Pensive

Adjective

 * 1) Having the appearance of deep, often melancholic, thinking.
 * 2) Looking thoughtful, especially from sadness.
 * 3) * 1748. David Hume.  Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973.  § 4.
 * Abstruse thought and profound researches I prohibit, and will severely punish, by the pensive melancholy which they introduce

Derived terms

 * pensively
 * pensiveness

Adverbs for Pensive
abstractedly; incongruously; strangely; silently; absent-mindedly; sweetly; quietly; soberly; anxiously; remotely; dreamily; ruefully; mournfully; dully; deeply; gravely; solemnly; happily; contentedly.

Thesaurus
absent, absentminded, absorbed, abstracted, atrabiliar, atrabilious, bemused, blue, brooding, castle-building, cogitative, cognitive, concentrating, concentrative, conceptive, conceptual, conceptualized, contemplating, contemplative, daydreaming, daydreamy, deliberating, deliberative, dreaming, dreamy, drowsing, ecstatic, elsewhere, engrossed, excogitating, faraway, funky, grave, half-awake, ideative, in a reverie, in a trance, in the clouds, introspective, lost, lost in thought, meditating, meditative, melancholic, melancholy, mental, mooning, moonraking, museful, musing, napping, nodding, noetic, oblivious, pipe-dreaming, pondering, prehensive, preoccupied, rapt, reflecting, reflective, ruminant, ruminating, ruminative, sad, saddened, serious, sober, somewhere else, speculative, stargazing, taken up, thinking, thought, thoughtful, transported, tristful, unconscious, wistful, withdrawn, woolgathering, wrapped in thought

Etymology
From pensif:, from the verb penser:, from Latin penso:

Translations

 * Catalan: pensatiu
 * Croatian: zamišljen
 * Czech: zadumaný
 * Danish: eftertænksom, tankefuld
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: mõtlik
 * Finnish:


 * French:
 * German: nachdenklich, gedankenvoll, gedankenverloren
 * Italian: ,
 * Norwegian: tankefull, ettertenksom
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: задумчивый, размышляющий
 * Spanish:


 * Catalan: pensatiu
 * Croatian: zamišljen
 * Czech: zadumaný
 * Danish: eftertænksom, tungsindig
 * Finnish:
 * French: pensif, chagrin, mélancolique


 * German:, gedankenverloren
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian: tankefull, ettertenksom
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: pensativo, amohinado, melancólico

Anagrams

 * vespine