Hyphenation of contemplative

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word contemplative? This word can be hyphenated and contains 4 syllables as shown below.

con-tem-pla-tive

Definitions of contemplative:

1.	A person devoted to the contemplative life
2.	Deeply or seriously thoughtful Byron lives on not only in his poetry
3.	But also in his creation of the 'Byronic hero' - the persona of a brooding melancholy young man

Synonyms of contemplative:

adj	brooding, broody, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative, thoughtful
noun	person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul

Last hyphenations of this language

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