pensive | Definition of pensive

Synonyms and Antonyms of pensive

given to or marked by long, quiet thinking

rainy days often put her in a pensive mood

Synonyms of pensive

broody, cogitative, contemplative, meditative, melancholy, musing, reflective, ruminant, ruminative, thoughtful

Words Related to pensive

introspective, retrospective, self-reflective

earnest, grave, sedate, serious, serious-minded, severe, sober, solemn, somber (or sombre), weighty

philosophical (also philosophic)

analytic (or analytical), logical, rational

deliberate, purposeful

absentminded, abstracted, preoccupied

Near Antonyms of pensive

featherbrained, flighty, flippant, frivolous, goofy, harebrained, light-headed, scatterbrained

brainless, mindless, silly, thoughtless, unthinking

Antonyms of pensive