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pensive

adj
/ˈpɛn(t).sɪv/UK

Etymology

From Middle English pensif, pensyfe, pencyve, from Old French pensif (“thoughtful”), from penser (“to think”) (from Latin pēnsō) + -if (English -ive).

  1. derived from pensif — “thoughtful”
  2. inherited from pensif

Definitions

  1. Engaged in, involving, or reflecting deep or serious thought.

    • He sat in pensive silence, weighing his options carefully.

  2. Having the appearance of deep, often melancholic, thinking.

    • The author’s tone grows pensive in the final chapters.

  3. Looking thoughtful, especially from sadness.

    • Abstruse thought and profound researches I prohibit, and will severely punish, by the pensive melancholy which they introduce
    • Through the deep grass the faces of the three children glowed like pensive moons.

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Derived

overpensive, pensively, pensiveness

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at pensive. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at pensive. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at pensive

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA