verb
definition
To become lost in thought, to ponder.
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To say (something) with due consideration or thought.
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To think on; to meditate on.
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To wonder at.
noun
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Thought, meditation, contemplation
example
daydreaming or imaginative musings
adjective
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Absorbed in thought; contemplative
Examples of musing in a Sentence
There was no quiet time of musing.
His voice still had a bitter edge, but there was a touch of musing in it now.
So here I am, with proverbial pen to paper, musing about the final disposition of these scratching if I should crawl my way through to completion of the task.
A brief climax slowly brings the music to a calm, rapt end, with the solo violin musing in glistening harmonics.
Any member can construct a blog for serious or playful musing.
The most beautiful of his few pictures of this kind was the "David musing on the Housetop" (1865).
He was disappointed at the resistance which was made, and after musing a while " upon a stall over against the Bell Savadge Gate " he turned back.
He now began to fulfil the promise of his "Cimabue," and by such pictures as "Paolo e Francesca," "The Star of Bethlehem," "Jezebel and Ahab taking Possession of Naboth's Vineyard," "Michael Angelo musing over his Dying Servant," "A Girl feeding Peacocks," and "The Odalisque," all exhibited in 1861-1863, rose rapidly to the head of his profession.
Giovanni Villani, the first chronicler who used Italian for the compilation of a methodical history, tells us how he was impelled to write by musing on the ruins of Rome and thinking of the vanished greatness of the Latin race.