meaning of pensive
1. Thoughtful, sober, or sad; employed in serious reflection; given to, or favorable to, earnest or melancholy musing.
2. Expressing or suggesting thoughtfulness with sadness; as, pensive numbers.
3. showing pensive sadness; "the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of
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Related Words
pensive | pensived | pensively | pensiveness |
