pensive

[pen·sive]

See that person staring out the window who looks so sad and lost in thought? He is pensive, the opposite of cheery and carefree.

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Thoughtful, sober, or sad; employed in serious reflection; given to, or favorable to, earnest or melancholy musing.

Adjective S.
showing pensive sadness; "the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty"

Adjective S.
persistently or morbidly thoughtful


a.
Thoughtful, sober, or sad; employed in serious reflection; given to, or favorable to, earnest or melancholy musing.

a.
Expressing or suggesting thoughtfulness with sadness; as, pensive numbers.


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.
The pensive secrecy of desert cell.
Anxious cares the pensive nymph oppressed.
2. Expressing or suggesting thoughtfulness with sadness; as, pensive numbers. Prior.

Thoughtful, sober, or sad; employed in serious reflection; given to, or favorable to, earnest or melancholy musing.

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