MEANING
1. To engage in a practice of sustained attention or contemplation.
2. To reflect thoughtfully on a subject.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- meditate quietly
- meditate on breathing
On the page
She meditated before the household’s noise began.
He learned to meditate without treating every wandering thought as failure.
Nearby words
Related words
Word forms
- Base
- meditate
- Past tense
- meditated
- Past participle
- meditated
- Present participle
- meditating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- meditate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are meditating
- Present perfect
- have/has meditated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been meditating
- Past
- meditated
- Past continuous
- was/were meditating
- Past perfect
- had meditated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been meditating
- Future
- will meditate
- Future continuous
- will be meditating
- Future perfect
- will have meditated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been meditating
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: meditate; meditates; meditated; meditated; meditating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: meditates.
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