Thesaurus / pensive
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His face was vacant, his eyes pensive, as he stood there undisturbed by the flow of a language he did not understand.
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINIThe elegance of his stature and the pensive melancholy of his classic features invested him with a peculiar power of fascination.
MADAME ROLAND, MAKERS OF HISTORYJOHN S. C. ABBOTTHis little brother Etienne, the tiniest mite in the regiment, looks pensive.
CHILD LIFE IN TOWN AND COUNTRYANATOLE FRANCERuth was too shy to keep up the conversation by any remark of her own, although his gentle, pensive manner was very winning.
RUTHELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELLThe poet's lyre has not many strings, and the strains of sadness, of pensive melancholy, are almost absent.
FRDRIC MISTRALCHARLES ALFRED DOWNERTwo or three times Marie went to bed in a sweetly pensive mood.
THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS: ENVY AND INDOLENCEEUGNE SUEFido bounded over the fields and chased the frightened partridges; Pensive soared in the air and sported with the light.
LABOULAYE'S FAIRY BOOKVARIOUSThen, seeing the strange dog look pensive, he added, ‘Would you like to dine with us?’
THE ANIMAL STORY BOOKVARIOUSPensive flew upward with a joyful cry and disappeared amid the turrets of the castle.
LABOULAYE'S FAIRY BOOKVARIOUSGraceful called Pensive three times without making her hear, so completely was she engrossed in admiration of her new friend.
LABOULAYE'S FAIRY BOOKVARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO PENSIVE
- absorbed
- analytical
- attentive
- brainy
- calculating
- cerebral
- cogitative
- deep
- deliberative
- discerning
- earnest
- engrossed
- farsighted
- grave
- intellectual
- intent
- keen
- levelheaded
- logical
- lost in thought
- meditative
- melancholy
- museful
- musing
- pensive
- philosophic
- pondering
- preoccupied
- rapt
- rational
- reasonable
- reasoning
- reflecting
- reflective
- retrospective
- ruminative
- serious
- sober
- studious
- subjective
- thinking
- wise
- wistful
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