What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Ruminative vs Ruminatively - What's the difference?

ruminative | ruminatively |

As an adjective ruminative

is causing rumination or prone to it; thoughtful.

As an adverb ruminatively is

in a ruminative way.

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.’}}
  • *
  • *

    • Synonyms

    * meditative

    ruminatively

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a ruminative way.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 20, author=Anthony Tommasini, title=Muti Takes the Reins, a Classicist at His Core, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=But who could not have been captivated by the passages of ecstatic murmurings; shimmering, unhinged harmonies; ruminatively Wagnerian lyricism? }}