ponder

[pon·der]

"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary" is the first line of Edgar Allen Poe's poem The Raven. Many a deep thinker has repeated it while musing. But if you've given up deep thinking, you may say instead, "Nevermore."

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To weigh.

Verb
reflect deeply on a subject; "I mulled over the events of the afternoon"; "philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years"; "The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate"

v. t.
To weigh.

v. t.
To weigh in the mind; to view with deliberation; to examine carefully; to consider attentively.

v. i.
To think; to deliberate; to muse; -- usually followed by on or over.

Ponder

Pon"der , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pondered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Pondering.] [L. ponderare, fr. pondus, ponderis, a weight, fr. pendere to weigh: cf. F. pond'82rer. See Pendant, and cf. Pound a weight.] 1. To weigh. [Obs.] 2. To weigh in the mind; to view with deliberation; to examine carefully; to consider attentively.

Ponder the path of thy feet.

Syn. -- To Ponder, Consider, Muse. To consider means to view or contemplate with fixed thought. To ponder is to dwell upon with long and anxious attention, with a view to some practical result or decision. To muse is simply to think upon continuously with no definite object, or for the pleasure it gives. We consider any subject which is fairly brought before us; we ponder a concern involving great interests; we muse on the events of childhood.

Ponder

Pon"der, v. i. To think; to deliberate; to muse; -- usually followed by on or over. Longfellow.

To weigh.

To think; to deliberate; to muse; -- usually followed by on or over.

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Usage Examples

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.

But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

When in doubt, mumble when in trouble, delegate when in charge, ponder.

If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect it bids a man to ponder or create and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.