Dictionary Entry
pensive
pensive is a 7-letter English word with 4 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Thoughtful, sober, or sad; employed in serious reflection; given to, or favorable to, earnest or melancholy musing. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 15 · 4 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Thoughtful, sober, or sad; employed in serious reflection; given to, or favorable to, earnest or melancholy musing.
- 2adjective
Expressing or suggesting thoughtfulness with sadness; as, pensive numbers.
- 3adjective
showing pensive sadness
"the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty"
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- 4adjective
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"
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