introspective

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
introspective
    adj 1: given to examining own sensory and perceptual experiences
           [syn: {introspective}, {introverted}, {self-examining}]
           [ant: {extrospective}, {extroverted}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Introspective \In`tro*spec"tive\, a. [Cf. F. introspectif.]
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   1. Inspecting within; seeing inwardly; capable of, or
      exercising, inspection; self-conscious.
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   2. Involving the act or results of conscious knowledge of
      physical phenomena; -- contrasted with {associational}.
      --J. S. Mill.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
46 Moby Thesaurus words for "introspective":
      absorbed, abstracted, buried in thought, cogitative, cognitive,
      concentrating, concentrative, conceptive, conceptual,
      conceptualized, contemplating, contemplative, deliberating,
      deliberative, engaged in thought, engrossed, engrossed in thought,
      excogitating, ideative, immersed in thought, lost in thought,
      meditating, meditative, mental, museful, musing, noetic, occupied,
      pensive, pondering, prehensive, preoccupied, rapt, reflecting,
      reflective, ruminant, ruminating, ruminative, serious, sober,
      speculative, thinking, thought, thoughtful, wistful,
      wrapped in thought

    

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