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