PENSIVE
\pˈɛnsɪv], \pˈɛnsɪv], \p_ˈɛ_n_s_ɪ_v]\
Definitions of PENSIVE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
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Thoughtful, sober, or sad; employed in serious reflection; given to, or favorable to, earnest or melancholy musing.
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Expressing or suggesting thoughtfulness with sadness; as, pensive numbers.
By Oddity Software
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Thoughtful, sober, or sad; employed in serious reflection; given to, or favorable to, earnest or melancholy musing.
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Expressing or suggesting thoughtfulness with sadness; as, pensive numbers.
By Noah Webster.
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Pensiveness.
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Thoughtful: reflecting: expressing thoughtfulness with sadness.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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Thoughtful; meditating with sadness.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Thoughtful; thoughtful with sadness; expressing thoughtfulness with sadness.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Weighing, pondering, or considering in the mind; thoughtful and sad, or melancholy.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
