transcription, транскрипция: [ ru:mɪnətɪv, AM -neɪt- ]
If you are ruminative , you are thinking very deeply and carefully about something. ( FORMAL )
He was uncharacteristically depressed and ruminative.
ADJ
• ru‧mi‧na‧tive‧ly
He smiles and swirls the ice ruminatively around his almost empty glass.
ADV : ADV with v