All muse synonyms
muse
M m verb muse
- ponder β to consider something deeply and thoroughly; meditate (often followed by over or upon).
- ruminate β to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
- brood β A brood is a group of baby birds that were born at the same time to the same mother.
- consider β If you consider a person or thing to be something, you have the opinion that this is what they are.
- deliberate β If you do something that is deliberate, you planned or decided to do it beforehand, and so it happens on purpose rather than by chance.
- feel β to perceive or examine by touch.
- percolate β to cause (a liquid) to pass through a porous body; filter.
- moon β Sun Myung [suhn myuhng] /sΚn myΚΕ/ (Show IPA), 1920β2012, Korean religious leader: founder of the Unification Church.
- roll β to move along a surface by revolving or turning over and over, as a ball or a wheel.
- reflect β to cast back (light, heat, sound, etc.) from a surface: The mirror reflected the light onto the wall.
- contemplate β If you contemplate an action, you think about whether to do it or not.
- meditate β to engage in thought or contemplation; reflect.
- revolve β to move in a circular or curving course or orbit: The earth revolves around the sun.
- weigh β to determine or ascertain the force that gravitation exerts upon (a person or thing) by use of a balance, scale, or other mechanical device: to weigh oneself; to weigh potatoes; to weigh gases.
- cogitate β If you are cogitating, you are thinking deeply about something.
- speculate β to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
- think β to seem or appear (usually used impersonally with a dative as the subject).
- recollect β to collect, gather, or assemble again (something scattered).
- dream β a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- turn over β to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- chew over β If you chew something over, you keep thinking about it.
noun muse
- ideality β ideal quality or character.
- librettist β the writer of a libretto.
- catatonia β a state of muscular rigidity and stupor, sometimes found in schizophrenia
- phantasy β fantasy.
- inflatus β A blowing or breathing into; inflation; inspiration.
- transfixion β to make or hold motionless with amazement, awe, terror, etc.
- dreaminess β of the nature of or characteristic of dreams; visionary.
- reverie β a state of dreamy meditation or fanciful musing: lost in reverie.
- woolgathering β indulgence in idle fancies and in daydreaming; absentmindedness: His woolgathering was a handicap in school.
- rhapsodist β a person who rhapsodizes.
- schoolwork β the material studied in or for school, comprising homework and work done in class.
- rhymester β a writer of inferior verse; poetaster.
- catalepsy β a state of prolonged rigid posture, occurring for example in schizophrenia or in hypnotic trances
- afflatus β an impulse of creative power or inspiration, esp in poetry, considered to be of divine origin (esp in the phrase divine afflatus)
- poetess β a woman who writes poetry.
- absentmindedness β Alternative form of absent-mindedness.
- arousal β Arousal is the state of being sexually excited.
- daemon β a demigod
- versifier β to relate, describe, or treat (something) in verse.
- study β a room, in a house or other building, set apart for private study, reading, writing, or the like.
- vision β the act or power of sensing with the eyes; sight.
- parodist β a writer of parodies, especially of a literary subject, work, or style.
- castles in the air β plural of castle in the air.
- rhymer β identity in sound of some part, especially the end, of words or lines of verse.
- poetaster β an inferior poet; a writer of indifferent verse.
- lyrist β a person who plays the lyre or who sings and accompanies himself or herself on the lyre.
- petrifaction β the act or process of petrifying; the state of being petrified.