[ adj ] deeply or seriously thoughtful <adj.all> Byron lives on not only in his poetry, but also in his creation of the 'Byronic hero' - the persona of a brooding melancholy young man
Ruminative \Ru"mi*na*tive\, a. Inclined to, or engaged in, rumination or meditation.
Has worked for six years in CBI's economics department; noted for his ruminative style but not the most scintillating public speaker.
For his patron Pope Clement VII Brian Bannatyne-Scott's rich, ruminative bass served admirably. Dour and funny, Jeremy White was no less stylish as the Papal treasurer Balducci, Cellini's unwilling father-in-law-to-be.
The concerto has just two movements, each of them lyrically ruminative at unhurried tempi.