Meaning of PENSIVE
| Pronunciation: | | 'pensiv
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- [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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| | Synonyms: | | brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pondering, reflective, ruminative, sad, thoughtful, wistful |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | 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.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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else, speculative, stargazing, taken up, thinking, thought, thoughtful, transported, tristful, unconscious, wistful, withdrawn, woolgathering, wrapped in thought |
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