Definitions for: Pensive

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

Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Synonyms: brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pondering, reflective, ruminative, sad, thoughtful, wistful

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