Synonyms for pensive
ˈpɛn sɪvpen·sive

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1. pensive

   Synonyms:
   meditative, ruminating, thoughtful, musing, reflective, impressed, melancholy, sober, dejected

   Antonyms:
   vacant, joyous, unreflecting, careless, thoughtless, unmeditative, incogitant, unreflective

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1. brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminativeadjective

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

   Antonyms:
   glad, thoughtless

2. pensive, wistfuladjective

   showing pensive sadness

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

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

   Antonyms:
   thoughtless, glad

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1. pensiveadjective

   Synonyms:
   thoughtful, meditative, reflective, dreamy, sober

2. pensiveadjective

   Synonyms:
   expressive of sadness

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1. pensiveadjective

   Synonyms:
   meditative, dreamy, lackadaisical, introspective, thoughtful, sad, grave

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1. List of paraphrases for "pensive":

   thoughtful, phlegmatic

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1. John Milton:

   Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.