ruminator

From ruminate + -or.

• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

ruminator (plural ruminators)

1. One who ruminates; one who meditates or reflects.
   • 2008, Christopher Goffard, Snitch Jacket, page 74:

     An all-round terrific lady: sweet, compassionate, busty, pert-nosed, prone to floods of sudden tears, a lover of mini-skirts and tall leather boots and snug sweaters, which you somehow wore with total innocence, a worrier, a sweet ruminator by windows. a girl possessed of incredibly long. elegant eyelashes. and of course more flawlessly managed hair than a salonful of average girls could ever grow.

   • 2009 January 25, Maria Russo, “Unhappy Together”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     The narrator is a reader and ruminator, a provocateur.

   • 2010 February 25, Jonah Lehrer, “Depression’s Upside”, in The New York Times Magazine‎^[2]:

     They’re also more likely to become unnerved by stressful events: for instance, Nolen-Hoeksema found that residents of San Francisco who self-identified as ruminators showed significantly more depressive symptoms after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.

• ruminate

rūminātor

1. second/third-person singular future active imperative of rūminor

• “ruminator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ruminator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.