Слово англійською: contemplate
Дієслово
Переклад contemplate українською: споглядати; пильно розглядати, міркувати, обмірковувати, мати намір, збиратися, I ~ going south — я маю намір поїхати на південь, очікувати, розраховувати
Детальний опис
contemplate
verb /ˈkɑːntəmpleɪt/
(rather formal)- [transitive] to think about whether you should do something, or how you should do something synonym consider, think about/of
- contemplate something You're too young to be contemplating retirement.
- contemplate doing something I have never contemplated living abroad.
- contemplate how/what, etc… He continued while she contemplated how to answer.
- [transitive] to think carefully about and accept the possibility of something happening
- contemplate something The thought of war is too awful to contemplate.
- How could you even contemplate such an idea?
- contemplate how/what, etc… I can't contemplate what it would be like to be alone.
- contemplate that… She contemplated that things might get even worse.
- [transitive, intransitive] contemplate (something) (formal) to think deeply about something for a long time
- to contemplate your future
- She lay in bed, contemplating.
- [transitive] contemplate somebody/something (formal) to look at somebody/something in a careful way for a long time synonym stare at
- She contemplated him in silence.
- He sat there, contemplating his fingernails.
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from Latin contemplat- ‘surveyed, observed, contemplated’, from the verb contemplari, based on templum ‘place for observation’.