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English
Etymology
From meditative + -ly.
Adverb
meditatively (comparative more meditatively, superlative most meditatively)
- 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.