Pensive \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.
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The pensive secrecy of desert cell. --Milton.
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Anxious cares the pensive nymph oppressed. --Pope.
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2. Expressing or suggesting thoughtfulness with sadness; as,
pensive numbers. --Prior.
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Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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82 Moby Thesaurus words for "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unconscious, wistful, withdrawn, woolgathering,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
Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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Pensive \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.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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