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Pensive Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Pensive? [adj] showing pensive sadness; "the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty" [adj] persistently or morbidly thoughtful Synonyms \| Synonyms for Pensive: brooding \| broody \| contemplative \| meditative \| musing \| pondering \| reflective \| ruminative \| sad \| thoughtful \| wistful Related Terms \| Find terms related to Pensive: absent \| absentminded \| absorbed \| abstracted \| atrabiliar \| atrabilious \| bemused \| blue \| brooding \| castle-building \| cogitative \| cognitive \| concentrating \| concentrative \| conceptive \| conceptual \| conceptualized \| contemplating \| contemplative \| daydreaming \| daydreamy \| deliberating \| deliberative \| dreaming \| dreamy \| drowsing \| ecstatic \| elsewhere \| engrossed \| excogitating \| faraway \| funky \| grave \| half-awake \| ideative \| in a reverie \| in a trance \| in the clouds \| introspective \| lost \| lost in thought \| meditating \| meditative \| melancholic \| melancholy \| mental \| mooning \| moonraking \| museful \| musing \| napping \| nodding \| noetic \| oblivious \| pipe-dreaming \| pondering \| prehensive \| preoccupied \| rapt \| reflecting \| reflective \| ruminant \| ruminating \| ruminative \| sad \| saddened \| serious \| sober \| somewhere else \| speculative \| stargazing \| taken up \| thinking \| thought \| thoughtful \| transported \| tristful \| unconscious \| wistful \| withdrawn \| woolgathering \| wrapped in thought See Also \| Pensive In Webster's Dictionary \Pen"sive\, a. [F. pensif, fr. penser to think, fr. L. pensare to weigh, ponder, consider, v. intens. fr. pendere to weigh. See {Pension}, {Poise}.] 1. Thoughtful, sober, or sad; employed in serious reflection; given to, or favorable to, earnest or melancholy musing. The pensive secrecy of desert cell. --Milton. Anxious cares the pensive nymph oppressed. --Pope. 2. Expressing or suggesting thoughtfulness with sadness; as, pensive numbers. --Prior.

Pensive Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Pensive?

[adj] showing pensive sadness; "the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty"
[adj] persistently or morbidly thoughtful

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Pensive In Webster's Dictionary

\Pen"sive\, a. [F. pensif, fr. penser to think, fr. L.
pensare to weigh, ponder, consider, v. intens. fr. pendere to
weigh. See {Pension}, {Poise}.]
1. Thoughtful, sober, or sad; employed in serious reflection;
   given to, or favorable to, earnest or melancholy musing.

         The pensive secrecy of desert cell.   --Milton.

         Anxious cares the pensive nymph oppressed. --Pope.

2. Expressing or suggesting thoughtfulness with sadness; as,
   pensive numbers. --Prior.

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