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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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.  --Milton. 
 
  Anxious  cares  the  pensive  nymph  oppressed.  --Pope. 
 
  2.  Expressing  or  suggesting  thoughtfulness  with  sadness;  as 
  pensive  numbers.  --Prior. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  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}]




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