Pensive
WordNet
adjective
(1) Showing pensive sadness
"The sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty"
(2) Persistently or morbidly thoughtful
WiktionaryText
Adjective
- Having the appearance of thinking.
- Looking thoughtful, especially from sadness.
- 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 4.
- Abstruse thought and profound researches I prohibit, and will severely punish, by the pensive melancholy which they introduce
- 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 4.