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pensive

Dictionary definition · pensive

adjective

  1. deeply or seriously thoughtful"Byron lives on not only in his poetry, but also in his creation of the ‘Byronic hero’ - the persona of a brooding melancholy young man"
  2. showing pensive sadness"the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty"

Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).