Introspective

English

Adjective

Introspective

1. Examining one's own perceptions and sensory experiences; contemplative or thoughtful about oneself.

Related terms

• introspect
• introspection
• introspectional
• introspectively
• introspectiveness

Adverbs for Introspective

curiously; unwontedly; unfortunately; unduly; overly; oddly; habitually; naturally, highly; sorrily; ominously; dangerously; morbidly; sensitively; pitifully; moodily; incurably; deplorably; lamentably; absurdly; miserably; incorrigibly; inveterately.

Thesaurus

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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Translations

examining one's own perceptions and sensory experiences

Czech: introspektivní (cs) Finnish: introspektiivinen, itseään havainnoiva

French: intropectif (fr) Hungarian: introspektív Spanish: introspectivo (es)

References

• Introspective in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• Introspective in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913