Category:Pensive

Pen"sive, a. Etym: [f. pensif, fr. penser to think, fr. L. pensare to Weigh, ponder, consider, v. intens. fr. pendere to weigh. See Pension, poise.]

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