Another word for pensive
pensive
modif.
ruminating, meditative, contemplative, reflective, thoughtful, ruminative, serious, musing, dreamy, wistful, melancholy, abstracted, preoccupied, lost in thought, wrapped in thought; see also thoughtful 1.
pensive suggests a dreamy, often somewhat sad or melancholy concentration of thought the pensive look in her eye; contemplative implies intent concentration of thought, as on some abstract matter, often connoting this as a habitual practice a contemplative scholar; reflective suggests an orderly, often analytical turning over in the mind, as of past events, usually with the aim of reaching some definite understanding after a reflective pause he answered; meditative implies a quiet and sustained musing, without necessarily having a definite intention of understanding or reaching a conclusion a meditative walk in the cloister
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Another word for pensive
Of, characterized by, or disposed to thought:
cogitative, contemplative, deliberative, excogitative, meditative, reflective, ruminative, speculative, thinking, thoughtful. Idiom: in a brown study. See thoughts
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"pensive." YourDictionary, n.d. Web. 14 August 2019. <https://thesaurus.yourdictionary.com/Pensive>.
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pensive. (n.d.). Retrieved August 14th, 2019, from https://thesaurus.yourdictionary.com/Pensive
