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Ruminant vs Ruminative - What's the difference?

ruminant | ruminative |

As adjectives the difference between ruminant and ruminative

is that ruminant is chewing cud while ruminative is causing rumination or prone to it; thoughtful.

As a noun ruminant

is an artiodactyl ungulate mammal which chews cud, such as a cow or deer.

ruminant

English

(wikipedia ruminant)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Chewing cud.
  • Pondering; ruminative.
  • * G. K. Chesterton
    • “I wonder what a paradox is,” remarked the priest in a ruminant manner.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An artiodactyl ungulate mammal which chews cud, such as a cow or deer.

    • Hyponyms

    * See also

    Related terms

    * ruminate ----

    ruminative

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Causing rumination or prone to it; thoughtful.
  • *{{quote-book
    • , year=1922 , author=F. Scott Fitzgerald , title=The Beautiful and Damned , chapter=5 citation , passage=They waited expectantly while he directed a ruminative yawn toward the white smiling moon.}}
  • *{{quote-book
    • , year=1864 , author=Charles Dickens , title=Our Mutual Friend , chapter=12 citation , passage=‘It happened,’ returned the man, with a ruminative air, as he drew his right hand across his chin, and dipped the other in the pocket of his rough outer coat, ‘it happened somewhere about here as I reckon. I don’t think it can have been a mile from here.’}}
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    • Synonyms

    * meditative