Textual thesaurus for "Muse"

(noun) muse

the source of an artist's inspiration

Euterpe was his muse

(verb) chew over, reflect, ponder, think over, speculate, ruminate, mull, mull over, muse, excogitate, contemplate, meditate

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