Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to meditate
Participle: meditated
Gerund: meditating
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | meditate |
| you | meditate |
| he;she;it | meditates |
| we | meditate |
| you | meditate |
| they | meditate |
Perfect
| I | have meditated |
| you | have meditated |
| he;she;it | has meditated |
| we | have meditated |
| you | have meditated |
| they | have meditated |
Past
| I | meditated |
| you | meditated |
| he;she;it | meditated |
| we | meditated |
| you | meditated |
| they | meditated |
Pluperfect
| I | had meditated |
| you | had meditated |
| he;she;it | had meditated |
| we | had meditated |
| you | had meditated |
| they | had meditated |
Future
| I | will meditate |
| you | will meditate |
| he;she;it | will meditate |
| we | will meditate |
| you | will meditate |
| they | will meditate |
Future Perfect
| I | will have meditated |
| you | will have meditated |
| he;she;it | will have meditated |
| we | will have meditated |
| you | will have meditated |
| they | will have meditated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | meditate |
| you | meditate |
| he;she;it | meditate |
| we | meditate |
| you | meditate |
| they | meditate |
Perfect
| I | have meditated |
| you | have meditated |
| he;she;it | have meditated |
| we | have meditated |
| you | have meditated |
| they | have meditated |
Imperfect
| I | meditated |
| you | meditated |
| he;she;it | meditated |
| we | meditated |
| you | meditated |
| they | meditated |
Pluperfect
| I | had meditated |
| you | had meditated |
| he;she;it | had meditated |
| we | had meditated |
| you | had meditated |
| they | had meditated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would meditate |
| you | would meditate |
| he;she;it | would meditate |
| we | would meditate |
| you | would meditate |
| they | would meditate |
Perfect
| I | would have meditated |
| you | would have meditated |
| he;she;it | would have meditated |
| we | would have meditated |
| you | would have meditated |
| they | would have meditated |
Imperative
| you | meditate |
| we | Let's meditate |
| you | meditate |
Verbs conjugated like 'meditate'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'meditate'
mediate,
medicate,
dedicate,
edituate,
evitate,
hesitate,
levitate,
mendicate,
militate,
redictate,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- To contemplate; to keep the mind fixed upon; to study.
- ponder
- speculate
- contemplate, consider, weigh, plot, plan
- ponder
- contemplate, study, think, reflect, cogitate, muse, ruminate
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
First attested in 1560; borrowed from Latin meditātus, perfect active participle of meditor (“to think or reflect upon, consider, design, purpose, intend”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), morphologically as if frequentative of medeor (“to heal, to cure, to remedy”); in sense and in form near to Ancient Greek μελετάω (meletáō, “to care for, attend to, study, practise, etc.”). Participial usage up until Early Modern English.
Verbs referencing "meditate"
Finnish with old forms
meditoida.
Sample Sentences
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[...] Not a chicken or turkey or duck in the barn-yard but looked grave when they saw her approaching, and seemed evidently to be reflecting on their latter end; and certain it was that she was always meditating on trussing, stuffing and roasting, to a degree that was calculated to inspire terror in any reflecting fowl living. Her corn-cake, in all its varieties of hoe-cake, dodgers, muffins, and other [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] some plaster images in resplendent colors on the mantel-shelf, above a very dimly-smoking grate; a long hard-wood settle extended its uneasy length by the chimney, and here Haley sat him down to meditate on the instability of human hopes and happiness in general.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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Mrs. Bird cast a glance at a camphor-bottle, which stood in the half-open closet, and appeared to meditate an approach to it, but her husband interposed.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)