English-Thai Dictionary

pensive

ADJ ครุ่นคิด  วิตกกังวล  meditative absorbed engrossed thoughtful krun-kid

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PENSIVE

a.[L. penso, to weigh, to consider; pendo, to weigh. ] 1. Literally, thoughtful; employed in serious study or reflection; but it often implies some degree of sorrow, anxiety, depression or gloom of mind; thoughtful and sad, or sorrowful.
Anxious cares the pensive nymph oppress'd.
2. Expressing thoughtfulness with sadness; as pensive numbers; pensive strains.

 

PENSIVELY

adv. With thoughtfulness; with gloomy seriousness or some degree of melancholy.

 

PENSIVENESS

n.Gloomy thoughtfulness; melancholy; seriousness from depressed spirits.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PENSIVE

Pen "sive, a. Etym: [F. pensif, fr. penser to think, fr. L. pensare to weigh, ponder, consider, v. intens. fr. pendere to weigh. See Pension, Poise. ]

 

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.

 

PENSIVED

PENSIVED Pen "sived, a.

 

Defn: Made pensive. [R.] Shak.

 

PENSIVELY

PENSIVELY Pen "sive *ly, adv.

 

Defn: In a pensive manner.

 

PENSIVENESS

PENSIVENESS Pen "sive *ness, n.

 

Defn: The state of being pensive; serious thoughtfulness; seriousness. Hooker.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

pensive

pen sive |ˈpensiv ˈpɛnsɪv | ▶adjective engaged in, involving, or reflecting deep or serious thought: a pensive mood. DERIVATIVES pen sive ly adverb, pen sive ness noun ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French pensif, -ive, from penser ‘think, ’ from Latin pensare ‘ponder, ’ frequentative of pendere ‘weigh. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

pensive

pen |sive |ˈpɛnsɪv | ▶adjective engaged in, involving, or reflecting deep or serious thought: a pensive mood. DERIVATIVES pensively adverb, pensiveness noun ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French pensif, -ive, from penser ‘think ’, from Latin pensare ‘ponder ’, frequentative of pendere ‘weigh ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

pensive

pensive adjective sorry to interrupt your pensive mood, but we've got to leave: thoughtful, reflective, contemplative, musing, meditative, introspective, ruminative, absorbed, preoccupied, deep /lost in thought, in a brown study; brooding, wistful; formal cogitative. WORD TOOLKIT See wistful . Word Toolkits illustrate the difference between close synonyms by means of words typically used with them.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

pensive

pensive adjective thoughtful, thinking, reflective, contemplative, musing, meditative, introspective, prayerful, philosophical, cogitative, ruminative, absorbed, engrossed, rapt, preoccupied, deep /immersed /lost in thought, in a brown study, broody, serious, studious, solemn, dreamy, dreaming; wistful, brooding, melancholy, sad; rare ruminant. WORD TOOLKIT pensive See wistful . Word Toolkits illustrate the difference between close synonyms by means of words typically used with them.

 

French Dictionary

pensivement

pensivement adv. adverbe D ’un air pensif. : Il regarde pensivement ce tableau qui rappelle tant de beaux souvenirs. SYNONYME songeusement .

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

pensive

pen sive /pénsɪv /形容詞 〈人 表情が 〉物思いにふけった (thoughtful ); 悲しそうな ; 哀愁漂う .～ly 副詞 ～ness 名詞