Found 2 items, similar to pensive.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: pensive pensive adj 1: persistently or morbidly thoughtful [syn: brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pondering, reflective, ruminative] 2: showing pensive sadness; “the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty” [syn: wistful]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Pensive 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]