas,’ sayde Sir Cadore, ‘now carefull is myne herte that now lyeth dede my cosyn that I beste loved.’
(obsolete) Full of cares or anxiety; worried, troubled.
*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.1:
*:Where through long watch, and late daies weary toile, / She soundly slept, and carefull thoughts did quite assoile.
Having care (for); attentive to potential danger, error or harm; cautious.
:He was a slow and careful driver.
Conscientious and painstaking; meticulous.
:They made a careful search of the crime scene.
As a verb pondering
is .As a noun pondering
is ruminations.As an adjective careful is
(obsolete) full of care or grief; sorrowful, sad.pondering
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)citation