Word Meanings - PENSIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

weigh, ponder, consider, v. intens. fr. pendere to weigh. See 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

Additional info about word: PENSIVE

weigh, ponder, consider, v. intens. fr. pendere to weigh. See 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PENSIVE)

• Sombre
• Dull
• grave
• gloomy
• dark
• murky
• cloudy
• funereal
• sable
• mournful
• dusky
• pensive
• melancholy
• Thoughtful
• Careful
• provident
• contemplative
• considerate
• anxious
• cogitative
• reflective
• regardful
• mindful
• heedful
• diligent

Related words: (words related to PENSIVE)

• ANXIOUSLY
  In an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously.
• GRAVES
  The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
• GRAVEDIGGER
  See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
• PENSIVE
  weigh, ponder, consider, v. intens. fr. pendere to weigh. See 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
• MOURNFUL
  Full of sorrow; expressing, or intended to express, sorrow; mourning; grieving; sad; also, causing sorrow; saddening; grievous; as, a mournful person; mournful looks, tones, loss. -- Mourn"ful*ly, adv. -- Mourn"ful*ness, n. Syn. -- Sorrowful;
• CONTEMPLATIVE
  1. Pertaining to contemplation; addicted to, or employed in, contemplation; meditative. Fixed and contemplative their looks. Denham. 2. Having the power of contemplation; as, contemplative faculties. Ray.
• GLOOMY
  1. Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy. "Though hid in gloomiest shade." Milton. 2. Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper
• FUNEREAL
  Suiting a funeral; pertaining to burial; solemn. Hence: Dark; dismal; mournful. Jer. Taylor. What seem to us but sad funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. Longfellow. -- Fu*ne"re*al*ly, adv.
• DUSKY
  1. Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky valley. Through dusky lane and wrangling mart. Keble. 2. Tending to blackness in color; partially black; dark-colored; not bright; as, a dusky brown. Bacon. When Jove in dusky clouds
• CAREFULLY
  In a careful manner.
• GRAVEN
  Carved. Graven image, an idol; an object of worship carved from wood, stone, etc. "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image." Ex. xx. 4.
• SOMBRERO
  A kind of broad-brimmed hat, worn in Spain and in Spanish America. Marryat.
• ANXIOUSNESS
  The quality of being anxious; great solicitude; anxiety.
• GRAVEYARD
  A yard or inclosure for the interment of the dead; a cemetery.
• MELANCHOLY
  1. Depressed in spirits; dejected; gloomy dismal. Shak. 2. Producing great evil and grief; causing dejection; calamitous; afflictive; as, a melancholy event. 3. Somewhat deranged in mind; having the jugment impaired. Bp. Reynolds. 4. Favorable
• COGITATIVE
  1. Possessing, or pertaining to, the power of thinking or meditating. "Cogitative faculties." Wollaston. 2. Given to thought or contemplation. Sir H. Wotton.
• GRAVELING; GRAVELLING
  1. The act of covering with gravel. 2. A layer or coating of gravel .
• GRAVES' DISEASE
  See DISEASE
• THOUGHTFUL
  1. Full of thought; employed in meditation; contemplative; as, a man of thoughtful mind. War, horrid war, your thoughtful walks invades. Pope. 2. Attentive; careful; exercising the judgment; having the mind directed to an object; as, thoughtful
• GRAVELESS
  Without a grave; unburied.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• INDECOMPOSABLENESS
  Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability.
• REPLEVISABLE
  Repleviable. Sir M. Hale.
• INDISPENSABLENESS
  The state or quality of being indispensable, or absolutely necessary. S. Clarke.
• CLEANSABLE
  Capable of being cleansed. Sherwood.
• IMPOSABLE
  Capable of being imposed or laid on. Hammond.
• DISPENSABLE
  1. Capable of being dispensed or administered. 2. Capable of being dispensed with. Coleridge.
• DEMISABLE
  Capable of being leased; as, a demisable estate.
• WILDGRAVE
  A waldgrave, or head forest keeper. See Waldgrave. The wildgrave winds his bugle horn. Sir W. Scott.
• MERCHANDISABLE
  Such as can be used or transferred as merchandise.
• IRREPLEVIABLE; IRREPLEVISABLE
  Not capable of being replevied.
• VERSABLENESS
  Versability.
• SOMBERNESS; SOMBRENESS
  The quality or state of being somber; gloominess.