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KK Pronunciation

〔 ˋpєnsIv 〕

Pronunciation

〔 ˊpensiv 〕


Overview of adj pensive

The adj pensive has 2 senses


  • brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative -- (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";)

  • pensive, wistful -- (showing pensive sadness; "the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty")