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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

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Thoughtful, sober, or sad; employed in serious reflection; given to, or favorable to, earnest or melancholy musing.
Expressing or suggesting thoughtfulness with sadness; as, pensive numbers.

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
By Oddity Software

Thoughtful, sober, or sad; employed in serious reflection; given to, or favorable to, earnest or melancholy musing.
Expressing or suggesting thoughtfulness with sadness; as, pensive numbers.

1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
By Noah Webster.

Pensiveness.

1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer

Pensiveness.
Thoughtful: reflecting: expressing thoughtfulness with sadness.

1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
By Daniel Lyons

Pensiveness.

1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
By James Champlin Fernald

Thoughtful; meditating with sadness.

1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman

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