meditatively

English

Etymology

From meditative +‎ -ly.

Adverb

meditatively (comparative more meditatively, superlative most meditatively)

1. In a meditative manner.
   • 1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XIV, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 153:

     This done, he sank on to a stretcher, and glanced meditatively about the room.

   • 1954 [1948], Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot […] , New York: Grove Press, translation of En attendant Godot, page 12:

     ESTRAGON: I've forgotten. (Chews.) That's what annoys me. (He looks at the carrot appreciatively, dangles it between finger and thumb.) I'll never forget this carrot. (He sucks the end of it meditatively.) Ah yes, now I remember.