contemplative

Converse of object

become: No good asking me, ask the Spirit, become contemplative.

Adjective modifier

long: A long contemplative very much like by the x-rays.

Modifies a noun

• nun: We are fortunate to have our contemplative nuns at Tymawr and now the Sisters of the Good Shepherd at Llanfrechfa.
• prayer: St Peter's also has a Julian Group, which meets on the first Thursday of each month for contemplative prayer.
• mood: Some of the students going to take the exam drifted into a more contemplative mood.
• meditation: My most recent work is a series of studies on contemplative meditation.
• silence: Anyone is welcome to join us at these times in a contemplative silence from which spoken ministry may arise.
• tradition: The contemplative traditions of all religions testify to the truth of this.

Modifying Another Word

• deeply: We are being invited to become much more deeply contemplative.
• purely: Zabarella wholeheartedly endorsed the purely contemplative nature of philosophy and the superiority of the contemplative life.
• quietly: It is quietly contemplative; nothing very much happens.
• so: He was full of faith and he was so contemplative and so meditative and so in awe of the supernatural.
• also: However there are also contemplative and joyful movements and a jubilant finale.

Used with adjective complement

become: I started out as a charasmatic evangelical, but have slowly become more contemplative!

Preposition: in

heart: We may be doing social work in the eyes of the people, but we are really contemplatives in the heart of the world.