'Pensive' definitions:
Definition of 'pensive'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Deeply or seriously thoughtful; "Byron lives on not only in his poetry, but also in his creation of the 'Byronic hero' - the persona of a brooding melancholy young man"; [syn: brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative]
adjective
Showing pensive sadness; "the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty" [syn: pensive, wistful]
Definition of 'Pensive'
From: GCIDE
- Pensive \Pen"sive\, a. [F. pensif, fr. penser to think, fr. L. pensare to weigh, ponder, consider, v. intens. fr. pendere to weigh. See Pension, Poise.]
- 1. Thoughtful, sober, or sad; employed in serious reflection; given to, or favorable to, earnest or melancholy musing. [1913 Webster]
- The pensive secrecy of desert cell. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Anxious cares the pensive nymph oppressed. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Expressing or suggesting thoughtfulness with sadness; as, pensive numbers. --Prior. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'pensive'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absent,
- absentminded,
- absorbed,
- abstracted,
- atrabiliar,
- atrabilious,
- bemused,
- blue,
- brooding,
- castle-building,
- cogitative,
- cognitive,
- concentrating,
- concentrative,
- conceptive,
- conceptual,
- conceptualized,
- contemplating,
- contemplative,
- daydreaming,
- daydreamy,
- deliberating,
- deliberative,
- dreaming,
- dreamy,
- drowsing,
- ecstatic,
- elsewhere,
- engrossed,
- excogitating,
- faraway,
- funky,
- grave,
- half-awake,
- ideative,
- in a reverie,
- in a trance,
- in the clouds,
- introspective,
- lost,
- lost in thought,
- meditating,
- meditative,
- melancholic,
- melancholy,
- mental,
- mooning,
- moonraking,
- museful,
- musing,
- napping,
- nodding,
- noetic,
- oblivious,
- pipe-dreaming,
- pondering,
- prehensive,
- preoccupied,
- rapt,
- reflecting,
- reflective,
- ruminant,
- ruminating,
- ruminative,
- sad,
- saddened,
- serious,
- sober,
- somewhere else,
- speculative,
- stargazing,
- taken up,
- thinking,
- thought,
- thoughtful,
- transported,
- tristful,
- unconscious,
- wistful,
- withdrawn,
- woolgathering,
- wrapped in thought