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Meaning of 'pensive' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Pensive [ a.]
- Thoughtful, sober, or sad; employed in serious reflection; given to, or favorable to, earnest or melancholy musing.
- Expressing or suggesting thoughtfulness with sadness; as, pensive numbers.

Meaning of 'pensive' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . pensive [ s]
Meaning (1):
- deeply or seriously thoughtful
Example in sentence:
  • 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
Meaning (2):
- showing pensive sadness
Example in sentence:
  • the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty

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