Pensive

['pensɪv] or ['pɛnsɪv]

Definition

(adj.) showing pensive sadness; 'the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty' .

Checker: Sigmund--From WordNet

Definition

(a.) Thoughtful, sober, or sad; employed in serious reflection; given to, or favorable to, earnest or melancholy musing.

(a.) Expressing or suggesting thoughtfulness with sadness; as, pensive numbers.

Typist: Lottie

Synonyms and Synonymous

a. [1]. Thoughtful, meditative, reflective, dreamy, sober.[2]. Expressive of sadness.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Meditative, ruminating, thoughtful, musing, reflective, impressed, melancholy,sober, dejected

ANT:Vacant, joyous, unreflecting, careless, thoughtless, unmeditative, incogitant,unreflective

Checked by Erwin

Definition

adj. thoughtful: reflecting: expressing thoughtfulness with sadness.—adj. Pen′sived (Shak.) thought over.—adv. Pen′sively.—n. Pen′siveness state of being pensive: gloomy thoughtfulness: melancholy.

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Examples

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