Definition of pensive

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Pensive (a.) Thoughtful, sober, or sad; employed in serious reflection; given to, or favorable to, earnest or melancholy musing..

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Expensive :: Expensive (a.) Free in expending; very liberal; especially, in a bad scene; extravagant; lavish..
Sun :: Sumptuous (a.) Involving large outlay or expense; costly; expensive; hence, luxurious; splendid; magnificient; as, a sumptuous house or table; sumptuous apparel..
Moody :: Moody (superl.) Hence: Out of humor; peevish; angry; fretful; also, abstracted and pensive; sad; gloomy; melancholy..
Pensive :: Pensive (a.) Expressing or suggesting thoughtfulness with sadness; as, pensive numbers..
Expensive :: Expensive (a.) Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or family..
Languishing :: Languishing (a.) Amorously pensive; as, languishing eyes, or look..
Endear :: Endear (v. t.) To raise the price or cost of; to make costly or expensive.
Pensively :: Pensively (adv.) In a pensive manner.
Luxury :: Luxury (n.) Anything which pleases the senses, and is also costly, or difficult to obtain; an expensive rarity; as, silks, jewels, and rare fruits are luxuries; in some countries ice is a great luxury..
Sumptuous :: Sumptuosity (n.) Expensiveness; costliness; sumptuousness.
Chargeableness :: Chargeableness (n.) The quality of being chargeable or expensive.
Apician :: Apician (a.) Belonging to Apicius, a notorious Roman epicure; hence applied to whatever is peculiarly refined or dainty and expensive in cookery..
Unexpensive :: Unexpensive (a.) Inexpensive.
Pensative :: Pensative (a.) Pensive.
Preciously :: Preciously (adv.) In a precious manner; expensively; extremely; dearly. Also used ironically.
Languishment :: Languishment (n.) Tenderness of look or mien; amorous pensiveness.
Wistful :: Wistful (a.) Full of thought; eagerly attentive; meditative; musing; pensive; contemplative.
Lackadaisical :: Lackadaisical (a.) Affectedly pensive; languidly sentimental.
Costliness :: Costliness (n.) The quality of being costy; expensiveness; sumptuousness.
Suspensor :: Suspensive (a.) Tending to suspend, or to keep in suspense; causing interruption or delay; uncertain; doubtful..
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