Search Result:pensive
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")