Thesaurus: pensive

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1. a. Thoughtful, sober, or sad; employed in serious reflection; given to, or favorable to, earnest or melancholy musing.
2. a. Expressing or suggesting thoughtfulness with sadness; as, pensive numbers.
3. adj. deeply or seriously thoughtful
4. adj. showing pensive sadness
5. 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.
6. j:100 s. showing pensive sadness