Definitions for pensive

pensive pen·sive

Spelling: [pen-siv]
IPA: /ˈpɛn sɪv/

Pensive is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 126 anagrams from letters in pensive (eeinpsv).

Definitions for pensive

adjective

  1. dreamily or wistfully thoughtful:
  2. expressing or revealing thoughtfulness, usually marked by some sadness:

Origin of pensive

1325-75; French (feminine); replacing Middle English pensif Middle French (masculine), derivative of penser to think Latin pēnsāre to weigh, consider, derivative of pēnsus, past participle of

Examples for pensive

When Macquart was on his rounds, she passed her time in lazy, pensive idleness.

The pale beauty of her pensive face won her friends wherever she went.

Florence was pensive, and an air of painful depression hung about her.

Venus was the quiet one: pensive and observant of everything around her.

Nothing could be firmer than the tone of this letter, in spite of its pensive gentleness.

Another image features the First Lady in a pensive pose, wearing a black Michael Kors sweater and ball skirt.

One of us cautious and pensive, one of us quick and outspoken.

It is, alternately, a provocative and pensive soap opera that puts the gothic in Southern Gothic.

Hemingway is shown on p. 89, pensive with rifle at a pheasant shoot in Idaho.

Do you see how pensive she is, with her cheek resting on her hand?

Word Value for pensive
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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