Pensive is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PENSIVE in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• engaged in deep thought
• engaged in, involving, or reflecting deep or serious thought
• deeply thoughtful, often with a tinge of sadness
• Thoughtful, sober, or sad; employed in serious reflection; given to, or favorable to, earnest or melancholy musing.
• Expressing or suggesting thoughtfulness with sadness; as, pensive numbers.
• deeply or seriously thoughtful
• showing pensive sadness

Words related to PENSIVE

pensively17 pensiveness16

Words that contain PENSIVE

expensive21 pensively17 prepensive17 propensive17 suspensive15 expensively26 inexpensive23 pensiveness16 unexpensive23 suspensively20 expensiveness25 inexpensively28 pensivenesses18 unexpensively28 superexpensive28 suspensiveness19 ultraexpensive26 expensivenesses27 inexpensiveness27 inexpensivenesses29

How to use PENSIVE in a sentence

• It brought me now only a pensive pleasure and no feeling more acute.
• Meanwhile she grew pensive and silent, oppressed by the helpless misery which she saw around her on every side.
• He carried the rifle over the crook of his arm, and watched her pensive face.
• She was standing in a pensive attitude, near a window which looked towards the river, and as she turned on his entrance, Leonard perceived that her eyes were filled with tears.
• Without a shoe, without a hat, Beside a new-raised mound, The little Willie pensive sat, As if to guard the ground.
• Susan, at home, is often pensive and always anxious, but not despondent.
• These words made Friday look so very pensive that I thought he would have fallen at my feet.
• If anything it made them thicker, it curved still more the crushed bow of the upper lip and the pensive sweep of the lower.
• The music rose again, a pensive and holy chant, and sounded on to its close, unaffected by the action of his brain, for he slept and heard it no more.
• He thought she seemed pensive, and perhaps she really was so.
• That of Grassmere is especially so, with the pensive shadows of the old church-tower settling over its cheerful graves.
• She was still sitting, silent and pensive, at the table, and did not appear to have observed what was going on around her.
• He continued to pursue them with his eye till they could be seen no longer, and then stood for some time silent and pensive.
• This Thought made the Young Man very pensive, and careful what Account he should be able to give his Friends of his Voyage.
• At this juncture Sir Edmund came down to the country, and was struck by the altered looks and pensive manners of his once cheerful cousin.
• And March was coming, and Julia was sweet and arch and gracious, and at times as he came to know her better, he thought a little grave and pensive.
• I may well be pensive, said the king, for I have seen the marvellest sight that ever I saw.
• When her breakfast arrived she ate it in a pensive frame of mind.
• The wanderer hears, in pensive dream, The accents of the last farewell, As, pausing by the mountain stream, He listens to the evening bell.
• Deep pensive meditations on the moral puzzles of the world are not at all like didactic discourse.
• I too will preserve a pensive cast of countenance, as though perfectly unacquainted with what has happened.
• He has a thoughtful, and somewhat sullen brow, a firm and somewhat pensive mouth, a cheek pale, thin, and deeply furrowed.
• No one could scarcely have remained unmoved by the pensive sympathies that pervaded the entire assembly.

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