PENSIVE

pensive. Pensive, a. sorrowful, thoughtful, serious

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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. 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. 2. Expressing or suggesting thoughtfulness with sadness; as, pensive numbers. Prior.