What does pondering mean?
Pondering means present participle and gerund of ponder.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
present participle and gerund of ponder.
Now all his ponderings, however excursive, wheeled round Isabel as their center; and back to her they came again from every excursion; and again derived some new, small germs for wonderment.
Alas, it looked yesterday, when the Legislature returned to business, as if Premier Dalton McGuinty's peculiar maunderings and ponderings of the past several weeks risk making him just that.
Use pondering when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Pondering means present participle and gerund of ponder.
Common synonyms include consideration, deliberation, pensive, musing.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Now all his ponderings, however excursive, wheeled round Isabel as their center; and back to her they came again from every excursion; and again derived some new, small germs for wonderment.
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