About The Word Pensive
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Pensive
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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| stargazing | taken up | thinking | thought | thoughtful | transported | tristful | unconscious | wistful | withdrawn | woolgathering | wrapped in thought See Also | Pensive In Webster's Dictionary \Pen"sive\, a. [F. pensif, fr.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.
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