Synonyms for muse
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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 5 votes

1. muse

   Synonyms:
   reflect, ponder, cogitate, dream, think, meditate

   Antonyms:
   stir, act, move

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1. Musenoun

   in ancient Greek mythology any of 9 daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne; protector of an art or science

2. museverb

   the source of an artist's inspiration

   "Euterpe was his muse"

3. chew over, think over, meditate, ponder, excogitate, contemplate, muse, reflect, mull, mull over, ruminate, speculateverb

   reflect deeply on a subject

   "I mulled over the events of the afternoon"; "philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years"; "The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate"

   Synonyms:
   hypothecate, shine, contemplate, theorise, speculate, theorize, reflect, chew over, excogitate, suppose, hypothesise, formulate, devise, mull over, study, contrive, ponder, invent, ruminate, hypothesize, meditate, forge, reverberate, mull, conjecture, job, think over

Matched Categories

1. • Greek Deity

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1. non-player characternoun

   it works as a muse when it offers cues or directions to a playing character.

   Submitted by ckstallard on August 25, 2022  

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1. musenoun

   Synonyms:
   revery, abstraction, MUSING

2. museverb

   Synonyms:
   be absent-minded, be in a revery, be in a brown study

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1. musenoun

   Synonyms:
   contemplation, meditation, revery

2. museverb

   Synonyms:
   contemplate, ruminate, brood, ponder, mull, reflect

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1. List of paraphrases for "muse":

   thinker

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:3.5 / 2 votes

1. MUSE

   Synonyms:
   Metaplasia, ulcer, stricture, erosion classification

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2. MUSE

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How to use muse in a sentence?

1. Simon Gillespie:

   A great beauty is a muse for the mind, a great mind a muse for the soul.

2. William Seward Burroughs:

   So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

3. Sir Philip Sidney:

   But words came halting forth, wanting Inventions stayInvention, Natures child, fled step-dame Studys blows...Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite,Fool, said my Muse to me look in thy heart and write.

4. Barbara Tuchman:

   To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

5. Daniel Levitin:

   It's not our natural tendency to thrust ourselves into a crowd of 20,000 people, but for a Muse concert or a Radiohead concert we'll do it, there's this unifying force that comes from the music, and we don't get that from other things.