pondering

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of ponder

plural ponderings

1. An act of rumination or cogitation.

   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.

   1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities

   1 more example

   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.

   2009 February 18, Jim Coyle, “Spoofing of premier a bad omen”, in Toronto Star

   Synonyms: consideration, deliberation

comparative more pondering · superlative most pondering