pensive   (Sound)

The adj pensive has 2 senses

• brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative -- (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";)


• pensive, wistful -- (showing pensive sadness; "the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty")