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

1. adjective. Thoughtful, sober, or sad; employed in serious reflection; given to, or favorable to, earnest or melancholy musing.
2. adjective. Expressing or suggesting thoughtfulness with sadness; as, pensive numbers.
3. adjective. showing pensive sadness

   "the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty"

   Synonyms: wistful

4. adjective. 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"

   Synonyms: brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pondering, reflective, ruminative

Synonyms

wistful, brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pondering, reflective, ruminative

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in pensive:

vespine

Common word forms

pensived, pensively, pensiveness

Words from these letters

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